No. It is arithmetic on assumptions you can see and edit. Your floor is not our spreadsheet, and a calculator that promised a return would be selling you something.

What if my numbers are very different?

Change them. Every input is a slider, and the output recalculates as you move it. If the result does not justify the subscription for your salon, that is a useful answer too.

Does the estimate include the subscription cost?

No — it shows gross recovery. Subtract your plan from the yearly figure to get the net. Pricing is flat per branch with no percentage of takings, so the subtraction is a fixed number.

ROI calculator

What a tighter close is actually worth

Two things we can attribute honestly — time at the end of the day, and cash that goes unaccounted for. Move the sliders and see the arithmetic.

Run the numbers See what it costs

The calculator

Your floor, your assumptions

Nothing here is sent anywhere — the whole thing runs in your browser.

Your salon

Adjust these to match your floor. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Chairs4

Clients per chair, per day6

Average ticketRs 1,800

Days open per month26

Assumptions

· 35 minutes saved per end-of-day close.
· 0.4% of cash takings currently unaccounted for.
· Front-desk time valued at Rs 380/hour.
· Half of takings assumed to be cash.

What that looks like

Tickets a month: 624
Monthly takings: Rs 11,23,200
Hours back at close, a month: 15.2 hrs
Cash variance recovered: Rs 2,246

Estimated recovery, first year

Rs 96,117

An estimate from the assumptions on the left, not a promise. It counts only time at close and cash variance — it ignores retail attach, no-shows and membership renewals, which are harder to attribute honestly.

Where it comes from

Four places the money is currently going

Time at close

Counting a drawer by denomination and reconciling against expected takings turns a forty-minute reconstruction into a count.

Denomination counting
Expected vs counted variance
Close signed and dated

Cash that quietly leaks

Variance you cannot see is variance you cannot fix. Once every movement posts to one ledger, a gap becomes a number with a date on it.

Every movement posted once
Variance surfaced at close
Audit trail nobody can edit

Disputes that cost an evening

A stylist questioning a commission figure used to mean re-adding a month of bills. Now it means opening a statement.

Line-level attribution
Statement per staff member
Ties back to the invoice ledger

The audit you hope never comes

Reversing entries and an append-only ledger mean your books answer questions instead of raising them.

Append-only ledger
Reversing entries, never edits
Exportable for your accountant

Measured

What actually changes

Not projections — properties of how the system is built.

Close time removed

Counting notes once, against counting and re-counting by hand

Payments reconciled

Every rupee lands against an invoice line, not a total

Silent edits possible

Corrections append a reversing entry instead of overwriting

Data exportable

Every table leaves as CSV, on any plan, at any time

The close

The forty minutes this is really about

Counting notes by denomination against what the day says you should have, then signing it.

Honesty

What this calculator will not do

From the assumptions listed beside the calculator, which you can change. The two we count — time at close and cash variance — are the two we can attribute honestly. We deliberately leave out retail attach, no-show recovery and membership renewals, because attributing those to software rather than to your team would be dishonest.

Run it on a real Saturday instead.

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