View details of just a few of the great features you'll experience with Salon Iris software in the chart below. To experience all of the features that you will receive when purchasing Salon Iris for your salon or spa, download the free trial, which is a full-working version of the software! Have questions? Our helpful sales staff would be glad to give you more information about how Salon Iris will help your business.
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Quick and Easy Scheduling of Salon and Spa Appointments
Salon Iris has the most powerful and simple appointment book available to help you manage your salon. Customized color codes make it easy to quickly view when an employee is available to book, to view what type of appointments you have for the day, and even determine who still needs to receive a confirmation call or e-mail. Book, rebook, check in clients, and so much more with just a couple of clicks. Creating an appointment is easy, and keeping your employee's appointments organized is even easier when using Salon Iris.
The Appointment Book also includes the following features:
- Drag-and-drop appointments
- Color code services according to category
- Print out "traveler" tickets
- Display custom notes for each employee
- You can track pre-paid services
- If you offer spa services, you can view and schedule your massage rooms, facial rooms, etc. in the Appointment Book using the resource feature.
Client Tracking for Beauty Salon Management
Salon Iris salon software allows you to create a detailed, custom client list, including pictures. All editions of Salon Iris software can store an unlimited number of clients in the database, so you will never run out of space! Learn about your clientele from your software! Managing your salon is easier with a contact database with all the important information you need about each of your clients. Salon Iris software also has built-in reports to display top spending clients, percent of clients that are retained by employees, new client lists, client referral types and many others!
Each client has a complete purchase history profile which contains information about previous product and service sales to help you suggest items to clients during their visits. No-shows and cancellations are also tracked per client so you know who to follow up with, and special pop-up notes can be made for each client to give you an extra alert when creating or editing any appointment for the client.
Client Formula History
Record detailed formula history for each client. Quickly pull up and/or print formula history for a client before their appointment or whenever you need fast access to detailed color information. Formula history notes are completely flexible and can contain any amount of information, so you will always have all that you need at your fingertips!
Unlimited Client Before, After and Profile Photos
Salon Iris can store, display, and print an unlimited number of pictures of each client with just a click of the button. Use a web cam or digital camera to take photos and add directly into Salon Iris software, or add an existing photo file from anywhere on the computer - even scanned images!
You can use the Picture Manager to store a series of before and after photos when doing a series of services, and keep a main picture of your client that comes up when scheduling and editing appointments and sales!
Employee Scheduling
Enter each employee's schedule of working hours for individual days and even set up a recurring schedule for the employee to record many days' schedule at a time. The Salon Iris Appointment Book reflects the employees' schedule by displaying what days and times they are working or unavailable.
Additionally, employees can clock in and out using the Time Clock feature, and you can track the working hours for each employee in addition to the scheduled hours. If you are using the Payroll feature as well, you can import time clock hours into payroll to calculate hourly pay for each employee.
Product and Service Sales
Salon Iris management software allows you to enter a list of services, prices, and descriptions that your business offers. Scan bar codes to quickly sell products, add products or services to a ticket by looking up an item from an available list or entering a quick ID, and even handle pre-paid services so that clients can pay for a series of services in advance quickly and easily.
Manage Inventory and Product Information
Salon Iris salon software allows you to track your products, including the quantity in stock, which is automatically updated every time a product is sold and inventory is received. Salon Iris salon software works with bar code scanners so that you can quickly sell your products to clients or add new products to the database.
Sales Totals and Sales Tax Reporting
View a detailed sales totals report for your entire business or a single employee over any range of dates. You can get information about service sales totals, product sales totals, returns, and so much more!
View a complete break-down of payment types for all tickets that were closed. See a record of the sales tax that was collected by the business so that you know that paying your taxes will be quick and easy with this accurate reporting.
Integrated Credit Card Processing
Salon Iris offers the convenience of completely integrated credit card processing at competitive rates. You can run credit cards directly through Salon Iris software in just a few easy steps. You can accept payments through Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover.
