Practical advice to fill your appointment book, cut no-shows and grow your hair salon.
Shortcuts is the grand old name of Australian salon software, but it will not tell you the price until you book a demo. Here is what it publishes, what it does not, and the alternatives worth comparing.
In a salon suite, you are the stylist, the owner and the front desk. Here is how to choose booking software that answers the phone so you never have to.
Four weeks a year is the easy part. Leave loading, casuals, state long service leave and a fully booked column while a stylist is away are where salon leave gets hard.
28 days for a full-timer is the easy case. Part-time stylists, Saturday juniors on variable hours and commission earners are where salon holiday maths goes wrong.
Rent-a-chair is everywhere in Australian hairdressing, and so are handshake deals that fall apart at tax time or in a Fair Work audit. Here is how to set one up properly, from both sides of the chair.
An empty chair at 2 pm is a stylist on the clock with nobody to serve. Here is a plan that starts with free fixes and adds friction only where it pays.
An empty chair at 2 pm is not just a lost hour. Let's work out what a no-show really costs your salon, then go through seven ways to stop the next one.
An empty chair during a snowstorm is bad luck. An empty chair every Thursday is a fixable problem. Here is the Canadian playbook, province rules included.
An empty chair on a booked-out Saturday is money you never see again. Here is the Australian playbook: what the ACCC allows, reminders, deposits and habits.
The advertised price is rarely what leaves your bank account. Every cost line of US salon software explained, with figures checked at the source and worked examples in dollars.
The advertised price is rarely what you pay. Every cost line of UK salon software explained, with figures checked at the source and the questions to get in writing.
The advertised price is rarely what leaves your account, and in Canada it is sometimes not even in your currency. Every cost line of salon software explained, with figures checked at the source.
