This is a chat i think needs to be in the open! Fully booked can depend on alot! So often we see techs posting “fully booked” all the time and if your not fully booked it can be hard to see and compare yourself, why are they booked out and your struggling to fill your appointments, but reality is they could be fully booked only having room for a few clients a week around other work or family commitments, or .. they could be blocking off spaces in their booking system to condense appointments with less gaps and opening spaces where needed to create “urgency” for clients to book and not miss out! Social media really shows us just a snippet of what people want us to see and not the reality! So lets open up this chat ! How many clients on average do you see per week and how many does it take to be fully booked? ill post mine in the comments!

🏠 Different pay structures = different financial realities. 👉 Have you worked under all three, and which one worked best for you?

I’ve had a lot of reschedules lately and I am usually fully booked 2 weeks out which is resulting in me having to either work really late nights or on my on my only day off. I already have a lack of boundaries but it’s meaning that I’m literally having no time outside of work. Does anyone have an after hours fee in place and if so how much?

Some techs charge by the hour, others by the service type. Each method affects income differently. 👉 Do you price per set, or per time spent?

A lot of nail techs follow this approach: You tally up your costs - rent, stock, disposables, wifi - then add 20-30% on top. It’s quick, it makes sense, and most importantly, it feels like profit. But this kind of pricing is one of the biggest reasons why, at the end of the week, there’s less money in the bank than expected. Here’s the issue: that 30% you’re adding isn’t your profit - it’s markup, and markup doesn’t tell you how much you’re keeping. What’s the difference? Let’s say you price a set at $104. Your total costs to do the service come to $80 (including booking system, hourly rate, electricity, etc). That leaves you with $24 in gross profit. Markup -> $24 profit divided by $80 cost = 30% Margin -> $24 profit divided by $108 revenue = 22.2% That’s a 7.8% difference. That 7.8% loss might seem small on each service, but spread across each service, over a year? Let’s say you do a service that costs $80. Then you add $24 profit. Charge: $104 That’s 30% right? Wrong. That’s only 23%. To get 30%, You’d need to charge $114.30. Here’s why… Markup is the percentage you add to the service cost. Margin is a percentage of the service price. Always add margin, not markup. Services add up. That $10.30 mistake? Over 980 sets = $10,094 lost. Every. Single. Year. (And then you add tax 😂)