Add a product

Products are everything you sell or use in the salon, such as shampoo, nail polish or gloves. You manage them under Catalog › Products. A product you sell also appears at the till.

Add a product

1. Go to Catalog in the menu and open Products. On a phone you find Catalog under Menu.
2. Click Add and choose Product. The Add product window opens, with the parts Basic info, Pricing, Inventory and Photos.
3. Under Basic info, enter the Product name. That is the only required field. Choose a Brand and a Category if you like.
4. Under Pricing, enter the Supply price and the Retail price.
5. Under Inventory, enter your product codes and the supplier, and turn on Track stock quantity if Saloon should keep count.
6. Add photos under Photos if you like and click Save.

If you add a product from a category in the list (Actions › Add product next to that category), the category is already filled in.

Basic info

• Product name: for example Shampoo 250 ml.
• Brand and Category: pick from your list, or create one on the spot with New brand or New category.
• Barcode: the code on the packaging (EAN, UPC or GTIN). You scan the product at the till with it. If the code looks wrong, Saloon warns you, but you can still save it.
• Measure and Amount: the content, for example millilitres and 250.
• Short description: for your team only, up to 100 characters. Product description: for your customers, up to 1000 characters.

Prices and VAT

• Supply price: what you pay the supplier, without VAT.
• Sell at checkout: on by default. Turn it off for a product you only use in the salon. The product then has no retail price and does not appear at the till.
• Retail price: VAT included. Required as long as you sell the product.
• Markup: Saloon works out the percentage you charge on top of the supply price, without VAT. Enter a percentage yourself and the retail price follows. You also see what you earn apiece, or a warning when you sell below the supply price.
• VAT: with The location's default, the location's VAT rate for products applies. Choose another rate if this product differs.

Codes, supplier and stock

• SKU (stock keeping unit): your own item number. The first one is the Primary SKU. With Add another SKU code a product gets up to 10 codes, and Generate SKU automatically makes one up for you.
• A SKU or barcode belongs to one product. If another product already has the code, you cannot save.
• Supplier: who you buy the product from. With New supplier you add one straight away.
• Track stock quantity: Saloon then keeps count and every sale comes off the stock. Per location you enter In stock, Low stock level and Reorder quantity.

Photos

You can add up to 10 photos. The first is the main photo; drag a photo to change the order. Photos upload as soon as you pick them; Save waits until they are in.

Change or delete a product

1. Click the product in the list. You see its details, the stock per location and the stock history.
2. Click Edit, change what you want and click Save.
3. To delete it, choose Actions › Delete product, or in the list the three dots next to the product and Delete.

A deleted product disappears from your list and from the till. What you have already sold of it stays visible. This cannot be undone. If the product is on an order that has not come in yet, or in a stocktake that is still running, you can only delete it once that is finished.

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