How Clover Services Growth plan helps personal services businesses overcome 4 challenges and why they’ll love it

Introducing Clover Services Growth Software

Clover Services Growth software is an all-in-one subscription plan designed to help your services business grow by streamlining and centralizing daily tasks into one system. It takes the Clover products you know–like our POS system, devices, and software–and adds new features, like appointment scheduling, designed especially for services businesses.

Clover Services Growth can help you launch, operate, and grow your services business with simple, streamlined solutions. The newest features of this plan, like the appointment scheduling software, for instance, can help you manage appointments, streamline schedules, and build an online storefront that attracts and retains more customers.

Crafted especially for personal services like hair and nail salons, spas of all types, medical and therapeutic offices, and other personal appointment-based services, Clover Services Growth can help solve some of the most common challenges that personal services businesses face.

4 common challenges of personal services (and what Clover’s doing about them)

Small businesses face so many challenges managing their businesses, customers, and employees. Here are four challenges unique to personal services.

1. Integrating scalable tools

When the tools you have won’t grow with your business, your operations suffer. Whether it’s over- or underbooking customers, over- or understocking inventory, fumbling employee schedules, or simply not accepting the payment methods your customers expect, these kinds of issues can add up to higher operational costs, lost business, and thinning margins.

Clover Services Growth helps boost efficiency by automating manual tasks and streamlining processes. Clover can make your day-to-day easier by automating bookings, reminders, and payments, boosting efficiency, reducing costs, and elevating the customer experience. From managing employees to the appointment scheduling process, our solution takes care of operational details, so you can focus on serving customers.

2. Reaching and retaining customers

In a crowded, competitive marketplace, it can be difficult for new and established businesses to stand out enough to acquire and keep customers. For example, for the average salon, more than half of first-time visitors never come back for a second appointment. Many services businesses respond by lowering prices, impacting profitability. Considering unsteady economic conditions and changing consumer preferences, small services businesses can struggle to maintain financial stability.

With Clover, you can reach and retain customers more easily. Build a website with integrated SEO and social media, and display and sell items online with in-store pick-up. What’s more, Clover Customer Engagement solutions, like Online Booking, Customer profiles, and Gift Cards, can help you know your customers and create exceptional customer experiences.

3. Managing cash flow

Rising costs, like increased labor, material, and overhead expenses, are squeezing profit margins and slowing cash flow. With the average profit margin of a beauty salon, for example, at about 8.2% (other businesses hovering around 7.7%), few businesses can afford to cut into their margins or deal with irregular or delayed income.

Clover Services Growth offers products like Clover Capital and Gift Cards to help you get ahead of expenses, offset seasonality, and manage cash flow better.

4. Adopting new technologies to automate processes

Sometimes, it seems easier to use the manual processes and tools we know instead of trying to introduce automated processes. The reality is, though, that many of those comfortable processes are inefficient–and can cost your business time and money. In fact, 67% of medical patients prefer online booking, compared to only 22% who choose to book by phone . Similarly, in beauty services, 60% of salons and spas can see an online booking rate of nearly 60%.

Clover Services Growth offers you best-in-breed technology and partner solutions within the Clover platform. It’s an all-in-one operating system that lets you manage APIs and integrated partner apps right from your Clover POS system. Even better, it helps you automate the appointment scheduling process, manage the entire appointment lifecycle, and offer your customers online appointment scheduling.

Clover Services Growth is an investment that can automate crucial operational functions, boost your bottom line, and help your business thrive.

7 reasons you’ll love Clover Services Growth

Clover’s Services Growth SaaS helps you manage your business and put your customers first–effortlessly. Here are 7 reasons you should try it–and why you’ll love it.

Easy – Our intuitive features let your clients book, reschedule, or cancel appointments with ease, reducing your administrative load and enhancing customer satisfaction.
Efficient – With our online appointment scheduling tool, your business never closes. Your clients can book appointments anytime, anywhere—no phone calls required.
All-in-one – Simplify your checkout process with built-in payment solutions, allowing clients to pay in advance or at the time of service–that streamlines your financials and uplevels the customer experience. Even better, Clover simplifies daily business operations with integrated appointment scheduling, employee management, and payment processing.
Scalable – The Clover ecosystem grows with your business. Whether you’re adding new services, staff, or locations, our tools scale effortlessly to support your needs.
Enhanced customer management – Leverage Clover’s third party apps to implement loyalty programs and personalized engagement features, to boost customer satisfaction, drive repeat business, and reach new customers.
Access to capital – With Clover Services Growth software, you also have access to Clover’s financial management solutions, like Clover Capital and instant transfers, to help you maintain healthy cash flow and fund business growth.

Clover Services is available now to personal services businesses!

How can we help?

If you want to learn more about how Clover can help you accept payments, run your business and sell more, please contact your Clover Business Consultant. You can also follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

This information is intended solely for informational purposes and should not be interpreted as legal, financial, or tax advice. Readers are strongly advised to consult with their attorneys, financial advisors, or tax professionals to obtain guidance tailored to their specific circumstances.