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The Salon Management System that Gives You Peace of Mind

The TouchSuite POS Salon Management System is the ultimate salon management system to help you keep up with your fast-paced
salon and give salon and spa owners like you peace of mind. Set reports, emails, and data backups to run automatically. Customize
schedules, services, pricing, promotions, receipts, and much more. Discover all the features and benefits of our salon
management system.

The TouchSuite Salon Management System includes everything you need – salon software and hardware pre-loaded and ready to use.  The TouchSuite system is an all-in-one salon software and hardware management system, with everything you need to manage your clients, staff, services, products, vendors, and conduct full data backup and import/export your information. 

The TouchSuite Salon Management System comes complete with all the equipment you need to get started:
TouchScreen Terminal, Cash Drawer, Receipt Printer, Laser Report Printer, Barcode Scanner, Battery Backup, Keyboard, Data Backup Drive, and TouchSuite Salon Software already installed.  There is no need to fuss with Windows or install separate salon software on a PC!

Some of TouchSuite's great features include:

3-Touch Booking

  • Easy color-coded appointments
  • Print & Text Dailys
  • Stylist-specific Booking
  • Double-Booking
  • Processing Time
  • Standing Appointments
  • Easy Rescheduling
  • Waitlist Management
  • Flexpediatm Multi-Service Management
  • Week-At-A-Glance

Digital Cash Register

  • Credit and Debit Processing
  • Simple Ticket Manager
  • Custom Quickbuttons tm
  • Color Touch Menu
  • Pricing On-The-Fly
  • Walk-in Cashout
  • Discounts, Refunds & Returns
  • Open Ticket Management
  • Custom Receipt Messages

Advanced Reports

  • Sales Breakdowns
  • Daily Sheets
  • Commissions
  • Inventory
  • Timeclock Reporting
  • Sales Projections
  • Batch Reports
  • Cancellations & No-Shows
  • Email & Export Reports

Marketing & Multimedia

  • Mailing Labels
  • Automatic & Picture Email
  • Custom Distribution Lists
  • Birthday, Reminder and Thank You Templates
  • Retention Marketing
  • Virtual Tradeshow

Add-On Services

  • Multiple Merchant Accounts
  • Gift Cards
  • Texting
  • Client Basket
  • MobileBook tm
  • Online Data Backup

Optional Equipment

  • Pinpad Debit
  • Customer-Facing Display tm

Easy Navigation

Page Tabs Page tabs (and sub-tabs) have moved from top of screen to bottom, to make navigation easier.

Description: Easy Navigation

Example
To view a client’s details:

  1. Touch ‘Clients’ on the home screen.
  2. Touch a client name.
  3. Use the tabs and sub-tabs at page bottom to navigate the client card.
    (The ‘client details’ button on the NavBar has been removed; it is no longer necessary).

Finger Swipe
Navigate appointments (on book day view), and menu items (on visual ticket builder) … with a simple finger-swipe gesture. You no longer need to use the scroll bar in these areas (although you still can).

Description: Finger Swipe

New Booking Colors

You have more booking colors. The border color tells you about the client request (walk-in, pre-book, repeat, alternate, etc).
The center color tells you the client’s appointment status (left message, no answer, checked in, checked out, etc).


Description: New Booking Colors
Description: Booking Screen

Visual Ticket Builder

The Visual Ticket Builder is an easy new way to create and edit client tickets ─ using quick buttons instead of drop-downs.
It works like a quick-service café menu. Best of all, you get to customize the button colors, categories, etc. Simply select a
category on the right-hand side. Touch a menu item at page center. Use finger-swipe navigation (or select subcategory) to
search through menu. (See instructions on setting up your product categories).

Description: Visual Ticket Builder

Enable Visual Tickets
To start using Ticket Builder:

  1. Touch Back Office on the home screen.
  2. Touch the ‘Preferences’ tab.
  3. Check the box for ‘Enable VisualTicket Builder’. The Ticket Builder now appears at checkout (first tab in
    the cash register section).

NOTE: You will need to customize your product categories for Visual Ticket Builder to work properly (see next section).

Customize Product Categories
To customize your product categories for Visual Ticket Builder:

  1. Touch Products on the home screen.
  2. Touch the ‘Category’ tab.
  3. Create new Product Categories in the left-hand column (e.g. Shampoo) ; simply type your desired category
    title in an available text field. Select a custom background color for this category using the center drop-down list.
  4. Create Subcategories in the right-hand column (e.g. Redken); simply type your desired subcategory title in an
    available text field.
  5. Touch ‘Save’ when finished.

