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This is everything we have learned putting real business expertise into a salon floor, in one spreadsheet. What the month actually has to earn. What each person's target should be and where that number came from. Which services are worth the chair. What to pay your team when it goes well.
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You need your numbers. And you do not have a spare six weeks, a monthly retainer, or another call in the diary to get them.
You opened a salon because you are good at what you do. Then you found out the job is targets, rosters, stock, margins and payroll, and that nobody is going to sit you down and explain any of it.
So most owners run on a feeling. The month felt busy, so it must have been fine. The account says otherwise and you cannot work out where it went. You set a target by dividing one number by however many people you have. You pay commission because that is what everyone does.
Tracking your numbers is the single hardest thing to keep hold of when you are also on the floor, and it is the thing a business lives or dies on. This is the sheet that does it for you. One payment, no subscription, nobody to book a call with.
You export your own reports from whatever software you already use. You paste. It does the rest. Nothing in it assumes what you sell, so you name your own service categories and set your own rates.
01 · START HERE
Named screen by screen for Timely, Phorest, Kitomba, Fresha, Shortcuts, Simple Salon, Square, Mindbody and Cliniko. Plus the four data mistakes that quietly make every number downstream wrong.
02 · YOUR MONTH
Operating costs, old debt, tax to quarantine and profit, kept in four separate buckets. Out comes the real number your month has to hit, and four bands to judge it against.
03 · TEAM TARGETS
True bookable hours per person with every break deducted, then a target built from the hours someone actually has. Live utilisation for each of them and the clinic.
04 · TREATMENT PROFIT
Not margin. Your chair, room or bed is the thing you actually sell, and margin ignores how long a service ties it up. Ranks your whole menu on what an hour of it is really worth.
05 · BONUS CALCULATOR
A share of profit above a line, with gates, tiers and a split that protects you in a quiet month. Name your own service categories. Not commission.
06 · DASHBOARD
Reads from everything else. Cash, capacity and team in one view, with nothing to type.
Commission pays on what someone took, not on what you kept. A big service loaded with product can pay a fat commission on revenue you barely made a dollar on, and the person doing it has no reason to care. You are paying full price for turnover instead of profit, every single fortnight.
And if you are in cosmetic, injectable or any regulated treatment, there is a second reason and it is more serious. An incentive that pays more when more treatment happens is a written reason to recommend treatment a client does not need. That is exactly what a regulator looks at.
This tab pays a share of profit above a line instead. Nothing pays below ninety percent of target. Above it the rate steps up, and the top tier is uncapped on purpose, because that is the first question a good practitioner will ask you. Half is paid regardless, half is held against the business hitting its own number, and the held half never rolls forward. A quiet month costs that month only.
| Team member | Service category | Target | The line (90%) | Revenue | % to target | Rate | Bonus earned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Example A | Colour | $52,000 | $46,800 | $57,300 | 110.2% | 25% | $1,706 |
| Example B | Cuts | $25,000 | $22,500 | $25,400 | 101.6% | 20% | $435 |
| Example C | Cuts | $20,000 | $18,000 | $18,900 | 94.5% | 15% | $101 |
| Example D | Cuts | $14,000 | $12,600 | $11,200 | 80.0% | 0% | $0 |
| Example E | Treatments | $14,000 | $12,600 | $15,100 | 107.9% | 20% | $380 |
Worked examples, shipped filled in so you can see it working before you touch it. Rename every category to your own. Colour, cuts, brows, lashes, nails, facials, injectables, massage, whatever you actually sell.
Not consultants. Two sisters who run the floor.
We built this for ourselves, because nothing we could buy did the job.
We run SSKIN on the Gold Coast. Six rooms, a full team, and every problem you have had. We have set a target that turned out to be impossible. We have pushed the wrong service for a year. We have paid commission without thinking about what it was actually paying for.
This is everything we have learned putting real business thinking onto a salon floor, in the sheet we use every month. It has not been dressed up for sale.
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Yes. Nothing in it assumes what you sell. You name your own service categories, set your own margins and enter your own costs. The maths of a chair, an hour and a wage is the same whether it is a colour, a brow lamination, a set of acrylics or a facial.
Yes. That is the whole design. It never connects to your software, so it does not care which one you use. You export two things, revenue per team member and hours they delivered, and paste them in.
No. Every cell you type in is shaded cream. Everything else calculates itself. The first tab tells you what to pull and in what order to work through it.
No. One payment, and the file is yours.
Mostly yes. Tabs two, four and six work at any size. Tabs three and five assume you have a team, so on your own they will sit unused until you hire.
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