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🛒 Buying Advice 👁️ 1,970 views 💬 19 replies 📅 Oct 27, 2025
Looking for recommendations:

We need something that handles salon operations well

Budget is around $107/month. What would you suggest?
Amber Foster 👑 Master
1,250 points • Member since Apr 2025

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Tom Hill
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198 posts
Oct 30, 2025
Agreed with the above. Also worth mentioning you should also check the settings
Carlos Hall
👑 Master
192 posts
Oct 31, 2025
For salon, I'd recommend considering looking at multiple options
Sandra Flores
👑 Master
207 posts
Nov 2, 2025
Great question! In my experience with POS Nation, it has been working well for us
Emily Foster
👑 Master
221 posts
Nov 3, 2025
Cost us about $160/month all in. Worth it.
Brittany Moore
👑 Master
212 posts
Nov 4, 2025
Great question! In my experience with Siriusware, it has been working well for us
Patrick Hughes
👑 Master
218 posts
Nov 5, 2025
Agreed with the above. Also worth mentioning you should also check the settings
Sharon Rivera
👑 Master
236 posts
Nov 6, 2025
This is why we switched to Heartland Restaurant. No regrets.
Kyle Thomas
👑 Master
213 posts
Nov 6, 2025
Training took about 5 days for our staff.
Tiffany Ross
👑 Master
224 posts
Nov 7, 2025
Training took about 1 days for our staff.
Angela Long
👑 Master
210 posts
Nov 10, 2025
The client management is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.
Tyler Morgan
👑 Master
244 posts
Nov 12, 2025
The membership management is definitely worth the extra cost IMO.
Kevin Robinson
👑 Master
214 posts
Nov 12, 2025
Had the same problem, support was responsive when I contacted them.
Lisa Nelson
👑 Master
222 posts
Nov 13, 2025
+1 to this. We've seen similar results.
Derek Park
👑 Master
224 posts
Nov 18, 2025
Different perspective here - you might want to consider a different approach
Kevin Robinson
👑 Master
214 posts
Nov 20, 2025
Just went through this. Here's what I learned: take your time with the setup
Jonathan Park
👑 Master
204 posts
Nov 21, 2025
Different perspective here - you might want to consider a different approach
Marcus Powell
👑 Master
196 posts
Nov 23, 2025
+1 to this. We've seen similar results.
Kenneth Scott
👑 Master
214 posts
Nov 24, 2025
We had the same issue. What worked for us was restarting the terminal
Elizabeth Mitchell
👑 Master
203 posts
Nov 28, 2025
We had the same issue. What worked for us was restarting the terminal

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