You can also setup multiple merchant accounts so that your booth renters and independent contractors can process credit card cards transactions through their own accounts.
Compatible with the Powerful Online Booking System
Your clients can book and schedule an appointment in just a few minutes, and you can have a fully functional web site that you can use to promote specials at your business, market to new clients, and give information about services that you offer. Scheduling an appointment online takes just a couple of minutes, and is always available to your clients, even when your business is closed.
Salon Iris software will check for new appointment requests automatically and will alert you when new ones come in. Simply accept the appointment to add it to your appointment book, and Salon Iris will send the client a confirmation message to let them know that you will look forward to seeing them at their appointment booked online. Check out our demo website to see what online booking can offer your salon. Online booking is offered as a subscription, so check out pricing information if you would like to add online booking to your software.
Automatic and Secure Database Backups
Salon Iris salon software comes with an easy-to-use built-in backup system. This simplifies the process of backing up your information and helps reduce the chance of client information loss if your computer is damaged. All of your important client, sales, product, service, employee, etc. information is saved if you ever need to restore all of your information.
Backups can also be manually made to a separate device, so that in the event of a computer failure you can recover all of your information on a new computer easily. Want to see when you made your last backup? Just go to the Options screen and take a look. Salon Iris salon software remembers this date! Restoring your data is also simple. Answer a few questions and your database and related information will be restored.
Access Your Information Remotely and From your iPhone or Android device!
With your purchased of Version 9, receive a free 12 month subscription to the new LiveAccess service. With LiveAccess, employees can log in online to view upcoming appointments exactly as they appear in Salon Iris and even book new appointments quickly and easily.
From any computer or mobile device with an Internet browser, or from our free iPhone and Android apps, employees can easily log in and see what appointments they have scheduled, book new appointments, view client information, check their sales totals, and more. The remote access service also allows you to set up custom employee permissions to be secure, customizable, and easy to use.
Custom, Integrated Gift Cards for Your Salon and Spa
Provide a professional touch, free advertisement, and have immediate income when gift cards are sold.
Custom designed gift cards with Salon Iris provide a quick and efficient way for your clients to pre-pay for products and services. After a gift card is purchased, it can be used on returning visits to pay for purchases.
Marketing Campaign Creation and Management System
Using the powerful Marketing feature in Salon Iris, you will be able to construct lists of clients based on purchase history and client information.
Marketing Campaigns are perfect if you want to notify your clients of specials, follow up after specific services, or say "Happy Birthday!" with a special offer.
Marketing Campaigns can have an email template associated with them to easily send out your mass email and refer to your offer. During an active campaign or upon its completion you can check out the effectiveness of your campaign through return-rate reports. Quickly view which clients received each campaign notification in the client history.
Send HTML Emails Directly From Salon Iris Software
Compose and send full-color HTML emails with options to adjust text color, size, and font. Include pictures and include special layouts to send catchy, modern emails to your clients for reminders, promotions, birthday greeting, or just special follow-up messages. Emails are sent directly from the software to reduce the steps you need to take when doing a marketing email blast or trying to communicate directly with individual clients. Save templates of your emails that can be re-used over and over to save you time with recurring emails.
Setup in Salon Iris is quick and easy! Use your own business email address to send out messages to your clients. Best of all, there are no per-email fees that are often seen with mass email systems commonly used for marketing campaigns.
Over 200 Reports Available!
Salon Iris software includes over 200 built-in reports that will help you to get details about your sales, clients, products, and so much more! The built-in reports are easy-to-use and provide you with key details that will help you to run your business effectively.
Most reports can be viewed in a simple grid as well as a full-color graph! You will be able to visually see all the information about your business in a variety of ways, and print the information to keep on record.
