Guides for running a service business
Practical guides for salons, barbers, garages, clinics and trades. Explore booking workflows, reminders and customer care, with UK-specific money and compliance guides clearly labelled.
15 guides
Taking deposits for appointments
How UK service businesses should take appointment deposits: how much, refund rules, consumer law, VAT treatment and how to handle disputes and chargebacks.
MoneyRead guideHow to raise your prices
When to put your prices up, how much, how to tell clients and what to expect. A practical method for UK salons, barbers, garages, trades and clinics.
MoneyRead guideChasing late payments
A practical escalation for UK businesses chasing unpaid invoices: terms that work, when to chase, statutory interest and what to do before small claims.
MoneyRead guideHow to take card payments
Card readers, contactless on a phone, payment links and online booking payments compared for UK service businesses. What each costs and which suits you.
MoneyRead guideGoing VAT registered
What changes when a UK service business crosses the VAT threshold: the registration test, what it does to your prices, the Flat Rate Scheme and MTD.
MoneyRead guideWriting a cancellation policy that holds up
A short, fair, enforceable cancellation policy for a UK service business. What notice to set, what to charge, where to show it and how to apply it.
MoneyRead guideWhat to put on an invoice
The details a UK invoice must carry, what changes once you are VAT registered, how invoice numbering has to work and how long to keep the records.
MoneyRead guideTaking card payments over the phone
How to take a card payment over the phone in the UK: what MOTO means, who carries the chargeback risk and why a payment link is usually the safer route.
MoneyRead guideWhen Fresha still charges the new client fee
Fresha can still charge the new client fee when someone views your Fresha profile and then books on your website and when you cancel or reschedule.
MoneyRead guideSalon books without a second app
Scan a receipt onto a salon expense and read the year for self assessment in the same software as the diary. The page estimates. It does not file with HMRC.
MoneyRead guideIs Fresha still free?
Whether Fresha is still free for a UK business, based on the pricing page we checked: what it published and where a pound subscription price is missing.
MoneyRead guideFresha fees UK
The Fresha fees a UK business can establish from the checked pricing page, including where a UK pound subscription price was not published.
MoneyRead guideBooksy Boost explained
What Booksy Boost is, that it is optional and how the checked catalogue separates it from the normal Booksy subscription.
MoneyRead guideSetting your garage labour rate
Set a labour rate from your own numbers: recoverable hours, overhead per productive hour and the gap between the door rate and what you actually collect.
MoneyRead guideHow to mark up parts in a garage
Cost, trade price and sell price. Margin versus markup, marking up by price band, customer supplied parts and liability and recovering carriage properly.
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