Take the guesswork out of tip tracking with our brand new report – built to give you full visibility and report with ease.

Check it out:

'Include Tips' setting in both Payroll Reports and Staff reports (Reports > Staff) includes all tips for payroll tax purposes.

Any US salon recording tips, whether taken by cash or card through purchase checkout flow, or salons using PhorestTips, will can have all figures for payroll processing in one report, based on their setting preferences

This change is for where all tips may be included in payroll for tax purposes.

Users can now view information and purchases tickets for the 2026 Salon Owners Summit from Go.

Click into the side menu and see Salon Owners Summit.

Those who use Phorest on browser, or our new desktop app (Electron), can now leverage additional security measures should they wish to add another layer of control.

Pins can now be required to access the desktop app every time it is opened, or every time a browser window is opened. This new measure of security is now active once the salon has set up an auto log out time, which can be done in Manager>Settings>Point of Sale:

We’ve added a super handy new feature to make life that little bit easier — you can now email clients a list of their upcoming appointments straight from their appointment history!

Here’s how it works:

• Go to a client’s appointment history or

• Click on Future Appointments

• Click Print/Email

When you select “Email,” your client will receive a full list of their upcoming appointments including:

• Date and time (start and end)

• Services booked

• Staff member

• Branch location (perfect for salons with multiple locations)

🌍 Whether a client has appointments at one or several branches, the email will clearly show where each appointment is taking place.

No more printing required! Save paper and skip the printer – just hit email and you’re done. 🌱

🧾 One important note: We’ve left prices off the email. Since prices can change over time, this helps avoid any confusion or awkward chats down the line.

We’ve made it easier to manage different payment types during checkout:

• Switching payment types? If you’ve already selected a payment method and enter an amount, then pick a different one, we’ll ask you to confirm before making any changes. Once confirmed, we’ll clear the previous amount and move the full balance to the new payment type.

• Partial payments? If you’ve already entered part of the amount using one payment type, clicking another will automatically fill in the remaining balance for you — no manual calculation needed.

• Integrated payments too! These improvements apply to integrated payment methods as well, keeping everything seamless and consistent.

Our clients using PhorestTips have raised concerns about direct tips being sent to their accounting software (Xero or QuickBooks, through Codat). This is a valid complain, as these tips go straight to staff members and shouldn't be considered salon revenue.

To ensure accurate accounting reporting of the salon's earning, we’ve implemented a change to exclude PhorestTips from the values being sent to the accounting integration Codat.

Phorest users can now print and / or export to PDF / Excel / CSV their inventory transfers. For multi-branch salons this can be found under Manager > Stock / Inventory Transfer. Select the outgoing or incoming stock transfer and then click the 'Print' button.

Phorest users can now enter a negative cost / sale price to a product in Phorest 10 Stock / Inventory. This was previously possible in our old screens and has been used by some clients, for example, as a way to apply an overall discount to an order (by adding to an order a product with a negative cost that equals the overall discount amount the salon is receiving).

Users of our new Phorest 10 Sales screen can now see a breakdown of the till balance by payment type on the right hand side of the Sales screen. This is an improvement over the current view where the user always had to click the till balance button top right in order to see a slide over showing the breakdown. Users of our old sales did not like this additional step.

Now once 'Show Till Balance' button has been clicked, the till balance breakdown will remain on the side of the Sales screen. The user can also choose to remove it if they prefer the Sales Transactions table to open full screen.