No cash to tip your hair stylist? ‘Tippy’ to the rescue!
Written by Marcia Heroux Pounds of South Florida Sun-Sentinel. This article appeared on the front page of Sun-Sentinel’s Money Section on Jan 14. Like many Americans, you whip out your credit card to pay for your fabulous new look from your favorite salon. But the salon won’t let you add a tip, and you forgot […]
Tippy Closes $1.65 Million In Series B Funding
Digital Tipping System Breaks Through the Salon and Spa Industries. Fort Lauderdale, FL (January 2, 2019) – DirectTIPS LLC, parent company of Tippy, a disruptive, digital tipping application for the salon and spa industries, today announced it has closed $1.65 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to $3.15 million. The funding comes […]
Tipping point: App, created in Berks, designed to help spas and beauty salons
This article is graciously reposted with permission from the Lehigh Valley Business Journal. The original article appears here. by Wendy Solomon Terry McKim was working in marketing at Lords & Ladies Salon in Sinking Spring when he learned how tipping was handled in the beauty industry. If a customer paid the tip by credit card, […]
Why Stylists Need to Report Tip Income (SalonToday Repost)
This article was originally posted on SalonToday, and it is graciously reposted on our site with their permission. by: April McDaniel Recently I was speaking at the Data Driven Salon Conference in Atlanta. I love it when people ask me questions. One of the participants stopped me after my presentation and asked, “Is there any reason that […]
Rep. LaHood Holds Roundtable to Discuss Importance of Extending Tip Tax Credit to Salon Industry
PEORIA, IL — Congressman Darin LaHood (R-IL) hosted a community roundtable with stakeholders across the hair care and beauty service industry yesterday to discuss his bipartisan legislation to update current law to provide equitable treatment and administrative relief to these small businesses. This legislation, introduced with Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (D-WA), would extend the Federal Insurance […]
Reps. LaHood and DelBene Introduce Legislation Aimed to Empower Beauty-Based Business by Extending Tip Tax Credit
Congressman Darin LaHood (R-IL) and Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (D-WA) recently introduced H.R. 6736 to update and modernize existing laws to provide equitable treatment and administrative relief to small businesses engaged in the hair care and beauty service industry. This legislation would extend the Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA) tax tip credit—which is currently available to […]
We Support The Small Business Tax Fairness & Compliance Simplification Act H.R. 6736
New legislation will allow salons to benefit from the existing FICA tip tax credit which provides a dollar for dollar credit on the employer’s share of FICA taxes paid on employee tips, providing salon owners to the opportunity to reinvest those dollars into their salons, education, and more. The PBA, (Professional Beauty Association), is the […]