Bookkeeping for Salons and Barbershops in Florida
Booth rent, W-2 stylists, tips, and a retail shelf — salon money moves in four different ways, and generic bookkeeping mixes them into one misleading number. We keep each stream clean, reconciled, and tax-ready.
Four income streams, four sets of rules.
Your services, your employees' services, your booth renters' rent, and your retail shelf each hit the books differently. Separated properly, your P&L finally answers real questions: does the retail shelf earn its space, does each chair cover its cost, and what's actually yours at month-end.
What we see in most salon books
- Booth rent mixed into service revenue
- Tips floating outside the records
- Product COGS and supplies in one bucket
- Sales tax invisible until filing week
What you get instead
- Each revenue stream on its own line
- Tips recorded and reconciled with your POS
- Retail margin you can actually read
- Sales tax liability visible every month
What's included, every month.
Transactions categorized against a salon-specific chart of accounts · every bank and card account reconciled · POS payouts matched to deposits · sales tax liability tracked · monthly P&L and Balance Sheet · a plain-English note on what changed. Spanish-friendly support available.
Deeper reading: our salon & barbershop bookkeeping guide and Florida sales tax guide cover the details — and if the books are behind, catch-up bookkeeping brings them current first.
Salon bookkeeping questions, answered.
Completely. Booth rent you collect is rental income, not service revenue, and renters are not your payroll. Mixing renter income with your own service sales is the #1 structural error we see in salon books.
Card tips flow through your POS and payroll for W-2 staff — they're the employee's income, not yours, but they still must be recorded and reconciled. We keep the bookkeeping side clean; payroll tax specifics stay with your payroll provider and CPA.
Yes — retail carries cost of goods sold and Florida sales tax. Separating the two shows whether your retail shelf actually earns its space, and keeps collected sales tax visible as the liability it is.
The same published tiers as every client: $149–$799/month by volume and complexity — most single-location salons land in Starter or Growth. Behind? Catch-up runs first as a one-time project with a flat quote.
Ready for books as organized as your appointment book?
Book a free consultation — we'll look at how your money actually moves and quote a plan that fits.