Next up. Chair available.
Live chair availability, waiting-time display, barber introductions and loyalty-programme progress across every barber shop floor.
Barber shops are a 20-minute ritual. Signage shapes the whole 20 minutes.
A barber shop runs walk-in customers, appointment-bookings and regulars through 20-30 minute chair-cycles. Printed chalkboards can't say 'next chair free in 12 minutes'. Static wall-mounted stag-photos don't introduce this month's new barber. Hangar.Media integrates with your booking system (Fresha, Booksy, Timely, Ovatu) to surface live chair-availability, walk-in wait-times, barber introductions and the sport-feed that's been playing in barber shops for 50 years.
Built for how barber shops actually run.
The capabilities that matter in this sector — concrete, specific, and backed by the integrations your team already uses.
Chair 3 free in 8 minutes. Chair 5 available now.
Reception and waiting-area screens surface live chair-availability drawn from your booking system — which chairs are occupied, which are free, how long until the next-available. Walk-ins see the wait at a glance rather than queueing reception for an estimate; barbers moving between chairs see their next customer is already aware of the timing.
Walk-ins don't queue reception for a wait-time estimate. The wall tells them.
- Fresha, Booksy, Timely, Ovatu booking-system integration
- Per-chair occupied / free / next-available timing
- Alias-only customer-call display when ready
- Walk-in queue-ticket support for chains running first-come-first-served
Meet Darren. Been cutting 12 years. Fades his specialism.
Waiting-area screens rotate through barber introductions — name, years-cutting, specialism (fades, classic cuts, beard shaping, kids' cuts), portfolio-photo-rotation (opt-in consent). New customers choose a barber whose specialism matches what they want; regulars see their barber's photo recognition as they walk in.
New customers pick the barber whose specialism matches their cut. Regulars feel recognised.
- Barber-profile rotation with specialism and years-cutting
- Portfolio-photo opt-in with consent management
- New-barber welcome content for recently-joined staff
- Barber-of-the-month recognition with photo-consent
Premier League Saturday. Quiet mode post-1pm.
Barber shops and sport-feeds go together. Overhead and wall-mounted screens rotate live Premier League fixtures, F1 qualifying, cricket Test-matches and MMA pay-per-view events. During quiet periods (mid-morning Tuesday), screens shift to the shop's content — loyalty promotion, product retail, community events.
Saturday fixtures on. Tuesday morning, the shop takes back the wall.
- ESPN / Sportradar / league-feed integration
- Smart-switching between sport-feed and shop-content
- Schedule-aware sport-feed for shop-opening-hours alignment
- Local-club fixture prioritisation
9th cut gets the beard-trim free. Retail at the counter.
Loyalty-card progress visibility at checkout and waiting-area screens — 'Tom, one more cut and you get the next free' prompts when a regular's card is scanned. Product-retail promotion (clippers-oil, pomade, beard-oil, matchstick-shave-kit) rotates with POS-synced pricing. Retail attach-rate climbs when the waiting customer sees 'the same pomade Darren uses'.
Waiting-customer retail attach climbs when the wall promotes the barber's own tools.
- Loyalty-scheme progress display at POS
- Retail product promotion with POS-synced pricing
- Barber-endorsed product content ('Darren's pick')
- Repeat-booking prompts for regulars approaching schedule
20 shops. Group brand. Local barber stars.
Barber-shop chains manage content centrally with per-shop local autonomy — group-brand seasonal campaigns (winter-beard-care, summer-trim promotions), shared retail-programmes, central loyalty-programme messaging, while individual shops retain autonomy over local-barber-star content, community-event signage and shop-specific loyalty milestones.
Chain brand consistency. Local barber-shop character. Both preserved.
- Group-wide seasonal-campaign rollout
- Per-shop local-barber content autonomy
- Shared loyalty-programme with per-shop tracking
- Role-based permissions for HQ, area, shop-manager, barber
Every screen in the building.
From customer-facing walls to operational dashboards — the scenarios that make the platform worth running day-to-day.
Chair status and walk-in wait-time
Reception screens with live chair-availability, walk-in wait-time estimation, alias-only next-up call and membership-club promotion.
Barber introductions and sport-feed
Waiting-area screens with rotating barber introductions, live-sport feed during peak sport-hours and shop-community content during quieter periods.
Ambient content and mirror signage
Barber-station-adjacent screens with ambient shop-branded content, barber-playlist sync (Spotify-Business) and mirror-visible daily-special signage.
Loyalty progress and retail up-sell
Checkout-area screens with loyalty-card progress on card-scan, product retail promotion, barber-endorsed pick content and repeat-booking prompts.
Walk-in welcome and sport-fixtures
Window screens with walk-in welcome, today's big fixture (to draw sport-fans), membership promotion and after-hours branded content.
HQ chain oversight
Head-office dashboards for chain operators with per-shop performance, top-barber recognition and group-wide campaign-rollout oversight.
The integrations that actually matter here.
Every integration is included in every plan. These are the ones barber shops operators reach for first.
Meeting Room Booking
Appointment and chair-scheduling integration for booking-system data.
Learn More →ESPN Sport Feed
Live Premier League, F1, cricket and combat-sport fixture data.
Learn More →Barber portfolios, shop-life and community-event content.
Learn More →Google Reviews
Shop-level review aggregation for waiting-area trust content.
Learn More →Local-community barber-shop events and member engagement feed.
Learn More →Common questions. Straight answers.
Which barber-shop booking systems do you integrate with?
Fresha, Booksy, Timely, Ovatu, Shortcuts, Salon Iris, Mindbody Business and custom REST-API-compatible systems. We pull live chair-availability, appointment data (alias-only by default) and loyalty-card progress. For barber-shops running paper-diary systems, our walk-in-queue-ticket module handles chair-status without requiring migration.
Can we schedule sport-feed content around opening hours?
Yes. Sport-feed scheduling is calendar-aware and shop-hours-aware — during opening-hours-with-big-fixture, the screens carry the sport-feed; during quieter periods, they revert to shop-branded content (loyalty, retail, community events). Mid-Saturday-afternoon Premier League fixture automatically takes over; Tuesday-10am-quiet-period runs shop-content. Schedule-change respects specific big-fixtures (boxing pay-per-view, World Cup, cup finals).
How do you handle customer privacy in the barber-shop waiting room?
Alias-only by default. Next-up customer calls use first-name + chair-number, never full-name display. Loyalty-progress shows on card-scan to the specific customer's adjacent POS-screen — not broadcast to the whole waiting-room. Barber-portfolio photos require opt-in consent; customer photos never appear on screens without explicit opt-in.
Pricing for a barber shop?
£5 per screen per month. A single-shop 4-chair barber with 3 screens pays £15 per month. A 20-shop chain with 5 screens per shop pays £500 per month. A 200-shop national chain with 4 screens per shop pays £4,000 per month. All-in. No barber-sector or chain-tier premium.
Adjacent sectors.
Operators in barber shops frequently borrow patterns and playbooks from these neighbouring verticals.
Hair Salons
Appointment boards, stylist portfolios and product retail promotion.
Tattoo StudiosTattoo Studios
Artist portfolios, consultation schedules and hygiene signage.
Pubs & GastropubsPubs & Gastropubs
Sport-feed rotation, cask-list and member-community content.
Bars & LoungesBars & Lounges
Live cocktail menus and sport-fixture rotation.
One price. The whole platform.
That's how we think signage should work. Content editor, screen management, and 200+ app integrations — all included from day one.