ARC Salon Service Profit Engine
Stop guessing what your services should cost.
The ARC Salon Service Profit Engine is a practical Excel-based business tool designed for salons and beauty professionals who want to understand what each service really costs to deliver — and whether the price and appointment time actually make commercial sense.
Instead of simply calculating a markup, the Engine brings together labour, overheads, products, consumables, appointment time, GST and payment costs to give you a clearer picture of your service economics.
What it helps you do
- Calculate the true cost of delivering each service
- Include labour, overheads, products and consumables
- Understand contribution and margin by service
- Measure contribution per booked hour
- Identify services that consume too much appointment time
- Calculate target service prices
- Test price changes before updating your menu
- Analyse service mix and weekly booked capacity
- Compare the economics of different treatments
- Generate clear KEEP / REPRICE / REDESIGN TIME / REPRICE & REDESIGN recommendations
- Optionally use AI to review your results and identify priorities
Included
9-sheet Excel workbook:
START HERE — Simple setup instructions
BUSINESS SETUP — Configure your salon's costs and targets
PRODUCT COSTS — Track products and consumables
SERVICE COSTING — Calculate the real cost of each service
SERVICE PROFITABILITY — See margin and booked-hour performance
PRICE SIMULATOR — Test proposed price changes
CAPACITY REVIEW — Analyse service mix and appointment-time economics
DASHBOARD — See your key service profitability indicators
AI REVIEW — Optional structured AI analysis prompt
Built for appointment-based beauty businesses
Ideal for hair salons, hairdressers, beauty salons, beauty therapists, nail salons, lash and brow businesses, barbers and other appointment-based beauty businesses.
A$29 — one-time payment. No subscription.
Instant digital download.
Beauty builds confidence. Good business builds freedom.
Business planning and analysis tool only. Results depend on the accuracy of your inputs and assumptions. This product does not provide accounting, tax, legal, employment or financial advice. No particular sales, revenue or profit outcome is guaranteed.