Beauty
Clients book a lash fill from Instagram at midnight, confirm by text the day before and pay before they leave the room. Square Appointments runs the book, and Payaroo helps you set it up.
Square, made easier with Payaroo.
What your beauty salon needs
A beauty studio's day is a patchwork. A 15-minute brow wax sits next to a two-hour set of lash extensions, a facial and a bridal makeup trial. Lose one of the long appointments to a late cancel and a big piece of the day goes with it, while the short ones only pay off when clients can grab them without calling.
Clients book from their phones, often after hours, and want the same artist and the same look every time. The setup that fits takes bookings from your Instagram and Google profiles and sends reminders for you. It remembers each client's lash map and brow shape, and it puts a cost on a no-show instead of leaving you to absorb it.
A client messages at 11 p.m. asking for a lash fill, and she waits for a reply until you're between clients tomorrow.
How Square helps A booking site that shows your real openings, with Book Now buttons on Instagram and Facebook and booking from your Google listing, so clients pick their own time.
A full set of extensions blocks off half a morning, and a no-show leaves nothing to fill it with.
How Square helps Take a deposit when clients book online. On a paid plan, add a cancellation policy clients see before they confirm, require a card to book and charge a no-show fee to it.
Lash curl, length, brow shape and the wax a client prefers live in your head or on a paper card.
How Square helps Client profiles keep visit history, dated notes and photos, so the next appointment starts where the last one left off.
Lash cleanser, brow gel and serums sit on a shelf, and nobody notices a product is running low until it's gone.
How Square helps Add products to the appointment at checkout, track stock counts and get a low-stock alert before the lash cleanser runs out.
Recommended setup
The Square tools that matter most for a beauty salon — and why each one earns its place.
Your booking site, artist calendars, reminders and checkout in one app, so you can see the day and ring up a client from the same screen.
Ask for part of the price of a full set or a bridal trial when clients book online, and take the rest after the service.
Long lash and facial appointments are the costly ones to lose. A card on hold and a clear cancellation window give a skipped appointment a price.
Appointment texts and client replies land in one inbox away from your personal phone, and Square Assistant can confirm and reschedule by text.
When a Saturday brow slot opens up, clients waiting on your online waitlist hear about it and can book it.
Clients who come back for brows every few weeks earn points by visit or by spend, and they join with a phone number.
Lash cleanser, brow gel and skincare go on the same ticket as the service, with stock counts that update as you sell.
How Payaroo helps
Tell us how your business works. We'll help you understand the Square tools that fit.
Core capabilities
Share your booking site, add Book Now buttons to Instagram and Facebook and take bookings from Google. Square notes that Google booking requires you to own or lease your space and can't take prepayment or no-show protection.
Confirmation requests and reminders go out by text and email at times you pick, in wording you can edit. If a client hasn't confirmed yet, the reminder asks again.
Set a cancellation window, require a card to finish an online booking and charge a flat or percentage-based no-show or late-cancel fee to that card. No-show protection needs a paid Square plan.
Each profile keeps visit history, dated notes and photo attachments, so any artist can check last time's lash map, curl and length before the client arrives.
Clients who can't find a time join a waitlist from your booking site and get a notice when a matching opening appears. It runs through your online booking site and needs a paid plan.
Add lash cleanser or brow gel to a booking or at checkout, and stock counts drop with each sale. Low-stock alerts arrive by email after close.
Hardware options
You don't need every device. Start with what matches where you take payments — and add more later.
A compact, battery-powered card machine with a built-in receipt printer.
Battery-powered with a receipt printer built in, so checkout and tips can happen in the treatment room instead of at a desk.
A countertop point of sale with two touchscreens: one for your team and one that faces the customer.
For a studio with a front desk: the client picks a tip on her own screen while you book her next fill on yours.
Accept contactless cards and phone wallets on your own phone with no extra hardware.
Solo artists in a studio suite, or makeup artists on location, can take contactless cards and phone wallets on an iPhone or Android phone, as long as the phone is online.
Software and tools
The booking site, calendars, reminders, deposits and checkout for every artist in the studio.
A profile for every client, created when they book, with notes, photos and visit history.
One inbox for appointment texts and replies, with Square Assistant handling confirmations and reschedules by text.
Welcome, birthday and win-back emails, plus texts to clients who opt in, for the weeks your book has gaps.
Points on brow, lash and wax visits that clients redeem in the studio or online.
How it works
One realistic day at a beauty salon, with the setup above doing the work.
Setup finder
Answer a few quick questions about your beauty salon. We'll stop as soon as we can point you to a useful starting setup.
Tell Buckaroo how your business works and he'll help you figure out which Square tools make sense.
FAQs
Many studios start with Square Terminal, which prints receipts and moves between the desk and the treatment room. A studio with a front desk may prefer Square Register, or Square Stand with a compatible iPad. Solo artists can begin with Tap to Pay on a phone and add Square Reader later for chip cards.
Yes, with a paid Square plan. You set a cancellation window clients see when they book, require a card to finish the booking and choose a flat or percentage-based no-show or late-cancel fee. Square lets you charge it to the saved card for up to 14 days after the appointment.
Square Assistant works with Square Appointments inside Square Messages and can handle confirmations, reschedules and cancellations by text. Replying to clients in Messages is free, while starting new conversations and getting a dedicated business number need a paid plan.
Yes. Items from your Square item library can be added to an appointment when it's booked or at checkout. Stock counts update with each sale, and low-stock alerts tell you which cleansers and serums to reorder.
Pricing is set by Square, not Payaroo. Square Free has no monthly subscription (processing fees apply) and includes the booking site and deposits. Paid plans add no-show fees and the waitlist, and loyalty and marketing come with Square Plus and Premium. Square's pricing page has current rates, and we can help you decide whether a solo studio needs more than Free.
Tell us what you book most and how many artists you have, and we'll suggest a starting setup. Your application goes to Square, which reviews it and checks your identity and your studio's business details before it approves an account. Then Payaroo helps you add services, set your policies and get your booking link live.
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Tell us about your services, your artists and your no-show headaches, and we'll help you put the Square pieces together.
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