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A salon, barbershop or spa website needs four things on the first screen: what you do, what it costs, when you are open and a button that books. Everything past that is decoration. LiberationTek packages it from about $23 a month — a drag-and-drop website at $10.99 with hosting, SSL and a free domain included on annual plans, a mailbox on your own domain at $1.95, and an SEO tool at $9.99 that tells you whether you appear when somebody near you searches for what you offer. US-owned servers, free migration, prices printed on the page.
The single most searched thing about a salon is what it costs. A site that makes somebody call to find out loses them to the one down the road that did not. Publishing a service list with prices also makes you findable for the specific treatment searches that bring in new clients.
Booking marketplaces fill chairs and charge for the privilege, and the client belongs to them. A booking button on your own site — whichever system sits behind it — means the repeat visit comes back to you rather than to an app that will show them a competitor’s discount.
This is a visual trade and your portfolio is your advertising. A gallery your stylists can add to from a phone stays current; a gallery that needs a web developer is three years out of date. The builder is drag and drop for exactly this reason.
One more thing most salon sites get wrong: the hours. If the website says one thing and the Google listing says another, the listing wins and you look unreliable. Keep both in step and check them when the schedule changes for a holiday.
A single-chair barbershop and a six-station salon need the same four things. None of them should cost an agency retainer, and none of them should take six weeks to launch.
If you rent a booth or chair, you are running your own business inside somebody else’s shop, and the website is how you keep your clients when you move. A one-page site with your service list, your prices, your portfolio and your booking link is $10.99 a month, and a mailbox on your own domain is $1.95 — which means your client list, your enquiries and your reputation follow you rather than staying behind.
That is also the practical argument for getting off a free consumer mailbox. An address on your own domain is yours. One attached to a shop’s shared account is not, and you will find that out at the worst possible moment.
Website, email, giving records and media move on a schedule built around your service times. Nothing cuts over mid-week without a tested rollback, and giving keeps running throughout — we do not take a church offline on a Saturday night.
Staff and volunteers get walked through the new setup, with written guides for the people who update the site each week. Support afterwards is a phone call to a named contact, not a ticket queue — which matters when something breaks an hour before a service.
Every salon has a quiet Tuesday afternoon and a cancelled Saturday slot. Email is how you fill them without discounting your whole price list.
Website, mailbox and SEO tool: about $23 a month. That is $10.99 for the site builder Starter plan, $1.95 for one mailbox on your own domain, and $9.99 for the SEO tool Lite plan. Add $10 a month for email marketing at 10,000 sends and you are near $33. If you already have a website you are happy with, drop the builder and shared hosting starts at $7.99 a month instead.
A salon with four stylists who each want their own address lands at about $31 a month: $10.99 for the site, $7.80 for four mailboxes and $9.99 for the SEO tool. A single booth renter is $22.93. Neither case needs anything heavier — we are not going to put a barbershop on a VPS.
Our prices are published on the product pages rather than quoted on a call. We will also be straight about renewals: shared hosting renews at $12.99 a month after the first term, and the site builder and SEO plans are month to month. Nobody has to ring us to find out what they are paying next year. If you want somebody to do the local search work rather than run the tool yourself, our local SEO services are quoted on the work, and we will tell you if the tool alone is enough.
Website, email, giving records and media move on a schedule built around your service times. Nothing cuts over mid-week without a tested rollback, and giving keeps running throughout — we do not take a church offline on a Saturday night.
Staff and volunteers get walked through the new setup, with written guides for the people who update the site each week. Support afterwards is a phone call to a named contact, not a ticket queue — which matters when something breaks an hour before a service.
From $10.99 a month with Liberation Site Builder, including the hosting, a free SSL certificate and a free domain on annual plans. Add a mailbox on your own domain at $1.95 and the SEO tool at $9.99 and the whole thing is about $23 a month, month to month, with no setup fee.
Yes. It is the thing people search for and the thing they judge you on before they call. Hiding prices does not protect your margin — it sends the enquiry to the salon that published theirs. If your prices vary by stylist or by hair length, publish a range and say so.
Yes. The builder embeds booking widgets and links, so whichever system you use today can sit on your own site rather than you sending clients to a marketplace. One honest caveat: we host the site and run the mail, but we are not a payment processor, so deposits and card payments go through whichever processor your booking system uses.
Probably not today, and we will tell you that rather than sell you something. Where it matters is when a stylist leaves, when a chair opens up, or when you want to raise prices and need to look like the premium option. A site is also what you own if you ever move shops. At $10.99 a month it is cheap insurance, but it is not urgent if the book is full.
It is arguably worth more for you than for the shop. Your clients, your enquiries and your email address should belong to you and not to the salon’s shared account, because that is what lets you take your business with you. A one-page site and a mailbox on your own domain is under $13 a month.
Yes, free, and done by a person rather than a script. We schedule the mail cutover so nothing bounces. If your current site is on Wix, Squarespace or GoDaddy we can transfer the content across — tell us what you have and we will say honestly what carries over and what has to be rebuilt.
On hardware we own and operate in the United States. Your mailboxes are not scanned for advertising and your email list is not shared with anyone. Support is US-based and available around the clock.
Tell us how many chairs you have, what your site is today and how clients book. We will tell you what we would change, what it costs at published prices, and whether you need a new site at all. If the one you have is working, we will say so.
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