NOTE: You must assign a category and subcategory to each product in your database in order for them to appear in the
appropriate lists in Visual Ticket Builder.
Description: Visual Ticket Builder

Update Existing Products with Categories
To update your existing products so they appear in the proper categories in Visual Ticket Builder:

  1. Touch Products on the home screen.
  2. Touch the desired product name
  3. Touch the ‘Product Details’ tab.
  4. Select the desired ‘Category’ and ‘Subcategory’ from the drop-downs.
  5. Touch ‘Save’ when finished.

Create Custom Modifier(s)
Modifiers are popular in restaurants (e.g. extra sauce, no onions). Use them for salon and spa products in the Visual
Ticket Builder however you like. Modifiers will appear at the center of the Ticket Builder at checkout.

To create custom modifier(s).

  1. First create a modifier as a regular ‘new product’ per the instructions within this chapter.
  2. Touch the ‘Product Details’ tab at page bottom.
  3. Touch the ‘Modifier(s)’ sub-tab at page bottom.
  4. Check [√] the “Is A Modifer” box at page top left.
  5. Assign this modifier to:
      a. All Products: Check [√] the ‘Assign To All Items’ box at top.
      b. Select Category(s): Touch the ‘Assign By Category’ button at page top center, highlight desired categories, touch ‘Assign’.
      c. Select Product(s): Touch the ‘Search’ button at page bottom center. Search for product, highlight, and touch ‘Use’. Repeat       as desired. Touch ‘Finish’ when done.
  6. Touch ‘Save’ at page bottom right.

Use Visual Ticket Builder
To checkout a client using Visual Ticket Builder:

  1. Start checkout as usual.
  2. be sure the ‘TicketBuilder’(first tab) in the Cash Register is selected.
  3. Choose a category from the right-hand side of the page; menu items within this category appear at page center.
  4. Navigate subcategories either by tapping a subcategory at bottom center of page, or simply swipe yourfinger at page center to move the main menu buttons and reveal even more menu items.
  5. Go to the next tab ‘Ticket Manager’ to make any adjustments to price, staff, or promotions, and take payment as usual.

 

Merge Client Cards

Duplicate clients in your database? Simply merge the data into one client card.

To merge client data:

  1. Touch Clients on the home screen.
  2. Touch a client name (a checkbox appears at the right hand side of this row)..
  3. Touch the duplicate name (a checkbox appears at the right hand side of that row as well).
  4. Touch ‘Merge’ at page bottom right.
  5. A new screen will appear with the client name/info in Column 1 and the duplicate client/name info in Column 2. (Data discrepancies are highlighted in red).
  6. Touch ‘Use This / Client 1’ (page top left) to carry over info from Column 1
    Touch ‘Use This / Client 2’ (page top center) to carry over info from Column 2.
  7. Edit ‘Merge Results’ column as desired. (History info from both files will be merged automatically).
  8. Touch ‘Save’ when finished.

Description: Merge

 

Touch Suite - New Features


Click below to view some of TouchSuite’s New Features, including Open Ticket Management, MobileBook™ (add-on service), Picture
Email Blasts, Client Basket™ (kiosk module), Checkout and Report enhancements, and Online Data Backup (add-on service):

Open Ticket Management

Description: Open ticket management

You can now save and print tickets that you plan to ring up later.

To save a ticket:

  1. Use Ticket Manager as usual to edit a client ticket.
  2. Touch ‘Save Ticket’ on the NavBar. (Ticket is saved in the database, and you can print a copy for your reference).

To find an open ticket:

  1. Touch “$” on the NavBar.
  2. Touch ‘Find Open Ticket’ on the NavBar.
  3. Enter the open ticket Ref Code (printed on your ticket copy) in the ‘Ref Code’ field or simply select the ticket you
    want from the open ticket list, and touch ‘Use’.
  4. Edit ticket as desired.
  5. Check out as usual, or touch ‘Save Ticket’ to re-save and finish later.

MobileBook™ (add on service)*

Description: MobileBook
Check your booked appointments remotely from any device with internet access (e.g. cell phone, laptop). To
sign up for TouchSuite® MobileBook™, ask us for the easy Add-on Services form. We’ll send it to your email.

