Join as a
founding provider.
Doorcut is where people across the Greater Toronto Area book mobile stylists, barbers and nail, makeup and lash artists to come to them. We are opening with a small founding group, chosen one conversation at a time, before anyone else can join. You set your prices, your hours, how far you will travel, and what the trip costs.
- Get booked, get paid, keep every tip
- Free to join, no monthly fee
- You only pay when you get paid
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A small group. Each one a conversation.
Small because that is how many people we can set up properly by hand, and get to know well enough to build the app around. A founding provider gets five things, and all five exist today.
A Founding Provider badge
On your page, beside Verified, and shown for as long as you are verified. The seat itself is yours for good: we grant it by hand, it cannot be bought, and nobody outside the founding group will ever have one.
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10% for your first 60 days
Then 15%, of service and travel together. Set on your account the day you are approved, and every booking you take in those days keeps the rate after it ends. Everyone who joins through launch gets this rate; the seat is what is limited, not the rate.
We set you up in person
We build your page with you, photograph your work, and put your services and prices in properly. Empty pages do not get booked, and yours will not be empty. The photos are yours, not ours: Doorcut uses them on the platform, and never in our advertising or in the app stores without asking you first.
The founders, not a support queue
When something is wrong you tell us directly, and one of us answers.
A say in what we build next
Provider requests beat our own list, and the founding group are the ones making them. What you tell us while you use the app shapes the next features and improvements, because you are using it before anyone else.
What it is not. A founding seat is not a promise of bookings, and it does not change how you are checked: every professional on Doorcut, founding or not, has the same check with us — a short video call or a meeting in person — shows the same government photo ID, and is approved by a person. That check is what Verified means, and customers are told what it is not: it is not a criminal record check, and it is not an endorsement of the quality of anyone's work. Where we actually are is further down, in plain words.
You only pay when you get paid.
No joining fee, no monthly fee, and nothing at all for the scheduling tools. We take a percentage only when a card is actually charged: of the service and travel on a booking, or of a cancellation, no-show or late-change fee, with a small minimum on each charge. Never of a tip, and never of HST you charge yourself.
Two honest notes. Doorcut is registered for GST/HST, so 13% HST is added to our commission and taken with it: at 10%, a $100 booking costs you $10 plus $1.30. It is never added to your customer's price, and if you are GST/HST registered yourself you can claim it back. And our commission has a minimum on each charge it applies to, so a very small charge still covers what the card processing costs us. The minimum is $0.62 plus 2.9% of the charge — about $0.85 on an $8 charge — and it only comes into play on small charges: under about $10.50 at the launch rate, or about $6 at 15%. On anything a real appointment is worth, the percentage is what applies. We would rather you read both here than find them in an earnings breakdown.
Get found by new customers.
On a salon booking platform you are one chair among every chair in the city. Doorcut is the one place people come specifically looking for somebody who will travel to them — including the customers nobody else is really serving: older people, anyone who cannot easily get out, parents who are not leaving the house today.
You show up in browse and search
Customers browsing your categories, or searching for a service by name, see your page — provided they are inside the area you have said you will travel to. You set that distance, and you can change it whenever you like.
They can keep you
Somebody who likes your work can save you to their favourites and come back to you directly next time, instead of starting from the browse list again.
Your reviews stay with you
Only a customer whose appointment actually happened can leave one, so there is no way to fake them and a good profile is worth something. It builds up on your page over time.
Where we actually are. We are opening in Toronto now, and building the customer side alongside the provider side. So this is an opportunity rather than a promise, and nobody should join expecting a full diary in the first week. What a founding seat gets you is a head start on reviews and a real say in a market we are building together; the launch rate is everybody's.
No-shows are charged, not just apologised for.
The customer's card is authorised the moment they book, so the money is already held before you set off. If they cancel late or leave you standing at the door, the fee comes out of that hold.
You mark yourself on the way and then arrived, and the app keeps the time of each. That record is what makes a no-show claim stand up.
