The best membership platform for a UK salon depends on which problem you are solving. For a recurring paid membership under your own brand, PerkClub is built for that job: plans from £59 a month plus 1.5% + 20p per transaction, Apple and Google Wallet passes instead of an app, and nothing to integrate, so Fresha, Treatwell, Booksy, Phorest or Square Appointments keep running unchanged. For loyalty, CRM and email from one supplier, Embargo is the stronger pick. For a plain digital stamp card, Magic Stamp at £39 a month per site or Loopy Loyalty at $25 to $95 a month will cost you less. Square Loyalty starts at £25 a month per location if you are already on Square, and RWRD and Paace are discovery channels, not membership tools. We build PerkClub, so treat our verdict as one input and use the checklist below.

What a salon membership platform actually is

Three different categories of software get filed under salon loyalty, and they solve genuinely different problems.

  • A membership platform sells a recurring paid product. A common salon structure is one monthly blow-dry plus a standing discount on treatments and retail, which prices well at around £49 a month where a blow-dry is £35 to £45. The revenue is booked before the client walks in.
  • A loyalty app rewards a visit that has already happened, through stamps or points per pound. The client commits nothing, so your cashflow timing does not change.
  • A discovery app is a marketing channel that puts your salon in front of people who have not found you yet, in exchange for a fee or a discount. The client relationship stays with the app.

The honest shortlist for a UK salon

These are the platforms UK independent hair, beauty, nail and brow salons most often shortlist. Pricing is as published by each provider and worth re-checking before you commit.

  • PerkClub, for a branded recurring membership. A white-label monthly membership billed through Stripe in pounds. Clients join from a QR code and keep the pass in Apple or Google Wallet, staff redeem on a browser kiosk that runs on any phone or tablet, and built-in caps control how much a member can take in a given period. Plans are £59, £99 and £199 a month by member count, plus 1.5% + 20p per transaction, on rolling 30-day terms with no setup fee.
  • Embargo, for one supplier doing everything. A mature UK hospitality and personal-services stack combining loyalty, CRM, email marketing, order-ahead and gift cards, used by 3,500 or more venues, with a $3.5m raise in August 2025 behind it. Its CRM and email marketing are stronger than ours because we do not build those at all. Its centre of gravity is loyalty rather than paid membership, and its tiered pricing can put a single-site salon on a plan built for a group.
  • Magic Stamp, for the simplest programme. A digital stamp card with a physical stamper that presses straight on the phone screen, from £39 a month per site. If your real goal is to stop printing paper cards, it is cheaper than us and a better fit.
  • Loopy Loyalty, for wallet-pass stamp cards. Branded Apple and Google Wallet stamp cards from $25 a month for one location up to $95 a month for up to ten locations. Priced in US dollars, so the cost moves with the exchange rate.
  • Square Loyalty, for salons already on Square. A points add-on inside Square POS, from £25 a month per location for up to 500 loyalty visits, rising to £45 and £65 at higher volumes. Many salons already use Square Appointments, so it is a one-click addition. It works only inside Square, and points expire.
  • Loyverse, if you want a free till with it. A free point-of-sale with bundled points-per-pound loyalty. Paid add-ons start at £5 a month for unlimited sales history and run to £20 a month each for advanced inventory and employee management, per store. The client identifies themselves through Loyverse’s own app, so the branding is not yours.
  • RWRD and Paace, for new clients rather than existing ones. RWRD is a London-leaning consumer discovery app with flat plans at £25 and £40 a month plus £12.50 or £20 for each additional site. Paace is a steps-for-rewards app with 400 or more partner venues, mostly in London, on a partner-fee marketplace model. Both genuinely reach people you would not otherwise reach. Neither leaves you owning the client relationship.

Where PerkClub is the wrong choice for a salon

Salons are more appointment-led than cafes, and that matters. PerkClub has no diary, no scheduling and no waitlists, so it sits beside your booking system rather than replacing it. If what you actually need is better booking software, this is not it. It is not a discovery channel either, so it will not fill a half-empty column on its own. It has no CRM and no email marketing. And a paid membership asks for a real monthly commitment, so it converts a smaller share of a client list than a free stamp card does, and there is no free trial to test that with. Salons whose main problem is acquisition should start with a discovery app and come back to membership later.

What salons charge, and what the platform costs

Across PerkClub salons, memberships tend to land in the £45 to £70 range, with treatment-led plans at the top of that band. A plan at £49 a month with 100 active members is £4,900 of monthly recurring revenue. On the platform side there are no setup fees, no onboarding fees and no charge for designing your QR codes, so your costs are the monthly plan, the per-transaction fee, and any add-ons: additional sites at £39 a month each with the first included, and Gifts at £19 a month per site. Current figures are on our pricing page.

How to decide

Name your single biggest problem, pick the category that answers it, then pick the platform inside that category. Predictable monthly cashflow points to a membership platform. More frequent visits from existing clients point to a stamp card or points app. New faces point to a discovery app. One login for everything points to an all-in-one. Then check whose brand goes on the product, whether the tool is locked to a particular till, and whether the pricing model gets cheaper or more expensive as you grow. Many salons end up running two categories at once, which is sensible, because they are not competing for the same job.

The longer platform-by-platform version, with each provider’s sources, is in our roundup of UK salon membership platforms. For pricing a plan, see how to price a salon subscription. The salon view of PerkClub is on PerkClub for salons, the matrix view is at PerkClub compared, and the direct head-to-heads are vs Embargo, vs Magic Stamp and vs Square Loyalty.