Link it from Instagram
Most barber discovery happens on Instagram. Put the form's page in your bio link — the same form serves your website and your social traffic, and submissions tell you which source via a hidden field.
Form template · Salon / barber appointment
Walk-ins keep the chairs warm, but bookings keep the day predictable. This form takes appointment requests from your website and Instagram bio link — service, preferred barber, day and time — straight to your phone.
Every template is free and fully editable in the drag-drop builder — swap fields, colors, and the button label before you publish.
No server, API route, or SDK — your Barber Shop Booking Form posts straight to one endpoint.
Every submission is emailed to you and saved to a searchable dashboard — spam filtered before it reaches you.
It's plain HTML you own — paste the Barber Shop Booking Form snippet, swap in your access key, and ship.
Copy and ship
HTML by default — the same field set also renders as React, Next.js, PHP, and cURL in your dashboard. Every variant posts to the same /api/submit endpoint. Replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY with the key from your dashboard; that's the only edit.
<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="New salon booking">
<label for="name">Full name *</label>
<input id="name" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Sasha Vorona" required>
<label for="email">Email *</label>
<input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="sasha@example.com" required>
<label for="phone">Phone *</label>
<input id="phone" type="tel" name="phone" placeholder="+1 555 0142" required>
<label for="service">Service *</label>
<select id="service" name="service" required>
<option value="">Choose…</option>
<option>Haircut</option>
<option>Cut + color</option>
<option>Color only</option>
<option>Highlights / balayage</option>
<option>Blowout / styling</option>
<option>Treatment</option>
<option>Beard trim</option>
<option>Kids cut</option>
</select>
<label for="stylist">Preferred stylist</label>
<select id="stylist" name="stylist">
<option value="">Choose…</option>
<option>No preference</option>
<option>Stylist A</option>
<option>Stylist B</option>
<option>Stylist C</option>
</select>
<label for="preferred_date">Preferred date *</label>
<input id="preferred_date" type="date" name="preferred_date" required>
<label for="preferred_time">Preferred time</label>
<select id="preferred_time" name="preferred_time">
<option value="">Choose…</option>
<option>Morning</option>
<option>Midday</option>
<option>Afternoon</option>
<option>Evening</option>
<option>Weekend</option>
</select>
<label for="notes">Notes</label>
<textarea id="notes" name="notes" placeholder="Hair length, recent color, allergies, inspiration photos…"></textarea>
<!-- honeypot — bots fill every field -->
<input type="checkbox" name="botcheck" style="display:none" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off">
<button type="submit">Send</button>
</form><p class="splitforms-attribution" style="margin-top:12px;font-size:11px;color:#888;text-align:right">
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</p>How to add it
To add a Barber Shop Booking Form to your site you need three things: a free splitforms access key, the HTML snippet above, and your key pasted into it. No backend, database, or CAPTCHA library — the form posts to one URL and every submission lands in your inbox and dashboard.
Most barber discovery happens on Instagram. Put the form's page in your bio link — the same form serves your website and your social traffic, and submissions tell you which source via a hidden field.
Service dropdown (cut, skin fade, cut + beard, beard trim, hot towel shave, kids cut), preferred barber, preferred day and time. The notes field catches reference photos and 'same as last time'.
Webhook the request to your phone via SMS or Slack. Reply with a confirmed slot in minutes — speed is the whole pitch against booking apps, and the customer never leaves your brand.
What's included
Barbering runs on regulars, and regulars want their barber — not just any chair. The booking form needs a barber-preference dropdown alongside service and time, because 'any barber, 2pm' and 'Marcus only, whenever he's free' are different requests with different scheduling logic. A form on the website and in the Instagram bio link captures the after-hours booker (most appointment requests happen when the shop is closed) without paying a per-booking fee to an app marketplace. No per-booking fees, no competing shops in the app — your clients stay yours.

Where submissions go
Reply-to is wired to the visitor's email, so one tap on Reply answers them directly — while the built-in honeypot and spam classifier filter out bots before they reach you. Every submission is emailed to your inbox and can forward to a webhook or Slack the moment a visitor hits send.

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Questions
Booking apps are great until you see the monthly fee and realise your clients are being shown competing shops in the same app. A form on your own site costs nothing, keeps your client list yours, and works for shops that book by text anyway — which is most of them.
Yes — the preferred-barber dropdown is built in. Edit the options to your actual roster. 'No preference / first available' should stay as the first option; it keeps the schedule flexible for walk-in-heavy days.
The form captures a phone number, which is your no-show defence: confirm by text, then send a reminder the morning of. Shops that text-confirm see no-show rates drop by half or more versus silent bookings.
Yes — host the form on a simple page and use that URL in your bio. It loads fast (plain HTML, no app install), which matters when someone's deciding on a fade at 11pm.
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