Tips, prepay, and which barber gets the sale

The card is optional until you decide it is not. You do not have to pay ahead. The chair is held either way. If you do pay ahead, the card, Apple Pay, and the other wallets run through Square. The point of paying early is a settled visit, not a different haircut and not a faster one. The cape does not know whether the charge already happened.

The sale is assigned to the barber you booked. That is how the house tracks commission. You do not calculate a split, and you will not see a formula on the receipt that you are meant to audit. You book a chair. The money for the service is attached to that chair. The tip on that same payment follows the same chair. If you meant the tip for the person who cut your hair, this is the path that gets it there.

If you already paid, the visit is marked. You should not be asked to pay the service again. Look for that mark if a second charge is mentioned, and say you prepaid before anyone runs the card. A tip at the chair is still yours to add if you want to add one. It is not a second service fee, and it is not required to make the first payment count. The haircut was already sold.

If the barber changes because someone is out, the book should say so. A sale has to match the person who did the work. You should not discover the change when you are already in the cape, and you should not leave a tip on a ticket that still carries a name who was not in the room. If the day breaks, call the shop line, (305) 385-0306, while the book can still be moved. A quiet swap is how the wrong chair gets the sale.

Prepay does not buy a better blend, a longer visit, or a design that was not on the service. It holds the appointment and assigns the sale. If you want work that is priced when the chair sees it, Design and the other variable services work that way on purpose. Paying a flat ticket early does not turn a standard cut into that. Ask before you pay if you are not sure which service you are buying. The notes are the right place.

If you did not pay ahead, you settle at the chair when the cut is done. The same wallets are there. Do not assume a prepaid mark that you never made. If you are not sure, ask before a second card is offered. Two charges for one head are a bookkeeping error, not a tip and a service that happened to look alike. We would rather stop and look than have you sort it out from the car.

A tip is not a test and not a fee printed into the cut. Add it on the prepaid ticket or add it at the chair. Both are real, and adding it in both places by accident is the mistake to avoid. If the screen already shows a tip from this morning, you do not owe another to be polite. If the screen shows none and you want to leave one, leave one. The amount is yours. The house is not going to publish a number you are supposed to hit.

Commission is the house keeping the work attached to the person who did it. That is an internal record. It does not change your price, and it does not ask you to choose a barber for our payroll. Choose a barber because you want that chair again, or take the first open chair because you want a time. Either choice is clean as long as the name on the sale is the name that cut the hair.

The floor and the van use the same rule. A mobile visit paid ahead is still that barber's sale, not a general pool, and a review still belongs on the mobile listing if the van did the work. Paying at the kitchen table or paying on the book the night before does not move the record to the atelier. Place and payment are separate. The confirmation tells you the place. The receipt tells you the charge.

If a charge looks wrong, say it before you leave, and use the shop line if you notice it after. A duplicate is a fixable mistake when the visit is still fresh. It is a worse story when it shows up later as a review about a fee nobody meant to take twice. Bring the receipt, or the email Square sent. We can see a paid mark. You should not have to narrate the whole haircut to point at a number.