The best StoreHub alternative for salons, spas & barbershops
StoreHub is a strong Malaysian cloud POS — for retail and F&B. Salons that adopt it usually do so because they wanted a reliable local till, then discover that the parts of a beauty business that are not retail, namely the diary and the payroll, still live in a notebook or a spreadsheet.
Quick answer
LABÉAU is the best StoreHub alternative for salons, spas and barbershops because it is beauty-native rather than retail-native: stylist, therapist and chair-level diaries, tiered commissions on services, retail and tips calculated at checkout, treatment packages and memberships that redeem against a visit, WhatsApp reminders and marketing, and LHDN MyInvois e-invoicing — all in one Malaysian-built platform from RM174.92/month.
Last updated 27 August 2026 · Written and maintained by the LABÉAU team, Kuala Lumpur
The gap is not payments or stock — StoreHub handles both well. The gap is that a salon sells booked time performed by a named person, and everything downstream of that fact: who is free at 3pm, how long the room is blocked, what the therapist earns from the service, whether this visit draws down a ten-session package.
No stylist, therapist or chair-level diary with service durations and buffers.
Tiered service commissions and chair rental fall outside the model.
Treatment packages, prepaid credit and memberships are not redeemed against a visit.
No WhatsApp confirmations, reminders or waitlist fill to protect the calendar.
Reporting is product-and-basket shaped, not staff-and-service shaped.
Where StoreHub still wins
If your shop is genuinely retail-first — you sell products over a counter, appointments are incidental, and you need mature hardware, F&B capability and a big local support footprint — StoreHub is a better and cheaper answer than forcing a beauty platform to act like a till.
LABÉAU vs StoreHub for a salon
Capability
LABÉAU
StoreHub
Product type
Beauty-native POS & management
General retail / F&B POS
Stylist / chair diary
Yes
No
Tiered service commissions
Yes, at checkout
Limited
Packages & memberships
Yes, with redemption
No
Product inventory
Yes
Yes — strong
WhatsApp reminders & marketing
Yes
No
LHDN e-invoice
Built in
Yes
Hardware ecosystem
Bring your own device
Extensive
From (MYR/month)
174.92
122–471
Indicative as of August 2026 — confirm current details with each vendor.
The bottom line
StoreHub is the right POS for a retail shop and the wrong one for a salon floor. If you book appointments, pay staff on commission or sell treatment packages, a beauty-native system like LABÉAU replaces both the till and the spreadsheet behind it — at a comparable monthly cost.
Also worth comparing
Salons comparing StoreHub and LABÉAU generally also consider Qashier for a single countertop terminal, TunaiPro and Bookit as cheaper salon-native options, and Fresha for marketplace discovery. The full ranking is in our Malaysian salon POS guide.
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StoreHub is a capable Malaysian retail and F&B POS with strong inventory, hardware and payment support, and it handles LHDN e-invoicing. It is not beauty-native, so stylist-level diaries, tiered service commissions, treatment packages and WhatsApp reminders either need heavy configuration or fall outside the product. Salons that book appointments and pay commissions generally fit better on a beauty-native salon POS.
LABÉAU — a Malaysian-built beauty business management and POS platform covering appointment booking, checkout, inventory, tiered staff commissions, packages and memberships, WhatsApp marketing, loyalty and LHDN/IRAS e-invoicing, rated 4.9/5 by 150+ businesses, from RM174.92/month with a 30-day free trial.
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