Layaways
Layaway and deposits for beauty shops
A customer falls for a set they can’t pay for today. Put it aside with a deposit, take the rest in instalments at any counter, and hand each item over once it’s paid for. The last payment turns it into an ordinary sale.
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How a layaway runs
Put it aside today, pay it off at any counter
A layaway is one sale paid for in parts. It belongs to a named customer, starts with a deposit, and nothing leaves the stock until it’s handed over.
From deposit to last payment
Build the basket as usual, add the customer and tick Layaway sale.
Take the deposit — anything above zero, up to the ticket total — and print the layaway receipt.
Take each instalment from the Layaway list. Any seller can, at any shop in the region, whoever opened it.
Hand items over as they’re paid for: an item can leave once the payments cover its minimum price.
The last payment turns the layaway into an ordinary sale, and anything still in the shop is handed over.
- Paid so far and the balance due update with every payment.
- Suggest half fills in half of what is still owed, for a customer who pays as they go.
- The goods stay in stock, set aside, until they leave the shop.
Money, stock and commission
Every instalment, counted on its own day
A layaway never pretends the money arrived all at once. Each part lands in the books, the stock and the sellers’ pay on the day it really happens.
In the day’s close
Each payment counts in that day’s close under the method used, and only what was paid, never the full ticket, so what the till expects is what really came in.
Stock that tells the truth
Nothing leaves at the start. Each item handed over comes off stock as it goes, and completing the layaway takes off the rest.
Commission follows the money
The sellers on the ticket earn on each payment, on the day it is taken, not all at once when the layaway is opened.
When a customer stops
An owner or manager cancels it: every payment is reversed on the books and anything handed over goes back into stock. You return what they paid by hand.
Nothing forgotten
Who still owes, oldest first
Worth a call lists every open layaway with money owing, oldest first, with the customer’s phone and email beside it — a short list of calls worth making this week.
One tap to call
Tap a phone number or an email on the row to call or write. Customers with no contact details are marked, so you can complete their file.
Take the payment from the list
Collect payment sits on the row itself. It is an ordinary instalment: it reaches the day’s takings and the seller’s commission on the day it is paid.
Off the list by itself
A customer leaves the list once the layaway is paid off. Nothing to tick, nothing to tidy up.
The quiet ones stand out
A layaway where only the deposit was ever taken says so plainly: no payment since it opened.
Step by step, in the help centre
Questions
Asked before signing up
A colleague started the layaway. Can I take the payment?
Can a customer pay a layaway with a gift card?
What happens if the customer wants to stop?
Does a layaway need a named customer?
Why is the expected cash at the close lower than the day’s sales?
Put your first basket aside
Start a free workspace, add a customer and tick Layaway sale on your next ticket. Nothing is charged during early access.
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