Product orders. Booking software.
Earning the minimum?
- ✓The right card for each line of salon spend.
- ✓Every move waits for your yes.
- ✓One number in dollars, every Friday.
Keep every vendor. Only the card changes.Keep every vendor. Only the card changes.
Every loyalty program. One desk to rule them all.Illustrative examples: owners and conversations are fictional, figures are estimates. Not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by any bank, airline or hotel program. Program names and logos are trademarks of their owners, shown for identification only. Important information
Meet Camille.
One catch, in dollars.
Marketing and social: 1x today. At 4x with Amex Business Gold (advertising), about $2,600 a year more, est. The desk shows the move first and waits for a yes.Marketing and social: about $2,600 a year more at 4x, est.
- Marketing and social$4.6k/mo1x → 4x+$2,600 a year, est.Amex Business Gold (advertising)
- Professional product$11.7k/mo1x → 2xBlue Business Plus, then Capital One Venture Business
- Retail stock for resale$6.5k/mo1x → 2xBlue Business Plus, then Capital One Venture Business
- Everything else$10.5k/mo1x → 2.6xCapital One Venture Business, Amex Business Gold and others
- Professional productBlue Business Plus, then Capital One Venture Businessup to 2x
- Retail stock for resaleCapital One Venture Businessup to 2x
- Marketing and socialAmex Business Gold (advertising)up to 4x
- Booking softwareAmex Business Gold (software and cloud)up to 4x
Rates a line can earn on a card that rewards it, inside yearly caps, est. The codes on a statement decide.
What most salons never hear
about their codes.
Every purchase carries a merchant code, and the code decides what a card pays for it.
Cosmetic stores are 5977
Retail product runs typically code as Cosmetic Stores.
Free from the desk4 free items just for salonsCodes, scripts, checklists and deadlines, plus the ones every business needs.→
Where your money
actually lands.
Your vendors usually run your card under one of these codes.
Four places salon
money leaks.
None of the fixes change what you buy or who you buy it from.None of the fixes change what you buy.
Marketing and social belong on a bonus card.
Amex Business Gold can earn up to 4x on it in the card's top two categories each month, inside a $150K yearly cap. The desk tracks the cap and moves the next dollar before it fills.
Points into Mexico City for two.
The desk maps the programs, checks taxes and fees, and gives the trip a pace. It books only after you approve.
Friday counts it, in dollars.
What the desk found that week, checked against your statement. Booth rent and payroll stay off the card when a bill-pay fee would cost more than the points are worth.
How professional product codes.
One short lesson a week from your own data: why the same purchase can code differently at two vendors, and what it means for you.
One question.
The whole desk works it.
Camille asks in the thread. First Officer checks it against her spend and the latest rules, and hands back one answer.
Amexto First OfficerEarnEvery program Camille's spend touches, watched in one place. One voice answers her: First Officer.
Illustrative example. Camille is fictional and every figure is an estimate. A person reviews every booking. Program names and logos are trademarks of their owners, shown for identification only.
Every trade hides money
in a different place.
Run more than one kind of business? Each one has its own codes and catches.
Four steps.
No spreadsheets.
The Found Money Call
Free, about 20 minutes, from your real statements.
Your strategy
Which card for which line, written for your vendors.
Your first moves
Three moves, with the exact taps. Each waits for your yes.
Your scorecard
One number in dollars, next to a flat 2% card, after the $550 fee.