BEAUTY & AESTHETICS · PHILIPPINE MULTI-BRANCH OPERATORS
One system for every branch and treatment.
Custom POS, tiered commissions, BIR accreditation, and FDA tracking — one codebase across every branch, with no recurring licence.
Zenoti handles appointment booking but leaves commission calculations in Excel and BIR POS accreditation to a separately billed external accountant.
What this costs you today
Zenoti books appointments. It does not accredit your POS.
Zenoti's PH resellers advise running a separate BIR-accredited cashier terminal alongside the booking system — two OR logs, two audit trails, and an external accountant at every renewal. That cost is not in the Zenoti quote.
Commission payroll ends up in Excel regardless of your POS.
Lightspeed Retail and Zenoti handle flat-rate commissions tolerably. Tiered schemes — by service category, revenue target, or seniority — fall outside their commission engines, so the payroll officer reconciles the gap manually.
Senior/PWD discount reimbursement is assembled by hand at month-end.
Most POS systems sold here apply the 20% SC/PWD discount but do not produce the BIR-required monthly reimbursement summary in the correct format. The bookkeeper exports transaction data and builds it in a spreadsheet.
WHO YOU’RE QUOTING TODAY
The incumbents — and what they quote.
- Zenoti₱180K–360K/year (indicative range, PH partner quote, 2024)
- Lightspeed Retail₱120K–240K/year (indicative range, PH reseller, 2024)
- SAP Business One (SME tier)₱2.5M–6M one-time (indicative range)
- Sprout HR / Payroll₱144K–216K/year at 120 staff (indicative range)
A five-branch Metro Manila salon and aesthetic clinic group compared a five-year incumbent stack — Zenoti, Lightspeed POS, Sprout HR, and an annual BIR consultant — at roughly ₱2.8M in recurring fees against a one-time Orkids build, owned outright, covering POS accreditation, commission payroll, BIR filings, FDA LTO tracking, and a daily branch collection report. (Composite illustration based on PH market patterns.)
BY THE NUMBERS
Sources: Orkids internal pricing data, public vendor PH licensing benchmarks. Figures reflect one-time build cost ranges; ongoing support is optional and separately priced.
THE RECEIPT
What Beauty & Wellness operators are quoted today — and what we build for.
- Zenoti₱180K–360K/year (indicative range, PH partner quote, 2024)
- Lightspeed Retail₱120K–240K/year (indicative range, PH reseller, 2024)
- SAP Business One (SME tier)₱2.5M–6M one-time (indicative range)
- Sprout HR / Payroll₱144K–216K/year at 120 staff (indicative range)
- OrkidsOne fixed build fee · ₱50K–250K/mo optional, no lock-in
Typically 30–50% of what the vendors above quote you. You own the code at cutover.
A five-branch Metro Manila salon and aesthetic clinic group compared a five-year incumbent stack — Zenoti, Lightspeed POS, Sprout HR, and an annual BIR consultant — at roughly ₱2.8M in recurring fees against a one-time Orkids build, owned outright, covering POS accreditation, commission payroll, BIR filings, FDA LTO tracking, and a daily branch collection report. (Composite illustration based on PH market patterns.)
Competitor figures are indicative ranges from published list prices and Philippine tender data, shown for comparison only.
BUILD MODULES · 7 OF 16
The modules a Beauty & Wellness operation runs on.
- Point of SaleSee module
- RetailSee module
- PayrollSee module
- BIR ComplianceSee module
- ManufacturingSee module
- Demand ForecastSee module
- ReportingSee module
All 16 modules are available. Talk to a founder about the full scope.
We replace. We build. We optimize.
Every line of code we write is yours at cutover. No license. No annual increase. No lock-in.
HOW WE WORK WITH YOU
Your operations team talks to us directly in their language. No translator. No 2-day email chain.
Your account manager sits in Cebu and joins your standups — English, Cebuano, or Tagalog. Senior architecture, AI-assisted build, human review. Custom-built for your business, not shrink-wrapped.
Questions buyers ask.
Yes. The sales journal, OR-series management, and audit trail a BIR examiner requests are generated by the system, not assembled before the audit.
The POS is built to BIR Certificate of Accreditation requirements from day one and produces all technical documentation the CA submission needs. You submit to BIR; the system supplies the paperwork.
Yes. The cashier selects SC or PWD, enters the ID, and the system applies the 20% discount before VAT and writes the transaction to the monthly BIR summary.
The BIR-required monthly reimbursement summary is generated by the reporting module — no bookkeeper export. Compliant with RA 9994 and RA 10754.
No single off-the-shelf product handles BIR POS accreditation, tiered commission payroll, and FDA CPR tracking together. Most PH salon groups combine three tools and a consultant.
We build one codebase that carries commission attribution at transaction write-time, so the payroll run and the POS closing figures are never computed separately. Manual reconciliation is removed from the process.
Each SKU carries an FDA CPR number and expiry. The dashboard flags products nearing expiry, and expired-CPR items are blocked from sale before you renew.
You manage the actual FDA submissions; the system removes the shared-inbox method of tracking what expires when. The renewal lead time is configurable (e.g. 90 days), and the same applies to clinic device LTO numbers.
The codebase is owned outright after the build. Optional operations support is ₱50K–250K/month with no lock-in. No per-seat or per-branch licence after go-live.
The build is a one-time fee, owned outright, and all branches run on one codebase — no extra licence at the second, third, or fifth branch. That is typically 30–50% of what Zenoti-plus-consultants quotes over five years.
Related pages
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- WHAT WE BUILDRetailCustom Retail for Philippine operations — yours, source code and all, at go-live.
- WHAT WE BUILDEcommerceCustom Ecommerce for Philippine operations — yours, source code and all, at go-live.
Orkids is a Philippine AI engineering firm that builds custom, agent-native operations software for Philippine enterprises — owned outright, with source code on day one — replacing SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, and Odoo in two to three weeks at ten to thirty percent of leading-ERP cost.
Before you sign that quote, talk to a founder.
30-minute fit call. Free prototype if we agree on scope. No procurement loop.