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Your best stylist is leaving. Their standard doesn't have to.

Describe your salon's client intake, color procedure, or station protocol out loud or in writing. We turn it into a professional training document your team can follow — and your clients will notice.

Works for any physical or operational process. Talk through it or type it out — we turn it into a professional PDF.

Example output

SOP · PDF · Hair salon

Client Service Procedure — Hair Salon

  1. 1.Set up your station before your first client arrives — not while they're waiting. Clean cape, clean tools, disinfected combs and shears, mirror wiped, product bottles topped off.
  2. 2.Greet every client by name within 30 seconds of their arrival. Offer water or coffee before seating. Do not check your phone during the consultation.
  3. 3.Perform a full consultation before every service, even for returning clients. Ask about changes in hair health, medications, or chemical services since their last visit. This catches reactions before they happen.
  4. 4.Mix and apply color in the designated area only. Document formula for every color client in their profile before rinsing — not after. Memory is not a system.
  5. 5.At checkout, book the follow-up appointment before the client leaves the chair. Walk them to the front desk. Do not hand them a card and wave.
  6. 6.After the client leaves, sanitize the station completely before the next booking — combs, shears, clips, and surface. The next client sees your standards before you say a word.

Your SOP will be formatted like this — written in your words, specific to your business.

Operator Plan

$99 / month

New hire every quarter. Seasonal staff each spring. Stop re-explaining from scratch every time someone leaves.

  • ✓ Unlimited SOP generation
  • ✓ Opening, closing, onboarding, service calls, equipment operation
  • ✓ PDF emailed immediately — ready to print and post by the station
  • ✓ Break even at 3 SOPs — everything after is free

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How to Create an SOP for Your Salon & Spa

Salon and spa SOPs capture the client experience standards, sanitation protocols, and technical procedures that define your brand — and make them teachable to every employee regardless of experience level. The highest-impact SOPs for salons cover client intake and consultation, sanitation and disinfection protocols, color formula documentation, checkout and rebooking procedures, and new staff onboarding. A well-written salon SOP ensures every client gets the same professional experience whether they see your most experienced stylist or someone in their second month.

Common Salon & Spa processes that need SOPs

  • →Client intake and consultation procedure
  • →Workstation setup and sanitation protocol
  • →Color formula documentation and application
  • →Chemical service safety and allergy check
  • →Checkout, rebooking, and retail recommendation
  • →New stylist onboarding and shadow training
  • →Opening and closing salon checklist
  • →Client complaint and service recovery procedure

Why Salon & Spa operators need documented SOPs

Salons that depend on individual stylist personality rather than documented systems lose clients every time a stylist leaves — and stylists leave often. Documented SOPs transfer the client experience standard to the salon brand, not to the individual. They also reduce sanitation liability, streamline new hire training, and create the foundation for expanding to a second location or booth-renting model. For suite owners, SOPs differentiate your suite from every other booth-for-rent in the building.

Pro tip

Start with your consultation procedure. It's the highest-leverage interaction in your business — the moment where you either build trust and book a loyal client, or create a mismatched expectation you'll spend two hours trying to fix. Describe exactly how your best, highest-retention stylist conducts every new client consultation. That's your SOP.