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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.

The catalog

Every product has a type: Retail, Back-bar, or both, and a category (color, developer, lightener, shampoo, conditioner, treatment, styling, tools). The stats across the top keep score: what’s on hand, what’s running low, and what you’ve spent this month. When everything’s fine, it says so: All good. Search and filters get you to any product fast, which matters more than it sounds once the catalog is a few hundred products deep.

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.

Stock, counts, and the low-stock line

Open any product for its full picture: current stock, stock value, last restocked, purchase history, and recent usage. Two habits keep the numbers honest:
  • Adjust stock with a reason. Received a shipment, ran a cycle count, found breakage: adjust the count and note why. The adjustment log remembers, so January-you can reconstruct what happened in October.
  • Set a low-stock threshold per product (Low-stock at). When stock crosses the line, the product shows up in your low-stock count before it becomes a mid-color emergency.

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.

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.