Our story

Built in Canada,
for Canadian shops.

BarberFlow is bootstrapped and backed by may.inc. We build exclusively for Canadian barbershops — which is exactly why we can go deeper on payroll, accounting, and tax than any all-in-one platform ever will.

The thesis

We only win when you win.

No monthly fees. No setup costs. No per-booking fees. One flat 4% on online transactions — that's it.

We don't charge you to exist. We charge when bookings come in. If the software isn't filling your chairs, we don't get paid. It's that simple, and it's exactly what keeps us honest.

BarberFlow
$0 / mo + 4%
Flat, on online transactions. Nothing else.
Typical competitor
$200+ / mo
Monthly seats, setup fees, per-booking fees, add-ons.
Why Canadian only

Localized on purpose.

An American tool will never get the accounting right for a Canadian shop. We build for one country so we can build it properly — the tax rules, the payroll rules, the way real shops actually operate up here.

  • GST / HST, baked in
  • CRA-compliant payroll
  • Booth rental conventions
  • Interac, supported natively
The Loops philosophy

Shops die from missing chairs, not empty marketing.

Loops is the core of our retention thesis. If a client usually comes every three weeks and misses two, we pull them back with targeted automation — before they've drifted for good. No batch blasts. No vanity sends. Just the right message, at the right moment, for the right client.

Occupancy rate is the north-star metric. Everything else is noise.

“Every empty chair is a client that almost came back. Our job is to close that gap — automatically — before the shop owner has to think about it.”
BarberFlow — product thesis
Backed by
May Inc.
The venture studio that incubated BarberFlow.

We're bootstrapped and funded by revenue — not a runway clock. May gave us the room to build this the right way, without chasing hockey-stick decks or shoe-horning US features into Canadian shops. No board deck gets between us and the barber.

What we believe

Four lines we don't cross.

01

Win when you win

No subscriptions. No setup. We only make money when bookings come through the door.

02

Canadian to the core

GST/HST, CRA payroll, Interac, booth rentals — built in, not bolted on.

03

Retention over acquisition

You know how to get clients in the door better than us — we know how to keep them in your chair.

04

No subscriptions, ever

One flat 4% on online transactions. If it ever changes, we're not BarberFlow anymore.

Ready to stop paying to exist?

Book a demo — we'll show you how a 4% flat shop actually runs.