Jewelry Pricing

Every shop that pierces answers one question: does the piercing price include the jewelry? There are three answers, all normal, and they map to how studios actually publish their prices. REV23 supports all three, and Get Started asks the question directly — its jewelry step offers Separate line, Basic included, and All included, and can be reopened anytime to revisit the choice.

Fee plus jewelry

The piercing fee covers the piercing. Every piece is priced individually and billed on its own line — a customer picking a $30 titanium end and one picking a $400 gold end pay the same fee and different jewelry.

Choose this if you stock a real range — basic titanium through gold and gems — and want each piece to carry its own price and margin. It’s the most common model for dedicated piercing studios and needs the least setup: prices on your catalog pieces, nothing else. Get Started calls it Separate line.

Basic included

The piercing fee covers the piercing and a basic piece. A customer who wants something nicer pays that piece’s own price on its own line.

Choose this if most piercings go in with house basics and upgrades are the exception — the shape behind price lists that say “prices include basic implant-grade titanium; upgrades available.” Setup is the two marks below.

All included

One price, jewelry included, no upgrade path shown. Common for tattoo shops that also pierce and carry a narrow range. Setup is a single inclusive jewelry tier set to apply by default, so every new piercing session starts covered — choosing All included in Get Started builds exactly that.

Not sure?

If your price list has a sentence about jewelry being included, you’re Basic included. If it doesn’t mention jewelry at all and you don’t upcharge, you’re All included. Otherwise you’re Separate line — most piercing studios are. You’re not locked in, and the choice can differ across services.

Setting up Basic included

Basic included is two marks, and both are needed — missing either one means the register charges differently than your price list says.

1. Mark which pieces are basic. On a catalog piece, tick Baseline (“Included in the service price”). Mark your house titanium; leave gold, gems, and premium brands unmarked. The mark lives on the individual variant, so a family holding both titanium and gold versions of the same design splits correctly.

A basic range is usually a whole shelf, and marking is one piece at a time — two tools make the sweep finishable. The catalog’s Not marked yet filter is a worklist of what’s left; compose it with material and manufacturer filters to work one drawer at a time. And Save to catalog during a session offers the mark on the spot, so pieces minted mid-shift arrive already decided.

2. Mark which services include basic jewelry. On the service type’s pricing, tick Includes baseline jewelry. Your piercing services almost certainly do. A jewelry change or downsize visit usually doesn’t — those are priced as labor with the piece sold separately, and if every service were marked, a customer who came in just to swap an end would get the new end free. Get Started lists your services with tick boxes for exactly this reason.

Two limits apply:

• One decision per service type, shop-wide. The flag lives on the service type itself — it can’t be set per studio or per artist, and an artist’s price override never changes it.
• Nothing is marked automatically. A baseline mark makes a piece free on every future install, so REV23 never guesses one for you.

Retail is never affected. The mark only applies during a service — the same titanium end sold over the counter bills its catalog price. Your basic case and your retail case can be the same drawer.

Reading a $0 jewelry line

A covered piece rings $0.00 — the ticket prints the amount, never a label. The session’s own screen is the one place that says Included and why: covered by tier, or in the service price.

If you want the ticket to state a reason, use a discount — a discount’s name prints on its line, and it’s the one mechanism that says why a line is zero. That’s also the clean way to comp: a deliberate freebie rung as a 100% discount prints its reason and stays off the tax report’s attention list.

A $0 with nothing behind it — no tier, no baseline coverage, no discount — gets a quiet Check price flag at the register, never on receipts. Usually it’s a price nobody typed, caught before the card is charged instead of weeks later on a report.

When tiers are the right tool

A jewelry tier is a short named menu of price levels — Standard, Upgrade — picked on a session. The tier’s amount rides the service line. Whether recorded jewelry also bills its own price is the tier’s Separate vs Inclusive setting: an inclusive tier’s amount is the whole jewelry charge and recorded pieces ring $0; a separate tier is an upcharge on top of per-piece prices.

Tiers are for shops that don’t catalog jewelry piece by piece. If you install the same house jewelry all day and your upgrades come down to a few price points, tiers are the fastest way to price, and the tier does the job completely. Running entirely on tiers is a complete, supported setup.

A catalog is optional with tiers. Session jewelry can be entered freeform, and lot and expiration are captured either way — recording never depends on having a catalog. If you do keep one, tag pieces with their tier — basic studs Standard, gem ends Upgrade — and applying a separate tier on a session filters the picker to that tier’s pieces, one tap away from the whole catalog. The tier carries the price; the piece just gets recorded.

If you price jewelry per piece, you probably don’t need tiers — the piece’s own price already carries the upgrade. And the warning sign runs the other way: if you’re creating more and more tiers to cover every gem and gold option, you’ve outgrown them. Tiers are a short menu. When the upgrade range is genuinely open-ended, per-piece pricing is the tool — without a catalog behind it, a tier shows as a single upcharge that can’t say which piece left the case or what it cost you.

The record doesn’t depend on billing

Whatever the model, the clinical record is the same: the piece, the lot, the expiration date, recorded on the session. Whether anything bills is a separate question — and a piece can be recorded with no sale at all: a downsize you promised free, or a piece the customer brought in themselves. The history stays complete even when nothing was charged.

Taxes

Under Basic included or an inclusive tier, jewelry leaves the case inside untaxed service revenue — and some states still want use tax on the transfer. The Sales Tax report’s jewelry disclosure counts the jewelry given with services on completed sales — each piece with its catalog value and the reason it rang $0. The report counts; your accountant decides. Whether charged installed jewelry is taxed at all is a per-rate setting.