Every empty chair is revenue that walked out the door. Enter your appointments per week, your no-show rate, and your average ticket — and see the dollars slipping away each week, month, and year. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is stored or sent.
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No-Show Cost Calculator
Enter three numbers. Results update live as you type — no button to press, nothing uploaded.
Lost revenue / week = Appointments × No-Show Rate × Average Ticket.
Weekly loss scales to a month at × 4.33 (average weeks per month) and to a
year at × 52. Every figure below is your own arithmetic — nothing is estimated for you.
Enter your appointments per week, no-show rate, and average ticket above to see what no-shows cost you.
Cut The Losses
No magic bullets — just general best practices that appointment-based businesses use to keep more of the bookings they already have.
A clear confirmation at the moment of booking — date, time, and what to expect — gives clients an easy record to check and a reason to put the appointment on their own calendar. People are less likely to forget something they helped set up.
When life gets in the way, the alternative to a no-show should be a two-tap reschedule, not a phone call they will avoid. Give clients a self-service way to move their slot so they rebook instead of ghosting — a moved appointment is still revenue.
For your longest or most expensive appointments, many businesses ask for a deposit or a card on file as a general policy so a last-minute cancel does not cost the whole day. Weigh it against the client experience — but the pricier the slot, the more it can be worth.
When a cancellation does happen, a short waitlist of clients who wanted an earlier time lets you backfill the gap instead of eating it. Even filling a fraction of your no-shows turns dead time back into paid time.
Go Deeper
A calculator shows the leak. The next step is making it simple for clients to book and move their own appointments, so fewer slots quietly slip through the cracks.
Give every client a hosted booking and self-reschedule link, plus a scannable QR code, so they can book or move their own appointment any time — while you get an owner calendar and dashboard with buffer times set between appointments. Fewer slots slip through the cracks.
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