There are Two Versions of Style
Plus Your Style
The List Of Features Below Will Help You Decide
Which Style Is Best For You

igotstyle-expert:

The Expert System Includes - Client Management, Point of Sale, Stock Control, Employee Management, Gift Card /Certificates, Walk-ins, Series Sales, Inter Staff Mail Messages, Appointment Book, Backup Program and Reports

igotstyle-extra:

The Extra System Includes - Client Management, Point of Sale, Stock Control, Employee Management, Gift Card /Certificates, Time Clock, Waiting List, Walk-ins, Series Sales, Self Employed / Rent A Chair Stylist Tracking, Inter Staff Mail Messages, Appointment Book, Backup Program and Reports, SMS or E-Mail Appointment Reminders and Client Marketing. Plus Salary And Commission Calculation.

your style:

The Your Style System is a Professional Hair Style and Make-Up Imaging System for Salons. It allows you to supply your clients with a preview of hair styles and makeup before you starting cutting and coloring!!!!

Included are 1500 built in hair styles as well as the capability to setup your own hair styles! It is an unlimited photo and unlimited hair style version! You can generate hair styles for all your clients at no additional fee!!!

This is a wonderful edition to any Client Consultation as your client can not only see exactly what you are describing on screen, but you can also print photos for your clients of the hair styles and coordinating makeup. They will undoubtedly shown these to there friends, which in turn will both enhance your salon’s professional image and gain you New Clients through a Marketing Edge.

Style Salon Software Features Overview

Appointments

Appointment scheduling is an extremely important part of the Insight system. We spent over a year developing this feature to ensure that it was as easy to use as the rest of Insight. Our scheduling system is simple, fast and extremely flexible.

• View your entire day on one screen
• View and book in as little as 5 minute increments
• 10 day view mode with full booking capability
• Book most appointments in less than 10 seconds
• Intelligent package booking
• Wizards to help you book packages and standing appointments
• Quick-Repeat function for booking multiple services for the same client
• Comments can be attached to any appointment
• Colour coding for different types of services
• Status bar for requests/non-requests as well as checked in or not
• Can book appointments with 'assistants' performing part of the service
• Double booking allowed with split columns
• Complete flexibility to adjust the time for any part of a service
• Full network support...new appointments appear on all computers instantly
• Services can be set to automatically book a resource (room, chair, etc.) to eliminate conflicts
• Unlimited number of resources (rooms, stations, tables, beds, etc.)
• Specify which services can be booked for each employee to eliminate mistakes
• Drag & Drop appointment moving
• Re-schedule employees from the appointment screen
• Quickly book breaks for any reason
• Track moved, edited, cancelled and deleted appointments
• Add new clients from the appointment sheet
• Appointment confirmation function to verify dates and times with each client
• Customize the order that employees/resources appear on the screen

Clients

Your clients are the heart and soul of your business. Insight keeps track of all your clients so you can find any one of them in seconds. This area of the program was designed to give you all the information that you need to go that extra mile for your customers.

• Validates name, address, phone and email information
• Birth date, Anniversary, First and Last Service Dates
• General comments can be attached to each client
• Comments can be set to "pop up" automatically when booking an appointment and/or entering a sales invoice for the client
• Keep unlimited photos for each client with notes for each photo
• Categorize your clients any way you want for better marketing
• Referral tracking from advertising sources or existing clients
• Unlimited number of service history entries
• Automatically stores date and time of service as well as all professional products used to provide the service
• Tracks all purchases of products, services, and gift certificates
• Displays a list of all past and future appointments
• Accurate tracking of tanning packages and sessions
• Easily send targeted mailings to Non-Returning Clients, New Clients, Birthdays, Referrals,
  and many more options.
• Deactivate clients that haven't been in for a while and still be able to access their history if you
  need it, even recover them easily if they come back!!

Sales

The sales (Point-Of-Sale) module ties all of the client, employee, and inventory sections together. This is the area of Insight that replaces and improves on your cash register. Check-in and check-out can be done in seconds since most of the information is recorded at the time of booking the appointment.

