Bookkeeping for salons & spas
Stakeville provides bookkeeping for salons and spas: booth-rent and commission structures tracked correctly, service vs. retail revenue split, POS-to-bank reconciliation, and payroll that handles tips properly.
Salon books hinge on structure: booth renters are tenants, commissioned stylists are payroll, and mixing the two creates both bad numbers and worker-classification risk. Add retail sales and tips, and the register total tells you almost nothing by itself.
We set the books up around your actual model, rent income tracked separately, commissions reconciled to payroll, retail split from services with its own margin, and tips flowing through payroll the way the rules require.
Where salons & spas books usually break
Booth rent blended
Rent income mixed with service revenue, muddying both numbers and classification.
Register-total thinking
Services, retail, and tips lumped together with no margin view.
Tip payroll errors
Tips handled outside payroll, creating wage and reporting exposure.
How Stakeville handles it
Model-correct setup
Booth rent, commission, and hybrid structures each booked correctly.
Service/retail split
Separate revenue and margin tracking for services and product sales.
POS reconciliation
Square, Vagaro, and salon platforms tied to bank deposits.
Tip-correct payroll
Tips reconciled through payroll with your provider.
“Our books were 14 months behind when we found Stakeville. Three weeks later everything reconciled and our CPA filed without a single question.”
“The monthly report is one page and I actually read it. What moved, why, and what to watch. That alone is worth the fee.”
Services for salons & spas
Salons & Spas, common questions
We have both renters and commissioned staff, can you handle that?
Yes, hybrid salons are common. Rent flows as rental income, commissions through payroll, each reconciled to its own source records.
Can you track retail product profitability?
Yes, retail purchases and sales are split from services so you can see whether the shelf actually earns its space.
Find out what your books need, free.
A 20-minute Books Health Check: we review your current setup and tell you exactly what it will take to get clean, decision-ready numbers. No pressure, no credentials requested.