Payroll with tips and commissions for nail salons

Square Payroll pays employees and contractors from your Square Dashboard, importing timecards, tips and commissions. Pay techs with imported tips and commissions. Roots sets up pay rates and commission rules so payday matches what staff earned.
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Payment solutions for nail salons

How each solution supports nail salons

See what each option adds to the way your business takes and tracks payments.

Square Appointments

For nail salons: Schedule haircuts, color services and barber appointments, collect appointment payments and keep staff calendars aligned. Square Appointments puts online booking, reminders and payments in one calendar. Clients view availability by technician and book online; resource management on Premium assigns pedicure chairs and stations. Roots Payments, an independent Square Reseller, configures your services, staff, policies and booking site so it works from the first appointment.
  • Build your service menu with durations, processing time, prices and staff assignments
  • Configure deposit, cancellation and no-show policies that match how you actually operate
  • Connect booking to your website, Instagram and Google Business Profile
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Square Point of Sale

For nail salons: Bring haircuts, styling, beauty products and gratuities into a point-of-sale workflow, with reporting organized around appointments, stylist totals and retail stock. Square Point of Sale accepts cards, digital wallets and cash and tracks items, services and customers in one place. Add-ons like nail art and gel removal ring up as modifiers on one ticket. Roots sets it up around your front desk so checkout, tips and retail sales run cleanly.
  • Map your services, add-ons and retail products into the item library
  • Set up tipping, taxes, discounts and staff permissions
  • Recommend and configure Square hardware for each station (you buy it from Square)
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Square Staff

For nail salons: Set roles, permissions and schedules for stylists, barbers and receptionists, with a clearer view of staffing across shifts. Square's staff tools handle shift scheduling, timecards, tip pooling and commission tracking. Tips land with the right tech, and commission rates can vary by service. Roots configures roles, permissions and commission rates so owners stop reconciling by hand.
  • Set up roles, permissions and commission rates per service
  • Configure tip pooling rules
  • A named Roots contact for training and ongoing support, nationwide and remote-first
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Square Payroll

For nail salons: Organize payroll for stylists, barbers and receptionists, using staff and time records to prepare pay runs. Square Payroll pays employees and contractors from your Square Dashboard, importing timecards, tips and commissions. Pay techs with imported tips and commissions. Roots sets up pay rates and commission rules so payday matches what staff earned.
  • Set up employees, contractors, pay rates and commission structures
  • Connect timecards and tips from Square Team Management
  • A named Roots contact for training and ongoing support, nationwide and remote-first

Square Marketing

For nail salons: Build opt-in campaigns for haircuts, styling, beauty products and gratuities, from new offerings to reminders for returning customers. Square Marketing sends one-time and automated email and text campaigns from your Square customer data. Fill slow weekdays with automated text offers. Roots builds the automations that matter: welcome, rebooking, lapsed-client and Google Review requests.
  • Segment your client list and build campaign automations
  • Write campaign templates in your brand voice
  • Set up Google Review requests and track results
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Square Loyalty

For nail salons: Create a rewards program around haircuts, styling, beauty products and gratuities, with earning rules tied to how customers shop. Square Loyalty rewards visits, spend or specific services and runs automatically at checkout. Visit-based rewards match the two-to-three-week fill cycle. Roots designs the reward structure and sets it up across your POS and booking site.
  • Design a reward structure that fits your visit frequency and margins
  • Configure promotions and bonus-point campaigns
  • Train staff to enroll clients at checkout
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Square Gift Cards

For nail salons: Offer gift cards redeemable toward haircuts, styling, beauty products and gratuities and track purchased and redeemed balances. Square Gift Cards sells physical and eGift cards at the POS and online, and they never expire. Mani-pedi gift cards are a staple for holidays and Mother's Day. Roots sets up designs, online sales and holiday promotions.
  • Set up gift card designs and online sales
  • Plan holiday and promotion calendars around gift card sales
  • A named Roots contact for training and ongoing support, nationwide and remote-first
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Square Hardware Setup

For nail salons: Choose and configure Square checkout equipment for haircuts, styling, beauty products and gratuities, including counter, mobile and staff workflows. Square hardware ranges from Tap to Pay on a phone to Square Terminal and Square Register, which ships with Square Appointments pre-installed. Common use for nail salons: A Square Register up front with Square Terminal for the pedicure area. Roots recommends what each station needs and configures it; you buy hardware directly from Square.
  • Recommend a device for each chair, room or front desk
  • Configure devices, printers and modes
  • Roots doesn't sell hardware; we link you to Square to buy it
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Cash Discount Program

For nail salons: Design a clearly presented cash-price program for haircuts, styling, beauty products and gratuities, with checkout wording and receipts aligned. A cash discount program posts your card price and gives clients who pay cash a discount, offsetting processing costs. Nail salons with thin per-ticket margins often run a cash discount. Roots sets up the pricing, signage and receipts so the program stays compliant.
  • Program setup, signage and staff training
  • Periodic compliance review
  • A named Roots contact for training and ongoing support, nationwide and remote-first
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Roots POS

For nail salons: Bring haircuts, styling, beauty products and gratuities into a business-tools workflow, with setup, staff training and reporting for appointments, stylist totals and retail stock. Roots POS pairs checkout with cash discount and custom pricing support. Common use for nail salons: an alternative checkout with built-in cash discount support.
  • Setup, menu build and training
  • A named Roots contact for training and ongoing support, nationwide and remote-first
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Square Payroll questions

Questions salon owners ask about booking and payments.
Square Payroll provides employee payroll and payroll-tax filing tools. Roots helps organize the account setup and operational handoff.
Square Payroll can import timecards and tips from Square POS. We help configure and test the staff records and pay-run workflow.
Bring your employee records, pay schedule, timecards and tip-reporting process. Roots uses these details to plan the workflow for nail salons and prepare a clear setup scope.
See Square’s official pages for current software, hardware and processing prices. Request a quote for your Roots setup or custom project. Consultations and payment reviews are free.

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