The Daviana journalhttps://daviana.app/blog/How salons actually run — booking, colour, phone, stock and pay.en-gbSat, 29 Aug 2026 07:54:29 +0000Screening stylist applicants without spending a week reading CVshttps://daviana.app/blog/screening-stylist-applicants/https://daviana.app/blog/screening-stylist-applicants/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000Applications arrive all week and get read on Sunday night, by which point the best candidates have taken another job. A faster way to screen.Why is salon stock always going missing? Back bar control that workshttps://daviana.app/blog/salon-stock-going-missing/https://daviana.app/blog/salon-stock-going-missing/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000Most salon stock isn't stolen, it's unrecorded use. Back bar and retail need separate counting rhythms — not one annual stock take that explains nothing.12 questions to ask before switching salon softwarehttps://daviana.app/blog/questions-before-switching-salon-software/https://daviana.app/blog/questions-before-switching-salon-software/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000Twelve honest questions to ask any salon software provider before you switch, covering your data, the changeover, per-stylist cost, and how to leave.Live commission tracking: why stylists shouldn't wait for payday to see their numbershttps://daviana.app/blog/live-commission-tracking/https://daviana.app/blog/live-commission-tracking/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000When commission is only visible on payday, every payslip is a possible argument. Live numbers on the real diary remove the argument before it starts.How much hair colour is your salon really wasting?https://daviana.app/blog/hair-colour-waste/https://daviana.app/blog/hair-colour-waste/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000Overmixed hair colour goes down the plughole with no record it ever existed. Here's why that happens, and what changes once you weigh the bowl.Why colour formulas get lost when a stylist leaveshttps://daviana.app/blog/colour-formulas-when-stylist-leaves/https://daviana.app/blog/colour-formulas-when-stylist-leaves/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000A client's colour formula usually lives in a stylist's head or a paper card. When that stylist moves on, here is what actually happens to the record.Colour cost per gram: the number most salons don't knowhttps://daviana.app/blog/colour-cost-per-gram/https://daviana.app/blog/colour-cost-per-gram/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000Most salons price colour by the tube and guess the rest. Weighing the bowl to the gram shows what a head of colour actually costs — and where the money goes down the plughole.One diary, one till, one client record: what all-in-one salon software actually meanshttps://daviana.app/blog/all-in-one-salon-software-meaning/https://daviana.app/blog/all-in-one-salon-software-meaning/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000Most salon software sold as all-in-one is several tools behind one login, each with its own copy of the client. Here is the test that shows the difference.Can an AI answer your salon's phone and still book into the real diary?https://daviana.app/blog/ai-receptionist-real-diary/https://daviana.app/blog/ai-receptionist-real-diary/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000How Daviana Aria books straight into the real Daviana diary, and why that stops the double-bookings a bolted-on phone service can't.After-hours salon calls: what happens when nobody's on the deskhttps://daviana.app/blog/after-hours-salon-calls/https://daviana.app/blog/after-hours-salon-calls/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000The salon phone keeps ringing after closing, on Sundays, and when the desk is already busy. Most of those calls become someone else's booking, not yours.