The salon management guide

Short articles answering questions salon owners actually face — with no requirement to use any software.

• How to calculate barber and staff commissions in a salonThree ways to pay a barber — percentage, salary and chair rent — when each fits, and the common mistake that breaks trust.
• How to organise walk-ins and appointments in a barbershopA barbershop runs on both a queue and a diary. How to order the two without anyone feeling cheated, and what to do when someone is late.
• How to reduce salon no-showsA no-show costs an empty chair in your busiest hour. Practical steps that reduce it, and the ones that usually do not.
• How to manage the till in a barbershopThe gap between what is in the drawer and what should be, why card takings never join the cash, and how to close the day in two minutes.
• How to work out salon income and profitIncome is not profit. How to separate service revenue from product revenue, subtract commissions and fixed costs, and find your real margin.
• How to manage product stock in a beauty salonWhy the shampoo runs out without warning, how to know the real product margin, and when selling products is a hidden loss.
• Salon software or a paper diary: which is better?A paper diary is not always wrong. When it is enough, the signs that it no longer is, and what gets lost in between.