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The manual · Owner, Admin and Branch
Every screen, every panel, one page.
SalonQube runs on three signed-in panels — Owner, Admin and Branch. This page defines what each one is for, walks through all 43 screens in the order you would actually meet them, and says plainly how to run the system at its peak rather than merely correctly.
3
Panels
Owner · Admin · Branch
43
Screens covered
every route, in order
1
Afternoon to set up
10-step checklist
3
Day free trial
no card required
Definition
SalonQube is one system your whole salon signs into — from three different doors.
A company is your account. It owns one or many branches, and each branch is a real salon with its own staff, stock, invoices and end-of-day cash position. Everyone who works in the business signs into one of three panels, and which panel you get decides what you can see and change. That boundary is the product — it is what makes the numbers trustworthy at the end of the month.
Your accountCompanyholds the plan, the logo, the subscription
Branch
Gulberg
staff · stock · invoices · daily balance
Branch
DHA
staff · stock · invoices · daily balance
Branch
Bahria
staff · stock · invoices · daily balance
One ticket for everything
Services, deals and retail on the same invoice, split across cash, card, JazzCash and bank, printed thermal or A4.
Offline-first at the till
Billing does not stop when the connection does. Invoices save locally, print, and sync when the line comes back.
Many branches, one ledger
Each branch runs its own floor and closes its own day. The admin reads them side by side and reconciles centrally.
Separation by design
The desk cannot change a price or delete an invoice. Every role sees exactly what its job needs and nothing else.
The three panels
Find your door, then read every room behind it.
Pick the description that sounds like your job. The explorer below then walks that panel screen by screen — the real sidebar labels, the real routes, what each screen is for, how to use it, and where the leverage is.
Branch Panel
BRANCHThe front desk, on the till, all dayThe branch account is deliberately narrow. It bills, books, reprints and closes the day — and it keeps working when the internet does not. It cannot change a price, delete an invoice or see another branch.
Every shift
Close the day
Service Billing
/billing
The main till. Services, deals and retail on one ticket, split across payment methods, printed in seconds.
Sample data
A ticket mid-build, split across two payment methods.
Client
Zara H.
4th visit · returning
Lines
3
2 staff on the ticket
Balance
PKR 0
Balanced
| Service | Staff | Qty | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full head colour | Hina Raza | 1 | PKR 8,500 |
| Cut & blow dry | Ayesha Khan | 1 | PKR 2,800 |
| Argan serum 100ml | — | 1 | PKR 3,200 |
Subtotal
PKR 14,500
Discount (10%)
−PKR 1,450
Payable
PKR 13,050
Cash / Card
PKR 5,000 / PKR 8,050
How you use it
- 1Enter the client name (required) and phone number — a returning client's history appears automatically.
- 2Filter services by category or search, then tap to add. Adjust quantity, and add a note on a line when the service was non-standard.
- 3Add additional staff to a line when two people worked on it, so commission splits correctly.
- 4Apply a discount as a percentage or a direct PKR amount.
- 5Use Split to spread the payable across Cash, Card, JazzCash and Bank until the balance reads Balanced.
- 6Confirm Invoice, then print the thermal receipt or the A4 invoice.
Run it at its peak
- Fullscreen plus the on-screen keyboard turns a touch monitor into a proper till — no mouse needed.
- If the internet drops, keep billing. The invoice is saved offline and syncs when the connection returns.
- Never edit a service price at the till to make a number work. Use the discount field — it is the only version accounting can see.
Reachable from the Branch Panel sidebar after signing in at /branch-login?type=branch
What this panel deliberately cannot do
- Cannot edit services, prices, deals or stock — those live in the Admin panel.
- Cannot delete an invoice; it can only request deletion.
- Cannot see other branches, payroll or the subscription.
There is a fourth panel — the platform super-admin — but that one belongs to us, not to your company. It exists to keep the service running, and it never touches a salon's day-to-day.
Going live
Ten steps, in this order, and you are trading.
The order matters more than the speed. Branches before staff, services before deals, printers before the first client. Everything downstream hangs off a branch record, so creating branches late means redoing the work.
Tick the steps off as you go — progress is saved in this browser, so you can close the tab and come back to it.
Start step one→0%
Your first afternoon
10 steps · ticks are saved in this browser only
The rhythm
What a well-run week actually looks like.
Most salons that struggle with a system are not missing a feature — they are missing a cadence. This is the one that works: bill as you go, close every day, read the business weekly, settle monthly.
Open the floor
mostly branch panel- 1
Log in at the till and check the Dashboard: bookings today versus chairs staffed.
Dashboard · /dashboard - 2
Print a test receipt so a printer fault is found now, not at checkout.
Printer Setup · /branch/printer-setup - 3
Admin: open Reorder and raise anything sitting at its minimum before a colour day starts.
Reorder · /admin/reorder
At its peak
Six problems, and the exact screens that fix them.
Using the system correctly means the data is clean. Using it at its peak means the data changes a decision. These are the six places where that reliably happens.
01
No-shows quietly eat the week
Take an advance on every forward booking from anyone who has no-showed before, and cancel rather than delete the ones that fall through so the pattern is visible next month.
