Know your real take-home behind the chair
When you rent a chair, the income is all yours — and so is the rent, the product, the no-shows, and the tax nobody withholds for you. It’s a good trade, but only if you can see the whole picture. The Booth-Renter Income & Client Workbook is the one connected file that shows it: what each service really earns, what the chair costs to keep, and what’s actually left at the end of the week.
Built for chair-renting hairstylists and barbers. It works in Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice — and the Google Sheets version comes as a one-click “Make a copy” link, so there’s no importing and nothing to rebuild.
Price every service on purpose — not off the chair next to you
Behind the chair you sell time and product, so every price has to do two jobs: pay back the product the service burns, and pay you a real hourly for the chair time. Set your target pay-per-hour once, enter each service’s time and product cost, and the Service Menu returns a suggested price and the real dollars-per-hour each service earns — and flags the ones running under your target. A fast clipper cut can quietly out-earn a long, product-heavy color, and now you’ll see it.
See your true take-home, not the gross that rang through the drawer
The Take-Home Summary pulls every tab together: service income, tips, and retail profit in; booth rent and your costs out; then the slice you set aside for taxes. What’s left is the number that’s actually yours. It even checks your average ticket and rebooking rate, so you can tell a full week from a paid one.
The pieces, and how they connect
- A 7-tab workbook — Service Menu, Income & Tips Log, Retail, Booth Rent & Costs, Client & Rebooking, and a Take-Home Summary, tied together by a Read Me. Pre-loaded with a worked example you clear and replace.
- A one-click Google Sheets copy — the same workbook as a native Sheet, no import.
- Five PDF guides — Start Here, Pricing Your Services, Take-Home/Booth Rent & Taxes, Clients/Rebooking & Retail, and printable behind-the-chair sheets for the station.
Fill next month from this one
A chair full this week and empty next week isn’t a schedule — it’s a guessing game, and guessing is expensive when the rent doesn’t care how busy you were. The Client & Rebooking log keeps one line per regular, works out their next-due date, and flags — by color and a plain “No” — who left without booking again. Work that flagged list once a week, and you stop leaving next month’s chair to chance.
A note on taxes
Renting a chair makes you self-employed. This workbook helps you set aside for taxes by moving a slice of every dollar into a separate account — but it is a business reference, not tax, accounting, or legal advice, and it does not file or calculate your taxes. Every figure in the examples is illustrative; confirm your tax set-aside, quarterly estimates, and your license and insurance obligations with a qualified professional for your state.
Own it, don’t rent it
This is a file you own, not a monthly app you rent. Buy once, keep it forever, and run the chair your way — no per-client fees, no subscription, and your client list stays yours. It sits right between a blank spreadsheet (free, but you build it all yourself) and pricey salon software (overkill, locked-in, with your book inside someone else’s system).
Outgrowing the spreadsheet? When one chair becomes two, or you bring on an assistant, the same workshop builds Ardent Seller — inventory, sales, and client tracking in one connected place, on the same own-it ethic, with a free plan to start. The workbook is the entry point; Seller is the graduation step.
Try it free first: the Booth-Renter Take-Home Calculator is a free, no-signup taste of the take-home math in this workbook.
