Should beard trims sit on their own loyalty tier?

Give beard trims a separate card once the price gap is wide

A beard trim priced well below a haircut — say 15 SAR against a 35 SAR cut — earns its own stamp card rather than sharing the haircut card, because folding both into one stamp count either overvalues the cheap trim or undervalues the expensive cut. A separate card, available from Growth (up to 10 cards) upward, keeps each service's reward proportional to its own price.

If the price gap is small — a trim at 25 SAR against a 30 SAR cut, for instance — it's close enough to fold both into one stamp card without meaningfully distorting the reward, and a separate tier just adds administrative overhead the price difference doesn't justify.

Stamps vs points as the underlying choice

Whether beard trims get a separate stamp card or the shop moves to one unified points card is really the same stamps-vs-points decision that applies to the whole price list, just triggered by the trim specifically.

A worked reward-sizing example

Take a shop charging 35 SAR for a haircut and 15 SAR for a standalone beard trim. On a shared stamp card, a 6th-visit-free reward would let a client redeem a free 35 SAR cut after paying for five 15 SAR trims — a discount of roughly 47% against those five trims' revenue, far outside any sensible margin range.

Splitting into two cards fixes this cleanly: the haircut card runs its own 6th-cut-free threshold (≈14% discount, as usual), and a separate trim card runs its own threshold — say, every 8th trim free, which at 15 SAR against seven paid trims (105 SAR) is about a 12.5% discount, comfortably in range.

• Shared card risk: a client could redeem an expensive cut using only cheap-trim visits
• Separate cards keep each service's discount proportional to its own price
• Haircut card: 6th visit free ≈14% discount
• Trim card: 8th visit free ≈12.5% discount at 15 SAR — a fair equivalent

When one card genuinely works fine

Not every shop needs to split. If beard trims are almost always bought as an add-on alongside a haircut, rather than as a frequent standalone visit, the distortion above barely shows up in practice — most stamps still come from haircut visits, and the occasional trim-only visit doesn't meaningfully skew the reward.

The split becomes worth the setup effort specifically when trims are a real standalone habit for a meaningful share of clients — a beard-focused regular who comes in for trims between full haircuts, for example.

Setting up a separate trim card

The setup mirrors creating any second card on the dashboard.

1. Step 1: check your visit mix

   Look at how many visits are standalone trims versus haircuts (with or without a trim add-on).

2. Step 2: confirm your plan supports a second card

   Check Free vs paid plan limits — Growth allows up to 10 cards, Premium is unlimited, Free supports one card only.

3. Step 3: set a separate threshold for the trim card

   Size it against the trim's own price using the 9–14% margin range as a guide.

4. Step 4: brief barbers on which card to scan

   Make clear which service maps to which card, so scanning stays accurate.

The limits to keep in mind

A second card requires Growth or above — a Free-plan shop deciding this question will need to either fold trims into the one stamp card it has, or move up a plan tier to run both separately. Whichever route a shop takes, the underlying mechanics don't change: no POS or till integration means a barber scans each card by hand, and there's no SMS channel, so trim-card messaging goes to the wallet lock screen like everything else.