Expanding the Software Library

By: Valorie Reavis // Date Posted: 11/1/2006 11:12:00 AM

A hair and beauty veteran for 13 years, Shortcuts puts a focus on the spa market.

November 1st, 2006 – Long Beach, CA - After a year of testing in spas across North America along with spas across the globe including Australia and Europe, Shortcuts Software announced the latest edition to their award winning software suite - SPA, the personalized solution for appointment based Medi-Spas, Day Spas, and Beauty Salons.

As the world standard in spa and salon management software with over 8,000 clients throughout 25 countries, Shortcuts continues to bring outstanding benefits to salons and spas worldwide. The new SPA software from Shortcuts includes a range of features designed to maximize the profits at your spa through the integration of key features, Appointment Book, Point of Sale, Client Management , Inventory Management, Employee Management, Marketing and Reporting, Service Management and Security.

“Shortcuts has been in the industry for a long time and has always had a very intimate connection to the people that make up the world of hair and beauty,” says Rob Aubin, General Manager for Shortcuts North America. “We are very excited to release this new product, which embraces the challenges that spa operations face in doing business – making the operation more efficient and ultimately more profitable.”

With features specially designed with spas in mind, Shortcuts’ latest product will assist in increasing business efficiency, helping generate more business and empower decision making with a powerful reporting engine.

Two of the most exciting features of this new release: Resources, Series Sales and the Appointment Assistant, are meant for operations providing spa services, which have business needs that are unique and different from the hair market. Series Sales allows salons to drive repeat business by allowing you to sell multiple sessions of a service in one transaction.

Resources allows treatment rooms and other booked resources to be managed by the Appointment Book, which makes running your salon just that much more efficient and can only assist in increasing your profits.

The Appointment Assistant, probably one of the most anticipated features by the spa market, speeds up the efficiency of finding available appointment times. All employees are categorized on different levels, what takes on employee an hour may take another employee an hour and a half – the Appointment Assistant recognizes this. Intelligence meets efficiency, whereby the system calculates every possible booking combination and gives you the most desirable results available. The Appointment Assistant allows the spa owner to minimize the client’s time in the salon along with the employee resource assigned to them.

“Shortcuts has become the favorite in the hair and beauty market across the world because we get the basics right without all the gimmicks and the gadgets that are never utilized in a real environment,” says Aubin. “Our software is personalized for each spa and comes with a fully customized training program and a dedicated support desk that is both reliable and friendly.”

For more information about Shortcuts or the release of SPA, please contact Shortcuts at 866-678-7324 or email valorie.reavis@shortcuts.net.

About Shortcuts Software, Inc.
Shortcuts Software offers salons and spas across the world a professional software solution for their business. Designed specifically for the salon and spa industry, Shortcuts is unmatched by any other, and is recognized as the world standard in salon and spa management software. The Shortcuts suite of solutions supports salons of all sizes as well as multiple location chains. The functionality and features of the salon software has salons running more efficiently across the globe, proving to be the preferred choice by salons. Shortcuts is also is the only provider of powerful Enterprise Software capable of effectively managing a chain of salons, utilizing consolidated information that helps to manage numerous salon locations. For more information about Shortcuts, please visit www.shortcuts.net or call 866 678 7324 to set up a demonstration.