Payment at the counter: QR, Tap to Pay, a Stripe reader or cash
Every booking shows exactly what is still owed. Press Take payment and Slotora puts a QR code on the screen — the guest scans it with their own phone and pays by Apple Pay, Google Pay or card. Cash and your own card machine are recorded in the same place, so the day adds up. The money lands in your own Stripe account, and Slotora takes 0% of it.
Built for the individual professional — one person, one diary.
Slotora creates a Stripe Checkout link for the outstanding balance and shows it as a QR code big enough to scan across a counter. The guest pays on their own phone with Apple Pay, Google Pay or a card. Nothing to buy, nothing to charge overnight.
Keep the card machine you already have
Cash, your own card terminal and bank transfer are all recorded against the booking, so the day's takings are complete however the guest paid — not only the ones that went through us.
One figure left to collect
Deposit paid online, gift card part-used, coupon applied, session pass covering the visit — Slotora does the arithmetic and shows a single balance on the booking. Nobody works it out at the desk.
Tips, kept out of your service revenue
Add a tip with a 10%, 15% or 20% tap, or type any amount. It is recorded with the payment but reported separately, so it never inflates what your services actually earned.
The guest gets a receipt
An itemised receipt is emailed the moment the payment lands: what was paid, how it was paid, and what is left on the booking if anything.
Refunds, corrections and disputes
Refund part of a payment or all of it, record cash handed back as a refund rather than deleting the line, and correct a mistyped amount with the original still visible in the history. If a card payment is disputed, you are told and the booking is flagged.
Close the day and check the drawer
The day-end close lists takings by method and by person, works out what the cash drawer should hold, and shows the difference the moment you type in what you counted. Print it and file it.
Four ways to take a card at the counter
This is the salon POS side of Slotora — the point of sale at your front desk. Which of the four suits you depends on what that desk actually is: a phone, a computer, or neither. All four record the payment against the booking, and Slotora takes 0% of every one of them.
A phone, with Tap to Pay — no reader at all
Open the booking in the Slotora app, press Take payment, then Take … by card on this phone. The guest holds her card or her phone against yours, and the payment is recorded against the booking — with the tip as its own line.
Who it is for
A front desk that is a phone — and every stylist who takes the money on her own phone.
What you need
An Android phone or an iPhone (XS or newer) with the Slotora app, and your own Stripe account connected to Slotora. It is switched on for salons in every country we serve except Germany and Austria, where Slotora records no money at the counter.
What it costs
No hardware. Stripe's own processing fee applies and it goes to Stripe. Slotora takes 0%.
A computer, with a Stripe Terminal reader
Press Take payment in Slotora and the amount goes to the reader sitting on your counter. The guest taps, and the booking updates. There is no phone in the loop and no switching between apps — Slotora drives the reader from the server.
Who it is for
A salon whose front desk is a desktop or laptop, and anyone who would rather not have the till live on somebody's phone.
What you need
A Stripe Terminal reader, bought from Stripe, and your own Stripe account connected to Slotora.
What it costs
Stripe Terminal readers cost roughly £129–229 from Stripe. Stripe's own processing fee applies and it goes to Stripe. Slotora takes 0%.
A QR code, and no hardware at all
Press Take payment and Slotora works out what is still owed — price, less any deposit already paid, less a gift card or coupon, nothing at all if a session pass covers the visit — then puts a QR code on the screen, big enough to scan across a counter. The guest scans it with their own phone and pays by Apple Pay, Google Pay or card. The booking updates the moment it lands.
Who it is for
Every counter. This is the one that works whatever your front desk is, and it costs nothing to start.
What you need
Your own Stripe account connected to Slotora. No reader, no app on the guest's phone, nothing to buy or charge overnight.
What it costs
No hardware. Stripe's own processing fee applies and it goes to Stripe. Slotora takes 0%.
The card machine you already own
Take the card on your own machine exactly as you do today, then record it against the booking as a card payment. Nothing about the money changes; the point is that the day's takings in Slotora match what actually came in, whichever machine took it.
Who it is for
A salon with a terminal it likes and no reason to replace it — including machines from a bank or a processor Slotora has never heard of.
What you need
Nothing. There is no integration to set up and no compatibility to check — this works with any card machine on earth, because Slotora is not talking to it.
What it costs
Nothing from us. Your machine keeps its own fees and its own payouts, and that money never passes through Slotora.
Slotora charges nothing for any of this — no commission, no per-transaction fee, no hardware sold by us. Whoever processes the card charges their own fee and that fee is theirs, not ours; you see it in their dashboard. Reader prices are the vendors' own, quoted approximately, and can change.
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What exactly does this mean?
We'd like to use Google Analytics to see which pages help and which don't, and to remember which poster, flyer or message of ours — or which salon's recommendation — brought you here. Accept all also allows a Meta advertising pixel, so we can tell which of our own adverts brought a salon that signed up — and if you create an account, our server sends Meta your email address scrambled (hashed), never as readable text, with your IP address, your browser's details and Meta's own cookie ids — never your name — purely so it can recognise that the sign-up came from an advert. None of this runs on a salon's own booking page. Everything the service itself needs works either way. Cookie Policy
