Eyebrows, €14, contactless — hardly any ticket of the day is, in percentage terms, this lucrative for your terminal.
In a salon, it’s not the brochure percentage that decides — it’s the size of your tickets: fixed fees make small amounts disproportionately expensive, card tips need clean separation, and counter space is your scarcest resource. We compare terminals and rates that fit your salon — independent and free.
What makes the difference in your business
The advertised rate is not your rate
A bang trim, a styling product to go, the lash tint: amounts under €20 are everyday salon business. That’s exactly where fixed per-payment fees bite hardest — a flat 9 cents on a €12 ticket is 0.75 percent on its own, on top of the advertised rate. So never run the numbers on an offer with the brochure rate — run them with your three most common ticket sizes.
Tips: recorded separately, not booked into revenue
The more often the card comes out, the less often the right tip is sitting there in cash. A terminal with its own tip function records it separately from revenue: it doesn’t flow into your books but can be cleanly attributed and paid out per stylist. Without that function, a nice gesture becomes a bookkeeping case — at every single appointment.
Booking system and terminal: one line, no retyping
If your salon software hands the amount straight to the terminal, typos disappear and the daily close balances without rework. More important still: every sale stays attributed to the right stylist — the foundation if you pay revenue-based commissions or work with chair rental. Before signing, ask specifically about the integration with your system, not about general compatibility.
Compact enough for your front desk
Between the care line, the phone, and the appointment book, there’s no room at reception for a stationary device with cables. A compact terminal with battery and Wi-Fi takes payment at the desk — or right at the chair, while the coat is still on the hook. For typical salon amounts, a quick tap of card or smartphone is all it takes, and the next client is already in the chair.
Card instead of coins has long been the expectation in salons too: 2025 counted 8.3 billion transactions with girocard (Germany’s debit card), 88.5 percent of them contactless in December. Your clients are tapping — the only question is at what rates your terminal accepts.
Tell us your three most common ticket sizes — we don’t even need a statement for that. We’ll work out what a card payment really costs you today and suggest terminals that fit your front desk, your booking system, and your tips.
Get your comparison