Search "salon software" and almost every result leads with online booking calendars. That's a real feature, but for a lot of salons in Erbil — walk-in heavy, appointments managed over WhatsApp — it's not the thing that's actually costing money every month. Commission tracking is.
The problem with manual commission tracking
Most salons split revenue with stylists some mix of a percentage plus a base salary. When that's tracked on paper or in a notebook, two things go wrong constantly: the math is slow to do at month-end, and small errors (a service logged under the wrong stylist, a tip not recorded) compound into real money over a year.
What good commission tracking actually looks like
- Every checkout is attributed to the stylist who did the work, automatically — not written down separately.
- Each stylist's cut (percentage + any fixed salary) is calculated the moment the sale happens, not reconstructed at month-end.
- You can see, per employee, revenue generated vs. their total pay — the number that tells you who's actually profitable to keep on staff.
The second-most-useful feature: a real customer directory
A searchable-by-phone customer list that auto-saves at checkout sounds minor until you've tried to find "the woman who came in last month, I think her name was..." in a paper book. It's the foundation for any kind of repeat-customer marketing later.
TU2 Salon is built exactly around this: owner-only POS, per-employee commission + salary tracking calculated automatically at checkout, a searchable customer directory, and a profit dashboard broken down daily, weekly, or monthly. IQD 35,000/month, no card fees, no booking calendar bloat you won't use.