Booked out, all year round
Clients book sessions online, buy courses or memberships and pay up front, so every slot is filled without the admin.
No commission on new clients. No per client charges.
One monthly subscription. 2.5% + 35p only when you take a card payment.
Fill every slot, sell the course
Clients book sessions online and buy courses or memberships that keep them coming back. Track how many sessions are left, take payment up front and let reminders bring clients in.
No commission on new clients. No per client charges.
One monthly subscription. 2.5% + 35p only when you take a card payment.
Set up in 2 minutes. No credit card required.
Minutes and memberships, not single sessions
Tanning revenue comes from blocks of minutes and monthly memberships, not from walk-in singles. Sell the package, let it draw down on each visit and collect the membership on the same day every month without chasing.
Membership billing handled for you.
One card rate of 2.5% plus 35p, with the platform fee inside it.
Set up in 2 minutes. No credit card required.
Keep the balance in front of them
A customer with minutes left comes back. A customer who has forgotten how many they have does not. Show the balance, remind them before a package expires and prompt the top-up at the right moment.
Unlimited customers on every plan.
Unlimited customer records on every plan, yours to export at any time.
Set up in 2 minutes. No credit card required.
Running a tanning salons business
Tanning is a membership business dressed as an appointment business. The income comes from blocks of minutes and monthly plans, and a salon relying on walk-in singles is running the same shop with a fraction of the certainty.
Minutes are the unit, not visits
Sell time in blocks, draw it down per session and show the remaining balance every time. A customer who knows she has forty minutes left comes back to use them. A customer who has forgotten what she bought does not, and the salon keeps the money once and loses the habit for good.
Monthly memberships collected automatically are the most stable income in the trade, because they remove the weekly decision about whether to come in at all. That decision is the thing you are really competing against in November.
The tanning year and what should be selling in it
| Part of the year | What the shop looks like | What should be selling |
|---|---|---|
| January and February | Steady, driven by winter holidays and new year intent | Monthly and annual plans while the intent is at its highest |
| March to May | The busiest stretch, everybody building a base | Large minute blocks and course upgrades |
| June and July | Peaks hard around holidays then falls away | Top-up packages and accelerators |
| August and September | The quietest weeks of the whole year | Renewals, referrals and the lamp replacement schedule |
| October to December | Occasion driven, parties and events | Gift cards and January memberships bought in advance |
The quiet late summer is when the beds should be serviced and the tubes changed, because a customer on a course notices a tired lamp long before the shop does.
What a tanning salon loses without ever noticing
- Minutes sold and never used, which feels like profit and is actually a customer who has stopped coming
- A membership that has been failing to collect for two months on an expired card
- Lamp hours run past their rated life, so sessions take longer and the results get worse
- A package that expired the week before she came in to use it
- Age verification done by eye on a busy Saturday and recorded nowhere at all
Compliance here is part of the operation, not paperwork
Allowing anybody under eighteen to use a sunbed is a criminal offence in England, Wales and Scotland, and the responsibility sits with the operator rather than with the customer who lied about her age. Verification has to be recorded against the customer rather than remembered by whoever happened to be on the desk.
Skin type and session history matter for the same reason. A record of what type was assessed, what sessions were taken and at what intervals protects both of you if anything is ever questioned, and it is what stops a new member being sold twelve minutes on her first day.
Unstaffed hours make both of those harder rather than easier. If the shop runs on a code and a card reader, the system itself has to be the thing that knows who has been verified, what they bought and how many minutes they have already used.
What a well run tanning salon does
- Sells minutes in blocks and draws them down automatically per session
- Shows the remaining balance to the customer every visit
- Collects monthly memberships automatically and chases a failed collection
- Prompts a top-up before the balance runs out, not after
- Records age verification against the customer rather than in somebody's memory
- Keeps skin type and session history per person
- Schedules lamp replacement against hours run rather than by guesswork
One platform, every tool you need
The essentials sit together: bookings, payments, records, reminders and follow-up. No patchwork of apps, no per-client tax.
- 01Online session booking
- 02Courses and memberships
- 03Card payments up front
- 04Session balance tracking
- 05Automated reminders
- 06Client history and consent
Online session booking
Built in and ready on every plan, so this workflow lives with the rest of your business.
Included on every plan. No add ons, no client limits, no setup fees.
- Runs from the same dashboard
- Included without add-ons
- Connected to customer history
Courses and memberships
Built in and ready on every plan, so this workflow lives with the rest of your business.
Included on every plan. No add ons, no client limits, no setup fees.
- Runs from the same dashboard
- Included without add-ons
- Connected to customer history
Card payments up front
Built in and ready on every plan, so this workflow lives with the rest of your business.
Included on every plan. No add ons, no client limits, no setup fees.
- Runs from the same dashboard
- Included without add-ons
- Connected to customer history
Session balance tracking
Built in and ready on every plan, so this workflow lives with the rest of your business.
Included on every plan. No add ons, no client limits, no setup fees.
- Runs from the same dashboard
- Included without add-ons
- Connected to customer history
Automated reminders
Built in and ready on every plan, so this workflow lives with the rest of your business.
Included on every plan. No add ons, no client limits, no setup fees.
- Runs from the same dashboard
- Included without add-ons
- Connected to customer history
Client history and consent
Built in and ready on every plan, so this workflow lives with the rest of your business.
Included on every plan. No add ons, no client limits, no setup fees.
- Runs from the same dashboard
- Included without add-ons
- Connected to customer history
Simple pricing. Fast setup.
No new-client fees, a 30 day trial and one clear card rate when customers pay online.
0%
new client fees
30
day free trial
2.5%
card rate, plus 35p
2
minute setup
Clear answers before you switch
The details that usually slow down a move: setup, pricing, bookings, records and how Youzse fits into your day.
Yes. Sell courses and memberships, take payment up front and track how many sessions each client has left.
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