Take a payment

A sale starts in one of two places: from an appointment, or from nothing at all.

From the calendar, open the appointment and press Check out — the cart arrives already holding the booked services, at the prices the client was quoted, each attributed to the stylist who did it. For a walk-in, go to Sales and press New checkout: pick a client, or don't, and press Start checkout.

Nothing about that choice is final. The name sits at the top of the cart with a Change client button beside it, so a walk-in who turns out to be a regular, or a bill started under the wrong person, is fixed where you noticed it. That is what an open sale is for — once it's closed it becomes a record, and the way to change a record is to void it and ring it again.

Building the cart

Four buttons add to the bill: Service, Product, Fee and Appointment. Each opens a searchable list, so a retail add-on at the desk is two taps rather than a hunt.

Every line carries who it belongs to. The Staff picker on each line is what sends that money to the right person's commission at payroll — worth a glance when someone else finished a blow-dry that isn't theirs.

When everything's on, press Go to payments · $86.00. The button always shows the number, so nobody is pressing "next" and hoping.

Taking the money

The tip comes first: No tip, then a chip for each percentage you've set in Settings → Checkout — each one showing the actual amount as well as the percentage, so nobody is doing arithmetic in front of a client — plus a custom box for anything else. You choose the percentages, and you can turn the prompt off altogether, or leave it on for services and off for a shampoo-only sale.

Then a payment method — Cash, Gift card, and Card and Card reader once Stripe is connected:

• Cash takes an optional Cash given, then tells you the Change due. Leave it blank and it pays the balance exactly.
• Gift card looks the card up by number and shows its balance before you spend any of it.
• Card and Card reader charge through Stripe, straight into the salon's own account.

You don't have to settle it all at once. Take what you're given; the sale keeps a Balance due and closes itself the moment that reaches zero.

After it's closed

The rail turns into the record of the sale: what was sold, what was paid, and a Send receipt button that texts or emails it. Nothing about a closed sale can be quietly edited — putting something right is a refund, and it leaves a trail.