*subscription required

To use MobileBook™:

  1. Visit www.touchsuite.com/mobile using any device with internet access.
  2. Enter your Company ID and Passcode.
  3. Select a date from the calendar
  4. View booked appointments.

NOTE: Your MobileBook passcode gives you access to all scheduled appointments for your own station. If you
have multiple stations or wish to see other schedules, you must log in to those separately.

Picture Email Blasts

Description: Photo email
Spice up your email marketing with html picture emails. Upload your logo and/or photo(s), and format your text

To create a picture email:

  1. Touch ‘Marketing’ on the Home screen.
  2. Touch ‘Create Email Campaign’ on the NavBar.
  3. Touch the Description: iconicon on the toolbar at center of page.
  4. Insert USB Flash Drive (containing your picture file(s)) when prompted.
  5. Highlight the name(s) of your desired picture file(s) in the left hand list box, and touch ‘Use’ at screen lower right.
  6. Scale your picture by touching it and adjusting the margins.
  7. Add desired text using the keyboard.
  8. Use the toolbar to edit font size, color, etc. (Note: You cannot place text on top of the picture. To do that, you'll need to
    create a design using separate design software and save as a picture file, then upload to TouchSuite as a picture).
  9. Send email as usual.

Client Basket™

Description: Client Basket
Client Basket is a new ‘kiosk’ feature that allows customers to add items for checkout to their own tickets (satellite
terminal required).

To enable Client Basket:

  1. Touch ‘Back Office’ on the home screen.
  2. Touch ‘Preferences’ on the NavBar.
  3. Check ‘Enable Client Basket’.
  4. Touch ‘Save’ on the NavBar.

NOTE: You will have a new default sign-in screen on your satellite terminal with two buttons: ‘Client’ and ‘Staff’.
Client takes you to a screen where you can choose items for purchase. Staff takes you to the regular home screen
(passcode required).

To use Client Basket:

  1. Touch ‘Client’ on the satellite terminal sign-in screen.
    • For booked clients, highlight your name in the ‘Today’s Clients’ list box, and touch ‘Select’.
    • For non-booked clients, touch the ‘Search’ button at page top right. Either type your name in the ‘Enter Name’ field or use the scroll bar to find and highlight your name on the client list, and touch ‘Select’. (Client must already be in the database).
  2. Confirm your identity by typing the last 4 digits of your phone number on file.
  3. Highlight desired item(s) for purchase at screen left and touch ‘Add’ at screen bottom. (To remove an item from checkout, highlight item at screen right and touch ‘Remove’ at screen bottom).
  4. Touch ‘Finish’ when you are done adding item(s). (System will automatically add selections to client ticket at checkout).

Description: Client basket

Checkout Enhancements
The Visual Ticket Builder™ page now includes easy ‘QuickPay’ buttons that auto-fill data for checkout.

To use QuickPay:

  1. Add/Edit items in VisualTicketBuilder as usual.
  2. Touch ‘QuickPay Cash’ or ‘QuickPay Credit’ at page bottom.
    • For QuickPay Cash, a pop up appears asking the amount of cash collected. Enter amount and press ok.
    • For QuickPay Credit, you will be taken to the regular payment screen with the payment amount and swipe
      pop-up ready to go.

Report Enhancements
You can now send yourself or anyone updated reports twice a day, at the dates and times you choose. You’ll also find a new
‘Open Tickets’ report, as well as existing report enhancements.

To email any report on a recurring ‘set it and forget it’ schedule:

  1. Touch Reports on the home screen.
  2. Find your desired report (use page tabs as necessary)
  3. Select a desired date range at top center of page. (choose today’s date if you always want the report to be for the current day).
  4. Touch ‘Send’ next to desired report name (a pop-up appears).
  5. Fill out the form, including the day(s) of the week you want this sent, as well as a ‘send time’ … and if desired
    select a second ‘send time’.
  6. Touch Send Later.
  7. Report will be automatically emailed. (Note: Your TouchSuite must be on and internet working properly at the time(s)
    your email is scheduled to go out).

Online Data Backup
(add-on service)*

Get peace of mind with TouchSuite’s new online data backup service. Your important client, staff, product, and sales data are
automatically backed daily in a remote, secure location (Note: Requires that your internet is working properly and system is
left on overnight). Should you need to restore your system with the latest saved data, our team will handle it for you.

