The gap most UK salons live with
The usual arrangement is two systems and a monthly handover. The salon software rings the sales and produces a report; the bookkeeper takes that report and rebuilds the accounts somewhere else. It works, but it costs money every month, it puts a delay between what happened and what you know, and it means nobody can answer a simple question — is this month actually profitable — until weeks later.
TressyPOS closes that gap by making the till and the ledger the same engine.
VAT in its own account
The rate is configurable and applied per line, with tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive pricing as you prefer, and tax shown clearly on the invoice. VAT collected posts to a liability account of its own, so what you owe is visible on the Balance Sheet at any point in the quarter instead of being discovered at the end of it.
Being precise about scope: TressyPOS produces the books and the figures. It is not an HMRC-recognised filing bridge, so the return itself is still submitted by your accountant or your bridging software — from numbers that now tie out.
What your accountant receives
- Trial Balance for any date range, with debits and credits proven equal
- Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet
- A Chart of Accounts you control, with your own codes — if your accountant already has a structure, it adopts theirs
- Bank-statement style ledgers with a running balance, and bank reconciliation
- AR/AP aging, vendor statements, and a fixed-asset register with depreciation
- A daily Books Health Check that reports anything not tying out
See the accounting suite in full.
Commission, tips and pay
Commission is set per stylist and applied per service line, so a ticket worked by two people splits correctly. Tips are captured at checkout against the person who earned them. Payroll adds base pay from attendance, overtime, advances and staff loans with automatic instalment recovery, then issues payslips — and the whole wage bill posts to the ledger as it goes. More on payroll and commission.
Front of house
Round-the-clock online booking with automatic confirmations, a master calendar per stylist, client visit and colour history, loyalty points, gift cards, memberships and prepaid packages held as real liabilities, and bulk WhatsApp reminders you can target by service history or last-visit date.
The drawer and the outage
A nightly day-close produces a Z-Report reconciling the physical cash against the ledger and flags a shortfall before anyone goes home. And if the broadband drops, billing keeps running locally and syncs the moment it returns.
More than one site
Groups get head-office control with a separate ledger per site, consolidated reporting and permissions the owner sets per person and per site. Read about multi-site control.
What it costs
One flat price, every feature included, nothing per stylist or per chair — $49 a month, $249 for six months, or $399 for a year. Start with a 30-day free trial; no credit card required.