Built for salons and spas
Salon & Spa Management Software
A salon's money moves in ways a general accounting package never anticipates. A client books on Tuesday, is served by a named stylist on Thursday, pays partly in cash and partly by mobile money, and the treatment quietly consumes product from a backbar tub nobody has counted since it was opened. Owwel is built around exactly that sequence.
What usually goes wrong in salons and spas
These are the gaps that quietly cost money every month. Each one has a direct answer below.
Commission is worked out by hand at month end, and nobody fully trusts the figure
Backbar product is used on clients but never shows up as a cost, so treatments look more profitable than they are
Appointments live in a paper diary or WhatsApp, separate from what was actually charged
Retail product sales and service revenue get mixed together, hiding which side of the business earns
How Owwel handles it
Commission that calculates itself
Every service is recorded against the staff member who performed it, so each person's takings and the commission owed are always current. When you pay out, you record whether it went out as cash or mobile money and it lands in your expenses automatically — commissions never sit outside the books.
Backbar stock that becomes a real cost
Open a backbar tub, link it to the services it is used for, and mark it finished when it runs out. Its cost is shared across those treatments automatically, so your service margins reflect the product you genuinely consumed instead of pretending it was free.
Bookings that turn into sales
Schedule appointments against a client and a stylist, mark them completed, and take payment straight from the booking. The sale, the stock movement and the commission all follow from one action rather than three separate records.
Products and services counted separately
Reports split retail product revenue from service revenue so you can see which half of the salon is actually carrying the business, and price accordingly.