Inventory and product cost for solo beauty professionals
You're booked solid and you still don't feel safe. That's a missing number, and it's one you can get back.
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Inventory and product cost for solo beauty professionals
You're booked solid and you still don't feel safe. That's a missing number, and it's one you can get back.
Free 7-day trialNo card to start
Booked solid, and still counting
You're fully booked and you still don't feel secure
Because you can see the revenue and not the cost. Half a picture never feels like enough.
Your rent doesn't include your back bar
So product and rent come out of one account. That is exactly why the number matters.
You priced before you knew what a service costs
Most people do. It's fixable in a month.
You ran out mid-appointment, with nobody to ask
Alone, running out means rescheduling. Reordering ahead is worth more to you than to a salon.
You reorder by remembering, at the end of the day
The order is drafted from what you actually used. Your part is reading it.
You could be busier and poorer without knowing
Once each service carries its own cost, that stops being possible
Built for one person, on a phone, between clients
What each service leaves you
- Cost carried per product, through to each service
- Usage captured as ordinary work
- Services compared against each other
- Dashboard, issues list and a pivotable table
Ordering that happens without you
- Reorder planning from real usage
- Low-stock alerts before you run out mid-appointment
- A separate purchase order for each supplier, one approval
- Fully automatic ordering — coming soon 🔜
Everything on your phone
- Add a product by photo, no limit
- Receive a delivery by barcode scan
- Count between clients, in any order, any time
- 14,000+ professional products preloaded
It survives a bad week
- Order-driven recalculation — skip a week and it catches up
- Full or partial counts whenever they fit
- Orders placed anywhere else recorded here too
- Every feature on mobile
Works with whatever you already use — or with nothing
Suplery runs alongside GlossGenius, Square Appointments, Vagaro, Booksy, Acuity or Fresha, and works perfectly well if you use none of them. No integration is required, nothing about your bookings changes, and you never have to be a customer of a booking platform to use it.
14,000+
Professional products, ready to track and order
1,000+
Users run their supply on Suplery
This is most of the trade. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 48% of hairdressers, hairstylists and cosmetologists are self-employed, and 80% of barbers. Working alone is the normal case in beauty, and it is the case almost nothing is built around. Built for one person. The plan is sized for a single operator rather than a salon plan with the seats turned down, and every feature works on a phone, because that is where the work happens.
Questions? Glad you asked.
How do I work out what a service costs me in product?
Take what left the shelf for that service and what it cost you. Doing it by hand means weighing and writing it down, which nobody sustains. Suplery builds it from your purchases, deliveries and occasional counts instead, so the number appears from work you're already doing.
What percentage of revenue should supplies be for an independent?
Figures get quoted — Strategies puts professional product cost at four to six percent of service revenue — but those are salon averages, and Wynne Business shows the figure swinging from about 1–2% in massage to 5–8% in skincare. As a sanity check they're useful. Your own number, broken down by service, is the one that tells you anything.
How do I buy professional product without a distributor account?
Traditional distributors gate on a licence and an application, sometimes with a minimum opening order and terms you only learn on a call. The Suplery shop verifies your professional status immediately and has no minimum order and no subscription fee, so you can buy one thing. You can also keep buying wherever you buy now; Suplery tracks stock and cost either way.
Is inventory software overkill for one person?
If all you want is to know whether you're low on something, a notes app is fine, and we'd rather say that than sell you something you don't need. Suplery is worth it if you want to know what each service costs you and stop ordering by memory.
My suite rent doesn't include back bar. Does that change anything?
It's the reason this page exists. When product and rent come out of the same account, product spend isn't an operating detail — it's cash flow. Knowing your real rate is what lets you buy the right amount instead of tying up money you needed.
What happens when I run out mid-appointment?
For a solo there's no next chair to borrow from, so it means rescheduling — which is why reordering ahead is worth more to you than to a salon. Low-stock alerts fire on your real usage rate, before the tube empties.
Do I need to use a particular booking app?
No. Suplery works alongside GlossGenius, Square Appointments, Vagaro, Booksy, Acuity and Fresha, or on its own.
How long does setup take?
About 10 minutes. 14,000+ professional products come preloaded, anything else is added by photographing it, and your first count is separate — barcode scanning on your phone, which for one room usually takes ten minutes.
What does it cost?
There's a plan sized for a single operator, with a free 7-day trial and no card required to start. See current plans on the pricing page. The shop has no subscription fee whether or not you're on a paid plan.
You're the whole business. This is the part nobody built for you.
What each service leaves you, and product that arrives before you run out
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When you need to buy, the Suplery shop lists verified brands and authorized distributors, with no subscription fee and no minimum order