Nobody in a barbershop has a free hand. Your Bot answers the shop line, says whether you take walk-ins, which barber works which day, and what a cut costs, and takes the request for the chair they want.
Made for: Barbershops · Shops with booth renters · Kids' cut shops · Shave and beard bars
First visit. Wants a skin fade and beard line-up with Tony on Saturday around 11:30, or anyone if Tony is full. Asked about parking; answered from the notes. Staff to confirm in the booking app today.
Example. Names and numbers are made up; the format is what every call produces.
A barbershop does not need a call centre. It needs the phone picked up during a cut, the same answers about hours and walk-ins, and the appointment request written down for the right barber.
More on how this compares: AI receptionist · AI answering service · replacing voicemail.
Read the guide: The barbershop phone: walk-ins, waits and 'do you take cards?'
CosVoice does not replace Booksy, Squire, Square or the book on the counter. It is the phone conversation. The line takes the request and a barber confirms it in the tool you already use, or your own Bot books it if you have given it that calendar.
Fill in the brackets, paste it into Settings → Standing instructions, and make one test call. Tighten it after a day of real calls.
Want to hear a briefed Bot first? Listen to two real calls.
You are the assistant for [Barbershop]. Hours: [hours]. Walk-ins: [yes, no, or when]. Prices: cut [price], cut and beard [price], kids [price]. Barbers and their days: [names and days]. Booking: take the request and say the shop confirms in [app] within [time]. Late and no-show policy: [policy]. Always capture: name, phone, service, barber, day and time. Never take card numbers.
100 minutes of calls. Then $0.25 a minute.
300 or 1,000 minutes, for a line that's busy all day. Full pricing →
It's a phone number for your Bot. You brief that Bot as your front desk, your sales intake, or both, the way you'd brief a new hire. One line, one Bot, and your instructions, not a generic script.
No. Keep your booking system. The line collects the request and your team confirms it there, or your own Bot books it if you've given it access to that calendar.
No. The line never reads out or takes a card number. Deposits and payments stay in the tools you already use.
No. The line works on its own with standing instructions you write in Settings. If you run Grok Bot, an OpenAI dot, Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor, connecting it lets your Bot place calls and read every summary itself.
Yes, whenever someone asks. It answers as your business's assistant and never pretends to be a person.
Brief it once. Callers get your business. You get the notes.