As a Spa/Salon Owner, don’t you just hate the off peak hours? The couple of hours in the morning when there are no local customers that want to purchase your services. Which means you are not earning during those hours, but are still paying your staff for doing nothing?

Mico-currencies could help with this. It can let you accept services paid through digital micro-currencies during your slow hours. Choose to accept only the currencies that you actually need, and charge more currencies than the retail price of the service. So if you regularly charge $50 for a manicure, you can charge $75 if a customer is paying with an approved micro-currency.

This way, your salon gains currencies from shops that provide goods/services you actually need. So you can trade them for supplies you need for your salon. You can even pay your staff with these currencies. Give them the option to choose the currencies they need and you might not even have to dip into your bank account to pay them for those hours.

Micro-currencies can be useful in the same way to any other type of business with off-peak hours.