26 Feb 2020

Using Reports To Help Grow Your Salon Business


For those of you that already have Salon Tracker, I’m sure you already know about our amazing reports suite. We have plenty of different reports on the software, from the more basic cashing up report to the more complex reports like sales summary by category, there’s one for everything. Although you might already use the reports to get the figures and information you want, you might not be using them to your full advantage, and that’s where I step in. 

Sales by Hour
Once you’ve had the software for a few months, the reports will be able to give you a more accurate overview. The Sales by Hour is a great report, as it lets you see your peak hours when you’re super busy, and then the quieter periods where business is a little bit slower. From this you could then look to introduce a Happy Hour scheme, as this will help to improve business and revenue during these quieter periods. I mean you might as well give it a try and see if there’s any difference!

Sales by Day
This one is very similar to the sales by hour report, but it’s going to show you a bar chart of your sales by day. This is another great one, as it will give you an overall view of your best-selling days or your not so good days. This is a great one to pair with the Sales by Hour report if you are thinking of introducing a Happy Hour scheme, as you might want to look at only applying it on specific days. For example, if we look at the Sales by Day chart you can see that Sunday is the worst performer, however in most cases salons are open for limited hours on Sundays, so I am going to ignore this and look at the next lowest. Both Monday and Wednesday are showing similar figures, if we then look back to the sales by hour chart, it might be a good idea to introduce the Happy Hour on Monday and Wednesday only, between 12pm and 2pm. You can even set it up on Salon Tracker to only give discounts within a certain time period, which is great as it means that staff don’t need to remember to put the discount on themselves when putting sales through as everything is auto!
 
Retail Sales by Number Sold
This is a great report if you are wanting to focus on your retail sales, as it will list your best and worst selling items. This is great as it means that you can narrow down your stock to be the ones that you know your customers like, this will reduce your overall costs as you won’t be buying as many products. It also gives you more ability to try out new and different products, as you will have more budget to spend. By using this report, you could also look at increasing your prices on your best- selling products, as customers will still be likely to buy them even if the price is slightly higher. This doesn’t have to be anything ridiculous; it can just be a 50p or £1 increase.

Booking by Numbers Confirmed
This is another great report if you are wanting to look at your services in more detail, to see which services are performing well. As you can see on the report you will get a break down of your best to work selling service. This again is very similar to the retail sales by number sold, as you can see which services aren’t worth selling, and again which ones are your most popular so you can look to increase the price.

Hopefully this has helped you to understand how the reports suite in Salon Tracker can help you improve your business and grow your sales! If you aren’t already a customer of Salon Tracker and would be interested in taking a look at the software you can register for your free demo and trial here www.salontracker.co.uk/freetrial.aspx or alternatively you can call us on 0113 350 8230 and someone will be happy to help.

Don’t forget we are exhibiting at this year’s Professional Beauty London! Don’t hesitate to drop by our stand (S35), you can meet the team and have a live demonstration of the software. We look forward to seeing everyone there!

Salon Tracker x

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