Walk-ins first
A walk-in board, not an appointment book
Most POS systems are built for hair salons — booked by the hour. Nail salons run on walk-ins, FIFO rotation, and one ticket across several chairs. That's where we started.
Built for Vietnamese-owned nail salons
A POS built around the chair, not the calendar.
Walk-in board first, multi-tech checkout, and the Nail Shop Rule built into every ticket. No special POS hardware. Free website; Onyx Booking online booking at $29/month; Onyx Salon OS at $79/month, with no per-tech fees.
No hardware lock-in
Tap to Pay on iPhone
Take cards on the iPhone you already have, through Stripe Terminal. Or pair a Stripe Reader if you prefer. No $400 terminal required.
The Nail Shop Rule
Splits done the nail-salon way
The supply fee comes off before commission. Tips go 100% to the tech. Tax passes straight through. The math lives in the database, not in anyone's head.
Why owners leave Fresha & Square
Lightweight is the product.
Every salon we visit has an iPad covered in sticky notes explaining the three taps it takes to add a service — because that POS was built for another industry. We don't add screens. We don't add statuses. Closing out a chair in the fewest taps always wins.
- Open a walk-in in 4 taps. Name (optional), tech, service, done. No appointment slot to pick. No client profile to create.
- Check out any chair from the front desk. A client who sat in several chairs gets one ticket and one card payment, and the per-tech split happens automatically at close-out.
- Text the receipt in one tap. No printer, no ink, no paper.
- Drag-and-drop client import. Even the export from your old POS that opens looking like a broken Excel file.