Cashless tipping and instant payout kiosk for salons and med spas
Tippy is a useful, salon/spa-specific payments-layer tool for cashless tipping and instant payouts — narrow by design, with no public flat pricing and no verifiable third-party rating, but genuinely helpful alongside an existing POS.
Tippy is a cashless tipping and instant-payout solution built specifically for salons, spas and med spas. Rather than replacing your booking or POS system, it sits beside the existing checkout: at the point of payment, clients tip on a Tippy kiosk (typically an iPad and stand) by selecting their service provider and a tip amount, and providers can receive their tips by next business day through the Tippy app. It is a focused payments-layer add-on, not a full booking, scheduling or practice-management platform.
Tippy's economics are built around tipping and payouts: businesses pay a per-location subscription with associated hardware and fees, and the model can shift the card-processing convenience fee on tips to the client rather than the business. There is no public flat price beyond the entry subscription, so costs are quoted per location. Because Tippy handles tips and payouts rather than clinical data, it does not touch protected health information, so **HIPAA compliance is not applicable** to its role — a point worth noting precisely because it sits inside the payments flow of a med spa.
Ideal customer
Salons and med spas that already have a booking/POS system and want a dedicated cashless tipping and instant-payout layer that increases staff tips and can shift processing fees to the client.
Tippy is a deliberately narrow tool, and that focus is the point. It is a cashless tipping and instant-payout kiosk that sits beside an existing booking or POS system rather than replacing it. At checkout, clients tip on a Tippy kiosk — typically an iPad and stand — by choosing their service provider and a tip amount, and providers can receive their tips by next business day. For salons and med spas that have gone largely cashless, it addresses a real and growing pain point: how staff get tipped when clients no longer carry cash.
Within the booking-and-payments category, Tippy is purely a payments-layer add-on. It does not handle scheduling, charting, memberships or marketing, so it is evaluated as a complement to a primary platform, not as a system of record.
Choose Tippy if you already run a booking and POS platform and want a dedicated, low-cost layer to handle cashless tipping and fast staff payouts — especially if shifting processing fees to the client matters to you. Do not expect it to do anything beyond that; pair it with a full booking-and-payments or practice-management system for the rest of your operations.
By Med Spa Vendor Hub Editorial Team. Last reviewed June 29, 2026. Independent editorial review — how we score.
Per-location subscription (commonly cited around $29.99/month) that typically includes a Tippy kiosk (iPad and stand), with associated transaction and convenience fees. The model can shift the tip convenience fee to the client. No public flat all-in price; costs are quoted per location. Confirm current pricing and fee structure with Tippy.
Tippy (per location)
From ~$29.99/mo
per location
Cashless tipping kiosk with hardware, instant/next-day payouts and convenience-fee handling; final pricing quoted per location.
Pricing is researched from public sources and verified periodically; confirm current rates with the vendor.
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