Aveda Business College Equivalent - Complete Benchmarking Report
If your salon takes part in Aveda's ABC program (or even if not), Salon Iris makes it easy for you to determine your business's performance in one detailed report. This report features service and product sales information, as well as client retention, prebooking, productivity and more.
Get information for your business as a whole and each employee individually over any range of dates, and compare your information with Aveda's industry goals to compare how your business is doing. Never has measuring your business's performance been so easy.
Comprehensive Business Performance Reports
Comprehensive business reports such as "Business Growth" and "Employee Performance" give you all the key information you need to determine performance in one easily accessible report.
You will be able to get detailed reports that cover the key aspects of your business, while also providing only the information you need in one place. These easily printable reports that are formatted to allow you to get only what you need most quickly and easily.
Transfer Your Information Into QuickBooks
You don't need to use QuickBooks to manage your business when you have Salon Iris software to run your payroll, print checks, and handle your account information through the General Ledger. Still, we know
that many accountants and business owners like to use QuickBooks for accounting, which is why we have made sending your information to QuickBooks fast and easy. You can export your clients, employees, inventory, services, vendor list, and general ledger financial transactions into QuickBooks with just a few clicks using the QuickBooks Export feature.
Inventory Management and Automatic Reordering System
At the touch of a button, Salon Iris can print a complete product list and tell you which items need to be ordered. Salon Iris also comes with a built-in reorder reminder feature so that you can set the level at which you will need to order your products, and you will be automatically notified when your need to order your products, and how many should be ordered. You can even create a purchase order directly from your low-inventory list, email the purchase order to your vendor, print a vendor check and record the payment in your General Ledger in just a few quick clicks.
Inventory levels can be easily updated using a bar code scanner or data collector when your orders arrive from vendors so that the stock levels in Salon Iris software can be easily maintained.
Printing bar code Labels
Print a bar code label for any product in your database! For any of your items that might not come with a bar code label already printed, you can make your own to take advantage of the quick bar code scanning that Salon Iris offers when selling products to a client. Best of all, you don't even have to have a special printer to do it! Salon Iris software can print bar code labels to your regular full-size printer using sheets of labels, or can print to a special label printer such as the Dymo LabelWriter when you want to print single labels at a time. Many label sizes are supported, so no matter what the product you can print the perfect sized bar code label.
Employee Password Protection with automatic logout
Setting up password protection in Salon Iris software is easy! Each major screen and feature can be password protected. Each employee may have his/her unique password and list of screens and features that can be accessed. Salon Iris also works with custom Employee ID cards so that employees can quickly swipe a card to access any protected feature.
Set up the automatic log out feature to make sure employees will not stay logged in if the computer remains inactive. Automatic logout further increases the security of your system, while making it easier on your employees.
Send Appointment Reminders to a Client's Email or Phone
Save time calling clients to remind them of upcoming appointments. Salon Iris will automatically send email reminders to your client's cell phone or email address before the client's appointment. Email and SMS reminder messages are completely customizable, and can be sent automatically throughout the day so that clients are always notified of upcoming appointments.
Extensive Payroll System
The Salon Iris salon software Payroll feature works with virtually all worldwide payroll systems, including the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Easily handle most aspects of payroll:
- Full support for employee product and service commissions
- Calculate hourly wages and set up salary amounts
- Track and settle tips with payroll
- Deduct Federal, State and Local taxes
- Set up custom deductions that are specific to your business or location
- Manage healthcare and retirement fund deductions
- Download free Federal Tax table updates
- Calculate back bar deductions for product usage during services
- Print payroll checks and check stubs
- Determine year-to-date and end-of-year payroll information (W2 and 1099)
With the Salon Iris payroll system, there is no need to have an outsourced company or separate accounting program to manage your payroll. You will save time and money by letting your own salon management software handle calculations and check printing!
Spa Software That Schedules Rooms and Equipment
You can easily schedule rooms for facial treatments and massages, as well as manage tanning beds or even classrooms using the Resource feature. The rooms and/or tanning beds will appear in the Appointment Book alongside your employees. Resources can be booked automatically by linking a resource to a service or manually in the same manner that an appointment is scheduled with an employee.
