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Inventory tracks both sides of your product shelf: retail you sell to clients, and back-bar you use behind the chair. Color, developer, shampoo, tools: if you buy it and use it, this is where it stops being a mystery expense.

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The catalog

Choose whether a product is used for Back bar, Retail, or Both. Its product type determines which details you record: color, developer, lightener, hair care and treatments, styling, chemical treatments, extensions, or supplies. The stats across the top show what’s in stock, what’s running low, and what you’ve spent this month. Search and filters get you to any product fast, which matters more than it sounds once the catalog is a few hundred products deep.

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Inventory for booth renters

Booth renters run their own inventory. Inventory shows a booth renter the products and stock they own. Salon owners and admins see both salon and renter inventory, with an owner label on every product. When a booth renter scans or adds a product, Sable saves it to their own inventory. This stays separate even when the salon stocks the same barcode. Restocks, stock adjustments, low-stock thresholds, and purchases update only that renter’s product. Product usage and retail checkout draw down the same owned stock, so the salon’s count does not change.

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Add products by scanning

The fastest way to build your catalog is the scanner: scan a product’s barcode and Sable looks it up, so most products arrive with their name and details already filled in. No barcode or no match? Add it manually; it takes a minute. Scan as you unbox your next order and the catalog builds itself as a side effect of restocking.

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Stock, counts, and the low-stock line

Open a product to see its in stock card, pricing, product details, and activity. Use plus to add one package or minus to remove one package. The count previews your changes as you work. Tap the green check to save the adjustment. A product without a count shows not tracked; choose start tracking to begin at zero. The shelf bar shows the current stock against the balance after the last restock. The amber alert marker shows your low-stock level. A running low or out of stock chip tells you when the shelf needs attention. Weighed products show packages first, with grams alongside. Counted products show their package count, such as four boxes of gloves. Activity combines usage, retail sales, restocks, stock adjustments, and unit changes in date order. On desktop, use all, used, sold, or stock to filter it.

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Edit product details and pricing

Choose edit on the product page. Product types show the fields that fit: shade for color, volume for developer, type and level for lightener, and type, texture, color, and length for extensions. Hair care, styling, and supplies have a product name. Select a different product type to change the fields; a note lists any answers that will be removed when you save. Set the package’s amount, unit, and package, such as 2 fl oz in bottles or 100 ct in boxes. Choose other to enter your own package word. Extensions use packs, with pieces per pack and grams per strand to calculate the pack weight. In pricing, enter your cost and choose a markup to calculate the retail price. Choose type a percentage for a custom markup. You can also enter the retail price directly and the markup recalculates. Cost, markup, and stock value are visible to team members with cost access. In tracking, set alert when it drops to in packages. To record an exact count, edit in stock. For weighed products, use the small unit selector to enter packages or grams. A reason for the change field appears after you edit the count. Choose save changes to save your product details and any stock changes. Editing other details leaves the current count alone.

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Remove a product you no longer carry

If you do not plan to buy a product again, open it and choose delete product. Confirming removes it from active inventory and stops future low-stock alerts. Sable keeps its past usage, purchases, formulas, and stock adjustments so your history and reports remain accurate.

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Retail at checkout

Retail products are sellable straight from checkout, and the sale draws down stock automatically. The shelf and the numbers stay in agreement without a clipboard involved.

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Why back-bar tracking is worth it

Retail tracks itself through sales. Back-bar is where the quiet money leaks: color over-dispensed, developer that evaporates into “we’re out again.” Tracking usage per product shows your real cost per service, and your reports compare product cost against revenue so you can see whether the back bar is priced into your services or eating them. Still stuck? Visit the Help Center to submit a support ticket.