A barbershop or beauty salon website costs £1,500 to £3,500 in the UK in 2026 if it is a single page that sends clients to your booking app. A full site with barber or stylist profiles, a gallery, a services and prices page and local SEO runs £3,500 to £8,000, and most shops land near the bottom of that band. On top of the site you pay for the booking software every month, which for a four-chair shop on Booksy or Fresha comes to roughly £40 to £55 a month before card fees (the Fresha figure excludes VAT).
Those are the same ranges as in our general guide to what a website costs in the UK. Build prices for a barbershop sit in the same bands as any small business site, so the bigger surprise for most owners is the booking app, a second bill they rarely add up.
What the money buys
| What you get | Typical UK price | Who it suits |
|---|---|---|
| One page with a Book now button | £1,500 – £3,500 | A single shop, one to three chairs, bookings already running through an app |
| Full site: profiles, gallery, prices, local SEO | £3,500 – £8,000 | Busier shops, salons with many treatments, anyone who wants to rank on Google |
| Booking built into the site, synced with your app | adds £500 – £3,000 | Shops that want clients to book without leaving the site |
| Running costs: domain, hosting, care plan | £500 – £2,000 a year | Every site, whichever option you pick |
The single page sounds thin, and for plenty of shops it is all they need. Your name, the address with a map, opening hours, a price list, a dozen photos of real cuts and a button that opens your booking page. If it loads fast on a phone and the button sits where a thumb can reach it, it does the job.
The full site earns its price when you want to be found by people who have never heard of you. A page per service (skin fades, beard trims, hot towel shaves; or for a salon, colour, extensions, brows) gives Google something to match against searches like skin fade near me. Barber profiles help regulars book the person they trust, and a gallery that is not a copy of your Instagram grid gives new clients a reason to pick you. We cover how we build these on our barbershop websites and beauty salon websites pages.
The bill that arrives every month
Almost every barbershop in the UK takes bookings through an app, and those apps are not free any more. At the time of writing, Booksy's UK pricing starts at £40 a month and adds £5 for each extra team member. Fresha, which built its name on being free, now charges around £14.95 a month for a solo user or £9.95 per bookable team member, before VAT, according to Solovi's 2026 breakdown.
So a four-chair shop pays about £55 a month on Booksy (£660 a year) or about £40 a month on Fresha before VAT. Card fees come on top of both. None of that is a reason to drop the app. The calendar, reminders and deposits are worth the money, and rebuilding them from scratch would cost far more than a few years of subscription.
The commission your own site avoids
Both apps also run a marketplace where new clients can find you, and both charge for the clients it sends. Booksy's Boost takes 30% of the first visit, with a £5 minimum. Fresha takes 20% of a new client's first visit when the client came through its marketplace, with a £4 minimum.
On a £25 skin fade that is £7.50 to Booksy or £5 to Fresha. Thirty new clients a month through the marketplace adds up to £150 to £225 a month in commission. A client who finds you on Google, lands on your own site and taps Book now goes straight into the same calendar, and neither app charges a new-client fee for clients you brought in yourself.
Your own site changes where new clients enter the calendar, while the booking app stays exactly as it is. Take a full site at £4,000 that moves twenty first-time bookings a month from the marketplace onto your own link. At Booksy's rate that saves about £1,800 a year, at Fresha's about £1,200, and after running costs the site covers itself in roughly three to six years on commission alone. Most of the return comes from clients who search on Google and never open the app at all, which is why the full site only makes sense if you also want to rank locally.
What pushes the price up
The number of services and branches moves a barbershop quote more than anything else. One shop with eight services is a small site, while three branches with their own teams, hours and Google profiles mean three times the content and three sets of local pages.
Booking is the second lever. A button that opens Booksy or Fresha costs nothing extra, but embedding the booking flow so clients never leave your page, or syncing deposits and reminders with a custom system, is integration work and priced like it.
Then photos and words. If you can send thirty good photos and tell us how you talk to clients, the build goes quickly; if someone has to shoot the shop and write every page, add that to the budget. The look itself rarely changes the price, and a dark, sharp design costs the same to build as a pale one.
Do you need a website at all?
If your chairs are full from walk-ins and regulars, your Google Business Profile is complete and your Booksy page has fifty reviews, a website adds little this year, and the money is better spent on the shop itself.
You need one when you are opening a second site, when you want to stop paying for new clients you could have found yourself, or when a search for your street name and the word barber shows three competitors and not you. In that last case the work starts with local SEO and a complete Google profile, and the website is what those searches land on.
Getting a quote you can compare
Send the same short list to every studio you ask: how many chairs and branches, which booking app you use and whether you are keeping it, the services you want listed, and whether you have photos. Ask each one to say in writing who owns the domain, where the site is hosted and what happens if you leave. If a studio cannot answer those three in writing, leave its quote out of the comparison until it can.