Bookkeeping for Salons & Barbershops
Service income, retail, tips, booth rent, commission and hourly pay, processor fees: a salon's books have a lot of moving parts. I keep them clean in QuickBooks so you actually know your numbers.
What makes salon books tricky
- Service vs. retail income.Cuts and color are a different number than product sales, and mixing them hides what's really driving the business.
- Booth rent & chair income. If you rent chairs, that income has to be tracked separately from your own service revenue.
- Commission vs. hourly stylists.Different pay structures make payroll and labor cost messy if they aren't categorized cleanly.
- Tips and processor deposits. Card processors and booking platforms deposit net of fees and tips, so the real numbers are buried inside.
How I keep it clean
- Income split the right way. Service, retail, and any chair/booth rent tracked separately so each tells its own story.
- Deposits reconciled to real money. Card-processor and platform deposits matched and broken out from fees and tips.
- Labor that makes sense. Commission and hourly pay categorized consistently so you can see true labor cost.
- Tax-time ready. Clean, current books your accountant can work from without guessing.
I've done this work for a real salon
I built and run the website for a Pittsburgh salon, and I've cleaned up a salon's QuickBooks from showing a phantom loss to clean, reconciled books that finally reflected the true health of the business. I know how this industry's money flows. I'm not learning it on your dime.
Clean books, the right way
I'm a QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisor and fully insured, so your financial details stay confidential. This is bookkeeping that keeps your records tax-time ready and works alongside your accountant; I don't file taxes or do CPA work.
QuickBooks Certified by Intuit · Levels 1 & 2Want your salon's books handled?
Tell me a little about your shop: chairs, stylists, how you take payment. Then I'll point you to the right plan and a real price, usually within a day.