Working on your own
Cobbtree One
£19+ VAT a month
Founders: free for 6 months
- 1 team member
- Online booking
- Point of sale
- Reports
- Everything in the list below
Early Founders Access
Cobbtree is launching.
The diary, the till and your online bookings, in one place.
We're starting with the businesses that make great local services possible. Run a salon, barbershop, clinic or studio, or work for yourself? Join Cobbtree as one of our first businesses.
- One published price
- No setup fee, no onboarding fee and no minimum contract. Every feature is on every plan.
- No cut of your own clients
- A booking only carries a fee when the Cobbtree marketplace brought you the client - 10% + VAT on their first visit. Every booking after that is yours.
- Your takings, your bank
- Card payments run through Stripe into your own account. Cobbtree never holds your money, so there is no platform balance to wait on.
- 60-day trial
- The standard trial if you join outside the Founders offer. No card needed to look around.
Who Cobbtree is for
Built for the people behind great local services.
A single chair or a room above a shop, a team of twelve across two branches, or something in between. Same diary, same till, same price.
Hair & Styling
Nails
Barbers
Facials & Skincare
Massage
Eyebrows & Eyelashes
Also hair removal, makeup artist, spa & wellness, tattoo & piercing - and more.
Book. How clients book with Cobbtree
New clients have to be able to find you. Regulars have to be able to rebook in thirty seconds.
Bookings come in from your own website, from the Cobbtree marketplace and from the desk, and they all land on one diary - live, with no double entry.
A website that takes bookings
Not a brochure. A live site under your own name.
Services, prices, team, opening hours and reviews come straight from your account, so the site is right the moment you change a price. A Cobbtree subdomain is included; your own domain is a yearly add-on.
Online booking
Clients pick a time that is genuinely free.
Cobbtree checks the staff rota, the real service duration and any patch-test requirement before it accepts the booking. Your prices and durations are the ones the client sees, on every slot.
It is an instant booking, not a request sitting in an inbox waiting for someone to approve it.
Deposits and no-shows
Decide what it takes to hold the time.
Pay in full, pay a deposit, or pay at the venue - set per service, not once for the whole business. The price, the VAT and anything due now are broken out before the client confirms.
Set a notice window and a late-cancellation fee, and Cobbtree charges the card the client agreed to when they booked. A late drop-out is not a free hour.
On a phone
Four steps, thumb-sized.
Service, person, time, payment - in that order, with your price on every slot. Clients can ask for someone by name, or let Cobbtree show the earliest time across the whole team.
Nothing to download, and no account needed before they can see whether you are free.
More than one location
Two sites, one business, one client list.
Add a location when you are ready and Cobbtree still treats it as one business: one team, one client list, one set of reports, with hours and amenities per branch.
When the Cobbtree marketplace opens, people already searching nearby will find those branches and book them. The client relationship stays yours from the first visit.
Waitlist
When the day is full you are still filling it. Cobbtree holds the demand and messages the next client the moment a gap opens up.
Consultation forms and patch tests
Build the questions you actually need, completed on the client's phone before they arrive. Mark a service as needing a patch test and Cobbtree checks for one before the booking goes through.
Client records
Preferences, notes, allergies and spend follow the client. Whoever is on the desk sees the same record.
Manage. Running your business on Cobbtree
One system for the diary, the till and the client record.
Not a booking tool in one tab and a card machine on the counter that knows nothing about it. The visit, the payment and the client's history are the same record.
The till at the chair
Take the payment before they leave the chair.
Card, cash or a split, with retail on the same ticket. Mark the client arrived, take the payment, done - and the service stays on the ticket until it has actually been paid.
Payments run through Stripe into your own bank account. Cobbtree never holds your takings.
Reports
See which days, which people, which services.
Sales by weekday and hour, gross and net, VAT and discounts, grouped however you need to look at them. It is the difference between guessing at next month's rota and knowing.
Team, roles and a PIN on the till
Give each person the access they need and nothing more. A PIN locks the till between clients, so the day's takings are not open on a screen at the front of the shop.
Retail and stock
Sell products on the same ticket as the service. Track quantity by location, order from suppliers, run a stocktake and move stock between sites.
Memberships, packages and gift cards
Sell a course of treatments up front, a monthly membership with member prices, or a gift card at the desk - all with a balance the team can see.
Reporting you can roster from
Revenue, bookings, cancellations and wages due, split by day, branch, staff and service. The same figures your team is working from.
Grow. Bringing clients back
A visit that went well should turn into the next one.
Nobody has time to run a retention campaign between clients. So the things that bring people back are part of the booking itself - set once, then working quietly on every visit.
Loyalty
A reason to come back, on the page where they book.
Set the stamps, the spend that earns one and the reward. Clients see the offer above your prices, and the stamp only counts once the visit has been paid for.
Memberships and gift cards
Money in before the appointment.
A monthly membership with member pricing, or a gift card someone buys for a friend at 11pm. Both sell from your own site without you being there, and both land as a balance your team can see on the client record.
Packages
Sell six visits as one purchase.
