Card processing, Clover point of sale, and reminder tools for salons and barbershops. Set up around booth rent, tip splits, retail shelves, and a book that has to stay full.
None of this is itemized anywhere. It shows up as gaps in the book and thinner take-home for your stylists.
A late cancellation with no waitlist is an hour of rent you paid for and did not earn against. Most shops still find out by text, fifteen minutes before.
When tipping is awkward at checkout, tips drop. When tip reporting is manual, payroll gets slower and stylists get frustrated.
Nobody answers the phone mid-color. That caller books somewhere else, and you never find out they rang.
The shelf is one of the better margins in the building, but only when you can see it. If product and service ring up as one number, nobody knows what retail earns after processing, and that rate has usually never been looked at.
We start from how the shop actually runs, then match the hardware and the program to it. These are the setups that commonly fit a salon or a barbershop.
A Clover Station at the desk for checkout and retail, with a Flex or Mini at the chair when your stylists cash out their own clients.
Tip prompts on the customer-facing screen, reported cleanly for payroll, so nobody is adding percentages on a receipt.
Setups for shops where stylists run their own books, including separate reporting so everyone can see their own numbers.
Extensions, color corrections, and multi-hour appointments often justify a deposit. A card on file makes the balance a two-second job.
Post a card price and a cash price. The terminal applies the correct total, so the processing cost sits in the card price instead of your margin.
Automated confirmations to cut no-shows, and review requests after a good appointment, without adding work at the desk.
We mean likely literally. A four-chair barbershop and a twelve-station salon with a retail wall need different setups, and the right answer starts with how your operators get paid.
How you set this up depends on whether the shop cashes out the client or the operator does. These three cover commission floors and booth rent shops both.
Commission shops check out at one desk, and the customer-facing screen is where the tip prompt lives. Product off the retail wall rings up on the same ticket as the service, so the day closes with retail and service sales already separated for you.
Booth rent shops need each operator taking their own money. A Mini at the station lets a renter close their own client, keeps their sales and their tips on their own account, and keeps the front desk out of a transaction that was never theirs.
For a stylist who would rather cash out at the chair, or who does weddings and on location work, a handheld takes the card and prints a receipt wherever the client is sitting. It moves between stations instead of being tied to one.
Tell us how your operators get paid and we will spec around that, since it decides nearly everything else.
You already run your book somewhere. We handle the payment, the tips, and the follow-up around it rather than asking your team to relearn scheduling.
You post a card price and a cash price. The terminal works out the correct total at checkout, so nobody does math at the counter and nothing is added at the end.
Both prices are on display before a customer reaches the counter, which is why almost nobody asks about it.
The terminal applies the right total. Your team keeps doing what they already do.
Program setup, signage, and terminal configuration are handled as part of onboarding rather than left to you.
An illustration of the arithmetic, not a quote.
Those figures are invented but sit in a realistic range, and the math is 68 times 1,450, then 3.2 percent of the result. A shop with a strong retail wall or a lot of color work looks different, effective rates vary, and we quote from your own statement.
Actual savings depend on your card mix, average service ticket, and the program you choose. We will quote your specific number from a recent statement rather than a range from a website.
You see the same people every four to six weeks. A surprise at the desk costs more in this trade than in most.
Both prices go on the service menu and on a small card at the desk. Regulars notice the first time and stop noticing by the next visit, provided they heard it from the person cutting their hair rather than found it on a receipt.
Anything that makes the total look larger can pull the tip down with it. Keep the prompt clean and set at sensible amounts, then check your first month of tip averages before you decide the program is working the way you wanted.
In a booth rent shop each operator sets their own prices, so this is their call and not the owner's. We can configure it per operator. In a commission shop it is one decision, because the ticket belongs to the business.
Cajoon handles the messages nobody at the desk has time to send. It works the same whether the shop owns the book or a room full of renters do.
Nobody picks up mid-color. An automatic text goes back within seconds asking what they wanted, so the person calling to book lands in your book instead of the shop two doors down.
Reminders and a confirmation the day before, plus a message out to the waitlist the moment a slot opens. A late cancellation is only a loss if the hour stays empty until the next appointment.
A short message a few hours later, once the client has seen the cut in their own mirror and liked it. Asking every single time is what shifts a page that currently holds only the color that went wrong.
Somebody on a six week cycle who is now at week ten has not left, they have drifted. One message is usually enough to find out which it is, and nobody has to remember to send it.
An online application that takes about five minutes.
We confirm the program and finalize the rate sheet with you.
Your Clover devices arrive configured for your business.
Plug in, run a test ticket, and you are live.
Yes, but check who holds it. Terminal leases are often written by a separate leasing company and they do not end when a processing agreement does. Send us the lease and a statement together. We will tell you what leaving costs, and if the honest answer is to wait out the term, that is what we will say.
We configure the prompt so the tip is calculated on the service price rather than on the adjusted total, which is the setup most shops want. The terminal then applies the correct total based on how they pay. Both prices being on the menu beforehand is what keeps the desk quiet.
No. Keep the book where your stylists already live, whether that is Vagaro, Booksy, Boulevard, or a paper appointment book by the phone. We handle the payment, the tip reporting, and the follow-up. If your booking app also processes cards, ask them for the effective rate and compare it to ours line by line.
Not the way people usually mean it. We can keep reporting separate per operator, and in a booth rent shop each renter can hold their own account with their own deposits. One ticket splitting into two bank accounts on its own is a different kind of setup, and most shops this size do not need it.
Yes, and it is mostly a configuration question we handle at setup. Tips are captured at the terminal against the operator who did the service, and the report separates service sales, retail, and tips by person. Payroll still runs where it runs. We are handing your bookkeeper a clean number.
You can store a card and charge an agreed fee, but the thing that decides a dispute is your policy. Put it in writing, have the client agree to it at the time of booking, and keep that record. Without it, a charged no-show fee is usually one the client wins at the bank.
No sales call required to get a number. We read your most recent processing statement and tell you what you are actually paying, line by line.