Atlanta, GA · South
Payment processing for med spas & aesthetics clinics in Atlanta
Atlanta med spas & aesthetics clinics use Enterprise Pay Gateway to take booking deposits, sell prepaid packages, bill monthly memberships and email invoices. Card payments run through your own Stripe account, funds settle straight to your bank on America/New_York reporting, and you pay a fixed monthly subscription plus a platform fee from 0.20% to 0.75% — Stripe's processing fee is billed separately by Stripe.
Last updated 9 September 2026
What Atlanta med spas & aesthetics clinics are dealing with
Strong membership and package economics across wellness, grooming and fitness businesses.
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 money moves in Atlanta
- 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.
Benchmarks
- Typical ticket
- $250–$1,200
- Membership fit
- High
- No-show cost
- 60–90 min chair
Injectables, laser courses and body contouring sit far above a normal retail basket, so deposits and packages matter more than card-present speed.
Monthly memberships bundling facials, product credit and member pricing are now standard, which makes recurring billing a core requirement rather than an add-on.
A missed injector appointment cannot be resold at short notice. Card-on-file deposits are the single highest-impact payment change most clinics can make.
What it costs
Pricing is identical everywhere — no city or state surcharge. Plans start at $49.00 per month plus a 0.75% platform fee on card volume, and Stripe's own processing fees are charged separately so nothing is hidden inside a blended rate.
Your account defaults to the America/New_York timezone, so daily takings and payout reports line up with your trading day in Atlanta.
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.