Salon business
Decision guide
Commission, booth, or suite? Compare the whole arrangement.
A higher share of sales is not the same thing as more money to live on. Put three working arrangements on a consistent monthly sheet.
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Make the chair work for you.
Practical worksheets for the costs, time, and decisions behind a good salon.
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Salon business
Planning guide
The hours you can sell are not all the hours you work.
Build a realistic capacity denominator before you allocate overhead, fill your calendar, or decide what a service needs to earn.
Salon business
Worked example
A bottle’s markup is not your retail profit.
Follow one hypothetical product from purchase to sale—and see what discounts, testers, fees, and unsold stock do to the numbers.
Salon business
Buying framework
Price the booking system around a real month of work.
Build a cost-and-exit comparison that includes transactions, team access, deposits, messaging, and the data you need to take with you.
Salon business
Reference guide
Check the license, the service, and the place.
A practical verification route for practitioners, salon owners, and clients—without pretending that one national table settles every local rule.
Salon business
Practice guide
Keep better client notes. Keep less unnecessary data.
A practical record structure that separates service information, future preferences, and permission to use photographs.
Salon business
Salon economics
Price the whole service. Not just the hour.
Put time, product, overhead, and your pay on the same page with our service-cost worksheet.
Salon business
Owner’s notebook
Before you switch your booking software.
Use a real appointment to compare systems, and count the costs outside the subscription.
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At your station / No. 01Great work.
Great work.
Better numbers.
Your time has a cost. So does everything in the bowl. Put both to work in a service-price scenario.
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