Fully Booked · 11 guides
A busy salon can still lose money. These guides cover the numbers behind a healthy salon: how GST works for salon services and retail products since the September 2025 change, how to price a service so every chair-minute pays, how to raise the average bill without pushy selling, how to price bridal work and take deposits, how to read your P&L, how to close the counter every night without leaks, how to sell packages that don't eat your margin, and which loans and government schemes a salon can actually use.
Money & GST
A salon bookkeeping routine for Indian owners: daily closing, a chart of accounts, UPI and card reconciliation, packages as liabilities and what your CA needs.
Money & GST
Lay out a salon rate card clients actually read: category order, service names, stylist levels, GST, combos, a sample rate list and when to change it.
Money & GST
Sell shampoos, serums and skin care without pushing: the mirror script, a small range, shelf layout, MRP rules, margin maths with GST, and staff commission.
Money & GST
How to build and price bridal makeup packages for Indian weddings: per-look pricing, peak muhurat dates, deposits, contracts, paid trials, staffing and GST.
Money & GST
Salon services carry 5% GST without input tax credit since 22 September 2025. What it means for your prices, invoices, products, packages and returns.
Money & GST
Find what each chair-minute costs, add product and commission, and set salon prices that keep a margin. Worked examples, level pricing and a price-rise message.
Money & GST
The maths behind your salon's average bill, add-ons that pay, retail that doesn't feel like selling, menu anchoring, staff scripts, incentives and tracking.
Money & GST
A day-end closing routine for salons: count the cash, match UPI and card settlements, spot counter leaks, and send the owner a one-page daily report.
Money & GST
Which loans and schemes a salon or beauty parlour can use in 2026: Mudra limits, the PMEGP subsidy, Stand-Up India's status, CGTMSE, documents and red flags.
Money & GST
How to price salon memberships, prepaid packages and wallet top-ups so they bring cash in without eating margin, with worked examples, six ideas and scripts.
Money & GST
Build a monthly salon P&L, find the cost lines that leak, work out your break-even revenue and use ten levers to lift your margin, with a worked example.
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