For barbers · free to look, pay only to publish

A barber shop website you can read before you pay for it.

Give us the name over the door and the town you cut in. About a minute later you are looking at a finished barber site — your cuts and your prices, your hours, your number where a thumb can reach it. Nothing is published, nothing is charged, and nobody rings you about it.

Clippers, a straight razor, a shaving brush in a stone bowl and a wooden comb laid out on a worn barber’s counter.

§ 01 — what the page has to do

Nobody reads a barber’s website. They check three things and put the phone away.

A barber site is not a brochure and it is not a brand statement. It is a thirty-second answer to a man standing outside a shop he has never been into, or lying on the sofa on a Sunday night realising his hair has gone. Three questions, in this order — and everything else on the page is decoration that gets in the way of them.

THEY ASK

Are you open right now?

Your hours as text, on the first screen, not photographed onto a poster and not buried on a second page. If today is a day you are shut, the page has to say so before he walks over and finds a shutter.
THEY ASK

What is it going to cost?

A skin fade, a beard trim, a kid’s cut, an old-boy tidy-up — with the number next to each one. A price list is not vulgar. Hiding it is what makes a first-timer choose the shop that showed him theirs.
THEY ASK

How do I get in the chair?

One tap dials the shop. If he would rather not call — and half of them would rather not call — a form takes the message and lands it in your inbox with his number in it.

What is actually on the page when it opens

Your shop name, your trade, your townIn the title bar, in the heading and in the page description — the three places a search engine reads first.
A price list, grouped the way you workCutting, beards, colour, whatever you call them. Name, one line of description, price. As many as you want to send us.
Opening hours, in plain textDay by day, including the days you are closed. Readable by a person, and readable by Google.
Your number, one tap from diallingA real dialling link, four times down the page — under your name at the top, beside the price list, in the visit block and in the footer.
An appointment enquiry form that worksMessages arrive in your email. Not in a dashboard you would have to remember to open.
Local business schema, filled inYour address, your hours and every service you list, written into the page in the format search engines parse.

Everything above comes from what you type and what you send us. Nothing is written on your behalf — no reviews, no claims about your business, no numbers you did not give us. Build mine — free

The man who needs a cut is fifty yards away, holding a phone. Give him an hour and a number.

§ 02 — the proof

A finished salon site is open right now.

Marlowe & Fern is not a mock-up and not a screenshot in a slideshow. It is a complete four-chair salon site — Portland, Oregon — running on the same system that will serve yours, built on the same salon layout your barber shop gets. Open it on your phone. Push the buttons. Send the enquiry form to yourself and watch it arrive.

The Marlowe & Fern site on a phone: the salon name, the tagline, a phone number and a Book an appointment button above a photograph of the salon. — Marlowe & Fern at 390 pixels wide — the width most of your customers are holding.

DEMO-SALONMarlowe & Fern · demonstration build

Portland, Oregon. Four chairs.

Eight services in three groups, every one with a price. Hours. An about section. A number that dials. This is the standard, and you get to judge it before anybody asks you for money.

Grouped price list
Tap-to-call number
Working enquiry form
Local business schema

Open it and push the buttons

The address, if you want to check openhousesites.com/app/for/marlowe-fern-portland-or Marlowe & Fern is a demonstration business — a salon, invented so that the layout your barber shop gets could be built out in full. The site answers at that address. The salon does not exist.

Yours gets built the same way, with barbers in mind instead of somebody else's trade. Build mine — free

§ 03 — the bill

Starts at

59 US dollars per month

Cancel any time, by email.

$59/moUnited States, Canada and everywhere else

£49/moUnited Kingdom — billed in pounds, not converted

Or pay once — $599, and no monthly fee. $599 is about ten months of $59, and it covers twelve. Twelve months of the monthly plan comes to $708, so paying once keeps $109 in your pocket and leaves nothing to cancel. In pounds: £499 once, against £588 over a year. You choose at the moment you publish, not before.

14 days to change your mind Full refund, no reason required — on one email to contact@openhousesites.com. Back to the card that paid it.

Build my site — free

Nothing is charged while you look. The payment button only appears once your site exists and you have read it.

The finished barber siteBuilt on the layout your trade gets, with your services and your town on it — not a blank template with your name dropped in.
Your contentServices, prices, hours, area served, what you actually do — written on the page, not left as placeholder.
Mobile-first pagesComposed narrow first, because that is the screen your customers are holding.
A contact form that worksMessages land in your inbox. Not in a dashboard you will never log into.
SEO setup and local business schemaSo search engines know what you do, where you are, and when you are open.
Your own domain, hosting and SSLConnected and included on both plans — twelve months of it if you pay once, and for as long as it runs if you pay monthly.

No retainer. No lock-in. After the first year, keep it with us or take it anywhere you like — it is yours. And none of it costs anything until you say publish.

§ 04 — straight answers, for barbers

The questions barbers actually ask.

All my clients come from Instagram. Why would I want this?

Because Instagram is somebody else’s shop window and you are a tenant in it. You cannot put your Sunday hours in a grid, a price list dies in a story after twenty-four hours, and a man searching “barber near me” at nine on a Sunday night is not scrolling your feed. A site is an address you own, that you can print on a card, stick in the window, and hang off your Google listing. Keep the Instagram. It is a good shopfront. It is a poor filing cabinet.

I already have a Google Business Profile. Is that not enough?

A Google profile is worth having and you should keep it — but it only holds what Google’s form lets it hold. It will not carry your full price list, it will not carry your story, and it links out to a website, which is the field most barbers leave blank. Filling that field in is most of the value: the profile brings the search, the site closes it.

Can I put my actual prices on it?

Yes, and you should. The build form takes three services and prices to start you off, and you can send us the rest — every cut, every beard service, every group name you use — and we put them on. One full round of changes is included when you publish, and if we have written something in a way you would never say it, we would rather you told us.

What does it cost, all in, first year?

From $59 a month — £49 if you are in the United Kingdom, billed in pounds rather than converted — and one email cancels it whenever you want. Or pay once: $599, or £499, which covers the first twelve months with no monthly fee at all, so there is nothing to cancel and nothing to forget. That is about ten months of $59, and it covers twelve. Either way you get your own domain connected, hosting and SSL, the working contact form and one round of revisions. Looking at the site costs nothing at all, and if you pay and change your mind you have fourteen days to say so and get all of it back.

§ 05 — not your trade?

Different trade? There is a page for that one too.

Hair salons The finished salon site, instead of another page editor. Nail salons Your whole price list, findable on a Thursday night. Restaurants Menu, hours, address, and a table booked with one thumb.

Whatever you do, the front door is the same one: the Openhouse home page, or type your trade straight into the form and we build from that.

Free to look · pay only to publish

Start with your business name.

That is genuinely the whole thing. Two fields here, your town on the next screen, and we build your barber site. You read all of it, on your own phone, on your own time — and then you decide whether it is worth $59 a month.