Glossary
Salon Manager Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential salon manager terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key salon manager vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in salon manager training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Booth rental
- Stylists renting stations.
- Client retention
- Clients who return.
- Commission
- Pay based on sales.
- Deposit policy
- Requiring deposits to book.
- Front desk
- Reception and booking.
- Gift card
- Prepaid services.
- Inventory turnover
- How quickly products sell.
- No-show
- A client who misses an appointment.
- Productivity
- Booked hours versus available hours.
- Promotion
- A special offer.
- Rebooking rate
- Clients who book their next visit.
- Retail-to-service ratio
- Retail sales compared with service sales.
- Sanitation log
- Records of cleaning.
- Staff retention
- Keeping employees.
- Ticket average
- Average spending per visit.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Salon Manager practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Salon Manager training.
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