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MCA leads for salons and barbershops

High transaction count, small ticket sizes and a business model that varies enormously between two shops that look identical from the street. Whether the stylists are employees or booth renters changes what the bank statement means, and most files do not say.

Typical revenue
$30K–$90K/month for a single location
Typical advance
$15K–$40K
Price per lead
$60

What a salons and barbershops file looks like

High transaction count, small ticket sizes and a business model that varies enormously between two shops that look identical from the street. Whether the stylists are employees or booth renters changes what the bank statement means, and most files do not say.

Seasonality

A pronounced lift before the holidays and into wedding season, and a genuine trough in January and February. Two soft months in a row here are normal and worth flagging in the file rather than leaving to be discovered.

How this vertical underwrites

  • The booth rental question decides everything. A booth-rent shop banks rent from stylists; an employee shop banks the full service revenue and pays wages out. The same $50,000 a month means two completely different businesses.
  • Cash and tips are a genuine share of takings in this vertical and they do not all reach the account, so deposits understate the business more than in most industries.
  • Product retail sits alongside services and carries a different margin. A shop with strong retail attach has more cushion than the revenue line suggests.
  • Transaction counts are very high against small ticket sizes, which reads as healthy trading and supports a daily remittance well.

The general order underwriters work in is covered in what funders actually look at. The points above are what differs here.

Why salons and barbershops deals get declined

Booth-rent models where banked revenue is a fraction of the shop’s gross

Revenue below the floor once cash is excluded

Short leases in retail locations with no renewal option

Recent build-out debt already secured against the chairs and equipment

Funder appetite

Moderate and consistent. Advance sizes are small enough that this is rarely anyone’s priority vertical, but the deals are clean and the daily remittance fits the cash flow almost perfectly. Med-spa adjacent businesses attract more appetite because tickets are larger.

How we handle verticals

The feed is a round robin off live traffic, not a menu — we cannot promise a pure feed of any single industry. What we can do is tell you honestly whether the volume exists to weight your feed toward salons and barbershops, before you spend anything.

Questions

$30K–$90K/month for a single location, with advances typically landing at $15K–$40K. Every lead clears the same six minimums regardless of vertical — $30K+ monthly revenue, $15K+ requested, six months trading, four months of statements available, U.S.-based and mobile-verified by a 6-digit code.

Not exclusively. The feed is a round robin off live traffic rather than a menu, so a pure single-industry feed is not something we can honestly promise. We can weight your feed toward a vertical where the volume supports it, and we will tell you plainly before you order whether it does.

Booth-rent models where banked revenue is a fraction of the shop’s gross, most commonly. The others worth screening for on the first call are revenue below the floor once cash is excluded, short leases in retail locations with no renewal option, recent build-out debt already secured against the chairs and equipment.

$60 per lead across every vertical, in lead packs starting at 50. Full pricing and the market context is on the buy page.

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