Solo Kit
Everything a stylist working for themselves needs: your real hourly rate, a menu priced to earn it, a price rise that pays, tax sorted, and colour costed to the gram.
Salons and sole traders
Colour Cost & Profit Calculator
You measure your colour in grams. Start measuring what those grams cost.
$99 launch price until 30 November 2026, then $149 · buy once, NZD · about 10 minutes to fill in
Colour cost, one appointment$33.90
- Lightener, 60 g
- $7.80
- Developer, 180 ml across both bowls
- $3.60
- Toner, 30 g
- $22.50
- Product as a share of the price, excl GST
- 15.6%
- Left to pay wages and running costs, from $217.39 excl GST
- $183.49
- Price for a 20% margin once wages and running costs are in
- $261
What it tells you
- What the colour in one appointment costs: every bowl, every gram of colour, lightener, toner and developer, from what you pay and the pack size
- How much of the price goes on product, what is left after it, and the exact figure to type into your menu pricing
- What the whole service makes once time, wages, consumables, wastage and running costs are in, and the price that makes your target margin
- Saved recipes for short, long and thick hair, with what each cost the day you saved it beside what it costs at today's prices
Have these handy
- What you pay for each product and the pack size, from an invoice or price list
- How much went in each bowl, in grams or ml, and your mixing ratios
- What you charge for the service
- For full profit: how long it takes and how the stylist is paid
The sample panel shows the tool's real answer for its built-in sample numbers. Type over them with your own.
Sound familiar?
“I know how many grams go in the bowl. I have no idea what that bowl costs me.”
“Our toner went up twice this year and our prices have not moved.”
“Long hair takes twice the lightener and we charge the same as a bob.”
Your numbers stay yours
Everything you type saves in your own browser. Nothing is sent to us. Save a PDF report any time, or back up your numbers to open on another device.
General information to help you make your own decisions, not financial, tax, legal or employment advice. Check anything that matters with your accountant. Prices are in NZ dollars. No GST is charged.
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