To sign up for TouchSuite® OnlineBackup, ask us for the easy Add-on Services form. We’ll send it to your email.
*subscription required

Other great value-added enhancements to the software include:

  • Automatic Product Promotion At Checkout
  • Notes Viewer and Editor
  • Reactivate Inactive Clients, Staff, Products
  • Clear Print Queue

Automatic Product Promotion At Checkout
The following promotions have been added into the Product Details. Whichever one you select, will be automatically applied at
checkout:

  • Buy One, Get One Free (2 for 1)
  • Buy One, Get Second Half Off
  • Buy N, Get One Free (N can be any number you choose - N+1 for N)
  • Buy N, Get Next One Half Off (N can be any number you choose

To setup an automatic promotion:

  1. Touch ‘Products’ on the home screen.
  2. Touch the desired product row (use scroll bar if necessary).
  3. Touch the ‘Details’ tab at page bottom.
  4. Touch the ‘Cost/Price’ sub-tab.
  5. Tap on the promotion you want to apply. Set the number for N if you choose one of the last two promotions.
  6. Touch ‘Save’ when finished.

Description: Open ticket management

In the cash register, as you scan the products into the SKU field, the additional product will display the promotion price. In this
example we chose ‘Buy One Get Second Half Off’.


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Notes Viewer and Editor
The new notes viewer/editor gives you more control over your client notes and booking notes. There is a large edit pad
area which allows for easier insertion of notes. There is also automatic time stamping so you can see when the notes
were added or modified.

The Notes fields in Clients and the Appointment Builder/Manager are no longer editable. You must press the View/Edit
Notes button in order to access the notes information.

For Client’s Notes:

  1. Touch ‘Clients’ on the home screen.
  2. Touch the desired client row (use scroll bar if necessary).
  3. Touch the ‘Details’ tab at page bottom.
    • To edit existing notes, tap into the note section on the right, make additions or changes and press ‘Save’.
    • To add a new note, tap into the New Note edit pad, add your notes then press ‘Save’ below. The note will
      then display on the right with a timestamp.
  4. Touch ‘Cancel’ at bottom when finished.

Touch ‘Save’ on the Appointment Manager Window (or ‘Close Don’t Save’ if no changes to the appointment were made).
You can now view these notes in descending timestamp order in the Client’s Notes field. Or simply use the View/Edit
Notes button and view them there, press ‘Cancel’ when finished.

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For Booking Notes in the Appointment Builder:

  1. Touch ‘Today’ button on the NavBar.
  2. Tap a timeslot to add an appointment.
  3. When the Appointment Builder comes up, add your appointment information.
  4. Touch the ‘View Edit Booking Notes’ button.
  5. The notes viewer will display.
    • To edit existing notes, tap into the note section on the right, make additions or changes and press ‘Save’.
    • To add a new note, tap into the New Note edit pad, add your notes then press ‘Save’ below. The note will
      then display on the right with a timestamp.
  6. Touch ‘Cancel’ below when finished.
    • You can now view these notes in descending timestamp order in the Booking Notes field. Or simply
      use the View/Edit Notes button and view them there, press ‘Cancel’ when finished.
  7. Touch ‘Save’ on the Appointment Builder window to save the appointment.

NOTE: The Client Notes from the client card are displayed on the right side of the Notes Viewer as well.

For Booking Notes in the Appointment Manager:

  1. Touch ‘Today’ button on the NavBar.
  2. Tap an existing appointment.
  3. When the Appointment Manager comes up, touch the ‘View Edit Booking Notes’ button.
  4. The notes viewer will display.
    • To edit existing notes, tap into the note section on the right, make additions or changes and press ‘Save’.
    • To add a new note, tap into the New Note edit pad, add your notes then press ‘Save’ below. The note will
      then display on the right with a timestamp.
  5. Touch ‘Cancel’ below when finished.
  6. Touch ‘Save’ on the Appointment Manager Window (or ‘Close Don’t Save’ if no changes to the appointment weremade).


NOTE: The Client Notes from the client card are displayed on the right side of the Notes Viewer as well.

