111 Reasons for using MIKAL's Salon Software

111 Reasons to Computerize with MIKAL 1. You can get an instant overview of your business with Management Check 2. Inventory can be managed easily from doing sales, orders and refunds 3. You’ll save 1 hour a week for every employee automatic payroll, sales analysis, tip tracking 4. Confirming appointments is a breeze by phone, with automated voice systems, or on-line 5. Ordering supplies is a 5 minute task - click on your reorder report 6. Pricing inventory is quick & easy - use shelf talkers and bar-coding 7. You’ll have past histories to compare sales for any time periods 8. You can document all Employee history (good & bad) Late, absent, hours 9. You’ll know the composition of your client base with demographic reports 10. You can see where your new clients are coming from demographic reports 11. You can track your advertising reasons and effectiveness 12. You can track your promotions for effectiveness and cut costs 13. Booking multi service appointments in seconds - even days of beauty 14. Analysis of inventory allows you to keep the correct quantities on hand 15. You can see your retail best sellers in a flash - turns and sales leader rankings 16. You can see which color/professional products are most used & keep enough on hand 17. Payroll is a 2 minute chore instead of 2 hours and all tax forms are done 18. Tracking clients who no-show or are always late and resolve every sale 19. Mail your clients for targeted marketing promotions weekly in minutes 20. Email brochures & welcome letters to new clients in seconds 21. Track employees retention, who’s keeping & who’s losing clients 22. Allow clients to book appointment on the Internet 24-7-365 23. Allow clients to cancel & change appointments with a few clicks 24. Let clients check their own appointments on the Internet 25. Train new desk staff easily without long indoctrination period 26. Control your cash flow at a glance with the tally reports 27. Balance your Cash at night in 5 minutes and backup in 5 more! 28. Stop wastage (theft) of products by tracking sales and professional use 29. Stop/deter cash shortages or theft from the cash drawer 30. Give employee/technician all the chemical formula necessary for each client 31. Inform employees about Clients preferences, Birthdays etc 32. Employees can see Clients Service & Retail history and Picture immediately on screen/workticket 33. Generate Gift Certificates/gift cards quickly and track redemption/expirations and stop theft in this area 34. Track Gift Certificates, Outstanding & Used and eliminate accounting 35. Sell and track packages and series sales easily - and expire easily 36. Check on all appointments to see if they have been confirmed 37. If any errors were made at checkout, you can view who made them 38. Inventory Checking to see if you’ve received what you ordered or charged for - know what and when you purchased from each vendor 39. Inventory reports on items that need to be increased or decreased in stocking levels – remerchandising your retail area to increase sales and cut costs 40. Who are the clients who spend the most by Employee or overall and rank your clients by sales, visits, avg ticket, service or retail sales 41. Be automatically reminded to call a client on a certain day 42. Have an instant printout of recommended Home use products and use the customer card as an RXprescription pad 43. Have as many commission/payroll schemes as you like - individually 44. Instantly check on your salon/spas profitability over any time period 45. Contact your clients by email for inexpensive and effective marketing 46. Create any mailing piece & send it by mail or email 47. Notify clients of impending Vacations or employee time off 48. Mail promotion to ‘rescue’ lost clients with welcome back cards/e-mails 49. Mail clients INSTANTLY when a Employee quits, to soften the blow & retain the client using our 4 letter program - keep up to 87% of their clients 50. Use the Electronic Mail system to eliminate post its and messages 51. Record and view any comments on each individual visit 52. See the Cost of Product for your Services only 53. See the real cost of Retail products with the inv cost report 54. Automatically check your Retail Profit margin on each product 55. See who in the salon/spa is selling the most of a particular product 56. See who is doing the biggest numbers of any particular service 57. Analyze the Services to where the Dollars are coming from 58. Know each employees Dollars per hour over any date range 59. Know the employee average ticket by service, product or client type 60. See your average Service ticket by employee or the salon/spa 61. See you average Retail ticket by employee or the salon/spa 62. Know how many clients are served daily, weekly, monthly or any date range and by the hour of the day with appointment analysis 63. Check Year to Year/Quarter to Quarter/Month to Month comparisons of salon/spa/spa sales, avg ticket, clients 64. Check Year to Year comparisons of each employees service sales 65. Check Year to Year comparisons of each employees retail sales and 6 other periods 66. Know daily (& over a date range) your Service sales % vs. your Retail sales % 67. See your fixed overhead broken down as a % of your sales 68. Check on the amount of redos/refunds/discounts that each employee is doing 69. Send your clients Birthday cards with a few mouse clicks 70. Send Referral or Thank-You promotions in 5 minutes each week 71. Use the Points program for a client rewards/frequent buyer/client loyalty program 72. Track which Payment method your clients prefer 73. Be able to book standing appointments in seconds over any time period 74. Have a computer view of all upcoming appointments for all available away from the desk at a glance 75. Employees have detailed information about each appointment & all info to perform services - time it takes, prices, ability to squeeze/do multi-services or clients 76. Get rid of that unwieldy, large, cumbersome paper appointment book 77. Produce goal setting reports about each employee for staff reviews 78. Track all employee Time Off- excused and unexcused absence time 79. Track all employee hours on the job both productive and administrative time 80. Create special discount or incentive coupons and track their use 81. Book multi service, multi employee appointments in seconds 82. Track who made or changed every appointment, & when 83. Control all access, by employee, to any part of the system easily 84. Print sales receipts with client points and next appt date/time 85. Track employee tips for IRS compliance 86. FAX or e-mail your Purchase Orders in a minute to your vendors 87. Create an order for a supplier automatically in 30 seconds 88. Quickly produce a cost of goods on hand report on Retail or Professional stock 89. In seconds, see which Retail Products need to have their minimum quantities changed up or down and have SMS do it automatically 90. In seconds, see which Professional Products need to have their minimum quantities changed up or down 91. Track physical inventory counts against computed amounts to find ‘wastage’ 92. Track & save employee sales history by any date range 93. Get rid of 3x5 file cards for Color/Perm/etc formula and the file drawers 94. Keep Client Information (name/address/phone/etc) secure 95. Get rid of a lot of paper stuff - take it all home on one zip disk at night 96. Compute & save payroll in 30 seconds 97. Book holiday time (salon/spa & individual) as far in advance as you like 98. Protect against booking an employee when they are not available (time off/hols/etc) and prevent overbooking rooms and pedicure chairs 99. Promote your salon/spa as an organized business to staff, vendors and clients 100. Run your business system and know the staff is all running it the same way - there is only one way to do things 101. Use EMBA to dramatically increase rebookings 102. Offer On Line Booking to make it convenient for clients to book 24/7/365 and quiet the phones at the front desk 103. JITA fills your book when there are cancellations 104. Use your Credit card service provider 105. Offer Gift Cards you handle and have no processing fees 106. Offer memberships like massage envy 107. Use AutoPilot to send out automatic e-mails to clients based on last visit, reminder, birthday and thank you to new customer criteria 108. Interface automatically to your Quickbooks 109. Interface automatically to your Demandforce 110. Use our tablet app to update client information while you are mobile in the salon 111. Track gift cards and sales from multiple locations And much more………… Call MIKAL for a details list  800-448-5420 sales@mikal.com www.mikal.com www.freddengler.blogspot.com