Salons and spas seem to be doing it all these days, with impressive cafes, relaxation stations, and even their own haircare, skincare, and clothing lines. Competition in the beauty industry can be fierce and, as any beauty business owner will tell you, staying ahead of the curve often presents some unique challenges. Taking your salon business to the next level requires time, money, careful planning, and intuitive software—like Square—to effectively manage bookings, track sales, and help you stay connected with clients.
Here, learn more about Square and discover how this salon software can help you save time, optimize scheduling, and keep things running smoothly, so that you can focus on what matters most—happy clients and top-tier service. Plus, discover the success story of Alex Mane, owner of The Oxygen Room & Beauty Bar in San Antonio, Texas.
What Is Square?
Square is a booking point-of-sale software that seamlessly ties your business together—it helps you manage your schedule, take payments, and empower your team all in one place. As of 2023, Square is the largest business technology platform, with more than four million sellers and over $209 billion in payments processed across eight countries [1].
The Square operating system helps business owners work more efficiently through a variety of tools that simplify the day-to-day tasks of running a business. Bookings, scheduling, and payments are all managed through Square, freeing up time for busy salon owners to prioritize growing their business and maximizing salon earnings.
What Is the Square Portable Card Reader?
With Square Appointments and the Square portable card reader, you can run your business on the go, managing your clients, schedule, and checkout process all on mobile. The Square portable card reader takes both contactless and card payments, plus many other features and benefits that business owners love. Square’s card reader makes accepting card payments as fast, flexible, and secure as possible with no extra fees or tricks—so that you never miss a sale.
The Benefits of Square for Salon Owners
If you’re in the beauty industry, you’ll probably recognize Square’s sleek white card reader. However, Square is so much more than a payment processing software—it offers a range of features that can help businesses of all sizes start, run, and grow every day.
Just ask Alex Mane, founder and owner of The Oxygen Room & Beauty Bar in downtown San Antonio, Texas. When Mane first began growing her business from the ground up, she traveled from event to event doing hair and makeup on-site for her clients. She needed a solution that allowed her to continue building her business on the go, and began accepting payments with Square’s portable card reader. Today, Mane now uses a full-scale Square Point of Sale system, Square Marketing, and Square Messages to help her meet the increasing demand of her thriving brick-and-mortar salon and spa.
Keep reading to learn more about how Square can help you elevate your salon and craft, and how to decide if it’s the right choice for your business needs.
24/7 Error-Free Client Booking
With Square Appointments, you can customize your own booking website and increase your bookings through seamless social media integrations—allowing clients to book their next appointment anytime, anywhere. Give your clients the option to book with their preferred staff members and set up cancellation policies, no-show protection, and help prevent double bookings.
Client Management
Square’s intuitive interface allows you to create client profiles, send notifications, and save notes on client preferences, all in one place.
Convenient and Flexible Payment Options
Check out wherever is most convenient using Square’s flexible payment processing options. You can accept payments at your station with Square Reader, send a payment link, or use a card on file. You can even take Buy Now Pay Later payments with Afterpay.
- Square Reader: Contactless and chip payments are accepted with one simple, in-person rate (2.6% plus 10 cents), plus no contracts or monthly fees.
- Using a Card on File: 2.9% plus 30 cents and 3.3% plus 30 cents per transaction.
- Afterpay: 6% plus 30 cents per Afterpay transaction.
Square’s flexibility allows you to accept payments wherever you are, ensuring a smooth transaction process and positive experience for your clients.
Powerful Third Party Integrations
To further enhance your salon’s capabilities, Square integrates seamlessly with beauty partners like SalonInteractive—a marketing and e-commerce platform that provides free, customizable online stores for salon owners, stylists, spas, and barbershops.
SalonInteractive packs, ships, and delivers beauty products directly to your clients, so you can earn additional retail revenue with minimal effort. When you connect Square with SalonInteractive, your data will automatically sync, easily connecting you with clients at the optimal time.
Smarter Scheduling and Staff Management
Square Staff allows you to easily track your team’s time and commissions, schedule unlimited staff calendars, optimize resource management and processing time, and help staff recommend specific services to repeat clients.
Ready to elevate your salon and join the millions of businesses using Square? Get started by visiting SalonCentric’s Square Reader page and discover how SalonCentric stylists can earn up to $1,000 in free processing on card transactions.
- Square. 2023 10-K Annual Report. https://www.sec.gov/ixviewer/ix.html?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001512673/000162828024006354/sq-20231231.htm
