Salon Tracker: How our Salon Software can help to improve the Safety & Security of Tanning Salons

It’s that time of year again, as we approach the season where glow & glamour is on high demand…but is your tanning salon as safe and secure as it could be?

You’ve probably heard us mention before if you already follow our news feed that trading standards ‘unannounced’ salon visits are on the up. According to the Daily Mail (2015) “three salons were each fined £250 last year for allowing illegal tanning”, and these fines can be as excessive at £10k.

We don’t want this to happen to you and that’s why as we enter the beginning of peak tanning season, here at Salon Tracker we wanted to reinforce the importance of following the legal tanning guidelines and also, how our software can help to enforce that.

Our software packages include many features that contribute towards safely tanning clients and so we have listed a few below so that you guys gain an idea of how we can help!

Enable Tanning Rules

For any client that you add in to the Salon tracker system, there is the option to add a date of birth, in which salon owners could enforce a rule that all ID must be checked to log a date of birth accurately. The benefit for tanning salons of this feature is that they can then turn on our ‘tanning rules’ which then completely disables anyone whom has a date of birth saved that is under 18 from being able to book on to a sunbed. Similarly, another rule is that clients whom have had a sunbed in the last 24 hours, a rule notification would flag up that this particular client had already used a sunbed in the last 24 hours, again disabling them from booking another until it is out of the 24 hour time period.

E-signature attached to all digital client cards

As part of our Professional software package and above, we offer integration with an electronic signature pad, meaning that for any type of salon, including tanning, all disclaimers can be signed for electronically and saved to a client’s digital record card. Not only is this an efficient welcoming process, it is also space saving as salons can do away with their paper disclaimers and record cards!

Fingerprint Recognition for Staff and Clients

Again, on the Professional package and above, our software integrates with a fingerprint reader, which can be used not only secure client details but to also track staff shift patterns and activity. For tanning salons in particular, this helps to lock down on illegal tanning as a fingerprint is unique to any one person and therefore no one can fraudulently use someone else’s data to tan. Another plus is that salon owners can track when an employee started and finished their shift, and also what they were doing during the duration of that, therefore meaning that staff equally can’t abuse the system and no ‘miscellaneous’ minutes can be booked by employees.

T-Max Integration an Accurate Minute Tracking

T-max integration is beneficial in terms of taking control of your tanning business, as every minute that is used on the sunbed is accurately tracked and has to be assigned to a particular client. The T-Max integration allows a live bed view, meaning that technicians and clients can see an accurate countdown of how long a customer has remaining on that particular bed. Again, this means that there will be no ‘mysterious’ freebie minutes given away or any ‘missing’ tokens, as all tanning minutes that have been put through the system that day will appear on a report as service minutes, in which you can also track this by bed number.

Home Access for Salon Owners

Salon owners now have the ability to view business activity including reports, such as daily takings and stock checks, accurately track KPI’s and monitor staff shift patterns- all whilst absent from the salon. Our software will track all transactions undertaken by each employee login, meaning mistakes or malicious tanning bookings cannot be covered up. The staff rota reports that record each employees’ clock-in and out time via the fingerprint reader will accurately track the duration of those staff shifts and will highlight any lateness, in which an owner can identify from home and follow up on their salon return.

If any of the above sounds like it would benefit you, why not get in touch and have a chat with a member of our team? Everyone who enquires is entitled to a FREE no obligation fortnight trial of our software…to receive your trial click the link > http://www.salontracker.co.uk/FreeTrial.aspx

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