How we collect prices

Where prices come from

Every price list on ThePriceBoard comes from the business itself or from information the business has made public. In order of how often we use them:

1. The business's own website and booking pages. Our first stop is always the price or service page the business publishes itself.
2. Publicly posted price boards and signage. Many salons, barbershops, and car washes post their prices on a board in the shop or window. We extract the facts — service names and prices — from photos of that signage. The photos themselves are never retained or republished.
3. Chain websites. For a few national chains, we collect location prices from the chain's own public website.
4. Owner-provided and community-reported prices, and phone verification. Owners can send us their current price list, visitors can report prices they were quoted or paid, and we sometimes confirm prices by phone. These are supported source types shown on badges, and today they make up a small minority of listings.

What we never do

• We never collect prices from third-party marketplaces or booking directories such as Booksy, StyleSeat, Fresha, Vagaro, or Yelp.
• We never retain or republish photos of price boards or signage — only the extracted facts.
• We never publish a business page without a real price list. If we don't have actual prices for a business, it doesn't get a page.

Quality checks before publishing

Every extracted price list runs through automated checks before it goes live:

• Sanity checks per category. Junk values, zero prices, and implausible prices for the service category are rejected.
• Off-topic filtering. Services that don't belong to the business's category are filtered out, and duplicate entries are removed.
• Wrong-site detection. Price lists are fingerprinted so we can catch extractions that accidentally pulled another business's prices.

Source badges and verified dates

Every price list stores its source and a last-verified date, and both are shown on the business page — a “Prices updated” date plus a source badge. The badges you'll see:

• From business website — prices listed on the business website or public booking page.
• From posted signage — prices read from the business's publicly posted price board or signage.
• Owner-provided — prices submitted or confirmed by the business owner.
• Phone-verified — prices confirmed by phone with the business.
• Community-reported — prices reported by a visitor to the business.

See Data sources for a short summary of each source type.

Freshness

Prices change, and a listed price is only as current as its last-verified date. Prices may be “starting at” amounts or ranges, and taxes, fees, or add-ons may not be included. Always confirm with the business before booking or buying — especially if the verified date is a few months old.

If something is wrong

Corrections are reviewed and processed within 2 business days, and businesses can request updates or removal of their listing free of charge. Read the correction policy or go straight to the contact form.