POS for Nail Salons: Two Techs, One Client, Every Tip Split Right.
Square Appointments for multi-service visits, a floor of stations and a gift card counter.
What This Business Needs at the Counter.
Many services per visit, many techs per floor.
Mani by one, pedi by another
Several services per visit
Stations and chairs
Gift cards
Walk-ins all day
Pooled or direct tips
Square Appointments, Split Across the Floor.
When one client is shared across techs, Square's proportional tip split fits that floor, and Square Premium adds station assignment.
Also in the lineup
Clover. Clover handles online booking with deposits and branded gift cards, but we could not find a multi-tech tip split in its documentation.
Tips split across techs
On a multi-staff appointment, tips are allocated to each assigned technician.
Tip pooling
On Plus and Premium, pool tips by transaction, by hours worked or by percentage.
Stations on the calendar
Drag and drop and color code the calendar; on Square Premium, assign booths, resources and techs to bookings.
Gift cards
Physical and eGift cards, with a 2.5% load fee on Free and Plus and none on Premium.
Text confirmations
Clients reply to the SMS reminder to confirm, cancel or change their appointment.
Read the full picture
Square's multi-staff appointment article says tips are allocated to each assigned staff member, in proportion to the services each one performed. If a client wants to tip only one technician, Square says to split the visit into separate transactions.
Square's tip pooling article says that by default each team member keeps 100% of the tips they collect, and that on Plus and Premium a location can pool tips per transaction, by hours worked or by percentage. Square's nail salon page describes assigning booths, resources and techs to bookings on the calendar, and tips set as a fixed amount or a percentage.
The Square Appointments pricing page lists gift cards with a 2.5% load fee on Square Free and Plus and 0% on Premium, and Square Assistant, which lets clients reply to SMS reminders to confirm, cancel or change. Resource management for chairs and stations is listed on Square Premium; multi-staff booking, the waitlist and no-show fees start on Plus.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 201,800 manicurist and pedicurist jobs in 2025, with 23% self-employed and 76% in personal care services. Census County Business Patterns counts 34,417 nail salons with employees in 2023; nonemployer salons are not in that count.
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One Ticket, Two Techs, Two Tips.
How a shared visit settles at the end of the day.
Booked to two techs
Manicure and pedicure on one appointment, each with a tech.
Station assigned
On Square Premium, the pedicure chair is reserved on the calendar.
One payment
The client pays and tips once at the front.
Tip split by service
Each tech is credited for their part, or the floor pools it.
Pricing, Plainly.
Square publishes its rates. Premium drops the gift card load fee to zero.
- Square Free, in person
- 2.6% + 15¢, $0/mo
- Square Plus, in person
- 2.5% + 15¢, $49/mo per location
- Square Premium, in person
- 2.4% + 15¢, $149/mo per location
- Card on file or keyed in
- 3.5% + 15¢ on every plan
- Gift card load fee
- 2.5% on Free and Plus, 0% on Premium
Published vendor prices as checked October 7, 2026. Your rate is set when you apply; nothing here is a quote.
Cash discount
Surcharging in New Jersey
Visa's 3% ceiling
Notice before you start
Three Ways to Get the Hardware.
A front desk register for checkout and gift cards; techs can work from their phones.
Free device
Apply at no upfront cost. Meet a monthly volume threshold and the hardware is on us.
Commonly Asked Questions
For a nail salon, BatchOut recommends Square Appointments, for multi-tech visits with tips split by service, stations assigned on the calendar on Square Premium, and gift cards.
Two techs on one client: how is the tip split?
Can we pool tips across the floor?
Can the calendar track pedicure chairs?
Do gift cards cost extra?
Can clients confirm by text?
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