Payroll with tips and commissions for day spas

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

How each solution supports day spas

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

Square Appointments

For day spas: Schedule massage sessions and spa treatment appointments, collect appointment payments and keep staff calendars aligned. Square Appointments puts online booking, reminders and payments in one calendar. Resource management on Premium assigns rooms, and multi-staff booking lets a guest book a massage and facial with different providers in one appointment. 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 Gift Cards

For day spas: Offer gift cards redeemable toward massage, spa treatments and wellness products and track purchased and redeemed balances. Square Gift Cards sells physical and eGift cards at the POS and online, and they never expire. Common use for day spas: physical and eGift cards that never expire, sold at the desk and online. 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 Inventory

For day spas: Track wellness products, skincare and spa merchandise with item-level stock records and replenishment workflows. Square tracks retail stock across locations and channels and, on Premium, service cost tracking for back-bar product. Common use for day spas: retail and back-bar tracking with low-stock alerts. Roots loads your catalog and sets low-stock alerts.
  • Load products, SKUs and costs
  • Set reorder points and low-stock alerts
  • A named Roots contact for training and ongoing support, nationwide and remote-first
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Square Marketing

For day spas: Build opt-in campaigns for massage, spa treatments and wellness products, from new offerings to reminders for returning customers. Square Marketing sends one-time and automated email and text campaigns from your Square customer data. Common use for day spas: seasonal package promotions by email and text. 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 day spas: Create a rewards program around massage, spa treatments and wellness products, with earning rules tied to how customers shop. Square Loyalty rewards visits, spend or specific services and runs automatically at checkout. Reward repeat treatments and retail. 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 Staff

For day spas: Set roles, permissions and schedules for therapists and receptionists, with a clearer view of staffing across shifts. Square's staff tools handle shift scheduling, timecards, tip pooling and commission tracking. Common use for day spas: commission rates per therapist. 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 day spas: Organize payroll for therapists 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 therapists with commissions and tips. 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 Online (websites)

For day spas: Give customers an online storefront for massage, spa treatments and wellness products, with ordering and fulfillment choices suited to your business. Square Online builds a free booking site or online store that syncs with your Square catalog. A website that books treatments and sells gift cards. Roots sets up the pages, booking flow and product listings so clients can book and buy 24/7.
  • Design and build your site pages and booking flow
  • Load retail products, photos and descriptions
  • Connect your domain and set up basic on-page SEO
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Square Hardware Setup

For day spas: Choose and configure Square checkout equipment for massage, spa treatments and wellness products, 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 day spas: Square Register at reception with Square Appointments pre-installed. 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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Square Payroll questions

Questions spa 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 day spas 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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