The ticket stays editable
Reprice a line, change the quantity, discount one thing or the whole sale, add a charge that isn't on your menu.
Tips on their phone
Handed over or sent as a link — the same picker either way, so the counter and the phone can't round differently.
Cash counts too
Cash, a card run elsewhere, Venmo, Zelle and PayPal all land in one day's takings.
A cart you can still argue with
The booked service swaps for the one you actually did. The price moves because the hair was twice the job. Fifteen percent comes off the whole ticket because they waited. A charge that isn't on your menu at all goes on anyway.
Every edit is saved as it's made, so backing up a step loses nothing — and the arithmetic is always the server's, which is what keeps a percentage discount on the whole sale honest against the line items underneath it.
- Discounts on a single line or the entire ticket
- Custom charges for the things that aren't services
- Never drops below what's already been collected
However they want to pay
Every method lands in the same ledger against the same sale.
Card, keyed at the counter
Typed in at checkout, settled to your own Stripe account.
The card they already saved
Regulars and deposit-takers have one on file. It charges without anyone asking for it again.
Pay by link
A payment link they settle on their own phone, in their own time, from their own seat.
Cash and everything else
Cash, a card run through another terminal, Venmo, Zelle, PayPal — logged after the fact so the books balance.
Buy now, pay later
Where Stripe offers it for the amount, a client is approved up front and charged at checkout.
Receipts
One per sale, reachable from the client's own account rather than only from their inbox.
Tipping, asked once
Whether to ask at all is your screen before it's theirs. When you do, the client sees the same tip picker whether it's your phone across the counter or a link on theirs.
A sale carries at most one tip, so changing your mind, backing up a step or tapping a different percentage replaces it rather than stacking another one on. And a percentage always applies to the pre-tip total — nobody ends up tipping on their own tip.
- The ask can be skipped entirely
- One tip per sale, however many times it changes
- Percentages on the bill, never on the running total
Questions
- Does Inchair take a cut of my sales?
- No. Charges are made directly on your own Stripe account, and Stripe's processing fees come out of it the way they would if you'd set Stripe up yourself. There's no per-appointment or per-client charge from us.
- Can I take a payment without a booking?
- Yes. A sale can start from nothing — a retail item, a walk-in, a gap you filled — through exactly the same checkout an appointment uses.
- What about tap-to-pay on my phone?
- On Android, yes — in the Inchair staff app, the phone itself reads the card, and the charge lands on your Stripe account like any other. It needs a reasonably recent Android phone with NFC. On iPhone it isn't available yet, and in the browser it never will be — a laptop has no card reader. Cards can also be keyed in or charged from file anywhere.
- Can a bill be split across two payments?
- Yes. A sale carries as many payments as it needs — part on a card, the rest in cash — and stays open until the balance is covered.
- Where does the tip go?
- Onto the same charge as the service, into the same Stripe account, paid out on the same schedule as everything else.
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