Best Salon POS Integrations

If you run a salon or spa, you need specific integrations for your point of sale system. Booking, inventory, and customer loyalty integrations should be top considerations.

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Last updated onUpdated August 16, 2024

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Key Takeaways

If you own a salon, you may want to consider purchasing or switching to a POS system that has specific features for your industry
Popular POS integrations for salons include scheduling apps, accounting software, and loyalty plans

The best POS systems for small businesses will offer integrations with third-party apps or software to help boost their feature set and help their users.

The best salon-specific POS software, however, will include many features built in and ready to use for salons. If you’re using a POS system not tailored specifically for service-based businesses, you might need some POS integrations for salons and spas.

Let’s take a closer look at the best integrations for salons.

Table of Contents

What Are Salon POS Integrations?
The 5 Best POS Integrations For Salons & Spas
The Bottom Line On The Best Salon POS Integrations

What Are Salon POS Integrations?

There are many reasons you need a salon-specific POS system. Those POS systems may include every feature your salon, spa, or other service-based business needs — they are designed with your industry in mind. Others, however, might be close to perfect but don’t offer some of the built-in features you want. This is where POS integrations come in.

POS integrations are typically apps or other software that can directly integrate with your existing (or potential) POS system to offer features that the POS system itself doesn’t.

Salon POS systems commonly integrate with tax, inventory management, scheduling, customer loyalty, and marketing software/apps. These integrations allow you to have a personalized POS system that can become a central hub for your business.

The 5 Best POS Integrations For Salons & Spas

This is not an exhaustive list, but these are the best POS integrations for your salon, spa, or service-based business that can help you customize your POS system and make your life easier!

Scheduling Software

Look for scheduling software integrations that offer SMS and/or email reminders, are easy to use, reasonably priced, and allow customers to manage their appointments online.

Customer Loyalty Software

Most POS systems come with a customer loyalty program either built-in or available as a native paid add-on. An example of this is Square.

If you already use one of Square’s many POS options, you can pay an additional monthly fee to add Square Loyalty. We’ve got an in-depth review of some of the best POS loyalty programs to help you decide.

The most popular standalone loyalty program integrations include LoyaltyLion, SLoyalty, Yotpo, Smile.io, Amasty, and Spoonity.

Inventory Management Software

Inventory management software helps keep your shelves stocked, customers happy, and employees stress-free. You can track your retail offerings or the backstock you keep for employee use, like bleach, wax, sanitizing equipment, etc.

Again, Square offers a paid add-on (Square Inventory), but there are some standalone inventory software options. TradeGecko (now QuickBooks Commerce), Zoho Inventory, and Magneto integrate with many popular POS systems.

Tax Software

One thing almost no business owner wants to deal with is taxes. We can relate.

An easy way to lighten this burden is to integrate your POS system with tax software that can collect data and create reports to make it easier to file your taxes.

QuickBooks is the most popular integration for POS systems and is high on the list of best small business accounting software, but we’d also recommend FreshBooks, Wave, and Zoho Books.

Marketing Software

While a lot of POS systems offer some marketing features, they’re usually fairly basic and can be expensive. There are plenty of free options available, like MailChimp, that you can integrate with your POS system.

A paid option includes Square Marketing which starts at $15/month for 0-500 customer contacts. Our Square Marketing review breaks these costs down in more detail.

The Bottom Line On The Best Salon POS Integrations

While these integrations are helpful and great for customizing your POS system, it will be best if these features are already built-in.

This is because some POS systems will charge for add-ons, or the integrations might not work well and make your POS system more difficult to use. Take into account integrations VS built-in features when researching potential POS systems for your business.

Still need more information? We’ve got you covered! Check out our guide to choosing a salon POS system to help decide what software is right for you.

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