How long is the wait — and can the team keep up?
Tell the planner how many people are serving, how long a guest takes and how busy the hour is. It estimates the wait for someone joining now and whether the line is about to outgrow the team.
Your busy hour
Barbers, stylists, artists, tables — whoever serves a guest.
From sitting down to paying, including the tidy-up between guests.
Use your busiest hour, not the whole-day average.
On the list right now, ahead of a guest who joins next.
ESTIMATED WAIT FOR A GUEST JOINING NOW
Busy but workable. Keep the quoted wait honest and the line moving.
A planning estimate from averages, not a quoted wait. Real waits depend on who asked for whom and how each service runs. NextUp Walk-in shows each guest their live place and wait from a scan at the door — no app to download. From $29 a month for the first location.
Start 14-day free trialPlan the roster, not the rush
Run the planner for your busiest hour. If the team is over 85% busy then, one late guest or one long service is enough to double the wait.
Quote the wait you can keep
Guests forgive a long wait they agreed to sooner than a short one that stretches. Start from the estimate, then say what the list really looks like.
See it live instead
Averages plan the week; they cannot run Saturday. A live line shows who is next, who asked for whom, and what the wait is right now. See the walk-out calculator for what a line that loses people costs.