Guides & tools.
Salon profit, labor, and take-home — plus how to export your booking file.
Start with the question you have. Every page below is free to read. Tangled Analytics turns the same booking export into profit per stylist hour for team salons; Tangled Solo does take-home per chair hour for booth renters.
Owner guides.
Profit, RPLH, payroll, scheduling, and pricing for salons with employee stylists.
How to maximize salon profitsWhere profit leaks after wages, and what to fix first.
How much does a salon makeRevenue vs profit for a typical team salon.
Is a salon worth owningWhen owning pays, and when it does not.
How to increase salon profitsLabor, scheduling, and RPLH — the cluster hub.
Busy but not profitableWhy a full book can still leave nothing at month end.
Revenue per labor hour (RPLH)Whether an hour of payroll paid for itself.
What is a good RPLH for a salonBenchmarks so you know if your number is healthy.
Salon profit marginsWhat a good margin looks like after wages and rent.
Payroll as a percent of revenueHow much of sales should go to stylist pay.
Chair utilizationHow full your chairs really are.
When to add salon chairsWhen more chairs raise profit, and when they just add empty capacity.
Schedule stylists to demandMatch the floor to busy hours, not hope.
Close on Mondays or slow days?When shutting a day saves more than it costs.
How and when to raise pricesRaise without emptying the book.
How to give commission stylists a raiseRaise prices for the annual raise — keep the commission percent.
Make more money with a salonPractical moves that show up in the month.
Clients per stylist per dayHow many tickets a chair needs to stay ahead.
Booth rent vs commission (owner view)Which model leaves more for the salon.
California minimum wage and commissionHow wage rules hit commission pay plans.
Profit per stylist from GlossGenius or VagaroRead profit by stylist from the export you already have.
Do I need a salon coach?When a coach helps, and when the numbers already answer.
Compare.
Tangled vs spreadsheets and booking-software reports.
Salon analytics vs spreadsheetsRPLH and profit after wages without rebuilding the sheet every week.
Tangled vs booking-software reportsSales reports ≠ profit after wages. Tangled complements GlossGenius, Vagaro, Square, Phorest, etc.
Export & booking systems.
Tangled reads a file from your booking software. Pick yours.
Step-by-step export
- GlossGenius export steps: the line-item checkout export uploads as it is.
- Square export steps: the Item Sales Detail CSV uploads as it is.
- Phorest export steps: the Sales Transactions CSV uploads as it is.
- Vagaro export steps: export the Transaction List to Excel, then save a daily summary CSV.
See profit from your export
Profit from a GlossGenius exportTurn the checkout file into profit by day and stylist.
Profit from a Vagaro exportDaily summary path to profit after wages.
Profit from a Square exportItem Sales Detail into profit per stylist hour.
Profit from a Phorest exportSales Transactions into the same profit view.
Profit from a Boulevard exportDaily summary CSV path — honest, no claimed native parser.
Profit from a Fresha exportSales summary → daily summary → profit after wages.
Profit from a Mindbody exportDaily summary CSV path for Mindbody sales exports.
Using something else? See the FAQ daily summary format.
Booth / Solo.
Take-home after rent for booth and suite renters.
Booth renter profitCluster hub for solo take-home guides.
Make more money as a booth renterWhere take-home leaks, and what to change.
How much should booth rent beRent that still leaves you ahead.
Take-home per chair hourThe booth-renter version of RPLH.
Booth rent vs commission for stylistsWhich path pays you more after costs.
Product cost per serviceWhat color and product really cost per ticket.
Track product cost as a booth renterA simple way to keep product from eating take-home.
Take-home from a GlossGenius exportRead take-home after rent from your checkout file.
Tangled Solo is $29/month for booth renters: take-home per chair hour, day rent is covered, and a tax set-aside.
Calculators.
Free tools — no account needed.
Salon break-even calculatorHow much a team salon needs to make before it is ahead.
Salon RPLH calculatorService revenue ÷ paid stylist hours, with optional wage-cost compare.
Booth rent take-home calculatorTake-home after rent for booth and suite renters.
Your data stays yours. Files only; nothing connects to your POS.