• Compatible with Keyboard, Mouse, and Touch Screen input
• Quick "Active Lookup" of Clients/Services/Products/Employees
• Supports barcode scanners, receipt printers, cash drawers and credit card readers
• One button "check-in" loads all services booked for the selected client
• Fully integrated credit card processing
• See client names, items on invoice, payment methods all on one screen
• Automatically view any appointment comments at time of "check-in"
• Allows for more than one employee per invoice
• Allows for multiple clients on one invoice to accommodate families, groups, weddings, etc.
• Easily add or modify information on the invoice at any time
• Record professional product (back bar) usage for any service
• Easily sell and redeem gift cards / gift certificates
• Free Gift Card tracking - don't pay per swipe!
• Can re-issue gift certificates if there is a remaining value
• Discount any/all items on the invoice by dollar amount or percentage
• Exempt taxes on any/all products/services
• Put multiple invoices "on-hold" to continue working with other clients or on other tasks
• Multiple payment methods can be used on one invoice
• Tracks cash taken out of the drawer for incidental purchases
• Keeps track of drawer totals for multiple cash drawers
• Accurate tracking of tips that can be paid out of the drawer immediately, at the end of the day,
  or automatically through the payroll module
• Can specify more than one type of tip, i.e. tip on a credit card, gift card, etc
• Automatically updates client history and inventory upon completion
• Tracks discounts, edits, voids, and cancelled sales to stop employee fraud

Employees

Security of your data is a critical issue for any business. Insight makes it simple to control who can perform various tasks and which reports each of your employees can view. Insight also makes it easy to find each employee's strong areas as well as areas they need to improve on making it simple for you to get the most out of your employees.

• Validates name, address and phone information
• Comments can be attached to each employee
• Group your employees by job title for comparing on reports
• Specify which employees should appear on appointment sheet
• Set up flexible rotating work schedules for as many weeks as you need
• Can set up a personal assistant
• Can adjust service eligibility, booking times, and prices to charge for each individual employee/service
• Secure passwords to track the actions of each employee
• Set up privileges to specify who can perform various tasks
• Set up report privileges to indicate specific reports that each employee can view

Services

Insight Salon & Spa Software makes it easy to list, sell and manage your services.

• Put each service in a department (Hair, Esthetics, etc.) and category (Cuts, Colours, Manicures, etc.)
• Unlimited different price levels so that different employees can charge different amounts for the same service
• Can assign resources or rooms to be booked along with the service
• Can specify which employees are qualified to perform a particular service and which ones are not, which prevents appointment booking mistakes
• Shop Cost to add a "surcharge" to the cost of a service
• List professional (back bar) products used up to provide each service
• Automatically ask for professional products used at time of service (for specific colour formulas)
• Colour coding for appointments
• Combine services into packages that are easy to book
• Service description message for recording special details of the service
• Service warning messages for recording medical/allergy alerts

Payroll

Flexibility is the keyword of our payroll system. Whether you pay hourly wage, salary, commission or a combination of salary and/or commission, our system will make it simpler. Gone are the days of labouring for hours with a box of receipts and a calculator every month. Just set up each of your employees once and your pay calculation it can be acquired in a matter of seconds. The amount of time that this feature will save you can pay for the entire Insight system within the first few months.

• Time clock feature to track actual hours worked
• Hourly wage and overtime wage for each employee
• Pay calculations can be set for weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly
• Unlimited product & service commission "schemes" means you can have a different one for each employee if necessary
• Unlimited commission levels for each "scheme" allowing for higher commission percentages as sales levels increase
• Product or service commissions can be based on gross sales or net profit
• Product commissions can be based on the total value of products sold or the percentage of products sold in relation to total service sales
• Compensates for edited invoices/time clock entries from previous pay calculations
• Summary reports for each pay calculation period list pay for all employees
• Detail report lets each employee know exactly how their pay was calculated
• Year end report

Inventory

The Insight Inventory module will track all of your Retail and Professional products easily and accurately. It also tracks your Vendors, Categories, Product Lines, and even prints barcode labels if necessary.

