Bookkeeping for
Salons &
Barbershops.
Your booking app pays out services, tips and retail in one deposit, booth renters pay on their own schedule, and gift cards sell months before anyone uses them. We split every payout into what it really is, keep tips apart from revenue and show what the chair actually earns.
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Built for Every Kind
of Salon and Shop
Commission salon, booth-rental shop or a mix of both, the books have to show what came from services, what came from retail, and what belongs to your staff.
Commission Salons
Your stylists are paid a percentage of their services, maybe plus retail commission. We record sales by stylist and reconcile their pay, so the split you agreed to matches what went out.
- Service revenue by stylist
- Commission pay checked against sales
- Card tips paid out through payroll
- Retail sales and product cost separated
- Back-bar product tracked as a cost
- Payroll reconciled from Gusto
Barbershops & Booth Rental
Your barbers or stylists rent their chairs and keep their own clients. Your income is the rent. We track who has paid, who is behind, and keep their money out of yours.
- Booth rent billed and collected
- Late and unpaid rent tracked by chair
- Cash deposits matched to the bank
- Shop supplies and utilities categorized
- Owner's own chair broken out
Growing Salons & Suites
Several locations, a mix of employees and renters, or a suite business renting private rooms. We set up classes so each location shows its own revenue, rent and costs.
- P&L by location
- Suite and room rent tracked by tenant
- Memberships and packages tracked
- Gift cards sold vs redeemed
- Marketing and booking app fees categorized
- Buildout and equipment loans tracked
The Financial Headaches
We Fix
Salon money comes in mixed together and a lot of it belongs to someone else. These are the places salon books usually break.
Tips counted as salon income
Card tips land in your account with every payout, but they belong to your staff. When the whole deposit is booked as sales, revenue looks bigger than it is and nobody can say what was owed, what was paid out, and when.
Retail and back-bar mixed together
Product you sell is inventory with its own margin. Product used on clients is a cost of the service. When both go to one supplies account, you can't see whether retail makes money or how much product each service uses.
Gift cards booked as sales on day one
A gift card sold in December is money you owe in services later. Booking it as revenue when sold inflates December, shortchanges the month it's used and leaves no record of how much is still outstanding.
Booth rent tracked in your head
Renters pay weekly or monthly, by app, check or cash, and some fall behind. Without a balance per chair, missed rent goes unnoticed and your rental income on the P&L is a guess.
Every Month
Everything You Need,
Nothing You Don't
Salon bookkeeping is mostly about pulling apart mixed payouts: services from retail, your money from your staff's tips, and today's sales from gift cards sold months ago. We work in QuickBooks Online from your booking app's reports and bank feeds.
Monthly Bookkeeping
Every account reconciled, every transaction categorized, every month. You get a clean P&L and balance sheet you can read and use to make decisions.
See Full Details →Financial Reporting
A monthly P&L with services, retail and booth rent on separate lines, product cost against retail sales, revenue by stylist or location, and a balance sheet showing tips and gift cards owed.
See Full Details →Bank Reconciliation
Every business account and credit card matched and verified each month. No mystery charges. No unresolved transactions. No surprises.
See Full Details →Accounts Payable & Receivable
AR covers booth and suite rent your renters owe. AP covers product distributors, rent, utilities, software and booking app fees, with product bills split between retail and back-bar.
See Full Details →Catch-Up Bookkeeping
Months or years behind? We clean it all up before monthly service starts, at a flat price per month behind that we quote up front.
See Full Details →Payroll Support
Employee stylists, front desk and card tips run through Gusto, which files the payroll taxes and W-2s. We reconcile every run, check commission against sales and keep renters separate from staff.
See Full Details →"He is very personable, and if I have a question, he promptly gets back with me!"
Salons & Barbershops
FAQ
Questions we hear from Salons & Barbershops before they sign on with Tides.
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Serving Clients Nationwide
100% remote bookkeeping for small businesses across South Carolina and throughout the United States.
Beyond Salons & Barbershops,
We Serve All These Businesses
Tides Bookkeeping specializes in bookkeeping across 12 distinct industries. Industry-specific expertise means fewer errors, better categorization, and a bookkeeper who already understands how your business makes money.
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Focus on Your Chairs.
We'll Handle
The Books.
Schedule a free 15-minute call. We'll review your current setup, answer your questions, and give you a flat monthly quote — no pressure.
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Simple, Flat-Rate Pricing
Flat monthly plans scaled to your business — no hourly billing and no surprise invoices. You always know the price up front.
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✔ Reviewed by Daniel Cope, Advanced QuickBooks ProAdvisor · Updated August 2026