A digital waitlist for walk-ins: customers scan a QR or tap a tablet, pick a service and a staff member or first available, and get a live status page and a heads-up when it is their turn.
Free plan, no card. Pro from $5/mo. Made for barbershops, salons, nail studios, restaurants, clinics, auto shops, car washes and every business with a line.
Customers scan your QR or tap the counter tablet, pick a service and who they want, and get a live place in line on their phone.
Choose a specific barber or stylist, or let round robin share walk-ins fairly by rotation, workload, wait time or skills.
A live status page and "you are almost next" emails or texts, so nobody has to stand in your lobby.
Connect your own Twilio account for text alerts. You pay Twilio directly, we never mark up a message.
Add your services, your team and their photos. Pick specific staff, first available, or both.
Customers scan at the door or tap the kiosk. No app and no account.
They watch their place on their phone and get an email or text when it is their turn.
Seven ways to share first-available walk-ins: strict rotation, next available, least busy, shortest wait, weighted, skills first, or the manager decides. Two staff can never grab the same customer, and every override is logged.
Marcus, Dee, Ana, Marcus... skipping anyone on a break.
Other waitlist apps sell you text credits with a markup. Connect your own Twilio account instead and every text is billed to you by Twilio, directly. We never touch the bill.
Account SID, an API key and your sender. They are encrypted, and we only ever show the last four characters.
One tap sends a test text. If something is off (trial account, A2P 10DLC, funds) we tell you in plain English.
Texts only go to people who ticked the box. STOP, START and HELP replies are handled, and every text is logged with its delivery status.
Email alerts are built in on every plan. Texts are optional.
Classic barbershop, luxury salon, medical reception, car wash, black and gold, neon and more. Pro adds your own colors, fonts and background photo. Text stays readable whatever you pick.
Colors, gradients, dot and corner styles, your logo, frames and a call to action, PNG and SVG. On every plan. Codes never show anyone's details and cannot change the line.
Healthcare offices: PowerWaitlist keeps names off public screens and lets you clear contact details on a schedule, but it is not marketed as HIPAA compliant. Check your own requirements.
Connect PowerKit Pro to Claude or ChatGPT once and every waitlist action is a sentence away: the queue, staff, breaks, round robin, kiosks, themes, emails and reports. Anything that removes someone from the line asks you first.
Start free. Upgrade when it pays for itself. Cancel any time.
A real digital waitlist at no cost.
For a busy shop with a team.
For multi-location businesses.
Best-in-class features at the least expensive price in the category.
List prices a month unless marked per event, checked October 2026 on each vendor's public pricing page. Plans chosen are the closest match to PowerWaitlist Pro for a solo business. Hover or tap a bar for the catch.
Worth $170 bought separately. PowerWaitlist Pro is included, along with PowerForms, PowerBooking, PowerLoyalty, PowerQR, PowerLinks, PowerCard, PowerReviews, PowerBid, PowerWaivers, PowerMenu, PowerCerts, PowerEvent, PowerSeat. One login, one invoice.
PowerWaitlist Pro shares its account, brand colors and billing with the rest of PowerKit Pro.
No. They scan your QR with the phone camera or tap the tablet by the door, type a first name, and get a live status page in the browser. No download and no account.
Customers who ask for someone by name always join that person’s line. Everyone else goes to the shared line, and you pick the rule: strict rotation, next available, least busy, shortest wait, weighted, skills first, or the manager assigns. Free includes strict rotation and next available; Pro adds the rest. Breaks, offline staff and who can do which service are always respected.
Not to us. Connect your own Twilio account and Twilio bills you directly at their price. Email alerts are included on every plan. Texts only go to customers who agree to them, and STOP replies are honored.
Nobody in line is ever cut off. Everyone already waiting is served. Limits only stop new staff, new locations or new online check-ins at extra locations. Free includes 1 location and 2 staff, Pro 5 staff, and Business 3 locations and 15 staff.
Yes, on every plan, Free included. Kiosk mode is full screen, keeps the screen awake, clears contact details after each check-in, resets itself when idle and asks for a PIN to exit. We show you how to lock an iPad or Android tablet to the page.
We do not market PowerWaitlist as HIPAA compliant. Public screens show ticket numbers only, and you can clear contact details on a schedule, but a healthcare office should check its own requirements before using it for patients.
Yes. PowerKit Pro has a connector (an MCP server) for ChatGPT and Claude. Connect it once in about two minutes, then just ask, for example: “Who is next in line, and call them up.” It runs in your own account. The connector is included on every plan, free plans too. Setup steps are at powerkitpro.com/connect-claude.
There is a free plan with no credit card: 1 location, 2 staff, qr and kiosk check-in. Upgrade only when you need more.
PowerWaitlist is part of PowerKit Pro, built by Brandon Lampkin, a Tampa Bay web developer and small-business owner who has built websites for local businesses for 15 years. He got tired of paying a separate subscription for every form builder, scheduler and QR code site, so he built one set of tools that work together.
Yes. The Pro Suite is $39 a month and includes Pro on all 14 PowerKit Pro tools under one login, including PowerWaitlist.
A real digital waitlist at no cost. Free plan, no card.
Connect PowerKit Pro to Claude or ChatGPT once, then tell it what you need from PowerWaitlist Pro. It does the work in your account. About two minutes to set up, included on every plan, free too.
Four people. #024 Maria is next for Marcus, and two are waiting for first available. Wait is about 20 minutes.
Called #025 Dev for Dee, and Luis is on a break until 2:45. His first-available walk-ins moved back to the shared line.
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