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Cancelled late
If a customer cancels a booking you have accepted inside 24 hours of the appointment, they pay a cancellation fee, unless they cancel within 30 minutes of making it. Beyond 24 hours the hold is released and nobody pays anything.
Nobody answers
You mark that you have arrived, wait fifteen minutes, and can then close it out as a no-show. It is recorded with the time and where you were, so it holds up if it is ever questioned.
Cancelled once you set off
Cancelling after you are on the way is treated exactly like a no-show, because the slot is gone and the journey is spent either way.
The customer is warned about the fee and the deadline the day before, and told the exact amount before they confirm. Our percentage applies to a cancellation fee the same as any other booking, and a customer can dispute one with us rather than with you. None of these fees is charged to a customer you have marked as a trusted client.
One link for your Instagram bio.
You choose the name. Tapping it on a phone opens your page straight in the app, with your services, your prices and your next free slots already there. Put it in your bio, print it on a card, read it out on the phone.
If you ever change the name, the old one keeps working and nobody else can take it — a card you handed out last year still finds you.
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Set your hours once. It handles the rest.
Tell Doorcut which hours you work each week and how much travel time you need between appointments, and customers can only ever book a slot that genuinely works. Block out a whole day, or just the hours you are busy on a job somewhere else.
You decide how much notice you need, and whether requests come to you to accept or confirm themselves automatically.
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Paid into your own account. Yours in minutes, if you want it.
When you mark a job complete, the card is charged and your share is transferred to your own Stripe account as part of the same charge. Tips are transferred the same way, in full.
From there it is yours to move. Leave it, and Stripe pays it out to your bank about a week after the appointment, at no cost. Or tap Get paid now and it goes to your debit card, usually within 30 minutes, any day of the week including weekends and holidays. An instant payout costs 1% of the amount, and the app shows you exactly what will land before you agree.
Every booking shows what the service came to, what we took, and what is on its way to you — no invoices to chase and nothing to add up at the end of the week.
Get paid now
$1,437.34 is available now. Stripe charges $14.24 to send it instantly, so $1,423.10 would reach you — usually within 30 minutes, any day of the week. Or wait, and it arrives on your normal schedule at no cost.
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It is your business. We are the booking system.
Your prices
You list your own services and set every price. Nobody discounts your work for you. Charge for the trip too, if you like: one flat travel fee, or up to three distance bands from your base, and customers see it before they book.
Your hours
Work the days and hours you choose. Change them whenever you like, and block out time you need back.
Your travel area
Set how far from your base you are willing to go. Anyone outside it never reaches your calendar. Your base does not have to be your home — a nearby corner or the middle of your neighbourhood works just as well, and customers never see the address.
Five things people book
- Hair
- Barber
- Nails
- Makeup
- Lashes & Brows
Pick as many as you do. Somebody who cuts hair and does bridal makeup shows up in both.
A conversation first, not a sign-up form.
One conversation at a time. Send the form below and I will get in touch personally.
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We talk
A phone call or a coffee. What you do, where you work, whether this is any use to you.
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You get set up
We build your page together — services, prices, photos of your work, which stay yours. Stripe collects your bank and ID details directly; they never pass through us.
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A person approves you
A short video call or a meeting in person, with your government photo ID shown, and a person approves you before you can take a booking. It is slower, and it is the reason a customer will let you through their front door. Before that, you will also confirm in the app that you carry your own liability insurance for the work you do.
The call or meeting, the ID and a person's approval are what the Verified badge on your page means. Customers are told what it is not: a criminal record check, or an endorsement of the quality of anyone's work.
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You get your link
Your booking page goes live at doorcut.app/yourname, ready for your bio before we open to the public.
Tell me a bit about yourself.
Six questions. This is not an application and there is no automatic yes — it tells me who to call.
Hairstylists and barbers need a Certificate of Qualification (332A) or a Provisional Certificate of Qualification. That includes styling, braiding and extensions.
Thank you — that reached me.
I read these myself and will be in touch within a couple of days. If it is urgent, email support@doorcut.app.