PhonePick

For salons and barbershops

An answering service for salons and barbers with a client in the chair

Your hands are in someone's hair. The phone rings, it goes to voicemail, and that person books somewhere with online booking instead.

Live in about ten minutes. From $75 a month. No contract, no setup fee, cancel any time.

The number that matters

A missed booking call is not just one appointment — a regular client is worth a visit every few weeks for years.

You can check that against your own week. Below is the same sum with your figures in it.

What it's costing you

Do the sum on your own numbers

Set to a typical job for this trade. Change it to whatever is true for you.

Nothing is sent anywhere — the sum happens in your browser. It assumes PhonePick reaches every missed caller, and that they convert like the ones you already speak to. Whether that holds is your call, not ours.

Work walking past you
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a month, on those numbers

PhonePick, the plan that covers it—
Even if it only saves one in five—
Worth doing?—

What it does

Three things, on every call

It books while you work

One appointment length, the one you set for the whole business, dropped into a gap your calendar really has free.

A cancellation reaches you with a time on it

On a call, it takes the message and books you a call back. It cannot cancel or move an appointment on the phone, so freeing the slot stays your call.

It texts them a confirmation

The day and the time in their phone the moment it is booked, and any reply lands in your inbox.

In the US, texting starts once carriers approve your business, which usually takes one to three weeks. Calls are answered from day one.

And it learns. Anything a caller asks that it can't answer is written down for you — add the answer once and the very next caller hears it. It never guesses in the meantime.

And it answers in 85 languages. Someone who starts speaking Punjabi, Spanish or Hindi is answered in it mid‑call, and gets the whole job done in it — booked, quoted, written down. On every plan, with nothing to set up. What reaches you is in English either way. The full list.

On the Operations plan

And the rest of the front office

Everything above comes with every plan, from $75 a month. Operations, $149 a month, adds the work around the calls — these are the two parts that matter most here. Each one is off until you switch it on.

A deposit on the long appointments

Set a deposit per service — a fixed amount, a percentage, or none. After booking, it says the amount out loud and texts a pay link while the client is still on the phone, and the money goes straight into your own Stripe account. It never takes a card number, and an unpaid deposit never cancels the booking; it is flagged for you.

Confirmations that flush out the no-shows early

The day before, each client is texted: reply Y to confirm or N if they can't make it. An N frees the chair, and if anyone is on the waitlist the time is offered to them, one person at a time. A CANCEL reply is a carrier opt-out, so that booking is flagged for a call rather than cancelled.

A booking page of your own, on Operations and Growth: customers book an appointment themselves at phonepick.ai/book/your-name — from your website, the Book button on your Google listing or a QR code — and only at times that are really free, because the page and the phone share one diary. How it works.

Growth, $449 a month, adds sales calls: it qualifies the buyers who ring, tells you straight away about the hot ones, and calls back your website leads — only ever people who asked, or agreed in writing, to hear from you.

Everything each plan includes →

Before you ask

Salons and barbershops ask these three

Can it book a different length for each service?

Not yet. You set one appointment length for the business, and it books into a gap that actually fits that length rather than on top of something you already have.

What about cancellations?

On a call, it takes the message and books you a call back with a time on it, so nobody forgets to ring them — it cannot cancel or move an appointment itself. On the Operations plan the confirmation text the day before is different: a reply of N cancels and frees the time, which can then go to whoever is on the waitlist.

Will clients know it is not a person?

Yes. Every call opens by saying it is an AI and that the call is recorded, and it answers honestly the moment anyone asks.

Everything else people ask →

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The next one rings whether you're ready or not

Ten minutes to set up. You keep your number, and you can undo the whole thing with one dialled code.