The Price List Rebuild: Service Menu Audit & Repricing

In the worked example, a three-chair salon's $185 balayage — the prestige service — loses $2.03 every single booking. The $95 retouch loses $11.22. The men's cut quietly subsidises them both. Nobody decided any of this; it accumulated. This workbook finds it, prices the fix, and hands you the words to raise prices without losing the room.

How it works

• The Chair Hour — five inputs → what one productive hour of your space costs before anyone lifts scissors ($30.31 in the sample). The number the menu forgot
• The Menu Audit — every service judged per chair-hour, not per ticket, with a verdict each: LOSES MONEY, UNDERPRICED, THIN, or HERO
• The Rebuild — set your target profit per chair-hour and it solves each price with commission inside the equation — at 45% commission you keep 55¢ of each new dollar, which is why "+10%" never fixes it. Sample rebuild: +$3,369 a month
• Raising Prices Gently — the three-week notice, the grandfather rule, the exact chair-side sentence, and when to shorten, split, or retire a service instead

Built for

Salons and barbershops · groomers · med spas, lash and nail studios · massage and wellness · tattoo · every business with a service menu and a landlord.

What you get

One .xlsx file, five tabs, instant download. Excel, Google Sheets, Apple Numbers, LibreOffice. No macros, no subscription. Works for commission or hourly pay — solo owner-operators enter the wage they should be paying themselves.