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Find the right NailWage tool
Choose whether you are looking as the owner, the technician, or both. Interactive calculators take your numbers; sample workflows show how the app keeps the week organized.
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What are you trying to check?
Pick your role and the money question. Interactive calculators answer with your inputs; sample workflows show what NailWage will organize after signup.
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Interactive calculators
Use these when you want to enter numbers and get an answer right away.
What does a W2 tech really cost?
Enter a tech's weekly pay — see the estimated employer-side taxes for W2 next to the 1099 option. Numbers to bring to your CPA.
Switching to W2 paychecks
Switching techs to W2 paychecks: pick your question — how much more it costs the owner, whether the tech takes home less, what new split keeps everyone even — and get a short answer with the math shown.
W-2 or 1099?
Answer 17 IRS common-law questions to see whether a tech leans W-2 or 1099. Educational, not a verdict.
Sample workflows
Use these to see how NailWage keeps weekly pay, statements, and policies organized after signup.
Card-Fee Check
Is your card processor overcharging you? Read a sample merchant statement against a fair-markup benchmark — the check your POS will never run.
Weekly closeout
Turn one weekly work sheet into a clear technician payout table — commission, tips, cash/check split, and what the owner keeps.
Pay policy
Document how your salon handles commission, tips, fees, supplies, refunds, and pay day — then share a private link the technician marks received.
Technician statement
A clear per-period statement — service, tips, commission, what's owed — the technician views and marks received on their phone.
Turns & Tips
Track the walk-in rotation and split a shared tip jar cents-exact by turns, with a fairness score so the rotation stays even.
POS Totals Check
If you have a POS summary, enter 2 totals to quickly check whether POS agrees with NailWage daily work. Optional for weekly closeout.
More tools coming soon.