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Start your business in Portugal: Barber shop
You plan a barber shop in Portugal with appointments, walk-ins or shared stations. Explain who operates each station and receives customer payments: employing barbers and renting chairs create different arrangements.
Let’s discuss your project
A few details to understand your business and the next step.
Bertrand Jayol receives your enquiry for an initial assessment. Referral to the partner is considered with your agreement. Privacy
01 / Your business
How you earn shapes the questions to ask
- Men's haircuts and regular maintenance.
- Beard trimming and proposed shaving services.
- Retail styling and grooming products.
Clarify shared stations and money flows
If professionals share the premises, describe working hours, pricing, customer ownership, bookings and responsibility for equipment. Have the real arrangement assessed before presenting it as simple chair rental. The contract's name does not replace analysis of how the business operates.
Prepare a rotation plan with tool cleaning, consumable changes and waiting space. Estimate services deliverable by the people actually present, then separate haircut income, product sales and any station-use payments. Bring proposed agreements and a premises layout to define the project. Account for cover during absences and what happens to bookings if one professional leaves.
02 / Next steps for your project
Questions to prepare your application
- Do barbers invoice their own customers or does the shop collect payment?
- Will customers book appointments or walk in?
- Who supplies tools, consumables and products?
Portugal
Before you incorporate
Registering as self-employed and incorporating a company are different routes. The choice depends on how your business actually operates. A Portuguese company alone does not determine your tax residence or the treatment of every source of income.
Information to gather
- Your country of residence and where you actually work.
- A description of the services or products you sell.
- Whether your customers are businesses or individuals, and their countries.
- Any shareholders, existing business structure and your planned timing.
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