BARBERSHOPS — GLEN ELLYN, ILLINOIS
Websites and booking for barbershops in Glen Ellyn, IL.
A chair earns in fifteen-minute blocks, and an empty one at two in the afternoon is money that doesn't come back. Everything here is built around keeping the book full.
Twenty minutes. You get a written plan and a price. Nothing starts until you say so.
Your regulars run on a three-week clock and nobody's watching it.
A guy who comes in every three weeks sits in your chair about seventeen times a year. Stretch him to five weeks and the same head of hair is worth ten visits. That's arithmetic, not marketing, and it's most of the difference between a strong year and a flat one.
Regulars rarely quit outright. They drift. Something comes up in week four, then it's week seven, then it feels awkward to walk back in. A short message in the right week — not a newsletter, a text that reads like it came from the shop — pulls most of them back onto the clock before the drift hardens into a habit.
Saturday takes care of itself. Tuesday at two is the problem.
Weekends fill whether or not you have a website. What you're leaving on the table sits between eleven and four on a weekday, and the only way to move it is to let someone see the open slot at the moment they think about it: on a break, in a line, waiting on a sandwich.
Online booking that shows real openings, barber by barber, does that quietly. Clients follow the person who cuts their hair rather than the sign over the door, so the booking page names them and holds the chair on the calendar you already keep.
- Booking synced to your Google Calendar, so a slot taken online is gone from the phone too.
- Hours that tell the truth — closed Monday, open Sunday morning, shutting early on a holiday weekend.
- Walk-ins still walk in. The book shows what's open, it doesn't lock the door.
- Your price list on the page — fade, beard, kids, seniors, the full works.
A first-timer decides on his phone, twenty feet from your window.
He isn't reading an About page. He wants four things in roughly the time a light takes to change — are you open now, can you take him today, what does a fade cost, and does the work look like what's in his head. The rest of the page is decoration.
So the first screen answers those four, and your Google Business Profile carries photographs of cuts that actually came out of your shop instead of catalogue models. Then the whole thing loads before he loses interest and taps the next result.
What it costs, in full.
Two plans, both on a twelve-month partnership, billed the same date each month. If you want out early, tell us in writing: you pay the current month plus one more, and the domain, the Google profile and the customer list leave with you.
- Foundation — $250 a month, plus a one-time $250 to build it: website on your own domain, Google Business Profile done properly, email at your own address, local SEO, and one update a month.
- Growth — $500 a month, with $500 once at the start: everything above, and then booking synced to your Google Calendar, the CRM, automated review requests, the reminder and follow-up messages, card payments, expenses kept in one place, monthly reports and a clean handoff to QuickBooks.
- Pay the year up front and take 15 percent off: $2,550 for Foundation, $5,100 for Growth, setup billed separately.
- Add 24/7 automated phone answering at $100 a month, or automated Google review replies at $130 a month. Custom work gets its own quote, put in writing before anybody starts.
Book a haircut in the demo before you believe a word of this.
Knox Chops is a complete barbershop we built to be poked at, booking and all. Pick a time and a real confirmation email lands in your inbox in about ten seconds.
You won't find a wall of five-star reviews on this site, because Project Knox is new and you should hear that from us rather than work it out later. What we can hand you is the work itself, running, at a link you can open right now.
The domain, the Google Business Profile and the client list are registered in your name. Whatever happens, they walk out of here with you.
Downtown Glen Ellyn is one of the few places left around here where a shop still gets found on foot. More than a hundred businesses sit along Main Street and Crescent Boulevard, and the people working in them need haircuts on their own schedules — the Thursday lunch hour, the gap before an evening shift. That's a real advantage and a narrow one. Being part of the Alliance of Downtown Glen Ellyn helps with the people already standing on that sidewalk. It does nothing at all about the family three streets over deciding on a phone.
Every regular has a due date, even if it only lives in your head.
A CRM is nothing fancier than the place your client list actually lives — who came in, who cut their hair, what they got and when they're due back. Ours flags the regular who's two weeks past his usual, sends the message that gets him booked, and asks for the Google review the evening after a good cut. It holds the invoices and what you spent as well, so February makes sense on paper instead of in your gut.
Questions people actually ask
Straight answers.
Will online booking kill my walk-ins?
No. The door stays open for whoever comes through it; online slots just stop the phone ringing while you've got clippers in your hand. Most shops settle into weekends on appointment and midweek taking both.
How much does a barbershop site and booking system cost?
Foundation covers the site, the Google Business Profile, business email and the local search work, at $250 monthly and $250 to set up. Growth costs $500 monthly and $500 to set up, and that's the one carrying the booking page on the calendar you already use, the CRM, the automatic review requests, the messaging and card payments.
Why is it a twelve-month agreement?
Because a site needs roughly a season before it earns more than it costs, and a month-to-month deal quietly encourages everybody to build something disposable. We're tying up a year on your shop too, so we'd both like it to be worth having. It isn't a trap, though. If you want out early, tell us in writing: you pay the current month plus one more, and the domain, the Google profile and the customer list leave with you. That clause is written into the agreement, which we'll send before the call if you ask.
Sit in the chair we already built.
Open Knox Chops, book yourself a fade, and watch what the client sees on the other end. Then get us on (331) 291‑7400 and tell us how your midweek really looks.
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