A point of sale built for services rather than supermarkets, with staff on every line, retail and consumable stock, thermal receipts, a tablet kiosk for clients, and offline billing.
A shop POS scans a barcode and prints a receipt. A salon sale is different: the "product" is a haircut that one stylist started and another finished, it used 30 ml of colour from the back bar, the client is paying half from a prepaid balance, and the stylist's commission depends on all of it. A generic POS records the money and loses the rest.
Salonipy is a salon POS system first. Every sale records the client, the staff member, the service recipe and the payment method.
Sell a treatment and the take-home product in one transaction. Retail stock is reduced, and consumables used during the service are deducted by recipe.
Assign a stylist to the whole sale or to individual lines, with separate commission rates for services and retail.
Put a tablet at reception showing your services and prices. Clients choose what they want and it arrives on your billing screen, ready to confirm and print.
Scan a product with a USB scanner or the phone camera and it lands on the invoice with its price. Typing the barcode and pressing Enter works too.
Print on 58 mm or 80 mm thermal printers, or send a PDF invoice to the client's WhatsApp.
If the internet drops at the busiest hour, keep selling. Sales sync automatically when the connection returns.
Staff use the till with their own PIN and only see the screens you allow. Owner-only screens such as reports, payouts and settings stay locked.
Retail is where a salon POS either saves time or wastes it. Typing "argan oil serum 100ml" into a search box while three people wait is the slowest possible way to sell a bottle of anything.
Give each retail product a barcode and you have two ways to ring it up: a plug-in USB scanner, the inexpensive kind that behaves like a keyboard, or your phone or tablet camera. Either way the product lands on the invoice instantly with its price. You can also just type the barcode and press Enter, which is often quickest when the scanner is at the other end of the counter.
The same scanning works on the purchase screen, so receiving a delivery is a matter of scanning each item in rather than matching a paper invoice against a product list by hand.
A salon POS that assumes everyone taps a card is useless in most of the world. Salonipy records cash, card, bank transfer, mobile wallets such as Easypaisa and JazzCash, and an Other option for whatever your market does that nobody has thought of yet.
On top of that, a single sale can take a part payment with the balance tracked in Receivables, deduct from a client's prepaid wallet, and redeem loyalty points — all on the same bill, each shown as its own line on the receipt. At the end of the day every method is totalled separately, which is the only reason the drawer ever balances.
Set your rate once and every sale carries it. Rename the tax line to VAT, GST or Sales Tax so the receipt says what your authority expects, print your tax registration number on the invoice, and choose whether your menu prices already include tax — the way salons price in Europe and the Gulf — or have it added on top, the US way. Discounts apply before tax, and staff commission is calculated before tax, so nobody earns a share of the government's money.
Put a second tablet on the counter showing your services and prices. Clients choose what they want and the selection arrives on your billing screen ready to confirm.
In practice the kiosk earns its place in two situations: a busy reception where people are waiting anyway and would rather be doing something than standing, and a salon whose clients do not all speak the language your front desk speaks — the kiosk shows the menu in theirs. It is not a replacement for a receptionist, and it does not take payment. It removes the "what do you actually want today" conversation from the queue.
The till is the one screen everybody in the salon touches, which makes it the one screen where permissions matter most.
Staff open the app with their own PIN and see only the screens you allow. Owner-only areas — reports, payouts, settings, the full sales history — sit behind a separate Owner PIN. Beyond that you can create custom roles and decide screen by screen what each role opens, so a senior receptionist can handle refunds and a junior cannot, without either of them sharing a login.
There is no proprietary terminal to buy and nothing to lease. Salonipy runs on an Android phone or tablet, a Windows PC or laptop, or any modern browser, and the same data appears on every device the owner signs into.
A workable salon counter is usually: the tablet or PC you already own, the 58 mm or 80 mm thermal printer you already use, an optional USB barcode scanner if you sell retail, and optionally a second tablet as the client kiosk. That is the entire hardware list.
The day close lists what should be in the drawer by payment method, including old balances clients settled today and expenses paid out of cash. Count the drawer, compare, and any difference shows up the same evening instead of at the end of the month.
This is the single habit that separates salons that know their numbers from salons that discover a problem in March that started in November. It takes about two minutes because the POS has already done the arithmetic.
| At the counter | Retail / generic POS | Salonipy |
|---|---|---|
| Who did the work | Not recorded | Staff on every line, splittable |
| Commission | Worked out separately | Calculated from the sale |
| Back-bar product used | Not tracked | Deducted by service recipe |
| Retail barcode | Yes | Yes — USB scanner or camera |
| Part payment | Rarely | Balance tracked in Receivables |
| Prepaid wallet / points | No | Both, on the same bill |
| Offline selling | Usually stops | Keeps billing, syncs later |
| Staff permissions | Cashier login | PINs plus custom roles |
Traditional POS is sold as a terminal plus a monthly licence, often per till or per user, and salon platforms usually charge per stylist. Salonipy is USD 5 a month, USD 30 a year, or USD 150 once for lifetime access — one price for the whole salon, every feature included, on hardware you already own. See the pricing page for current figures in your currency.
Salonipy is one app, so every tool below shares the same clients, bills and stock. See the full feature list.
A salon POS system is the point-of-sale software used at the front desk to bill services and products, take payment, print receipts and record which staff member did the work. A salon POS also tracks commission, client history and stock from each sale.
Yes. It runs on Android phones and tablets, Windows computers and any modern browser. A second tablet can be used as a self-order kiosk for clients.
Yes. Salonipy keeps billing offline and syncs sales automatically when the connection returns.
No. Salonipy is USD 5 a month, USD 30 a year, or USD 150 once for lifetime access. That covers the whole salon with no per-staff fee, and prices are shown in your local currency.
Yes. Give each retail product a barcode, then scan it with a plug-in USB scanner or your phone camera and it drops onto the invoice instantly with its price. You can also type the barcode and press Enter. The same scanning works on the purchase screen when you receive new stock.
Nothing proprietary. Salonipy runs on an Android phone or tablet, a Windows PC or laptop, or any modern browser. It works with the 58 mm or 80 mm thermal printer you already have, an optional USB barcode scanner, and an optional second tablet as a client kiosk.
Yes. Staff enter a PIN and only see the screens you allow, while owner-only screens such as reports, payouts and settings sit behind an Owner PIN. You can also create custom roles and choose exactly which screens and permissions each role gets.
Cash, card, bank transfer and mobile wallets such as Easypaisa and JazzCash, plus an Other option. Clients can also pay from a prepaid wallet balance or redeem loyalty points on the same sale, and each method is totalled separately at day close.
Yes. Record what was actually paid and the remaining balance is tracked in Receivables, where you can see how long it has been outstanding and send a WhatsApp reminder.
Yes. Set your rate once, rename the tax line to VAT, GST or Sales Tax, and choose whether your prices already include tax or have it added on top. Your tax registration number prints on the invoice.
Yes. Salonipy is used in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain, shows prices in local currency, and the whole app including receipts can be switched to Arabic.