For most tanning salon profiles the best primary category is Tanning salon — use it when: sunbeds and/or spray tans. Choose Tanning studio verify instead if spray-tan studio. Beauty profiles often over-add categories for one-off services. If a treatment is a small share of bookings, list it as a service instead of a category.
Open the free tool for a tanning salon → tick what you really offer and get a copy-ready setup sheet
Primary category
- Tanning salon — Sunbeds and/or spray tans who else uses it
- Tanning studio verify — Spray-tan studio
Secondary (additional) categories
Add one only if the condition is genuinely true at this location. Fewer, accurate categories beat a full list of nine.
- Teeth whitening service — only if: teeth whitening (non-dental)
1 category is marked verify: it may not appear in every account or country. If you can't find it in Google's dropdown, skip it rather than picking something close but wrong.
Categories to avoid
These are often added to tanning salon profiles but usually describe a different or broader business:
- Day spa
- Beauty supply store
Address or service area?
Usually a storefront: show the full address exactly as it appears on your signage, and keep it identical on Google, Apple Business Connect, Bing Places and your website. Service-area vs storefront rules.
Starter services to add
Categories say what you are; services say what you do. Good first entries:
- Spray tan
- Sunbed minutes
- Tanning packages
Check before you change anything
Search “spray tan” on Google Maps in your own area, open the top few profiles and note their primary category (shown under the business name). Use what's common as a sanity check, not a template — your categories must describe your business. Ready to switch? How to change your category safely.
Profile problems?
Suspended, stuck in verification, or not showing on Maps? See the free fix guides: suspended profile · verification failed · not on Maps · name rules.