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HAUSBRAID vs Square Appointments

Square Appointments is Square’s booking app, free with Square payments and built around its point of sale. HAUSBRAID is built for braiders: your clients call, text and DM as they always have, and each one is written up for your tap.

15 days free, no card to start
Never a cut of your bookings
Bring your clients across from Square Appointments

Credit where due

What Square Appointments does well.

A free plan with unlimited staff calendars, if you take cards through Square.
One system for bookings, the register, inventory and your bank, with next-day deposits.
Your own booking site and Book Now buttons, with prepayment on the free plan.
Hardware for the chair and the counter.

Where it differs

Where a braider feels the difference.

Free, with Square’s rates
Square Appointments: The $0 plan carries 2.6% + 15¢ in person and 3.3% + 30¢ online. No-show fees and a cancellation policy that charges need Plus, at $49 a month per location.
HAUSBRAID: $20 a month, with deposits in it. Keep taking payments through your own Square account.
The phone and the DMs
Square Appointments: No voice. Square Assistant texts clients to confirm or reschedule; Instagram gets a Book Now button.
HAUSBRAID: A line for each braider, the voice assistant when the braider can’t pick up, and every DM written up for your tap.
A register, or a braider’s week
Square Appointments: Square knows a sale: it doesn’t know a knotless takes five hours and two packs of 1B.
HAUSBRAID: Services carry size and length with their time and price; the shelf knows what runs out when, and To do says what to reorder.

Side by side

HAUSBRAID and Square Appointments, row by row.

Square Appointments’s column is what its public pages said on October 22, 2026; plans change, so check its pricing page before you decide.

For a braider	HAUSBRAID	Square Appointments
Calls answered while you braid	Yes.A line for each braider; the voice assistant picks up when the braider can’t, and the call is written up for the braider’s tap.	No.No voice. Square Assistant texts clients to confirm, cancel or reschedule.
Instagram DMs written up	Yes.Every conversation, voice notes too, becomes a booking or a reply you approve.	No.A Book Now button on Instagram.
Nothing booked or sent without you	Yes.Every call, DM and request waits in To do for your tap.	Partly.Clients book open slots directly; approval can be required.
Your own booking page with deposits	Yes.A menu page built from one sentence; clients pay the deposit to hold the time.	Partly.Your own booking site with prepayment; no-show fees need Plus.
Where the money goes	Yes.Your own Stripe or Square account, then your bank. Never a cut of your bookings.	Yes.Your Square account, paid out next day.
Marketplace or new-client fees	Yes.None. Your clients are yours.	Yes.None.
Run it by text	Yes.Text HAUSBRAID like a receptionist, day or night.	No.An app and a dashboard.
Hair and products on the shelf	Yes.Stock, with what runs out when and what to order.	Yes.Inventory through Square’s point of sale.
Bring your clients across	Yes.From Booksy, Square, StyleSeat, a spreadsheet, your notes or your contacts.	Partly.Clients from a CSV file.
Price for one braider	Yes.$20 a month; $5 a month for each braider after. 15 days free, no card.	Yes.Free with Square payments; $49 a month per location for Plus.

What each costs

One plan, and your money stays yours.

HAUSBRAID is $20 a month for your first braider and $5 a month for each braider after; pay yearly and get a month free. Payments go to your own Stripe or Square account at that processor’s rate. There is no marketplace, no commission and no fee for a new client.

Square Appointments, as published

One braider: Free: $0 a month with Square payments.
A team: Free has unlimited calendars. Plus is $49 a month per location; Premium $149 a month per location.
Free: A free plan; 30 days free on Plus and Premium.
Card fees: Square’s own, required: 2.6% + 15¢ in person and 3.3% + 30¢ online on Free; 2.5% + 15¢ and 2.9% + 30¢ on Plus.
Other fees: No marketplace. No-show fees and cancellation charging need Plus.

Seen October 22, 2026 at squareup.com. Prices in US dollars; promotions and regional prices vary.

The move

Leaving Square Appointments? You don’t start from zero.

When you set up, sign in to Square Appointments and your clients, services and upcoming bookings come across. Check them, and you’re live. Your 15 free days start once your salon is set up.

And every call that comes in is written up like this, waiting for your tap.

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Questions

Switching from Square Appointments.

Can I bring my Square clients to HAUSBRAID?

Yes. When you set up, sign in to Square and your clients, services and upcoming bookings come across.

Can I keep taking payments with Square?

Yes. Connect your Square account and deposits and payments keep landing there, at Square’s rate.

Square Appointments is free. Why pay $20?

For what Square doesn’t do: a line for each braider, the voice assistant when the braider can’t pick up, Instagram DMs written up, and a morning list of what’s worth money. If a free calendar is all you need, Square is a fine one.

Does HAUSBRAID have a register?

No. It takes deposits and payments through your Square or Stripe account and sends pay links; the counter stays Square’s.

Try now

Your chair, your clients. We’ll pick up the phone.

15 days free, no card to start. Then $20 a month for your first braider.