A course of treatments sits on the menu beside your single services, bought in one go and drawn down visit by visit. The remaining balance is on the client record, so whoever is on the desk knows what is left.
Reviews from real visits
A Cobbtree review has to come from a paid, completed booking, so a rating means something. Someone who was never in the chair cannot leave one.
Loyalty in Apple Wallet
Stamps and rewards live on the client's phone, not on a card they will lose. The stamp only lands once the visit is actually paid for.
Pricing
One price a month. Every feature on it.
The plans differ by how many people take bookings on the diary - not by holding features back. Pick the size you are, change it whenever that changes.
For a team
Cobbtree Studio
£29+ VAT a month
Founders: free for 6 months
- Unlimited team members
- Online booking
- Point of sale
- Cobbtree Sites
- Reports
- Everything in the list below
No setup fee, no onboarding fee and no minimum contract.
What else you would pay.
Your plan is the only thing Cobbtree bills you every month. Everything below is charged when it happens, on the money it relates to - so if you never sell a gift card, you never see that line.
- Card processingStripe's rate
- Card payments run through your own Stripe account, and Stripe charges its own published rate for the card used. Cobbtree adds nothing on top and never holds your takings.
- A new client from the marketplace10% + VAT, once
- Charged once, on the first booking of a client the Cobbtree marketplace brought you. Every booking that client makes after that is free, and anyone who came from your own site or your own front door never carries it at all.
- Gift cards sold on Cobbtree5%, once
- Charged once when a card is sold, on what the buyer paid for it. It never comes out of the balance, so whoever receives the card can still spend its full face value with you.
- Membership payments5%
- Charged on membership money as it is collected - the joining fee and each payment after it - and never on a perk a member uses. A membership bought as a gift is charged on the gift, not again on the visits.
Compare everything on each plan
| Included | Cobbtree One | Cobbtree Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Team members taking bookings | 1 | Unlimited |
| Unlimited customers | Included | Included |
| Unlimited bookings | Included | Included |
| Online booking | Included | Included |
| Marketplace listing | Included | Included |
| Cobbtree Sites | Not included | Included |
| Point of sale | Included | Included |
| Apple Wallet loyalty cards | Included | Included |
| Retail products | Included | Included |
| Inventory management | Included | Included |
| Reports | Included | Included |
| Gift cards | Included | Included |
| Service packages | Included | Included |
| Memberships | Included | Included |
| Waitlist | Included | Included |
| Reviews | Included | Included |
| Loyalty | Not included | Included |
Early Founders Access
Be one of the first 20.
Approved Founder businesses get Cobbtree free for 6 months.
- What you get
- 6 months free on the plan you choose, with every feature on it.
- Who qualifies
- Businesses approved during the launch. Registering does not guarantee a place - Founder status is allocated on approval, under the live offer rules.
- Afterwards
- Your plan continues at its published price. Nothing renews at a different rate, and you can leave whenever you want. The Founder period replaces the standard 60-day trial.
- Availability
- 20 of 20 Founder places remaining
Questions
The things owners actually ask.
How does the Founders offer work?
The first 20 approved businesses get Cobbtree free for 6 months. After that your chosen plan continues at its published price. The Founder period replaces the standard 60-day trial. Registering does not by itself guarantee a Founder place - places are allocated when a business is approved.
Do you take a cut of every booking?
No. A client who discovers you through the Cobbtree marketplace carries a one-time 10% + VAT fee on their first booking; every booking that client makes after that is free, and bookings from your own site or your own clients never carry a fee at all.
So what else can I be charged?
Card processing, which is Stripe's own rate on your own Stripe account with nothing added by Cobbtree. Gift cards carry 5% once, on what was paid for the card - never out of the balance, so it can still be spent in full. Memberships carry 5% on membership money as it is collected, and nothing when a member uses a perk. The full list, with what each one is charged on, is in the pricing section above.
Where does the money go?
Straight to you. Card payments run through your own Stripe account and pay out to your own bank. Cobbtree never holds your takings, so there is no platform balance to wait for.
Can I move my clients and bookings across?
Yes. Bring your client list over and we will help you get it in cleanly, including past visit history where your current system will export it. Nobody should have to retype a thousand clients to change software.
What is the difference between the plans?
How many people can take bookings on the diary. Every plan includes online booking, the diary, the till, your Cobbtree website, client records, reporting, memberships, gift cards and loyalty.
Is there a contract?
No. There is no setup fee, no onboarding fee and no minimum term. You pay monthly and you can stop whenever you want.
When does the marketplace open?
Once our first founding businesses are set up and ready to take bookings. Your Cobbtree website, diary and till all work from day one - the marketplace is additional reach on top, not the thing you are waiting for.
Looking to book?
The Cobbtree marketplace is opening soon.
We're getting our first salons, barbers, beauty professionals and wellness businesses set up before we open bookings more widely. When they're ready, you'll be able to find and book them right here - and every business on Cobbtree gets a page like this one.
Join Cobbtree.
One place for the diary, the till, your clients and your online bookings.
Approved Founder businesses get Cobbtree free for 6 months. No setup fee, no contract, and your takings pay out to your own bank.