Front desk & street

Deposits & No-Show Fees

The card was on file before she walked in.

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What it does for you

• Card on file or a deposit at booking
• Text reminders before the appointment

+2 more we walk through on the call, with your own numbers — including what it would cost you and what we’d leave alone.

Systems we set up that do this

We place and support these. Which one fits depends on how you run the place — that’s what the walkthrough is for.

• Square The one you can start today, and the one you outgrow on price.
• Clover The most widely deployed small-business POS, and the easiest one to overpay for.
• SpotOn Restaurant POS with the support reputation that actually shows up in the reviews.

Worth reading first

• Processing & FeesHow to Actually Read Your Credit Card Processing StatementFind your effective rate first. Everything else follows from it.
• Processing & FeesThe 7 Hidden Fees Hiding in Your Merchant StatementSeven line items worth finding on your next statement.
• Processing & FeesInterchange, Markup & Your Effective Rate, Explained SimplyThe one number that makes any two processing offers comparable.