Software profile Salon and booking
Shortcuts
Shortcuts is a 1994 Australian salon system, now owned by Jonas Software, whose modern platform is called Fusion. It has the most practical deposit capture in this comparison, including deposits taken over the phone and at the counter, but its payment product does not exist in the eurozone and it no longer publishes a price at all.
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- Price on request
- Free plan
- No
- Trial
- No
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Best for
Salons in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States or Canada with heavy walk-in and phone booking volume
Strengths / Weaknesses
Strengths
- Deposits can be captured on three channels, online at checkout, by phone through a secure payment link, and in person for walk-ins, which very few rivals do
- Deposit requests can be targeted at all clients, new clients only, or repeat no-shows
- A deposit can be applied as credit, retained as a cancellation fee, or refunded, so the money has a defined path
- ShortcutsPay publishes its card rates, 2.9 percent plus 30 cents online and 2.7 percent plus 5 cents in person, with no setup fee and included in the subscription
- Settlement is next business day on deposits, in-person and online payments
- Thirty years of salon-specific depth, including a walk-in manager, till, stock, gift cards and loyalty
- Jonas Software ownership means low risk of the vendor disappearing
Weaknesses
- ShortcutsPay is available in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada only, there is no eurozone processing, no terminal and therefore no deposit capture for a European salon
- The pricing page was deleted in the website rebuild, there is now no pricing URL on the site at all, which is a transparency step backwards
- The published rate card is itself incomplete, MOTO and instant payout fees are explicitly withheld until you request a quote
- English only, with no language selector, so a French or German speaking clientele is not served
- No euro pricing and no European go-to-market in Germany, France, Belgium or Luxembourg
- The deposit feature is wired to ShortcutsPay, so outside the four supported countries the headline no-show tooling is unavailable
- Its no-show claim of up to 70 percent carries no method or sample
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Unit | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fusion | Price on request | price on request | the core platform, no price is published and the site has no pricing page at all |
| ShortcutsPay | Price on request | included in a Fusion subscription | no setup fee; online 2.9 percent plus 30 cents, in person 2.7 percent plus 5 cents, international cards 4.4 and 4.2 percent, rates quoted in US dollars; MOTO and instant payout fees are withheld |
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Verdict
Shortcuts solves a problem most of the market ignores, taking a deposit from the client who booked by phone or walked in, and it publishes its card rates and settles the next business day. None of that reaches a European operator: ShortcutsPay stops at Australia, the UK, the US and Canada, the interface is English only, and the vendor removed its pricing page entirely during the site rebuild. In Benelux it is not a realistic option, and in the UK you should ask for the MOTO and instant payout fees in writing before signing.
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Where these numbers come from
- [1] About Shortcuts, founded 1994 in Brisbane, 14000 salons accessed 2026-11-11
- [2] ShortcutsPay rates, settlement and country availability accessed 2026-11-11
- [3] Shortcuts booking deposits, three capture channels and targeting accessed 2026-11-11
- [4] Shortcuts products, Fusion, ShortcutsPay and Aire accessed 2026-11-11
- [5] Shortcuts page sitemap, no pricing URL exists accessed 2026-11-11