Beauty salons and clinics take payment in different ways. Alternative medicine sits exactly between them. 44% of businesses accept a card terminal, and 51% accept a card-to-card transfer. We looked at 1,493 active alternative medicine businesses in Kazakhstan
| specialty | businesses | card terminal | card-to-card transfer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tattoo studios | 1,272 | 32% | 57% |
| Permanent makeup | 2,054 | 33% | 57% |
| Hairdressing | 8,116 | 33% | 54% |
| Nail service | 7,152 | 34% | 55% |
| Lashes and brows | 6,402 | 35% | 55% |
| Alternative medicine | 1,493 | 44% | 51% |
| Lab tests | 1,199 | 80% | 32% |
| Mammology | 448 | 79% | 28% |
| Ophthalmology | 839 | 78% | 28% |
| Endocrinology | 932 | 77% | 27% |
| Gastroenterology | 661 | 81% | 29% |
Beauty salons list a card-to-card transfer more often than a terminal: about 55% against 33%. Medical specialties go the other way. Eight in ten have a terminal, and three in ten take a transfer
Alternative medicine splits these two worlds almost evenly. Our data does not show the reason
| city | businesses |
|---|---|
| Almaty | 399 |
| Astana | 269 |
| Shymkent | 205 |
| Aktau | 75 |
| Aktobe | 68 |
| Karaganda | 64 |
| Uralsk | 59 |
| Taraz | 48 |
In Aktobe, the Tibetan medicine center HIMALAYA works with the ooon.ai platform. It is at Mangilik El, 11. It is open Tuesday to Sunday from 09:00 to 18:00 and closed on Monday. Pulse diagnostics costs 3,000 ₸. Its services also include acupuncture, cupping massage, stone massage, and herbal medicine
| feature | businesses | share |
|---|---|---|
| open on weekends | 1,219 | 82% |
| accept patients after 21:00 | 290 | 19% |
Eight in ten work on weekends. That is closer to beauty salons than to clinics, where a third are closed on weekends
| what is missing | businesses | share |
|---|---|---|
| rating | 225 | 15% |
| address | 193 | 13% |
| working hours | 151 | 10% |
| photos | 95 | 6% |
One business in seven has no rating. That is more than in any other specialty in our series. For laboratories and ultrasound centers the figure is 3–4%
44% of your colleagues list a terminal. If you have one and your listing does not say so, you lose people who carry no cash and do not transfer money to strangers
An empty rating field is a separate case. Reviews fill it, so an empty field means there are no reviews at all. The first few close this gap for good
The open 2GIS directory, August 2026. We took active businesses that list alternative medicine among their categories: 1,493 listings. Payment methods were read from the list that each business gave about itself. Shares by specialty are shown where there are at least three hundred businesses