Walk into most barbershops, nail bars or salons today and you’ll find something the software rarely accounts for: the people working there don’t all work for the business. They rent a chair. They’re self-employed. They bring their own clients, set their own prices, and - crucially - their money is their own.
It’s one of the most common ways small beauty and grooming businesses are run, and it’s also where the admin gets painful. Because the moment you put a shared booking system in front of a self-employed team, one question decides everything: when a client pays, whose money is it, and how does it get to the right person?
We built Rexabook’s per-seat setup around a simple answer: everyone gets paid directly, into their own account.
The problem with pooling the money
The usual setup makes the shop owner an accidental bank. All the card payments land in one business account, and then someone has to work out who earned what, chase the numbers at the end of the week, and pay each self-employed person their share. It’s slow, it’s awkward, and it muddies everyone’s books - the owner is holding money that isn’t theirs, and the stylist is waiting on money that is.
It also creates tension nobody wants. “Has my money come through yet?” is not a fun conversation to have with the person in the next chair.
How Rexabook does it: one page, separate wallets
With Rexabook, the shop runs a single booking page with a seat for each team member. Clients see the whole team, pick the person they want, and book. That part looks like any good booking system.
The difference is underneath. Each self-employed pro connects their own Stripe account to their seat. So when a client books Maya and pays, the payment for that booking goes straight into Maya’s account - not the shop’s, not a shared pot. Book Jordan instead, and Jordan gets paid. Everyone on the team has their own connected account, their own payouts, and their own record of what they’ve earned.
No reconciling. No owner holding other people’s takings. No “where’s my money” at the end of the week. The software does the split at the moment of payment, automatically, because there was never one pile to split in the first place.
What it means if you own the shop
You get a professional, branded booking page for the whole team without becoming everyone’s paymaster. You’re not responsible for holding or distributing anyone else’s income, which keeps your own books clean and your GST position simple - you only ever see your money. And because every chair is bookable in one place, the shop still feels like one shop to your clients.
On Rexabook’s free plan, every seat is included - the whole team, free, uncapped. Add a fourth chair, a fifth, a tenth: the booking page and the per-seat payouts don’t add a cent to your bill. On Base or Pro, extra seats beyond the owner are a flat $11/month each - the standard cost of adding a person to the account, the same whether they’re employed or self-employed. Either way, take a seat away just as easily when someone moves on.
You run the space. Rexabook makes sure everyone in it is paid correctly, without you touching a cent that isn’t yours.
What it means if you rent the chair
You keep your independence - and you feel it in your bank account. Your bookings pay you, directly, into your own Stripe account, on your own payout schedule. Your clients are your clients. You set your prices, take deposits on your own no-shows, and you never have to ask anyone to pass your money along.
You also get the tools that used to be reserved for bigger businesses: your own booking link to share, automatic confirmation and reminder texts that cut no-shows, and deposit and no-show protection on your appointments specifically. You’re self-employed, so your safety net should be yours too - not the shop’s.
And there’s no commission on any of it
This is the part that matters across a whole team: Rexabook takes 0% commission. We never skim a percentage of a booking - not the owner’s, not any stylist’s. Card payments run at one simple flat processing rate, and that’s it. The small booking fee a client pays at checkout goes toward their confirmation and reminder texts - the ones that protect the appointment - so it earns its keep and nobody on the team is quietly losing a cut of their work.
For a self-employed team, that adds up fast. A percentage-based platform charges every single person on every single booking, forever. A flat, commission-free model means the more you all earn, the more you all keep.
Set it up once, and let it run
Getting started is quick: the owner sets up the shop’s booking page, adds a seat for each team member, and each person connects their own Stripe in a couple of minutes. From then on, clients book the pro they want, pay, and the money lands in the right account - every time, automatically.
One shop. One booking page. Everyone their own boss, and everyone their own bank.
Built for self-employed teams
One booking page, one seat per pro, every payment settled straight to the person who earned it. 0% commission on any of it.
See how it worksNo card required. Set up in under 4 minutes.