Swim Lanes.
Check-in to done.
Live service queue boards that move customers and jobs through your stages — walk-ins, appointments, and repairs on one board your whole team can see. No other POS platform makes this.
How it works
Check in, move through stages, check out — in three simple steps.
Check In
Add walk-ins or booked appointments to the first lane. Everyone sees who's waiting, for what, and how long.
- Walk-in check-in in seconds
- Booked appointments flow in automatically
- Customer name, service, and wait time on every card
- Works at the counter or front desk
Move Through Stages
Drag cards across lanes as work progresses. Each lane is a stage you define — the board always shows reality.
- Custom lanes for your workflow
- Drag-and-drop between stages
- Live for every team member
- Nothing falls through the cracks
Finish & Check Out
When the service is done, checkout is one tap away in the POS — with the customer, loyalty points, and any deals already attached.
- Straight into POS checkout
- Customer and loyalty attached
- Service history recorded
- Board clears itself as work completes
Swim-lane features
Every tool your service floor needs — built right into your POS.
Live Queue Board
A kanban-style board where each lane is a stage and each card is a customer or job. Updates in real time for everyone.
Queue Board · Live
Checked In
Ava R.
Haircut
Marco L.
Color
Priya S.
Trim
In Progress
Sam K.
Blowout
Ready
Jordan P.
Style
Custom Lanes for Your Workflow
Define the stages that match how your business actually works: a salon's Waiting → In Chair → Processing → Done, or a repair shop's Received → Diagnosing → Repairing → Ready for Pickup.
Workflow Preset
SalonWaiting
In Chair
Processing
Done
Drag to reorder · rename any lane
Walk-Ins and Appointments Together
Booked clients and walk-ins flow through the same queue, so the board is the single truth of who's in the building and where they are in service.
Checked In
One queue · booked and walk-in together
Wait-Time Visibility
Every card shows how long the customer has been in the current stage. Spot the person who's been waiting too long before they feel it.
In-Stage Wait Times
Amber over 20 min · thresholds configurable
Team Accountability
Assign cards to staff so everyone knows who owns which customer. Great for multi-chair salons and multi-tech repair counters.
Assignments
One Tap to Checkout
Finished cards check out through the POS with the customer, service, loyalty points, and active deals already attached — swim lanes and the register share one database.
Done Lane
Sam K.
Blowout · $48.00
Built for businesses where service takes stages.
If your work moves through steps and people, swim lanes give the whole team the same live picture.
Salons & Barbershops
Waiting → chair → color processing → done. Every stylist sees the room at a glance.
Repair Shops
Device intake to ready-for-pickup with full visibility for every tech on the counter.
Quick-Serve Counters
Order queue from placed to handed off — no printer chaos, no missed tickets.
Service Departments
Any multi-step job your team hands off between people, on one shared board.
Swim lanes work hand-in-hand with Appointments and the POS — booked clients flow onto the board, and finished services flow into checkout. One system, no re-entry.
Square, Shopify, Lightspeed, Clover, and SkyTab don't make anything like this — see the comparisons →
One platform.
Perfectly integrated.
Swim lanes share one database with your POS, appointments, and loyalty — no syncing, ever.
6+
Integrated Modules
1
Unified Database
0
Manual Syncing
Swim lanes, answered.
Swim lanes are a live, kanban-style board where each lane is a stage of your service — like Checked In, In Progress, and Ready — and each card is a customer or job moving through those stages in real time.
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