BookingsDashboard
02
Nobody knows which service actually pays
Read Staff Analytics on average ticket and service mix alongside Revenue by source. Look at what a service costs in product and commission before you conclude it is profitable.
Staff AnalyticsRevenue
03
Stock runs out mid-appointment
Set reorder points to a full supplier lead time of cover, then open Reorder every morning. Receive stock against a vendor so cost and quantity land together.
ReorderInventory
04
The front desk is the bottleneck
Put Service Billing in fullscreen with the on-screen keyboard on a touch monitor. Keep service categories named the way your team speaks so search is one tap.
Service BillingServices
05
The cash never quite reconciles
Save a balance every single day, split by channel, and reconcile it centrally the next morning. Watch the deletion-request queue — a steady stream is a signal, not a nuisance.
BalancesDaily Invoice BalanceRequests
06
Payroll turns into an argument every month
Log deductions and advances the day they happen, with a category and a note. Calculate salaries only once the month is fully logged, then export and print slips.
DeductionsSalaries
Reference
The things worth keeping open in a second tab.
Keyboard shortcuts
They only fire when you are not typing in a field.
| Keys | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Enter | Bookings | Confirm the booking you are creating |
| Enter Enter | Bookings | Quick-create the booking without touching the mouse |
| Enter | Invoices | Print the first invoice in the visible list |
| Enter | Any dialog | Confirm |
| Esc | Any dialog | Close or cancel |
| P | Bookings | Reprint the most recent active booking |
| Ctrl + / | Anywhere | Open the keyboard shortcuts sheet |
| Tab | Any form | Move to the next field |
| 1 – 9 | Service search | Pick the matching result by number |
When the internet drops
Service Billing keeps working. The invoice is written locally, prints as normal, and syncs when the connection returns. Reporting screens need a live connection — they read data that has to be current.
Printing
Thermal receipts and A4 invoices print through the machine's own printers, set up per machine. If a print fails, the invoice is still saved — reprint it from the Invoices screen. Your company logo comes from Company Settings and renders on both formats.
Access and security
Two-factor authentication can be enabled per branch. Admin access can be shared by invite instead of by password — a single-use link that expires in seven days, stored only as a hash. Remember-me sessions last 30 days.
Subscription and locks
A 3-day trial with no card, then per-branch pricing on a monthly or yearly cycle. Miss a cycle and branch logins lock — nothing is deleted, and settling from the owner panel restores access immediately.
Glossary
The ten words that mean something specific inside SalonQube.
- Company
- Your whole account. One company owns many branches and holds the subscription.
- Branch
- One physical salon. Has its own login, staff, stock, invoices and daily balance.
- Gender scope
- Whether a branch serves men, women or both. Set on the branch; it governs which invoices are valid there.
- Advance
- Money taken up front against a booking. It is collected revenue, and it carries into the invoice when the booking completes.
- Split payment
- One invoice settled across Cash, Card, JazzCash and Bank. The ticket is not confirmable until the split reads Balanced.
- Daily balance
- The end-of-day declaration of what a branch holds, split by channel. Saving it closes the day and resets the counter.
- Deduction
- An amount taken off a salary, filed under a category. Feeds that month's payroll automatically.
- Reorder point
- The stock level at which a product appears on the Reorder screen. Set it to a full supplier lead time of cover.
- Asset surplus
- A replacement where the old asset sold for more than expected. Real money, but not trading income.
- Deletion request
- A branch cannot delete an invoice. It raises a request and an admin approves or refuses it.
Questions
The ones people actually ask.
If yours is not here, ask it directly — we answer within one business day.
Contact us →Owner Login (/login) if you own the business — it is the only account that can add a branch or pay the subscription. Admin Login if you run operations: catalogue, stock, staff and reports. Branch Login for the front desk: billing, bookings and closing the day.
Yes, for billing. An invoice created while the connection is down is saved locally and syncs when the connection returns, and it still prints. Reporting screens need a connection because they read live data.
The company moves out of good standing and branch logins lock. Nothing is deleted — settling the subscription from the owner panel restores access. The lock exists to stop an unpaid account from continuing to trade, not to hold your data hostage.
Three days, no card. You get the real product on real data — the intent is that you bill actual clients during it, because that is the only test that tells you anything.
No, and that is deliberate. Prices live in the Admin panel. The branch can apply a discount as a percentage or a PKR amount, which is recorded as a discount — so the difference between your price and what you collected is always visible.
From the Company Workspace in the owner panel. You set its name, gender scope and both logins at creation. Pricing is per branch, so the next billing cycle reflects it.
Technically yes, but do not. The activity log attributes actions to an account — shared credentials mean you lose the one record that tells you who did what.
Keep billing. The invoice is saved whether or not it printed. Fix the printer, then reprint from the Invoices screen — reprinting is free and safe.
Yes, for Windows, macOS and Linux. It is the same system in a native shell with tighter printer integration. It is on the Downloads page.
Use the share-access invite. It emails a single-use link that expires in seven days, and the database only ever stores a hash of the token — so a leak never exposes a usable link.
Reading is not running
Bill one real client. That is the only test that tells you anything.
3 days, no card, the full product on your own services and your own prices.