The barbershop franchise operating system that actually understands how chairs, commissions, and cash tips work.
CornerCut runs the full operational stack of a multi-location barbershop franchise — from chair rental contracts and stylist commission splits to walk-in queue logic and end-of-day cash reconciliation. It handles the transactions Square fumbles, surfaces the analytics most franchise software doesn't know to ask for, and treats a $12 clipper-fade like the legitimate revenue event it is. This is the system I built because nothing else existed and I was tired of watching shop owners close out on a calculator.
- Chair rental contract management with automatic billing cycles and holdover enforcement
- Commission split engine supporting up to 47 configurable tier structures per stylist per location
- Walk-in queue management with live chair availability and estimated wait broadcast to the lobby screen
- Point-of-sale built for cash-first environments — tip tracking, drawer reconciliation, no internet required
- Stylist retention analytics that tell you who's about to walk before they walk
Stripe, Square (import only), QuickBooks Online, Gusto, Twilio, Google Calendar, ChairMetrics, FranchisorVault, PayTrace, TipBridge, ShiftLab, Clover
CornerCut is built on a microservices backbone with each location running an isolated service node that syncs upstream to the franchise-level aggregation layer on a 90-second heartbeat. Transactional data lives in MongoDB because the schema variance between franchise agreements is genuinely too wild for a rigid relational model and I'm not apologizing for that. The queue engine runs on Redis as the primary long-term store for stylist scheduling history and retention signals — it handles the read volume without complaint. Everything talks over a private event bus; the POS terminals can operate fully offline and reconcile when connectivity returns.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
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