[gap height=”20″]Imagine this: you are in the middle of your busiest hour – on your busiest day when all of a sudden … BAM! No internet. You feel like you’ve been hit by a ton of bricks as you realize that you’ve lost connection to your database – you know, that thing that’s the lifeblood of your business. You stare helplessly at that long line of salon guests (a sight that would normally leave you feeling overjoyed), reminiscent of a deer in headlights, and stammering to find words … even just one word!
[gap height=”20″]Now, erase that thought (or nightmare) from your memory, and hit the rewind button. Instead, picture yourself behind the counter at one of your salons, again, at the time of day when you see the most traffic – and, down goes the Internet! You take a deep breath, smile at that line of customers practically wrapped around your lobby, and with a click of a button, you switch to “offline mode.”
[gap height=”20″]Depending upon our demographic location, we all experience our own particular types of weather – snow storms, rain storms, or even wind storms – we can’t always rely on our environment to be cooperative. Events like an Internet outage at the salon location or a power outage at the server location no longer have to hinder the efficient operation of your business.
[gap height=”20″]Instead of having to provide tanning sessions on the “honor system” with your guests, wouldn’t it be nice to know how many sessions they have left on their package, or what EFT membership level they have? Rather than resorting to the old “pen and paper” method of tracking your sales and recording tanning sessions, wouldn’t you prefer to be able to continue tracking them electronically, whether you’re online or not?
[gap height=”20″]A salon management software program that provides access to your data and allows you and your staff to process transactions electronically when offline will enable you to rest easy should you lose connection to your database. Equally important is the fact that you don’t have to provide your staff with the password to your timer-management system, as they would still be able to send time to tanning units through the computer.
[gap height=”20″]We all know how vital it is to constantly have access to our database, as it’s imperative that there is documented record of your all sales and tanning transactions. Once your connection to the database is restored, wouldn’t it be great to have the peace of mind knowing that switching back to your live database will be seamless? Envision being alerted that your communication with the database has been reestablished, and again with a click of a button reconnecting to it, while having your transactions uploaded for you automatically. Yes, that’s right – NO need to manually input data for transactions handled while in offline mode!
[gap height=”20″]Don’t let your business be one that comes to a grinding halt due to circumstances beyond your control! Equip yourself with the means necessary to smoothly execute your day-to-day operations, no matter what might be going on outside your door!
