Alternatives
Square alternatives for med spas & aesthetics clinics
Med spas & aesthetics clinics usually move off Square for one of three reasons: they want payments in an account in their own name, they need deposits, packages and memberships without paying per feature, or they need per-location and per-staff visibility. Enterprise Pay Gateway is software on top of Stripe that covers all three — a monthly subscription plus a platform fee of 0.20%–0.75%, with Stripe's processing fees billed separately by Stripe.
Last updated 9 September 2026
Why med spas & aesthetics clinics look past Square
- Your payments sit inside Square's aggregated merchant account rather than an account in your own name.
- Recurring billing, invoicing extras and multi-location sit behind separate paid tiers.
- Reserves and holds are decided by Square, and higher-ticket service work is a common trigger.
Square terminals and card readers can carry on handling your in-person sales while online payments move across.
What med spas & aesthetics clinics actually need from payments
No-shows burn the highest-value slots
Aesthetic appointments are long and provider-bound. Taking a card at booking, held as a deposit against the treatment price, changes cancellation behaviour immediately and is far easier to enforce than an invoice sent afterwards.
Packages are tracked in spreadsheets
Clinics sell six-session laser courses and then track redemption by hand. When the money is collected up front through a single checkout, the accounting is clean and the revenue is recognised where it belongs.
Memberships fail silently
A membership only earns if the card keeps working. Failed-payment retries, expiry updates and a customer-facing billing portal stop quiet churn that nobody notices until the month closes.
Multi-location money is opaque
Two or three sites usually means two or three terminals and no combined view. Consolidated volume, average ticket and fee reporting removes the monthly reconciliation exercise.
How the switch works
- 1
Booking deposit
Share a deposit checkout link when the appointment is confirmed. The card is charged immediately and the amount is credited against the treatment.
- 2
Treatment package
Create a product for the full course at its package price. One checkout collects the whole amount and the client redeems sessions over time.
- 3
Monthly membership
Bill members on a schedule with automatic retries on a declined card, and let them update details through a self-serve billing portal.
- 4
Retail and aftercare
Sell skincare and aftercare products from the same storefront page so post-treatment revenue is captured without a second system.
What would you pay here?
Move the slider to your monthly card volume. Stripe keeps billing you its own processing rates directly — this is only what Enterprise Pay Gateway adds on top.
$15,000
Recommended plan
Starter
- Subscription
- $49 / mo
- Platform fee (0.75%)
- $113 / mo
- Total added by us
- $162 / mo
- Effective rate on volume
- 1.08%
Stripe's processing fees are separate and billed to you by Stripe under your own account.
Common questions
- Can a med spa take a deposit to hold an appointment?
- Yes. Create a deposit product at the amount you want to hold, share its checkout link when confirming the booking, and credit the deposit against the treatment price. Publish the cancellation terms in the booking confirmation and in the checkout description so the charge is defensible if disputed.
- How do treatment packages work with card payments?
- Sell the full course as a single product at its package price. The client pays once through hosted checkout and redeems sessions over time. This collects the revenue up front and removes manual package tracking from the front desk.
- What does payment processing cost a med spa?
- Two separate costs: Stripe's card processing fee, billed by Stripe to your account, and the software platform fee. Enterprise Pay Gateway charges $49 to $199 a month plus a platform fee of 0.75% down to 0.40%, with negotiated 0.20%–0.35% pricing for larger groups.
- Can memberships and one-off treatments run in the same account?
- Yes. Recurring memberships, prepaid packages, deposits and retail products all run through the same connected Stripe account, the same dashboard and the same payout schedule.
Stripe-powered payments
Card processing runs on Stripe under your own Stripe agreement.
PCI handled by Stripe
Checkout pages are hosted by Stripe, so card numbers never reach our servers.
We never hold your money
Stripe pays out straight to your bank on its standard schedule.
Per-merchant data isolation
Every record is scoped to your business and enforced at the database level.
Other options for med spas & aesthetics clinics
Third-party features and pricing are typical published figures and change often — verify with each provider before deciding.