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Hellen Ward, co-founder and Managing Director of the award-winning Richard Ward Hair & Metrospa, has announced her exclusive partnership with global salon software company Shortcuts.
Known as the industry’s foremost business guru with 30 years’ experience at every level, Hellen has teamed up with Shortcuts to offer the ultimate blueprint for running your salon smoothly and effectively. Hellen’s Salon Management packages have been available for manual users for sometimes, but her new Bronze Package now data-syncs for existing Shortcuts users breaking down and simplifying the often confusing and time-consuming practical aspects of salon management. Hellen’s fully integrated Bronze Package contains her renowned, tried-and-tested best practice systems and strategies to help monitor, track and manage any salon business for increased profitability and sustained growth.
The Bronze Package includes:
- Weekly Team Performance League – share the achievement of team KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) in this weekly league for displaying in the staff room
- Double Entry Cash Book – this simple accounting spreadsheet allows salons to enter and categorise their income and expenditure
- Daily Takings Breakdown – formulated to analyse income and break down daily turnover
- Team Targets – to help set performance benchmarks and KPI’s for all team members
- Holiday Request Forms – help track and schedule time off and rotas
- Attendance Sheets – see team’s HR records a year at a glance
- Staff Database – create a detailed log of staff data
Hellen says, “As a Shortcuts user myself, our partnership is a natural synergy. By launching my own systems as an integrated version for other Shortcuts users, data is pulled through directly from Shortcuts to save precious time in management accounting. Time and again salon owners tell me that they don’t have the basic systems in place to track, monitor and effectively run their businesses. Many rely on an accountant and therefore never really get to grips with the finances, which is why I developed my packages – sharing the spread-sheets and systems I’ve long used internally in all our companies. Being able to launch a version that cuts out data input if fantastic.
Most software companies don’t deliver all the salon management solutions salon owners need in an easy to use version, with many offering unnecessary reports. Because my systems have been developed by me, a salon owner, I’ve compiled the core reporting systems the industry need to handle everything from expenditure breakdown to HR and enable anyone to easily track their salon and take it into profitability. My handy guide gives users a step-by-step guide to follow, too. I’m so excited to be working even more closely with Shortcuts on the more detailed Silver and Gold packages which are launching later in the year.”
Mark Rowley, Shortcuts Global Alliance and Partnership Manager says, “We’ve been working with Hellen ever since she became a Shortcuts user herself. As Shortcuts works brilliantly well in her super-salon sized business, we naturally were very keen to find out how we could benefit our other customers by creating a way for them to use her own internal systems that she has developed. Hellen has a reputation as the leading business guru in the industry, and her brilliantly simple systems can really benefit so many salon owners in our sector that struggle with the management accounting of their businesses. We are working closely with her on the Silver and Gold packages, which offer even more detailed financial and administrational systems that will only benefit our industry as a whole.”
Access to the Bronze Package starts at £29.99 per month, and is available to purchase annually for £299. The annual package includes:
- All three of Hellen’s City and Guilds ‘Ultimate Salon Management’ e-books (worth £28)
- A Tangle Angel Baby Brush POS (worth £179.40)Hellen’s Silver and Gold Packages will follow later in the year, both for manual users and fully integrated for Shortcuts users.
