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Salon Service Training Checklist
The checklist (12 items)
Written as observable actions, so two trainers scoring the same shift land in the same place. In CrewSharp this is the Client Service checklist in the Salon / Spa starter set, filed under Rooms, and every item here is editable.
- 1Ran a consultation before starting any serviceMust pass
- 2Repeated the plan back before starting
- 3Ran a patch test where the product required oneCritical
- 4Mixed chemicals to the manufacturer's directionsCritical
- 5Checked in on comfort during the service
- 6Kept to the booked time
- 7Showed the client the finished result in the mirror
- 8Explained how to care for the result at home
- 9Recommended products that fit the client's needs
- 10Wrote formulas and notes in the client record
- 11Walked the client to checkout
- 12Cleaned their work area before the next client
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What usually goes wrong
The patch test and mixing chemicals to the manufacturer's directions are the critical items, because a reaction cannot be undone at the mirror. The consultation is the required step that makes the rest work, and most complaints trace back to a plan nobody repeated back.
The items a good total should not outweigh
- Ran a patch test where the product required one
- Mixed chemicals to the manufacturer's directions
When to sign someone off
A workable bar for this checklist: no critical items missed, a score above a line you set for Client Service specifically rather than one number for the whole building, and observed on more than one shift with at least one of them busy. Then date it, so it can expire.
That last part is the one people skip. A sign-off with no date cannot be re-checked, which means a year later you have a record that says somebody was ready once.
Other salon / spa checklists
The rest of the set, if you are building out the whole floor rather than one position.
Common questions
Why document the service if the client is happy?
Because the record is for the next visit and for any reaction that appears afterwards. Documentation is the only thing that lets a different provider pick up the client correctly, and the only defence you have if something goes wrong later.
What should be on a salon service checklist?
The 12 items above cover it: ran a consultation before starting any service, repeated the plan back before starting, ran a patch test where the product required one, and the rest of the list. Keep it in that range. Fewer and a pass proves very little; many more and trainers stop finishing it during a real shift.
Which items should count as critical?
On this checklist, 2 items are marked critical: ran a patch test where the product required one; mixed chemicals to the manufacturer's directions. Missing one means not ready, regardless of the total score, because these are the failures that cannot be corrected after the fact.
Scoring it is the part that lasts
Run this Client Service checklist on a tablet between rushes and CrewSharp keeps the rest: who is signed off, when it was last checked, and which item your crew misses most.
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