Reactivate Inactive Clients, Staff, Products

  1. Touch ‘Back Office’.
  2. Touch ‘Summary’ tab at page bottom.
  3. Choose the desired function button. Inactive Clients, Inactive Employees, or Inactive Products.
  4. The Reactivate popup displays.
    1. Select the items you want to reactive by tapping the checkboxes.
  5. Touch ‘Activate’ at bottom when finished.
  6. Touch ‘Close’ when finished. You can now access the items in their appropriate areas of TouchSuite.

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NOTE: Products are not allowed to be reactivated if an active product exists with the same SKU. Clients and employees can
be reactivated even though it may cause duplicates. You will have to use the Merge function for clients to combine if desired.

Clear Print Queue:
In day to day use of the system, some clients encounter their printer not working. In most of these cases, the print queue is
jammed up, a common printer problem. You had to call customer support in order to clear the queue. Now, you can clear
the queue right from the back office.

  1. Touch ‘Back Office’ on the home screen.
  2. Touch the ‘System’ tab at page bottom.
  3. Touch the ‘Clear Print Queue’ button.
  4. Retry printing your reports/cards.

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Packages & Bundles


Package: A group of services sold at once, used over time (e.g. 5 Tanning Sessions).
Bundle: A group of products and/or services sold at discount, used right away (e.g. Women’s Haircut, Redken Styling Product Set).

Package Manager*
You can now create and sell service packages, and track them via Gift Cards.
*Requires TouchSuite Gift Card account.

Create Package
To create a package:
  1. Touch ‘Services’ or 'Products' on the home screen.
  2. Touch ‘Packages & Bundles’ on the NavBar.
  3. Touch the ‘Package’ radio button at top left of form.
  4. Assign a SKU number (Touch ‘Generate SKU’ to have TouchSuite automatically assign a barcode
    number for this package. You can print this barcode later).
  5. Enter a Name for this package.
  6. Continue filling out the form (Make sure you have the correct ‘Retail Price’ and ‘Taxable Price’ for this Package).
  7. Assign Services to Package as desired at top right window
    • To add a service select ‘Add a Service’, highlight a service, and touch ‘Add’.
    • Edit the new line item in the Reference Window as desired. You can adjust Commission amount
      (the selling price the system will use to calculate commission) and Quanitity
      (number of these services included in the package).
    • Repeat to add other services. Press ‘Finish’.
  8. Touch ‘Save’ on the NavBar when finished.

Sell Package
To sell a package:

In Cash Register, simply add the Package as a line item.
  • Use the ‘Search’ button on the NavBar.
  • Touch 'Show Packages' at top left, and select the desired Package name on the list.
  • Touch 'Add Pre-Pay' option (packages must be pre-paid in full).
  • Touch 'Use'.
  • Take payment as usual.
  • Touch ‘Finish Transaction’ (The system will now ask you to scan a new Gift Card; package info goes on the gift card).
  • Simply schedule the services in the book as desired.

Consume Package
As customer uses package, they simply hand their Gift Card to the receptionist at each Checkout. TouchSuite keeps track of services used, services remaining.

Check Balance
Simply check the Gift Card balance as usual. (The pop-up now displays all package services and/or dollar amounts left on the card).

Bundle Manager
You can now create and sell bundled products and/or services at a discount. Bundles are typically used for same-day checkout.

Create Bundle
To create a discount bundle:
  1. Touch ‘Products’ or ‘Services’ on the home screen.
  2. Touch ‘Packages & Bundles’ on the NavBar.
  3. Touch the ‘Bundle’ radio button at top left of form.
  4. Assign a SKU number (Touch ‘Generate SKU’ to have TouchSuite automatically assign a barcode number for this package.
    You can print this barcode later).
  5. Enter a Name for this package.
  6. Continue filling out the form (Make sure you have the correct ‘Retail Price’ and ‘Taxable Price’ for this Package).
  7. Assign Products and/or Services to Bundle as desired at top right window.
    • To add a service select ‘Add a Service’, highlight a service and touch ‘Add’.
    • To add a product select ‘Product Search’, type your desired product name, highlight the
      desired product in the window, and touch ‘Add’. Repeat to add others. Press ‘Finish’.
    • Touch ‘Save’ on the NavBar when finished.
Schedule Bundle
Simply schedule any bundled service(s) in the Book as usual.

Checkout Bundle
To take payment
  1. In Cash Register, simply add the Bundle as a line item. (Use the ‘Search’ button, a custom QuickButton or Scan the bundle barcode to do this).
  2. Take payment as usual.