Independent hair stylists: a booth or a home studio deserves better than a DM calendar

Last updated: August 13, 2026

What Tavvi is for independent hair stylists: a page that books you and gets you paid — for $0 a month. You get a public page at your own handle that shows your work and takes the order AND the payment, a booking calendar, customer chat, and a register in your pocket: your iPhone takes tap-to-pay cards at your chair with no extra hardware.

How it works day to day

Clients book from the link in your bio and prepay or leave a deposit. At the chair, cards tap on your iPhone. Your week is one calendar instead of a text thread.

One page carries your portfolio, your services with real prices, your open slots, and your reviews — and it takes the payment too.

What your page does

Takes real orders for cuts, color, styling for events — buyers pay on the web with no app and no account.
Books time with a calendar that shows what is actually open.
Answers questions in a built-in chat, so your customer conversations stop living in DMs.
Takes cards in person — Tap to Pay on iPhone means the phone you already own is the card reader.
Keeps one count across in-person and online, so nothing sells twice.

What it costs

$0 a month. No subscription, ever.
Online orders: 3.5% + 30¢ all-in — card processing is already inside that number, not on top of it.
In person: 0.5% on top of standard card processing.
Cash sales at the register: free.

Compare that with $29–$99/month link-in-bio subscriptions, or free tiers that keep 9–12% of every sale. The math is on the comparison pages.

When Tavvi isn’t the pick

If you run a full premise operation — a dining room with servers, a kitchen display rail, table maps — you are shopping for restaurant POS, and Toast or Square for Restaurants will fit better. Tavvi is built for one person selling real work from wherever they are.

Try Tavvi free

Set up the free register with no account. Your public page and online orders switch on whenever you claim your handle.