CRM & pipeline

Chaotic Kuts

Every cut, every client, every dollar — a barbershop's whole book in one place, including what to hold back for taxes.

Barbershop bookkeeping Next.js, static export Cloudflare Pages, free 2026 tax year

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The problem

A barbershop running on a notebook, a phone's photo roll and a gut feeling for taxes has no reliable way to know what a day, a week or a month actually brought in, or which barber is pulling their weight. Cuts, clients and money live in different places, and none of them talk to each other.

Tax is the sharpest edge of that. The number that matters isn't what came through the chair — it's what's left after booth rent, product, clippers, phone and mileage are subtracted. A shop that isn't logging those costs has no way to know how much to hold back for the year's estimated-tax due dates, and guessing wrong makes for a bad month.

What it does

Dashboard

How today, this week and this month are going, plus who hasn't been in for a while.

Cuts

Log a cut in about ten seconds; search back through every cut.

Clients

Everyone in the book: how often they come, what they spend, when you last saw them; click a name for full history.

Reports

Pick any date range: what you earned, which cuts actually pay, which barber is pulling, when the shop is busiest.

Taxes

How much of every cut to hold back, the year's bill, and the four dates the IRS wants paying. Business costs are logged here too.

How it's built

Chaotic Kuts is a Next.js app, static-exported — no server to keep running, no database to manage. The finished site is built into a folder and dragged onto Cloudflare Pages, which hosts it for nothing.

The tax figures are documented year by year, with sources kept alongside the numbers so they can be checked rather than trusted blindly.

What we'd do next

Next is keeping the tax figures current as the calendar turns over each year, and letting a working shop's day-to-day needs shape what gets added rather than guessing in advance.