Fees

Not everything you charge for is a service. The sanitation charge on a colour, the $3 you add for a card, the supply cost on a treatment — they're fixed amounts that ride along on a sale, and they don't belong in your menu.

They live at Settings → What you sell → Fees.

Adding one

The three checkboxes

Add to every new sale automatically is the one that changes your day. With it on, the fee is appended as a line the moment a sale is started, so nobody at the desk has to remember it. With it off, the fee waits in the list until someone presses Fee at checkout and picks it.

Charge sales tax on this fee decides whether tax applies to the fee itself. A fee that already represents a pass-through cost usually shouldn't be taxed again; the list tags the untaxed ones No tax so you can see which is which without opening anything.

Enabled is the reversible off-switch. A disabled fee can't be added to new sales and stays exactly where it is on old ones — which makes it the right answer for anything seasonal, and much better than deleting and re-creating.

The list carries a tag for each of these, so Auto-add, No tax and Disabled are readable straight off the row.

Taking one away

The bin icon deletes a fee, and the confirmation says what actually happens: the fee is no longer available on new sales, and sales that already used it are unaffected. Your history stays readable. If you might want the fee back, untick Enabled instead — deleting and re-creating gives you a new fee your reports will count separately.

What a fee isn't

A fee here is a charge on a sale. It is not the money you take when somebody doesn't turn up — late-cancellation and no-show charges come from your cancellation policy, are worked out from the booked service, and happen without anyone pressing anything. Those live in Deposits and no-shows.

It isn't a deposit either. A deposit is collected at booking and comes off the bill at checkout; a fee is added to the bill.