Barbershop analytics and revenue
SalonSync reports what your shop actually took — by day, by barber and by service — from payments received rather than from what the diary was worth. It also counts appointments, completed visits and no-shows.
Most shops know roughly what a good week feels like and cannot say what one is worth. The useful numbers are not hard to produce — they are just kept in a drawer of paper and a card machine's roll. SalonSync reports them from the visits it already recorded.
A sample shop: every name and figure below is invented.
Why the numbers in most shops cannot be trusted
“Revenue” usually means the diary
Adding up today's bookings tells you what the day was worth if everybody turned up and paid. That is a forecast, and calling it takings is how a shop believes it earned money it never received.
A quiet week has two explanations
Fewer people booked, or the same number booked and did not come. Those need opposite responses, and a single revenue figure cannot tell them apart.
Nobody knows which barber earns
The busiest chair is not always the most valuable one. Without revenue per barber it is a matter of opinion, and pay conversations run on opinion.
Cash disappears into the drawer
If nothing records how a visit was paid for, the split between cash, card and online is a guess — and so is the shop's actual cash position.
What SalonSync reports
Money received, kept apart from money expected
Takings are keyed on when payment actually arrived. What the diary is worth if everyone turns up and pays is reported too, named as the forecast it is, on its own line. The two are never added together.
- Compared against the previous period
- Split by how it was paid
Kept visits against everything booked
The number that separates a quiet week from a week of no-shows. It is the same set of visits the revenue comes from, so the two cannot disagree.
- Per barber, honestly labelled
- Chair utilisation
Questions about analytics
Is revenue what was booked or what was paid?
What was paid, keyed on when the payment arrived. The diary's value is reported separately and labelled as expected, because a forecast presented as takings is the one number an owner must be able to trust.
Can I compare this month with last month?
Yes. Choose a window of seven, thirty or ninety days and each headline figure shows its change against the equal window before it. If the earlier window had nothing to compare against, the change is omitted rather than invented.
Does a product sale count towards a barber's revenue?
No. Per-barber figures are service revenue only, and the report says so on the panel itself so nobody reads it as total earnings.
Can my barbers see the shop's takings?
No. Revenue and the statistics screen are owner-only, enforced on the API rather than by hiding a menu item. A barber sees their own hours and their own day.
How is chair utilisation worked out?
Booked minutes for the day divided by the shop's open minutes multiplied by the number of chairs taking work. A shop with no barbers reports zero rather than dividing by nothing.
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