The salon operating system

Runs the whole salon. Weighs the bowl.

The book, the checkout, the client file, the roster and the reports, plus a colour bar that puts the bowl on a scale. Built by the owner of a three person salon in Fitzroy North, and running that salon since 2022.

Private preview. One working salon on it so far, which is the honest reason the list is short.

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The ManeOS schedule, a column per stylist across a working day

The schedule in ManeOS. Every screen here is a demo salon, so the clients and takings on them are not real.

One system, the whole salon.

ManeOS runs the whole salon, not a slice of it. The book and online bookings. Client files, notes and colour history. The roster, the till, commissions, and the reporting that falls out of all of it. A booking becomes a ticket, and a ticket becomes a stylist’s hours and commission, without being typed in again.

It has run You By Luke Perger since 2022. A team of three in Fitzroy North, Melbourne: two qualified stylists and a junior, with salon assistants on the front desk when it is busy. Luke built it while working the floor, which is why it is shaped like a salon day rather than a software menu.

You know what you spent on colour. You don’t know what went on a head.

Colour is the biggest thing a salon buys and the least measured. It gets mixed by eye, what is left goes down the basin, and the ticket does not know the difference. ManeOS puts an iPad and a Bluetooth scale at the colour bar. A bowl is built on the scale, so each shade is weighed in as it is poured and metered live against what the service already covers. Then, once the colour is on, the bowl goes back on the scale and what is left over is weighed too. One weighing at the start, one at the end. The numbers below come from both.

57.4%

of the bowls built on the bar used more product than the service covered. That is 509 of 886.

98.2%

of those same bowls went back on the scale at the end, once the colour was on. That is 870 of 886.

4.1%

of the colour mixed in the bowls that were weighed twice stayed in the bowl and did not go on a head.

More than half is not a badly run salon. It is what a salon looks like once somebody measures it, and most never find out. On the bowls that went over, the extra product came to $6.71 on average. Hardly anyone chases that by hand, but the scale already knows, so it lands on the ticket while the client is still in the chair. The formula is saved to the client as it is weighed, so when a colourist leaves, her clients’ colour stays.

Mane Colour Bar on an iPad, weighing a shade into the bowl and showing it on target

The colourist pours to the gram while the app meters the bowl against what the service already covers.

Mane Colour Bar on an iPad, one colour service with two bowls, each showing grams mixed, grams used and grams left in the bowl, above a meter of product cost against the service allowance

One service, two bowls. Mixed, used, and what stayed in the bowl, with the cost running against the allowance. Demo salon, so the figures on screen are not real.

Figures from You By Luke Perger, a team of three, March to July 2026. Allowances are set per service by each salon, so your rate will be your own.

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Moving your data

If you’re on Phorest, it’s automated through their API. Vish colour history comes in from a CSV. Anything else is report by report: you export from the old system, we map each file in. That is slower, and it is worth talking through before you move, because the only salon that has moved onto ManeOS so far is Luke’s own.