Save on processing fees for every appointment.

Yes, Helcim offers free payment tools and features for beauty and wellness businesses, including free POS software, recurring billing, invoicing, virtual terminal, and online checkout, allowing businesses to accept payments online or charge care plans and memberships easily. At the front desk, the Helcim Point-of-Sale lets beauty and wellness businesses accept payments with tips, split payments across multiple cards, and process partial refunds, while every team member gets their own login and PIN at no per-user cost. Businesses can use Helcim Recurring Payments to bill memberships and treatment packages automatically, complete with retries on failed cards.

In addition, beauty and wellness businesses can use Helcim Payment Links to collect deposits via text, email, or QR code before a customer arrives. For everything after the visit, businesses can use Helcim Invoicing to send unlimited, HIPAA-compliant invoices with automatic reminders and options for partial payments. Businesses can also use the Helcim Virtual Terminal to take card or bank payments from any browser when the front desk needs to settle a balance over the phone or speed up checkout.

Beauty and wellness businesses choose Helcim to save on processing fees with interchange-plus pricing, volume discounts, affordable ACH payments, and Level 2/3 optimization. Beauty and wellness businesses often have to use built-in payment processing systems from booking software that carry expensive flat rates of 2.6% to 3.5% (even on debit card transactions). In contrast, Helcim offers low fees that drop by up to 70% as beauty and wellness businesses grow. Businesses can connect Helcim to their existing business and booking software to process payments at lower rates without leaving those platforms. Additionally, beauty and wellness businesses don’t have to pay any monthly fees, PCI fees, or per-user fees when using Helcim.

Yes, Helcim is suitable for high-volume beauty and wellness businesses. Helcim's margin drops automatically by up to 70% as monthly card volume rises, with no negotiating, plan upgrades, or minimum processing volume commitments required. There are no per-user fees, location fees, or per-device fees, so a beauty and wellness business with many staff members, locations, and devices doesn’t have to pay extra costs.

Yes, Helcim is HIPAA compliant for beauty and wellness businesses when needed. If a beauty or wellness business handles protected health information, Helcim will sign a Business Associate Agreement upon request.

Helcim runs Level 2/3 optimization that helps beauty and wellness businesses lower credit card processing fees to as low as 1.45% when customers pay with corporate and business credit cards to benefit from a corporate wellness account or a company-paid package.

Helcim integrates directly with QuickBooks Online and Xero, so invoices in your accounting software pull into Helcim automatically. For accounting and invoicing tools with closed payment systems, such as Wave and Zoho Books, you can connect Helcim through the Payment Extension and process at Helcim's rates inside the software you already use.

Helcim interchange-plus rates fluctuate with every transaction. On average, beauty and wellness businesses pay from 1.96% + 15¢ to 2.31% + 25¢ per online non-Amex transaction, and from 1.54% + 6¢ to 1.79% + 8¢ per in-person non-Amex transaction, depending on processing volume.

For American Express transactions, on average, beauty and wellness businesses pay from 2.34% + 6¢ to 2.59% + 8¢ per online Amex transaction, and from 2.64% + 15¢ to 2.99% + 25¢ per in-person Amex transaction, depending on processing volume. Explore Helcim pricing here.

For most beauty and wellness businesses, Helcim is one of the cheapest payment processors—especially for high-volume businesses. Instead of charging flat fees like most payment processors or booking systems, Helcim passes through real interchange pricing, which is around 25% lower than other processors and booking systems. Additionally, Helcim charges no monthly fees, PCI fees, setup fees, cancellation fees, or per-staff login fees, and rates fall automatically as processing volume grows.

Beauty and wellness businesses can lower payment processing fees by using Helcim's interchange-plus pricing, which costs less than flat-rate pricing on high-value care packages and treatment plans. Businesses can also encourage customers to pay by debit card or ACH/EFT transfer, which costs at least 4 times less than credit card processing. For example, Helcim ACH payments cost 0.5% + 25¢ (capped at $6), allowing beauty and wellness businesses to keep higher margins on every transaction. Beauty and wellness businesses can leverage Helcim's Level 2/3 optimization to lower fees to as low as 1.45% when clients pay with corporate or business credit cards. Finally, beauty and wellness businesses with high transaction volume can benefit from Helcim's automatic fee discounts of up to 70% with no renegotiation needed.