Inventory tracking

The Inventory page tracks stock for anything you sell or use in the salon — retail products, colour tubes, shampoo, towels, toothbrushes, whatever. It's optional and off by default: use it if you want, ignore it if you don't.

Categories first

Before adding items, create a few categories to group them. Typical examples:

• Retail — things you sell to clients.
• Colour — tubes, developers, bleach.
• Back bar — shampoos, conditioners, treatments.
• Consumables — foils, gloves, capes.

You can edit or add categories from the dropdown on the Inventory page header.

Adding an item

Click Add item and fill in:

• Name — what you call it day-to-day.
• Category — pick from the ones you created.
• Current stock — how many you have right now.
• Low stock threshold — trigger an alert when stock hits this number.
• Cost price — what you paid (optional, used for margin reporting).
• Retail price — what you sell it for (optional, used for sales reporting).
• Notes — anything else worth remembering (supplier, SKU, fridge shelf).

Low-stock badge

When any item drops to or below its threshold, an amber badge appears on the Inventory link in the top nav showing the count of low-stock items. Click through to see which ones need reordering.

The badge updates in real time as stock moves — no page refresh needed.

Adjusting stock

Open any item and use the stock adjustment form to log a change:

• Received — added to stock (delivery, restock).
• Used — removed from stock (applied during a service, retail sale).
• Adjusted — a manual correction (stocktake, spillage, loss).

Every adjustment is logged with a date, quantity, and optional note — so you have a full audit trail of where stock went.

Tips

• Start small. Track just retail items for the first month, then expand to colour if you find it useful.
• Set realistic thresholds. The badge should nudge you, not scream at you. Use "enough for a week" as your threshold, not "one left".
• Do a monthly stocktake. Reset counts once a month so discrepancies don't compound.