Where the price list belongs
In Ireland the rule is specific. Under the Charges (Hairdressing) Display Order 1976, a hairdresser must display a notice setting out the charges for every service, and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, which enforces it, applies it to barbers too. If any part of the salon is on the ground floor next to the street, the notice goes outside or in the window, where passers-by can read it; otherwise it goes at or immediately inside each entrance. Its letters and figures must be at least 6 mm high, and the large-print option sets every letter above that when printed at full size. In Germany, section 12 of the Price Indication Ordinance (PAngV) requires a list of the prices of your main services on the premises and, if there is a shop window or display case, there as well. In the UK we have not found a rule that makes a salon put up a price list. The Provision of Services Regulations 2009 do require a service provider to make its set prices available, clearly and in good time before the contract is made or, where there is no written contract, before the service is provided, and information that is easily accessible where the service is provided counts. A list at reception or in the window does exactly that. For the UK, our guide to price display rules for salons in the UK covers the rest, from VAT to booking pages and the products on your shelf.
Total prices, and from prices that hold up
When a client sees a service with its price and can decide to book, section 230 of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 treats the total price as information you must not leave out, and the total includes any fees, taxes and charges the client will necessarily pay. So a VAT-registered salon lists its prices with VAT, and a supplement every client pays belongs inside the figure. In Ireland, the CCPC's guidance for hairdressers says the same: prices include all taxes, such as VAT. In Germany, section 3 of the PAngV requires the total price, which section 2 defines as the price including VAT and every other price component. Where a price cannot reasonably be worked out in advance, the 2024 Act asks you to say how it will be calculated, set out with as much prominence as the price itself. That is why the line explaining your from prices appears at the top of the list, in the size of the prices, as soon as you mark one. Make each from price one that a real client can actually book.
Before a price goes on the list
A price in the window is the price clients expect to pay, so work it out before you print it: from what an hour in your chair costs, the time the service takes and the product it uses. And name services by the work, not by the client. 'Cut, short hair' and 'cut, long hair' say what the price depends on, while a list of ladies' and gents' prices invites the question why the same work costs one of them more. The salon price calculator does that sum with you, trade by trade.
Content last reviewed on 2026-09-26