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"What does each service really cost?" "Which tech is actually profitable?" "Where am I losing money I can't see?" Each block below answers one of those questions — with the engine that powers it named so you can dig in.
Sample tiles from a 5-tech salon. Plug in Plaid and your POS — these become your numbers.
"Can I run business and personal money side by side without mixing them up?"
Run separate Personal and Business budgets, or any custom spec, and switch with a dropdown. Categories nest (Payroll → Regular + Commission + Bonuses), are edited per month, with planned-vs-actual on every row.
"Do I have to type every transaction in?"
Connect bank and credit-card accounts via Plaid for auto-import of new transactions. 90 days of history sync on connection. Pause or resume per account; manual accounts available for banks Plaid doesn't support.
"What if my bank or backbar supplier doesn't connect?"
Useful for imported history or for owners who prefer manual control over auto-sync. Any CSV format is accepted.
"What about my Vagaro / Square / Booksy data?"
Vagaro Transaction List XLSX is supported today. Square Appointments, Booksy, Mindbody, and Phorest are on the roadmap. Once committed, your Profitability dashboard flips from "estimated" to "live" — real margins from real bookings.
"Do I have to categorize every transaction myself, forever?"
Match by payee, description, amount range, or regex. Drag rules to set priority. The engine watches your manual categorizations and proposes new rules with a confidence score and a preview of which historical transactions would match.
"How do I stop owner-draws and account transfers from inflating my expenses?"
Inter-account transfers are scored across amount match, date proximity, and description hints. High-confidence matches auto-confirm; the rest land in a review queue so they don't double-count in your budget.
Suggestions are derived from patterns in your manual categorizations. Accept once, and matching transactions auto-assign on every future import.
Confirm or ignore each match. Confirmed transfers are excluded from budget categories so your spend numbers stay accurate.
"How do rent, software, and overhead actually attach to a service I deliver?"
Auto-derived pools for Facility, Salaried Overhead, and Equipment, plus user-defined buckets for insurance, software, bonuses, and seasonal costs. Fund a pool from a budget category and the system computes a smoothed monthly value, then attaches a fair share to every service.
"Which services are making me money — and which ones are quietly losing it?"
Revenue, labor, backbar, and absorbed overhead per service — actual margins, not category averages. The kind of answer a coach charges $1,500/month to produce.
"Which techs are pulling weight, and which ones are running on idle?"
Per-employee P&L: revenue contributed, hours booked, idle hours, and the break-even booking rate that has to be cleared before they're net-positive.
"Is one of my techs draining my margin on a specific service without me noticing?"
Every combination of tech and service, scored by margin. Sort to find unprofitable pairings before they distort your month.
"How much do empty chairs cost me each week — in actual dollars?"
Tech-hours, chair-hours, and station-hours that aren't producing revenue, expressed in dollars — not just "you have gaps." So you can decide whether to fix the schedule, fix the marketing, or fix the staffing.
"Can I trust these numbers, or is this still a guess?"
Profitability shows an explicit badge — Estimated when running on target booking rates, Live once your POS history is committed. No wondering whether you're looking at hopes or measurements.
Same chair, same hour — wildly different margins. That's what TDABC surfaces.
"My shop doesn't look like the textbook example. Can the engine still fit?"
Adjust target booking rate, employer tax %, default tip %, and other engine parameters so the costing model matches how your salon actually runs. (TDABC tuning, for the curious.)
"How does scheduling tie back to profitability?"
Every appointment becomes a data point in per-service and per-tech margin. Revenue and time hit the costing engine the moment a booking lands — no after-the-fact reconciliation.
"What do I need to set up before any of this is trustworthy?"
A live status check across the top — Facility, Resources, Stations, Services, Employees, Bookings, Profitability. Click an amber or red node to land on the page that fixes it. No guessing.
"Can the dashboard show what I actually care about?"
Show, hide, and reorder widgets — Cash on hand, Monthly profit, Bookings this week, Pending transfers, Services to look at, Budget snapshot. Reset to defaults anytime.
"How do I match the right tech's pay grade to the right service?"
Map which techs can deliver which service tiers (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) so the booking engine knows who's qualified — and the margin engine knows what each booking actually costs to deliver.
30 days of full Pro on signup. Manual budget & CSV import stay free forever.
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