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 come to the realization 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 typically leave you feeling overjoyed), reminiscent of a deer in headlights, and stammer to find words … even just one word!
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 the internet goes down! 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.
Depending upon your demographic location, we all experience our own particular weather conditions. Be it snow storms, rain storms or even wind storms – we can’t always rely on our environment to cooperate. Events like internet outages at the salon location or power outages at the server location no longer have to be a hindrance to the efficient operation of your business.
Don’t let your salon be one that comes to a grinding halt when you are presented with circumstances beyond your control.
Instead of having to operate on the “honor system” with your tanners, wouldn’t it be nice to know how many sessions they have left on their package, or what level their EFT membership is? Rather than resorting to the old “pen and paper” method of tracking sales and recording tanning session times, wouldn’t you prefer the ability to continue tracking their activity electronically?
Should an unfortunate event occur that causes you to lose connection to your database, having 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. Equally important is the reality that you don’t have to provide your employees with the password to your timer-manager system, as they would still be able to send time to tanning systems through the computer.
We all know how vital it is to constantly have access to our database, as it’s imperative that there is a documented record of all your 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 the transition of 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!
Don’t let your salon be one that comes to a grinding halt when you are presented with circumstances beyond your control. Be sure to equip yourself with the means necessary in order to smoothly run your day-to-day business, no matter what might be going on outside your door!
