March 14, 2025

Automating Chair Renter Commissions

Chair Renters: Save time and clean up your books!

Diagram of a £55 client payment split automatically: £30 to the business owner and £25 (£20 commission plus a £5 tip) to the self-employed staff member

"Game changer for salon owners & barbers"

Fed up on paperwork, spreadsheets, bank transfers and admin?

You became a hairdresser or barber for the love of the industry. Not because you wanted to be an accountant on Sundays!

If you run a chair rental salon or barbershop then your life is about to change!

Introducing Split Commissions

In partnership with Stripe, Slick will now automatically split your % commission from 1 payment and send the right % to the service providers bank account and the balance into your bank account.

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No paperwork or calculators. No bank transfers.

Each person get's the monies owed to them next business day.

You no longer have other people's money coming into your bank account

Built for Co-Working spaces

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You set the % commission for each chair renter per service category

e.g Stylist A gets 50% on Cutting and 40% on Colour

Stylist B gets 40% on Cutting and 40% on Colour

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We do the hard work of splitting each bill correctly so that you get you money next business day!

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"This is a total game changer"

Ashley was taking all card payments via one machine which made calculating commissions a total headache. She spent 3 hours on Sunday's in a spreadsheet!

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"Now it's all done for me. Chair renters get their money and tips quicker. I only receive my takings into my bank account. It's so much cleaner and more professional"

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Salon Card Machine & Tipping

No more taking. money into the business account.

No more messy front desks where each person has their own card machine.

We provide 1 card reader which does the magic. It even allows you to take tips for free to ensure staff get 100% of the tips into their bank account.

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Choose the right set up for you

At Slick, we have 3 different set up options:

100% employed: 100% earnings go the business. 100% tips go to staff.
Chair Renters: 100% earnings go the chair renter. 100% tips go to chair renter.
Split Commissions: X% earnings go the chair renter / X% goes to business. 100% tips go to chair renter.

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Robert Smith

Co-founder & Chief Commercial Officer, Slick

Robert Smith is a co-founder of Slick and its Chief Commercial Officer. Before Slick he spent his career on the brand side of beauty, in marketing and product roles at L'Oréal and Philips. That's where he first heard salon owners describe the same two problems over and over: empty columns and clients who don't turn up. Slick came out of those conversations, and it now runs about 10,000 hair and beauty businesses. He writes about what salon software actually costs owners, and about the fees the industry would rather not itemise.

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