Salon booking software for CardChamp and CardPointe.
Keep your CardChamp merchant account, your CardPointe terminal and your rates. booqwell runs online booking, reminders, the calendar and client records, and records every card payment against the appointment it paid for.
Keep your processor. Add everything around the appointment.
CardChamp is a US payment processor, registered as an ISO of KeyBank, that sets salons up on the CardPointe gateway and its own CardChamp Gateway, with countertop and mobile terminals and surcharging. booqwell works alongside your CardChamp account.
Your CardChamp setup stays exactly as it is.
- Your merchant accountYour CardChamp account stays yours. Money from card sales goes straight to it; booqwell never holds it.
- Your terminalThe CardChamp device at your front desk keeps taking cards. Desk terminals, mobile terminals or a CardPointe integrated terminal: whichever CardChamp set up for you.
- Your ratesYou pay CardChamp’s rates on your existing agreement. booqwell adds no fee per payment.
- Your payoutsDeposits arrive on CardChamp’s schedule, exactly as they do today.
Booking and the front desk, at no fee per payment.
- Online booking at your own addressClients book at yoursalon.booqwell.com, with no marketplace around it.
- Email and text remindersA confirmation when they book and a reminder the day before.
- A live calendar on every screenA booking made anywhere appears at the desk and on every phone.
- Schedules, tips and commissionPer specialist, with a payroll export for Gusto or your bookkeeper.
- The sale on the appointmentEvery CardChamp payment recorded with the service, the tip and the specialist.
A day at the desk with your CardPointe terminal
Booking and the calendar live in booqwell. The card is taken on your CardPointe terminal. Both sides see the same sale.
- Client checks inThe appointment is already on the calendar with the service, the specialist and the client’s notes.
- Card on your terminalAdd retail and the tip on the ticket, then take the card on your CardPointe terminal as you do today.
- 3Recorded in booqwellMark it paid by card. The sale, the tip and the specialist are saved for reports and payroll.
Card on file, no-show fees and refunds
For salons on CardChamp (CardPointe), booqwell can save a client’s card when they book online, charge your no-show or late-cancel fee from the appointment, and refund all or part of a fee from the console. The card is stored as a token on the CardPointe gateway, not with booqwell; booqwell keeps only the card brand and last four digits.
Our team sets this up with you on the setup call, using the gateway details from your CardChamp account, and runs a test charge and refund with you before real clients book.
Reminders by email and text the day before cut many no-shows on their own. When someone does not come, mark the visit as a no-show, and the fee is one tap from the appointment. Your surcharging settings stay with CardChamp.
How reminders workReports and payroll that match your CardPointe batch
Every checkout in booqwell records what was sold, who did it, the tip and how it was paid: card, cash or gift card. At the end of the day, open Sales and you see the day’s card total next to the batch total in CardPointe. If the numbers differ, you can see which ticket is missing or voided instead of hunting through receipts.
Tips are recorded per specialist on services only, never on retail, so commission and tip pay come out right. Team & payroll adds up each person’s services, retail, commission and tips for the pay period, and exports it as a CSV that Gusto’s Smart Import reads, or that your bookkeeper can open in a spreadsheet.
For accounting, Settings › Accounting gives you private data links (CSV or JSON) that a bookkeeping tool can fetch for each pay period. You can revoke a link at any time.
Terminals CardChamp offers
CardChamp lists these on its terminals page. booqwell works next to any of them, because the card is taken on the terminal and recorded in booqwell:
Sources: CardChamp credit card terminals; CardChamp developer API; CardPointe Gateway (CardConnect). Read on October 10, 2026.
How to set it up
- 1Ask for pricingGet in touch and tell us you use CardChamp. Your booking page, services and team are set up with you on a call.
- 2We connect it with youAsk CardChamp for your CardPointe gateway details. On the setup call we link your account to each booqwell location and set card on file and fees the way you want.
- 3Test, then goWe run a small test charge and refund it together. From then on, take cards on your terminal and record them in booqwell.
Your merchant agreement, rates and surcharging stay with CardChamp. booqwell does not resell processing.
What it costs
Nothing from booqwell.
Card processing stays between you and CardChamp. booqwell adds no fee per transaction, no markup on card payments and no fee to connect. booqwell itself is priced per location, quoted for your salon on enquiry, and the price is the same whichever processor you use.
- booqwell fee per payment
- $0
- booqwell fee to set up
- $0
- Card processing
- Your CardChamp rate, unchanged
- booqwell
- Priced per location, on enquiry
booqwell with CardChamp for
Nail salons, spas and lash studios that take cards on a CardPointe terminal from CardChamp use booqwell for booking, reminders and the calendar.
CardChamp questions
- Does booqwell work with CardChamp?
- Yes. You keep your CardChamp merchant account and terminal. booqwell runs booking, reminders, the calendar and client records, and each card payment is recorded against its appointment.
- What is CardPointe?
- CardPointe is the payment gateway from CardConnect, part of Fiserv. CardChamp sets up merchant accounts on it, along with its own CardChamp Gateway.
- Can clients save a card when they book?
- Yes, for salons on CardChamp (CardPointe). The card is stored as a token on the gateway, and our team sets it up with you. booqwell keeps only the brand and last four digits.
- Can I charge no-show and late-cancel fees?
- Yes. With a card on file, the fee is charged from the appointment in the booqwell console, and you can refund all or part of it there.
- Will my surcharging program still work?
- Surcharging is set up on your CardChamp account and terminal, not in booqwell, so it carries on as before. The surcharge shows in your CardPointe batch, not on the booqwell ticket.
- Do I need a new terminal?
- No. Keep the terminal CardChamp set up for you. The card is taken on it and recorded in booqwell.
- Where does the money go?
- Straight to your CardChamp merchant account. booqwell never holds it and adds no fee per payment.
- Is booqwell a good POS system for a nail salon on CardChamp?
- booqwell is built for nail salons first: add-ons that add their own time, walk-ins, group bookings, tips per technician and commission. Your terminal stays the payment side.
- What if I change processor later?
- Your clients, appointments and history stay in booqwell. Switch processor and carry on.
Other processors booqwell works with
All integrationsCheckout and point of saleOnline bookingFor nail salons
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