Manage Resource Capacities to Schedule Group Services & Classes
With Capacity Management, you will be able to set the maximum number of clients that can be scheduled within a single resource at any time. Perfect for group spa services such as bridal retreats, as well as fitness classes or special events.
Store Important Documents On File For Each Client
Each client can have his or her own documents linked so that you can keep important medical, legal, or informational notes on file needed for spa services. Any file that is saved on your computer can be linked to a client, so you can quickly and easily access scanned documents and images, service agreements, or questionnaires in just about any file format.
Manage Your Accounts with the General Ledger
Track all of your financial transactions for multiple bank accounts, such as a checking account, business account and savings account. These transactions can be rent payments, utility payments, supplier shipments, written checks, and most other financial transactions that can occur within a business. The General Ledger works very much like an interactive bank account statement. Salon Iris software can even calculate the current balance of your account based on what checks have cleared.
View Business Profit and Loss Information
The Salon Iris software Profit and Loss report provides the comprehensive tools for analyzing the income, expense, and net profit for your business. Display a complete breakdown of your business's income and deductions based on sales transactions, payroll records, and general ledger entries. Run the Profit and Loss report over any date range to view a summary of how your business is performing financially during any time period.
The Wait List Automatically Searches for Openings to Book Clients
The Wait List feature allows you to create a list of clients who have no previously scheduled appointment and are in the lobby waiting for an available employee, or would like to schedule an appointment for a future date that is currently booked. On a Wait List entry, you will be able to add multiple services and employees, and define when the client is available to come in. Salon Iris will look for openings in your appointment book as existing appointments are cancelled or moved, and you will be notified when a match is found for a wait listed appointment request so that you can keep your appointment book full and your clients happy!
Create Your Own Reports
Most information that you will need can be found in the hundreds of built-in reports included in Salon Iris. But, if you need a report that isn't already found in Salon Iris... you can always create your own! To create your own report, you need to understand Structured Query Language (SQL), which is a series of commands you use to specify what information you want in your report. Don't know SQL? That's OK - our technical support team is happy to help you by offering assistance on writing custom reports and developing complete custom reports for you!
Use Salon Iris Software on Multiple Computers
Salon Iris has been designed to operate exceptionally in a local area network. Several computers on a network can be connected, and your employees can use Salon Iris software simultaneously for all of their scheduling, reporting, and management tasks.
All of the information in Salon Iris (i.e. clients, appointments, products, services, etc.) will be available on each of the computers. Your Appointment Book will continuously refresh automatically to make sure to display all of the most up-to-date information, even when edited on another computer.
Unique Reports for Wide Area Networking
Special reports that can only be found in the WAN edition of Salon Iris will help you to manage all of your locations more efficiently. You will be able to determine the sales totals for all locations combined, show a complete inventory count of all locations, and more.
Connect Multiple Locations with Wide Area Networking
The Wide Area Networking (WAN) version of Salon Iris allows multiple locations of your business to share information with each other. An unlimited number of stores anywhere in the world can be set up to share information, making it perfect for any corporate or franchise business, as well as multiple locations owned by a single person. Setup is easy and requires little additional hardware to allow your multiple locations to connect.
With the WAN edition of Salon Iris software, you can switch to another location's database to view clients, book appointments, update inventory, run reports, and so much more.
Automate Marketing & Enhance your Web Presence
Demandforce integration with Salon Iris is a totally optional feature that is popular with large salons; however, it works on all editions of our software.
The Demandforce integration grows your business through automated email, text, social media and online review programs to attract new clients, recover lost clients and measure results. The Demandforce integration expands your presence across the web by automatically providing and updating your business information on 140+ sites and search engines including Google, Facebook and CityGrid. To learn more, visit Demandforce.com.
