Booth Rent Calculator
Settlement CardBooth rent, commission, product and the card fee — settled to the cent.
Settling up is four rules layered on each other and no two shops layer them the same way, so it lives in a spreadsheet somebody rebuilds every time a chair changes. Get the order wrong and a stylist is charged a share of a deduction they already carried in full.
Some chairs are on rent and some on commission, the product charge comes off services before anything is divided, and the card fee is shared across the chairs that actually took the money. Four rules your shop settled once, applied in order, with the odd pennies landing somewhere real instead of vanishing.
About this tool
Booth Rent Calculator: what it solves
A salon week is not one split, it is a stack of a shop’s own decisions applied in a fixed order. The product charge comes off services first, because taking it afterwards would charge the chair a share of something they have already paid for outright. What is left splits at whatever rate that shop settled on, and retail usually splits at a different one. A chair on booth rent sits outside all of it and pays for the chair instead. The card fee is shared on what each chair actually ran through the reader rather than evenly, because splitting it evenly charges the quiet chair for money it never took — and the pennies are handed out by largest remainder, the same routine the Tip Out Calculator uses, so the shares add back up to the fee. It takes no cut of tips, ever. It suggests no rent, no split and no product charge, and where a chair comes out owing the shop money it says so on the line rather than printing a minus and moving on.
Product comes off first, and the order is not cosmetic
Take the product charge off services before the split, and the chair pays for the color once.
Take it after, and the chair pays for the color and then hands the shop a percentage of money that was already spent on the color. Same two numbers, same two people, and a settlement that differs every single week.
Most shops have decided this. Few have written it down anywhere, which means it lives in whoever does the settlements, and it changes quietly when that person is on holiday.
Four things this shop settled, and no software can supply
The product charge. A flat amount, a percentage of the service, or per-service by type. Some shops do not charge it at all and build it into the split instead.
The service split. Whatever rate this shop landed on. It is often not the same for every chair, and it is often not the same as it was two years ago.
Retail, which almost never splits at the service rate. A shop that runs both at one number is making a decision, and usually not on purpose.
Booth rent, which sits outside all of the above. A chair on rent pays for the chair. They are not in the split at all, and mixing the two models on one sheet is where hand-done settlements go wrong.
Those four are why a subscription cannot do this. A platform serving every salon in the country has to pick a default for each, and the moment it picks, it is settling somebody’s week on rules they never agreed to.
The card fee, split on what each chair actually ran
Splitting the card fee evenly is the easy thing and it is wrong.
A chair that ran eleven hundred dollars through the reader and a chair that ran two hundred did not cost the shop the same in processing. Charge them the same and the quiet chair is paying for money it never took — a small amount, every week, forever, to the person least able to notice.
This shares the fee on what each chair actually ran. The leftover pennies go out by largest remainder, the same routine the tip out calculator uses, so the shares add back to the fee the shop was actually charged rather than to something close to it.
When a chair owes the shop money
It happens. A light week against a product charge, or a chair on rent who took almost nothing.
This says so on the line, in words. It does not print a minus sign and move on, and it does not quietly floor the number at zero and let the sheet look finished — because a settlement that hides a shortfall is one somebody discovers a month later, when it is three shortfalls and a conversation nobody wants to have.
It takes no cut of tips. Ever. Tips are not in the split, are not in the product charge, and are not touched by the card fee arithmetic. That is not a setting.
What it replaces
The settlement done on a pad on a Sunday, or the spreadsheet built by somebody who has left. Both work until a chair changes model, a rate changes, or somebody inserts a row.
You enter your rules once. Every week after that is the week’s numbers and who worked.
Who it is for
Salons, barber shops, nail and lash studios — anywhere a chair is rented or a week is split, and the terms were set in this shop rather than handed down by a franchise.
What it will not do
It will not suggest a rent, a split or a product charge. There is nothing here to recommend. What a chair is worth in this shop is the thing you decided, and deciding it is the part of running a salon that is actually yours.
It does not know employment law where you are and does not check it. Whether somebody is a renter or an employee has consequences this sheet knows nothing about. It divides money the way you told it to. Arithmetic, not advice.
It will not print a number it cannot stand behind. Where a figure cannot be read, it names the row and the shape it could not handle rather than working around it.
Nothing you type is sent anywhere. The arithmetic runs in your browser — no account, no upload, nothing stored on anybody’s server. Close the tab and it is gone.
Yours would be built the same way.
This one runs on made-up data. The version built for your business runs on yours, and you own it outright. Builds start at $1,300. That is a floor, not a quote. What yours costs is agreed before any work begins. The first conversation is free.