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Book regulars online, slot walk-ins into the next open station and let clients pay before the top coat goes on. Payaroo helps you set up Square Appointments around the way your salon runs.
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What your nail salon needs
Few nail salons run on appointments alone. Regulars book their gel fill every few weeks and friends walk in together for pedicures. A Saturday can bring a bridal party that needs several techs at once.
The day runs smoothly when every tech can see who's next in their chair and walk-ins share the calendar with online bookings. At close, tips and commissions should already be sorted by tech instead of waiting on a spreadsheet.
Two walk-ins arrive ten minutes before a tech's online booking, and the front desk is guessing who's free.
How Square helps Add walk-ins to the same Square Appointments calendar as online bookings, under the tech who takes them, so your booking site only offers times that are still open.
You have four pedicure chairs and five spa pedicures booked for 2 p.m.
How Square helps On Square Premium, link pedicure services to your chairs, and each booking reserves one automatically so the chairs can't be double-booked.
A client wants a gel manicure and a spa pedicure in one visit, each with a different tech.
How Square helps On a paid plan, one appointment can hold several services and several techs, so the mani and the pedi stay together as one booking.
Every tech is paid a little differently, and card tips have to be matched to the right person by hand.
How Square helps Commission tracking on a paid plan credits each tech's commission and tips as the sale happens. Review the totals in reports or import them into Square Payroll.
Recommended setup
The Square tools that matter most for a nail salon — and why each one earns its place.
One calendar for every tech, with online booking for regulars and room to add walk-ins the moment they sit down.
Tie spa pedicures to your pedicure chairs, so a booking can't claim a chair that's already in use.
Set each tech's rate once, and Square credits it on every service and every bottle of polish they sell.
Regulars keep a card on file, with their signed authorization, so nobody digs through a bag with wet nails.
Mani-pedi gift cards for birthdays, Mother's Day and the holidays, sold in the salon or online.
Points on every fill give the client who comes in every few weeks a reason to stay with your salon.
Sell the shade she just picked, cuticle oil or a nail file in the same sale as the service.
How Payaroo helps
Tell us how your business works. We'll help you understand the Square tools that fit.
Core capabilities
Each tech gets their own services, hours and booking profile, and permissions decide whether they see only their own day or the whole salon's.
Set up pedicure chairs and nail stations as resources and link them to services, and bookings reserve them automatically. Resource booking needs Square Premium.
The client picks a tip on the screen facing her: one of three presets you set, Square's suggested amounts or a custom figure. Clients can settle up before the top coat goes on.
Give each tech no commission, a flat rate or tiered rates based on service revenue or items sold, then review it in reports or import it into Square Payroll. Commission tracking needs a paid plan.
Sell physical and digital gift cards at the counter and online, and redeem them at checkout. Square says its gift cards don't expire and need no separate subscription.
Add the color she wore, a top coat or cuticle oil to the service's checkout. Each shade can carry its own stock count, and low-stock alerts flag the ones 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.
A counter checkout with a screen that faces the client, who picks a tip and taps before heading to the dryer.
A compact, battery-powered card machine with a built-in receipt printer.
Bring it to the pedicure chair, so clients can pay and tip without walking to the desk on fresh polish.
A pocket-sized point of sale with a built-in barcode scanner and camera.
Take payment at the station and scan polish barcodes with the built-in scanner when you restock.
Software and tools
Online booking, checkout for every tech and one calendar for walk-ins and appointments.
Schedules, timecards and permissions for your techs, next to the commission tracking on paid plans.
Points on every visit, redeemed toward a future fill or pedicure.
Emails and opt-in texts to announce a new seasonal color or bring back clients who haven't been in.
Pays your techs and can import the tips and commissions tracked in Square.
How it works
One realistic day at a nail salon, with the setup above doing the work.
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Answer a few quick questions about your nail 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
A front counter usually starts with Square Register, or Square Stand with a compatible iPad, plus a receipt printer. Salons that take payment at the station add Square Terminal, which has a battery and a built-in printer, or Square Handheld, which also scans polish barcodes.
Square doesn't have a separate walk-in queue or check-in list. The simplest approach is to add each walk-in to the Square Appointments calendar under the tech who takes them, so walk-ins and online bookings share one calendar. The paid-plan waitlist tells online clients about openings; it isn't a queue for people in the salon.
Yes, if you're on Square Plus or Premium. One appointment can hold several services and more than one team member, so a gel manicure with one tech and a pedicure with another stay together. To hold a pedicure chair as well, resource booking on Square Premium reserves it with the booking.
Commission tracking on a paid Square plan credits each tech's commission and tips when the sale happens. Rates can be flat or tiered by service revenue or by the number of services or items sold. Totals show up in reports, and you can pull them into Square Payroll if you add it; it's sold separately from Square's plans.
It depends on how many techs you have and what you want to track. Square decides its own prices and plans. On Square Free you pay processing fees but no monthly subscription, and online booking, tech calendars and deposits are included. Commission tracking, multi-tech bookings, loyalty and marketing need Square Plus or Premium, and reserving pedicure chairs needs Premium. For current rates, check Square's pricing page, and we'll help you compare plans for your salon.
Start by telling us how many techs and stations you run and how many clients walk in. Square then reviews the salon's application, verifying your identity and the business, before it approves an account. Once you're approved, Payaroo helps you load your service menu, set up each tech and get the booking site live.
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Tell us about your stations, your techs and your busiest days, and we'll help you map out the Square setup.
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