The Salon Bookkeeper
Fully booked should feel better than this.
Your week was busy. Your work was excellent. Yet the number in your bank account still feels smaller than the week deserved.
The problem is not your talent. It is the second half of the job nobody taught you.
The Salon Bookkeeper turns the money side of independent beauty work into a clear, practical system you can maintain in about ten minutes a week - then hands you the worksheets to run it.
What this book gives you- A habit that holds. Ten minutes a week, designed to survive a long day on your feet
- Every deduction, line by line. Tips, products, rent, mileage, education, the home office, and the ones most stylists never claim
- Tax without dread. Self-employment tax, quarterly estimates, and how much of each payment to set aside
- Your real hourly rate. What one hour in the chair actually leaves you, once everything is counted
- Pricing from your numbers. Not from the salon down the road
- A catch-up chapter for a messy year, and records that hold up if you are ever reviewed
Four printed worksheets and a 30-day money reset close the book: your weekly ten minutes, the monthly deduction sweep, your real hourly rate, and what a single service costs you to deliver.
Also written for the professionals around the chairA dedicated chapter serves the bookkeeper taking on a salon client, and the book is built to be used as a plain-language reference in cosmetology and barbering programmes - the business module most curricula leave thin.
Please note: this is a U.S.-focused edition. Tax examples use U.S. federal language and agencies. The bookkeeping and pricing systems work anywhere; the tax chapters are written for U.S. readers.
The business side of the chair, finally explained in plain English.