What’s New in Keep The Fees

We’ve rolled out a major update to Keep The Fees built to make the platform easier to use, more flexible for growing studios, and more powerful for day-to-day operations.

This update includes multi-location support, gift cards, stronger client balance management, expanded appointment tools, better forms, improved reporting, and a completely refreshed experience across the platform.

Whether you run one shop or multiple locations, this update is designed to help you work faster, stay organized, and have better visibility across your business.

Keep The Fees now has a fully refreshed experience across the platform.

This includes:

You can now quickly search for clients, appointments, and more from anywhere in the system, making it easier to find what you need without bouncing between tabs.

One of the biggest updates in this release is full multi-location support.

Keep The Fees now supports a structure that allows you to manage:

With this update, studios can:

This gives owners, managers, and booking staff much better visibility and makes it easier to support larger or growing studio operations.

The section previously known as Dashboard is now called Home.

Home still gives you insight into your shop’s performance, but it now does so in a more flexible way.

What’s new on Home:

Recurring clients, clocked-in staff, and popular services are still available, with improved visibility and more flexible time-based reporting.

Checkout has been improved to make the payment process more flexible and easier to manage.

You can now:

Overall, checkout now gives shops more flexibility in how they collect and manage payments.

There is now a dedicated Sales section in the platform.

Sales includes:

This brings key financial tools into one place and makes them easier to manage.

Coupons also now support location-specific use, which is especially helpful for multi-location shops.

Gift cards are one of the biggest additions in this update.

Studios can now issue, track, manage, and redeem gift cards directly inside Keep The Fees.

With gift cards, you can:

You can also view:

Gift cards can also be redeemed during checkout, giving shops a new way to drive revenue and bring clients back in.

Appointments has expanded significantly and now includes:

This gives shops more ways to manage scheduling depending on what they need to do.

A new Upcoming view makes it easier to see what’s ahead on the calendar.

You can:

Appointment Waitlist is a new feature designed for shops that want a better way to track clients waiting for availability.

With Waitlist, shops can:

Appointments now also support:

This gives shops more flexibility when managing larger or more detailed appointments.

The Clients section remains where shops can manage client records and signed consent forms, but it now includes some major improvements.

One of the biggest changes in this update is how balances and deposits are handled.

Deposits now live on the client profile instead of being tied to an individual appointment.

This client balance can include:

From the client profile, shops can:

This makes it much easier to manage larger projects where clients pay over time.

A major new feature in client profiles is Connections.

Connections allow you to link clients together in the system.

This can be especially useful for:

Catalog is a new centralized area for managing what your shop offers.

This section brings together:

Shops can now:

Gift cards can also be added as products for faster access during checkout.

The Team section has been rebuilt to better support real studio roles and multi-location workflows.

Keep The Fees now separates Artists and Users.

Users can include:

This creates a more flexible setup for shops with different roles.

Permissions have been completely redone and are now managed through Security Groups.

This allows shops to:

This gives studios much more control over how their team operates inside the system.

Settings has also been expanded to make shop management easier.

From Settings, shops can now manage:

This also includes improved branding for outgoing communication, such as using your shop logo in emails and adjusting email colors to better match your studio.

New notification options have also been added, including updates when appointment requests are accepted and when appointments are booked.

Forms still live in their own dedicated section and include:

Two major updates here are:

Consent forms and request forms are now available in Spanish, including labels and instructions shown to the client.

Forms can now be saved as templates and reused, which is especially helpful for shops creating multiple forms for different artists or workflows.

Reporting has been expanded in important ways.

A new Client Balance Report gives shops visibility into outstanding balances across clients, including:

This can be especially useful for reviewing unused balances and bringing clients back in.

Reporting is also much stronger for multi-location shops.

Studios can now:

This update represents far more than a visual refresh.

It brings meaningful improvements to the way studios operate inside Keep The Fees, including:

The result is a platform that is more flexible for growing shops, more organized for day-to-day use, and better equipped to support the real workflows of modern studios.