Sector
Salons & barbers
Small premises, high transaction count, and a booking system that often bundles payments at a rate nobody has checked.
Audited in this order
- 01Card processing, particularly where it is bundled into booking software
- 02Booking and rota software licences per stylist
- 03Electricity — modest load but often on a very poor small-business tariff
- 04Insurance, where treatments have changed since the policy was written
What we look for
What tends to be wrong in salons & barbers.
Specific to this sector, and drawn from how the contracts and meters actually behave rather than from a generic savings claim.
Bundled payments inside booking software
Convenient, and frequently 0.5–1.0% above a standalone acquirer. Whether that is worth paying depends on how much of the booking flow you actually use.
Chair renters change the picture
Where chairs are rented, the question is whose merchant account processes what, and who carries the terminal cost.
Priority order
Where the audit spends its time.
We work down this list. Lines further down still get checked, they just rarely move the number.
- 01Card processing, particularly where it is bundled into booking software
- 02Booking and rota software licences per stylist
- 03Electricity — modest load but often on a very poor small-business tariff
- 04Insurance, where treatments have changed since the policy was written
Other sectors
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