Beauty
Book a blow-dry while color processes, take a deposit on a big transformation and rebook clients before they leave. Square Appointments handles the scheduling; Payaroo helps you set it up for your team.
Square, made easier with Payaroo.
What your hair salon needs
A hair salon books in layers. Color goes on, and while it processes the stylist can fit in a blow-dry or a trim before coming back to rinse and finish. A balayage or a full set of extensions can hold a chair for hours, so a no-show on one of those costs far more than a missed trim.
Clients come back on a rhythm, every six weeks for a cut or every eight for a root touch-up, and the easiest time to book the next visit is at the desk before they walk out. A setup that fits handles processing time and protects the long bookings. It pays each stylist correctly and keeps color formulas where the next stylist can find them.
Color sits for 30 to 45 minutes, and the calendar shows the stylist as busy the whole time.
How Square helps Processing time splits a service into application, processing and finishing, so another client can be booked into the gap on a paid Square plan.
A client skips a balayage appointment you turned other bookings away for.
How Square helps Ask for a deposit on color and extensions at online booking. On a paid plan, show a cancellation policy, require full prepayment and charge no-show fees to the card on file.
The color formula is in one stylist's notebook, and the client sees someone else next time.
How Square helps Client profiles keep dated notes, photos and visit history, so any stylist can pull up last visit's formula and the before-and-after shots.
Commission on services, a different rate on retail and tips on top, all worked out by hand every pay period.
How Square helps Commission tracking credits flat or tiered rates, by service revenue or items sold, as each sale happens. Tips are credited too, and the totals can be imported into Square Payroll.
Recommended setup
The Square tools that matter most for a hair salon — and why each one earns its place.
Stylist calendars, a booking site that takes appointments while the salon is closed and checkout at the front desk, all in the Bookings mode of Square POS.
Fill the gap while color processes with a blow-dry or a trim instead of blocking the whole appointment.
Ask for a deposit on long color and extension appointments when clients book online.
Charge a late-cancel or no-show fee on the appointments that hold a chair all afternoon.
Service and retail commissions credited to each stylist as sales happen, instead of on a spreadsheet at payday.
Formulas, preferences and photos saved on the client's profile, where any stylist on the team can find them.
A cut-and-color gift card is an easy present, and Square says its gift cards don't expire.
Points toward a blowout or a treatment for clients who keep booking with you.
How Payaroo helps
Tell us how your business works. We'll help you understand the Square tools that fit.
Core capabilities
Split a color service into an initial period, a processing period and a final period, and the processing window opens for another client. Square's own example is a blow-dry during color. Processing time needs a paid Square plan.
At checkout, book the client's next cut from the calendar while they're still at the desk, or set a recurring appointment that repeats on their usual schedule.
Give each stylist a passcode and a permission set, so an assistant can check clients out without opening reports and a stylist can see only their own calendar. Square Plus and Premium allow unlimited custom permission sets.
Automatic text and email reminders go out before each appointment, and client replies land in Square Messages instead of on a stylist's personal phone.
When clients check out at the desk, the tip screen faces them with your presets or Square's suggestions, and it can appear before or after they pay.
Add the shampoo, mask or styling cream used in the chair to the same checkout, and stock counts update with each sale. Low-stock alerts flag what to reorder.
Hardware options
You don't need every device. Start with what matches where you take payments — and add more later.
A countertop point of sale with two touchscreens: one for your team and one that faces the customer.
The front desk's checkout: the coordinator books the next color appointment while the client adds a tip on the customer-facing screen.
A countertop stand that turns a compatible iPad into a point of sale, with a card reader built in.
If your salon already has a compatible iPad, Stand turns it into a checkout that swivels toward the client for the tip.
A compact, battery-powered card machine with a built-in receipt printer.
For stylists who check clients out at their own chair: it's battery-powered and prints the receipt itself.
Software and tools
Stylist calendars, processing time, deposits, reminders and checkout.
Staff schedules, timecards, permissions and commission tracking for a team of stylists.
One inbox for appointment texts and client replies, so stylists don't hand out personal numbers.
Win-back emails to clients who are overdue for a cut, plus automatic birthday offers.
Payroll for stylists that can bring in the tips and commissions Square tracked.
How it works
One realistic day at a hair salon, with the setup above doing the work.
Setup finder
Answer a few quick questions about your hair 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
Salons with a front desk often use Square Register, or Square Stand with a compatible iPad, plus a receipt printer and a cash drawer if they take cash. Stylists who check out at the chair can use Square Terminal. Some salons run both, with the desk handling rebooking and product sales.
Yes, on a paid Square plan. Processing time splits a service into an initial period, a processing period and a final period, and the processing period stays open for another booking. You can also block extra time after a service to clean the station or mix the next formula.
Booth rental takes some planning. Square notes that booth and room renters can't use booking through Google, since that requires owning or leasing the space. If renters want their own payouts, talk to Payaroo before anyone signs up, and we'll help you work out how the accounts should be set up.
With commission tracking on a paid Square plan, you set no commission, a flat rate or tiered rates for each stylist, based on service revenue or on the number of services or items sold. Commissions and tips are credited when the sale happens, show up in reports and can be imported into Square Payroll.
Square publishes its own plans and rates. Square Free carries processing fees but no monthly subscription, and it covers the booking site, stylist calendars and deposits. Processing time, no-show fees, full prepayment and commission tracking need a paid plan. Loyalty and marketing come with Square Plus and Premium, and Square Payroll is a separate add-on. Current rates are on Square's pricing page, and we can help you size a plan to your team.
Tell us about your stylists, services and front desk, and we'll suggest a starting setup. Square reviews each application, verifying the owner's identity and the salon as a business, and approves the account only after that. Then Payaroo helps you build your service menu, set your policies and bring your client list over.
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Tell us how your chairs, stylists and front desk run, and we'll help you choose the Square tools that match.
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