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Payments for salons & beauty businesses

Steady appointments, tips, and regular clients add up to a lot of small transactions, and a lot of them are Interac debit. Small fees on a lot of transactions become real money. We set you up clean and show you exactly what you pay.

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The math of a busy chair

When you run dozens of appointments a day, the per-transaction fee and the markup repeat over and over. A few cents here and a small percentage there turns into a meaningful number by the end of the month. The fix is a clean, transparent setup, not a flashy headline rate.

It matters even more in Canada because so many of those payments are Interac debit. Interac should be priced low, not at credit-card rates. Flat-rate apps charge the same rate on everything, so they overcharge you on every debit tap.

We also make tipping simple, so your staff and your clients aren’t fighting the terminal, and your totals stay clean.

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Small fees compoundOn lots of small payments, a clean rate adds up over a month.
Interac priced rightDebit taps should cost less than credit, not the same flat rate.
Tips done rightSimple for staff, simple for clients, clean on your statement.
Recurring and card-on-fileEasy rebooking and memberships, set up cleanly.

What are you really paying?

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Your effective rate is the real percentage you pay on every dollar you process.

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Your real rate: the equation and the gap Total fees divided by total card volume gives the effective rate, shown as $1,500 divided by $50,000 equals 3.0 percent, with two bars underneath where the effective rate stands taller than the rate you were quoted and the difference is bracketed as downgrades and junk fees. YOUR REAL RATE Total fees divided by total card volume. Two numbers from your statement, one honest answer. TOTAL FEES $1,500 everything you paid last month ÷ CARD VOLUME $50,000 everything you ran on cards = EFFECTIVE RATE 3.0% your real rate what you actually pay on every dollar, once every fee is counted the headline number The rate you were quoted QUOTED RATE DOWNGRADES + JUNK FEES 3.0% Your effective rate THE GAP Downgrades and junk fees The quoted rate only applied to some of your transactions. The rest, plus the monthly fees, is the gap. The advertised rate is what they want you to look at. The effective rate is what you actually pay. LEGEND The rate you were quoted Your effective rate Downgrades and junk fees Example from the statement guide on allpropay.com. Illustration, not a quote.

Works with your POS

Some systems let you choose your processor. Others lock you in. Here is the honest picture for salons, and where we fit.

Open

Keep your software, switch to us

Many salon booking systems are open or pair with a standalone reader, so you keep your software and move the processing to AllProPay.

Locked

Locked to their own processing

Some all-in-one tools, like Square Appointments and Clover, run their own processing. If you’re on one, we’ll show you the real cost and the math on switching.

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Tell us what you run

Setups vary. Tell us your booking software and we’ll confirm what we can do.

Common in salons: Vagaro, Boulevard, Mindbody, Fresha, GlossGenius, Square Appointments. Not sure about yours? Ask us and we’ll confirm.

What other salon owners say

Common questions

Does AllProPay handle tips for salons?
Yes. We set up tipping so it is simple for your staff and your clients, and so the totals are clean on your statement.
We do steady volume on smaller payments. Does that matter for fees?
Yes. On appointment-based businesses the per-transaction fee and the markup add up across a lot of small payments, so a clean setup makes a real difference over a month. A lot of those payments are Interac debit, which should be priced low, not at credit-card rates.

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