A screen for the waiting area.
Turn on Display and a TV or spare tablet shows the wait, the chairs and the next eight in line, in type you can read from the sofa. Names show as 'Marcus T.', never phone numbers, guards or notes.
Walk-ins · Regulars · No guessing
Tell them the wait.
Mean it.
Chairtime is the walk-in queue and regulars card for your front desk. It works out the real wait from who is in each chair and what they are having, and remembers every regular's guard numbers so you never ask twice.
Free. Runs in your browser. No sign-up, no server, works offline.
Example: two chairs busy, three people waiting, the next walk-in waits about 45 minutes.
The door question
“How long's the wait?”
“Who's next, me or him?”
“What guard did we use last time?”
Every walk-in shop hears these all day, and most answer with a guess. Guess low and people wait longer than you promised. Guess high and they walk out. Chairtime answers all three.
How it works
A real wait, not a guess.
Each barber on shift is a chair. Chairtime knows when each chair comes free from what is in it, then seats everyone waiting, in order, in the first chair to free up. Whatever chair frees first after that is your next walk-in's wait.
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Step 1
Start with the chairs.
Marcus is 12 minutes from done on his skin fade. Dev just sat down for a 30-minute haircut.
Chair 1
Chair 2
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Step 2
Seat the queue in order.
Sam is first in line for a haircut. Chair 1 frees first, at 12 minutes, so Sam goes there and is done at 42.
Chair 1
Chair 2
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Step 3
Keep going.
Jordan's beard trim takes the next free chair, chair 2 at 30, done at 45. Leo's kids cut takes chair 1 at 42, done at 62.
Chair 1
Chair 2
Now010203040506070 min~45 min -
Step 4
The first free chair is the answer.
Chair 2 frees first, at 45 minutes. So the next person through the door hears ~45 min, and it is right.
Chair 1
Chair 2
Now010203040506070 min~45 min
Chair 1
Chair 2
Now010203040506070 min
~45 min
Change a service's minutes or the barbers on shift and every wait in the queue updates. Overrunning cuts count as zero left. Estimates refresh every 15 seconds.
Regulars
Remember the cut. Every time.
Every regular gets a card: their usual service, the cut in their words, and the guard for top, sides, back and beard. Pick their name when they walk in and the card comes with them to the chair. Press Done and their last visit updates on its own.
Example regular card: Marcus Thompson, skin fade, 40 minutes. Guards: top 4, sides 1 and a half, back 1, beard 2. Last visit 1 October 2026, 14 visits.
Start typing a name and Chairtime suggests matching regulars, then pre-selects their usual service.
What else
Built for the counter, not the office.
Your chairs, your minutes.
Set 1 to 6 barbers on shift as people come and go. Six services with their own minutes (a skin fade is 40, a beard trim is 15), each adjustable in 5-minute steps. The wait follows.
Next is always obvious.
The queue keeps arrival order. Start next seats the first in line the moment a chair is free; Done clears the chair. Nobody argues about who was here first.
Nothing to sign up for.
Chairtime runs in the browser on the front-desk tablet, laptop or phone. Everything is saved on that device as you go. No account, no server, no monthly fee, and it keeps working when the Wi-Fi does not.
Try it
This is the real thing.
Below is Chairtime itself, running right here. Add a walk-in, open a second chair in Settings, start someone, and watch the wait change. Whatever you add stays in this browser.
- 1. Add a walk-in
- 2. Settings → 2 barbers
- 3. Start next
Open Chairtime full screen
Best on the front-desk tablet. Add it to the home screen and it opens like an app.
Next walk-in, right answer.
Open Chairtime on the front-desk tablet, set your barbers on shift, and give the next person through the door a wait you can stand behind.
Free · No sign-up · Works offline