SalonScale
Know your color costs. Protect your profit.
Backbar color management app + Bluetooth scale that shows the true cost of every color formula, tracks waste, manages inventory, and reorders product — so color stops being a guess.
What to know about SalonScale
- Core features
- Real-time color cost calculator with developer ratio, remix calculator, and processing timer
- Digital waste bucket + waste tracking, per stylist and per color line
- Backbar library covering 400+ professional color and extension brands, with customizable color pricing
- Inventory management with stock alerts, inventory count, and smart reorder suggestions
- Stylist insights: usage reports, waste reports, and service tracking
- Client photos and digital formula storage for repeatable results
- Integrates with major booking software so color cost lands in the ticket
- Pros
- Turns backbar into a measurable profit line rather than a fixed cost
- Waste tracking coaches overpour without micromanaging the floor
- Flexible hardware — bring your own scale, use Acaia, or add the Precision Scale
- Tiered pricing scales cleanly from solo stylist up to unlimited-team salons
- Support model
Live support, SalonScale Academy (on-demand education and training), free DIY onboarding, and an optional Transform package ($199) for a fully guided team rollout.
- Ideal business type
Color-focused salons — from solo colorists to multi-chair teams — that want to price color precisely, control backbar cost, and coach stylists on waste while keeping their existing booking platform.
Key features
- Real-time color cost calculation as stylists weigh — every formula, every service
- Digital waste bucket and waste reports to coach overpour by stylist
- Backbar management across 400+ color lines and extension brands with custom color pricing
- Inventory management with stock alerts, inventory count, and smart ordering
- Stylist usage and waste reports plus service menu tracking
- Integrates with major booking platforms so color cost flows into the client ticket
Getting started
- 1Choose a plan by team size and pick your hardware — use your own scale, buy the Precision Scale, or bring a compatible Bluetooth Acaia scale.
- 2Onboard with the free DIY path (SalonScale Academy + on-demand training) or the paid Transform guided rollout for a fully-supported team launch.
- 3Stylists weigh color at dispense in the app — real cost, developer ratio, and processing timer appear as they mix.
- 4Front desk and owners see waste, inventory, stylist, and service reports; smart ordering flags what to reorder from the backbar.
Plans
- Full mobile app, product cost calculator, digital waste bucket
- Backbar reporting and inventory management
- Booking software integration
- Everything in Solo for a small team
- Stylist usage and waste reports
- Service menu tracking
- Best fit for growing salons
- Full backbar + stylist insights
- Smart ordering and stock alerts
- Built for larger teams and multi-chair salons
- All reporting, inventory, and stylist insights included
- Priority live support
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