General Information

• Suppliers can be given their own passwords so sales reps can create purchase orders if you allow them to
• Unlimited number of departments can be further broken down into an unlimited number of categories for detailed reporting purposes
• Unlimited number of product lines available to group products into
• Inventory update utility to adjust quantities for "shrinkage"

Retail Products

• Put each product in a department (Hair, Esthetics, etc.) and category (Shampoo, Skin Care, etc.)
• Retail inventory tracking linked to sales so that on hand quantities are automatically updated
• Set up sale pricing with start and end dates
• Can generate a barcode or use the one already printed on the package
• Automatically order a fixed number of a product when the quantity reaches a certain level or order whatever is required to bring the on hand value back up to a specified level
• Keep a photo for each product for easy identification
• Product Usage messages for recording special instructions
• Product Warning messages for recording medical/allergy alerts

Professional (Back Bar) Products

• Simple tracking of partial use of an item (1/4 tube of colour)
• Professional product inventory linked to sales of services for both inventory tracking and client formula tracking

Ordering / Receiving

• Automatically analyze and order all required products in only a few seconds
• Prints barcode/price tag labels when receiving products
• Re-calculates average costs whenever inventory is received

Tanning

The Tanning module recognizes the unique nature of your service and tracking needs. Whether booking by the session or by the minute, Insight handles it all from booking beds to charging against active tanning packages.

• Tanning packages can be sold for either numbers of minutes or numbers of sessions
• Sell "unlimited" tanning packages with an expiry date
• Tanning beds can be booked from the appointment module
• Tanning services can be booked in 1 minute increments
• Tanning services are automatically paid for by active tanning packages kept in the client's file

Reports

Insight records vast amounts of information about your clients, employees, payroll, inventory, appointments and sales. All of that information is useless to you unless you can view it in a meaningful format. To develop our reporting module, we consulted with salon and spa owners and, in many cases, had them design the actual report. By doing this, we ensure that the information shown on our reports is relevant and understandable. To list all of the reports and the information that they give you would be beyond the scope of this web page. However, there are two main features that put our reporting system ahead of our competition...security and flexibility.

Security

• Set up each employee to specify each individual report they can view
• Restrict certain reports to only display sales information for the employee viewing the report

Flexibility

• Each report comes with a variety of options to easily customize how the report works
• Automatic preview of the reports on the screen...you only have to print it if you want to
• Most reports have a summary and detailed version
• Sales and statistical reports can be printed for all employees, everyone with a single job title, or a single employee
• Inventory reports can be printed by supplier or department and category

SMS Appointment Comfirmation

Confirming appointments is one of the most important and yet often overlooked tasks to ensure your business are as profitable as possible. Confirming all your appointments can dramatically reduce no-shows, allowing you to book other clients and increase each employee’s productivity. Seriously though, who has the time to call and try to contact all your appointments?

Email confirmations were supposed to make this process easier but with all the “spam” floating around, an email sent to a client to confirm their appointment only has about a 10% chance of ever getting to them. However, statistics show that 96% of text messages will be read. This is where Insight two-way SMS Text Messaging can save you time and virtually eliminate no-shows.

With one click of a button, Insight can send text messages to ask clients to confirm their appointments. The client will receive a message indicating the date and time of the appointment and the service they are booked for and given options to reply in order to confirm or cancel their appointment. For just a few cents per message you can have all your appointments confirmed within a matter of minutes. The benefits of using Insight SMS include:

• Dramatically reduce no-shows to increase productivity and profits.
• Messages will always be delivered (no spam filters to go through.)
• Save time and money compared to confirming appointments over the phone.
• Free up the phone line for booking new appointments.
• No need to track down clients at home or work…their cell phone is always with them.

Simply call 0845 871 6456 to talk to one of our consultants for more information and to help you get started. Insight SMS Confirmations is included as part of Insight Professional. All you pay is a per message charge based on the quantity that you purchase.

SMS Marketing

Use Insight to send quick and easy SMS messages to your clients helping to drive more business to your salon and increase client loyalty. Use the Insight marketing features to direct your marketing toward clients that meet specific criteria and then have Insight send them a short, directed message using SMS and their cell phones.

Do you have clients that are overdue for their next service? Find all those clients and send out a quick SMS reminder to call to book their next appointment. Having a sale on all your XYZ brand products next week? Insight can find all your clients that have ever purchased XYZ brand before and send out an SMS message so they know about the sale.

Insight SMS Marketing is simple, powerful, much faster and less expensive than postal mail and it won’t be filtered out by email spam filters. For a few cents per message you can keep your clients coming back and spending their money in your business.