What would that be worth to you?
Every decision you'll make this year (who you hire, what you charge, whether you close Saturdays) sits on top of these numbers. So do the people at home, and the people on your floor. A coaching program that walks you through some of this over three months runs into the thousands. A CFO reviewing your business, thousands more. You get all three, in one layer, from day one.
- Done-for-you setupWe show you exactly where the reports live in your software and Xero. Then we crunch three years of data by hand, check what your systems have been tracking, match your staff across every system, and sort the messy parts. If something needs a question to your accountant, we tell you exactly what to ask. Includes a 30-minute Zoom onboarding call. Real hours, ours.
- Know Your SalonFive minutes of questions, once: what you want this year, what worries you, how the team's employed, how full the diary is. From then on every read is shaped to your salon, not a generic one.
- The survival numbersDaily target, weekly breakeven, safety margin. The walk-in-Monday-knowing numbers.
- Staff cost vs revenueWages plus super against what each person billed, green, amber or red. The “where does my wage bill actually go” table. Payroll loaded for you.
- Staff SpotlightEach stylist's rebooking and retail against your own salon's average, with the gap priced per month. Who's ahead, who needs help, and what it's worth.
- The six what-ifsTest a price rise, a roster change, a retail push, and see the answer in dollars before you try it on real clients.
- The Game Plan and GoalsDaily habits, quarterly goals with a deadline and a dollar value on each, coaching priorities with names, and three goals with a progress bar. Refreshed every quarter. Printable for the staff-room wall.
- Works with what you runPhorest, Fresha, Timely or Kitomba for the salon side. Xero first for the books, and a monthly P&L export from QuickBooks or MYOB loads too. No switching. A Fresha salon is never told to open a Phorest report.
$149 setup · $29 a month
Each salon gets its own read and its own Game Plan, with the same setup by hand. Tick it on the booking form.
You know hair. Know your business too.
Tell us who you are and we'll take you to payment, then send the setup link, what to export from Xero and your salon software, and when your group starts.
Here's all we need to start. Two exports and five minutes, and we do the rest. The First-Read Guarantee applies from the moment you book. Salons come on in small groups, loaded by hand; if this month's is full you're first on the next.
Want to talk it through first? Stuck at any point, before or after? Email Mitch directly at hello@salonbrain.com.au and we'll set up a quick call. A hairdresser answers.
The questions that come up
Isn't this going to cost a fortune?
It's a fraction of what a coaching program costs: a practitioner audit and 12-month plan alone starts around $1,995, ongoing coaching from $295 a month. A fraction of what you'd pay a CFO to go over your business. You're getting all three in one for a sliver of what any one of them charges. And it's faster: instead of paying for three months to have the truth handed to you a bit at a time, you get to the core in a day.
Is there a minimum term?
No. It's month to month. Cancel any time from your account or by emailing us, and the next month simply doesn't bill.
What happens if I cancel?
Your layer goes read-only and stays yours. Three years of your own numbers, read and explained, kept. Nothing updates, and you can rejoin whenever you like.
How does the guarantee work?
Open your first read. If it doesn't show you at least one thing about your salon you didn't already know, email us and the setup fee comes back. All $590 of it. No form, no argument.
How long until I see something?
Your first read lands within a day of clean exports arriving. Setup is done by hand: checking three years, matching your staff, making sure your systems have been tracking properly. If something needs a question to your accountant, the day starts when the answer comes back. After that, each month's update takes about thirty seconds once your new exports are in.
What do I have to do?
Export two reports and answer five minutes of questions. We do the rest. If you've never pulled a report out of your salon software, we show you where it is. There's nothing to install and nothing to learn.
I'm not on Xero. Does it still work?
Yes. Xero is first-class: its P&L and payroll exports feed everything, including the staff cost vs revenue table. If you're on QuickBooks or MYOB, your monthly P&L export loads too; we'll tell you before you pay exactly what that gives you and what it doesn't. The guarantee covers either way.
Which booking systems do you read?
Phorest, Fresha, Timely and Kitomba. If you're on something else, email us before you book and we'll tell you straight whether we can read it.
What about my data?
Your reports stay yours. We work from exports you send: no logins, no access to your booking system. Each salon's data is walled off from every other, and your figures are never used to train anything. Full detail on hosting, retention and access is in our privacy policy.
How do you take payment?
By card at checkout, through Shopify. The setup fee is charged once; the monthly subscription renews on the same date each month until you cancel.
Is this financial advice?
No. Salon Brain sits on your board alongside you, your professional advisors and your stylists. It reads your own figures and brings ideas to the table. It doesn't give financial advice and isn't licensed to. The decisions stay yours.
You can do nothing. Or you can see your numbers.
Keep the reports you don't read, the courses that didn't shift anything, and the feeling that something's off. Another year of the bucket getting bigger. Or send us your exports, and by the time your layer is live you'll know where to look first. Even if it does half of what this page says, it pays for itself the first time it catches a wages problem or a price rise you've been sitting on.
Ideas and suggestions from your own numbers; the decisions are yours.