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Hair Salon

Keep every chair, color service, and client follow-up moving on one salon system.

Square gives hair salons a practical way to connect bookings, checkout, and client care. Set up a 24/7 booking site, publish services and staff availability, and account for processing time on longer color appointments so the calendar reflects the real day behind the chair.

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How it fits your business

At checkout, staff can take payment at the station or front desk, while client profiles retain preferences, notes, history, and communication. Growing teams can add cancellation policies, card-on-file protection, waitlists, commissions, permissions, and reporting. A solo stylist can start with Square Free; multi-stylist salons can step up to Square Plus or Premium when they need deeper scheduling and team controls.

Key capabilities

What you can do

  • Book around real salon timing

    Create online bookings, assign services to specific stylists, and use processing time for color treatments or other services that include downtime. This helps avoid filling the calendar with overlapping work that one stylist cannot actually deliver.

  • Protect high-value appointments

    Square Appointments can require a card at booking, collect prepayments or deposits, and apply a cancellation policy or no-show fee. Those controls are useful when a long color correction or bridal appointment would otherwise leave a large gap in the day.

  • Give stylists a useful client history

    Client profiles can hold preferences, notes, contact details, booking history, transactions, and messages. A stylist can use that context to prepare for a repeat visit and suggest a rebooking without maintaining a separate spreadsheet.

  • Checkout where the service ends

    Use the Appointments mobile app at a station, a Square Terminal at a compact front desk, a Square Stand with a compatible iPad, or Square Register for a two-screen counter. Square also lists Tap to Pay on iPhone and Android for compatible phones.

  • Coordinate a growing team

    Unlimited staff calendars are available in Appointments plans, while higher tiers add multi-staff booking, waitlists, resource management, service-cost tracking, team reporting, and custom permissions. Square’s salon page also describes commission and time tracking through its staff tools.

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Product details

Plans that fit a solo stylist or a multi-chair salon

Square Free is $0 per month per location and includes an online booking site, reminders, unlimited calendars, and invoicing. Square Plus is $49 per month per location and adds lower processing rates, cancellation/no-show tools, multi-staff appointment booking, waitlists, and email/text marketing. Square Premium is $149 per month per location and adds 24/7 support, future bookings reporting, service-cost tracking, and resource management. Square Pro is custom-priced for businesses processing more than $250,000 per year and may include custom processing, hardware discounts, onboarding, technical specialists, and account management. Square’s pages say Plus and Premium offer a 30-day trial; verify the live checkout terms before publishing a promotion.

A salon checkout does not require one fixed counter

Square Terminal is a $299 all-in-one device with a built-in receipt printer and supports tap, chip, and magstripe payments; its optional Hub is $39 for Ethernet and accessories. Square Stand is $149 and requires a compatible USB-C iPad, Wi-Fi or Ethernet, and power. Square Register (2nd generation) is $899 and provides dual screens; built-in tap and dip payments are standard, while magstripe requires a separate Square Reader for magstripe. Square Reader for contactless and chip is $59 and pairs by Bluetooth with compatible iOS or Android devices. Hardware prices are before tax and may change.

Important operating boundaries

Devices require an internet connection for normal operation, although Square documents offline payments for up to 24 hours; transactions can be declined if the device is not reconnected within that window, and the seller remains responsible for expired, declined, or disputed offline payments. Square Stand also requires a supported iPad. Financing is subject to credit approval and other terms, is unavailable to merchants in AL, DE, MO, MS, NH, and TN on the cited hardware pages, and carries a stated 15% APR. Eligibility for custom rates, Afterpay, banking, loans, and some messaging or marketing features should be checked in the merchant account.

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Plan details

Pricing, fees & eligibility

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U.S. Square Appointments plans verified October 27, 2026: Free $0/month/location, Plus $49/month/location, Premium $149/month/location, and Pro custom pricing for businesses processing over $250,000/year. Representative current hardware prices include Square Reader for contactless and chip $59, Square Stand $149, Square Terminal $299, and Square Register (2nd generation) $899, before tax. Hardware installment offers are separate credit-sale plans.

Fees & eligibility

  • Square Free in-person tap, dip, or swipe

    U.S. Square Free plan; published rate for appointments/beauty. Magstripe may require separate reader on some devices.

    2.6% + $0.15 per payment
  • Square Plus in-person tap, dip, or swipe

    U.S. Square Plus plan, per official Appointments pricing page.

    2.5% + $0.15 per payment
  • Square Premium in-person tap, dip, or swipe

    U.S. Square Premium plan, per official Appointments pricing page.

    2.4% + $0.15 per payment
  • Square Free online payment

    U.S. Square Free plan for online payments, per official Appointments pricing page.

    3.3% + $0.30 per payment
  • Square Plus or Premium online payment

    U.S. Square Plus or Premium plan for online payments, per official Appointments pricing page.

    2.9% + $0.30 per payment
  • Afterpay

    Published on Square hardware pages; Afterpay eligibility and applicable terms apply.

    6% + $0.30 per transaction
  • Instant transfer

    Linked bank account or supported debit card required; minimum $25, maximum $10,000 per transfer, and new sellers may be limited to $2,000/day.

    1.5% per transfer

Requirements

  • U.S. seller account and eligibility to use Square Payments, Appointments, and any selected financial or buy-now-pay-later service.
  • Square Free, Plus, Premium, or custom Pro subscription according to the salon’s team, booking, reporting, and resource needs.
  • Compatible hardware, power, and internet connection; Square Stand requires a supported USB-C iPad.
  • Offline payments require reconnecting within 24 hours; offline transactions carry seller responsibility for expiration, decline, or dispute.
  • Hardware installment plans are subject to credit approval, stated terms, sales tax, and state availability restrictions.

Square’s published prices and feature availability can change; confirm the live U.S. pricing page and merchant Dashboard before launch.

Square Pro pricing and processing fees are custom and eligibility-based; no custom rate is assumed here.

Afterpay, Square Go discovery, financing, banking, loans, and other financial products have separate eligibility criteria and terms.

This record does not endorse or describe any cash-discounting, surcharge, or claimed 4% program. No such program terms were verified from the cited official Square pages.

No company contact address, referral attribution, or support promise beyond the cited Square pages is added.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Can a solo hairstylist start without a monthly subscription?

Yes. Square Free is listed at $0 per month per location and includes an online booking site, reminders, unlimited calendars, invoicing, and the published Free processing rates. Paid tiers are optional for features such as no-show fees, waitlists, lower rates, and deeper team or resource management.

Can Square account for long hair-color appointments?

Yes. Square Appointments documents processing time, which lets a salon account for downtime such as hair-color treatments while another appointment is underway. Resource management and service-cost tracking are listed on Premium.

Which Square device fits a salon front desk?

Square Terminal is the compact all-in-one option with a built-in receipt printer. Square Register (2nd generation) is the dual-screen option for a busier counter. Square Stand is an iPad-based setup, and Square Reader for contactless and chip is the portable choice for station-side checkout.

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