La Peau D’or Beauty Wellness Spa

Some people are born to be entrepreneurs – Ann is one of those people, having a vision of what she wanted to do with her life since she was a child.  Though her vision evolved throughout her adolescence, her interest in beauty and wellness remained.  It wasn’t until her high school guidance counselor helped her discover the emerging profession of esthetics that she realized how she could combine her creative and artistic nature with her interests in beauty, wellness, and her love for taking care of others.

And, like many entrepreneurs, since 2020 Ann has faced some of her biggest challenges to date – among the challenges were ensuring her staff and clients stayed safe while still offering the best possible services, as well as finding creative ways to endure the financial challenges of the pandemic. Though business as usual was not an option over the past few years, she decided to make some exciting changes while things slowed down including rebranding her spa through renovations, working on a new website, and upgrading from her previous payments solution to the handheld Clover Flex.

Although Ann likes the sleek look of her Clover Flex, she loves its portability that allows her staff to take payments from anywhere in the spa, or even curbside. 

“I just think it’s a superior machine overall,” she says. “I think it’s very professional looking and that’s how we want to present ourselves.”

Another favourite feature of Ann’s is the Clover Dashboard, included with all Clover accounts, which provides Ann with the ability to sign into her account on any device connected to the internet to process orders using the Clover Virtual Terminal.  Clients can call ahead to place their order; her staff can send an invoice to the client and then process the payment on Clover’s Virtual Terminal.  The Virtual Terminal streamlines payments for the spa and offers clients a convenient solution to pay ahead of time and quickly pick up their purchase in store or curbside. 

“I feel it is contributing to our continued success,” she says. “Clients will call and say, ‘I’m coming to pick this up, could you process everything and bring it outside?’ We can do that by processing the order through our Virtual Terminal.  It’s just so easy.”

“Our clients have come to trust us and have become like family,” says Ann. “So, for that reason, we always say that we have a spa family as opposed to ‘clients,’ or ‘guests’ coming in.”

Ann is passionate about focussing on her clients and providing them the most up to date services.  Ensuring her services are safe, effective, and long lasting are among her main priorities – and of course making sure that her clients leave the spa feeling amazing inside and out.  Her greatest joy is seeing the happiness on client’s faces when they get the results they were looking for.  Lifting people’s spirits through the services she offers is her reason for doing what she does.

“I love what I do – for me, it’s not just a job,” Ann says. “It’s my passion and my clients see that.  And because I’m in that mind space I’m never bored – I’m always at work having fun.”

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