We are releasing a new feature; Salon Insights. Powered by Microsoft; it will be a great way for salon owners to track KPI’s and salon activity. The feature provides salons with the access to a range of dashboards using the Microsoft Power BI tool, allowing you to view extensive stats visually through different graphical displays, including charts and heat maps.
Now, some of you reading this may already have our Site View feature, that gives you access to reports and KPI’s when absent from the salon. Salon Insights brings to you a further in depth version of data, where aside from being able to view sales figures, it also concentrates on business peaks and falls, by having the ability to analyse large volumes of data dependent on different circumstances, such as geographical location or climate.
Salon performance can also be tracked against retail trends in peak periods, for example Christmas, school holidays and wedding season. The heat maps generated through Power BI will highlight peak trade times so that you can target yourselves based on last year’s figures.
Dashboards will outline how a salon performs versus different weather conditions and where salons are based across the U.K. You will be able to obtain data from your local area regarding temperature over the past few years and input this in to the software system alongside past sales reports, to determine how well your salon has performed seasonally. And for all you multiple salon owners this is a great feature as you will be able to use this information that is generated by Power BI to compare and assess how salons have performed against each other dependent on these factors.
The Salon Insights feature is optimised for phones & tablets in the format of an app, which means that the dashboards can be accessed 24/7 anywhere, at any time. Being another great benefit for multi-site salon owners as you can select to view stats and performance for the location of a salon that you are currently situated in, instead of having to be at a headquarters to view your activity in the different sites. Which again is also really beneficial for those business owners that are constantly on the go, this even applying to the owners of sole salons. It provides you with the opportunity to access all business activity from an iPhone, iPad or a PC. A beneficial way to stay in control of the salon, especially if there should be a time when you cannot be present to physically manage staff and cash flow.
Salon Insights will be extremely worthwhile for all salon owners, as by combining our software with Microsoft’s Power BI, it means that you can organise and evaluate large volumes of data, quickly and accurately. Power BI will process these results in to intelligent graphs that are simple to extract data from, meaning that business decisions can be made confidently. Excellent for future planning and for analysing, as it is much easier to see patterns via a graphic as a pose to evaluating a report!
So, we’re looking at November for a live version of Salon Insights, but hope this brief over of the information has helped you guys and given you time to have a think about it! This feature will be available as part of our enterprise package, in which you can now purchase on a monthly subscription basis. To all of our current customers, you always have the chance to upgrade if you like the sound of this new next-generation feature!
Should you want more information on Salon Tracker, or the upcoming Salon Insights feature, please feel free to call our office on 0113 3508230 and a member of our support team will be happy to assist you.
We hope to hear from you and help in improving the success of your salon business!
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