For hair salons
A loyalty card for the client who comes back every six to eight weeks
A hair client can stay with one salon for years, right up until a salon nearer their work looks easier. A stamp card on their mobile is a small, steady reason to stay put, and a members list is how you tell them the December chairs are filling. Counter Club does both, and nobody installs an app.
Thistledown Hair Studio
One stamp per paid appointment. Six earn a free treatment.
4 of 6 Two visits to go.
What gets in the way for hair salons
Six to eight weeks between visits
At that pace a ten-stamp card takes well over a year, and nobody keeps count that long. Six stamps, one per paid appointment, fills in under a year for a client who comes every eight weeks.
Retail walks out the door
Clients buy their shampoo and treatments online because nothing rewards buying them at the basin. A rule that stamps a product purchase as well as an appointment brings that spend back to the salon.
December fills unevenly
The week before Christmas is booked solid and the second week of January is empty. An email to the club in early November, on a paid plan, moves the early planners forward and leaves room for the late ones.
Nobody says they have left
A client who tries another salon just stops booking. A message to the whole club about something new reaches them too, and a card with four stamps on it is a reason to come back.
A worked example
Hair salon work, with Counter Club
Thistledown Hair Studio is a fictional three-chair salon on a suburban strip. The owner works out what a regular is worth before choosing a reward. A colour client spends about $180 every eight weeks, which is six and a half visits and roughly $1,170 a year. A cut client spends $75 every six weeks, close to $650 a year.
She sets the card at 6 stamps, one per paid appointment, and writes the reward as "a free treatment or blow-dry with your next service". A colour client fills the card in about eleven months, and the reward costs twenty minutes of a junior stylist's time. The QR sits on the front desk beside the card machine and on a small card at each basin, where clients have ten minutes with nothing to do.
In two months 140 clients join, so the salon moves to Regulars. In the first week of November the owner emails the 85 members who confirmed an address: "Christmas chairs are filling. If you want a colour before the holidays, book in November and we will keep your usual time." That uses 85 of the month's 500 campaign messages. Over the next fortnight 31 of those members book, most of them for early December rather than the last week.
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Questions from hair salons
Should a stamp count the appointment or the spend?
The appointment. A $35 fringe trim and a $260 colour correction are very different spends, but both are a client choosing you again. If the gap bothers you, stamp only appointments over a set amount and put that rule on the sign at the desk.
Can each stylist stamp their own clients?
Yes. Anyone signed in to the salon's account can open Members and press Stamp, from the desk computer or a phone. The salon has one login, so keep it on devices that stay in the salon.
Does the card connect to my booking system?
No, the two are separate. Counter Club does not see appointments or payments; a stamp is a press at the desk when the client pays. Keep booking the way you do now.
What reward suits a hair salon?
Something that costs you time rather than stock and that the client values: a treatment, a blow-dry, a fringe trim between visits. A percentage off the next colour is easy to forget; a named treatment is easy to look forward to.
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