• Introduction

• Installing Salon & Spa

• Getting Started

• Setting Preferences

• Entering Staff

• Entering Inventory

• Entering Clients

• Daily Operation

• Managing Inventory

• Monitoring Inventory

• Managing Clients

• Managing Staff

• Managing Client Accounts

• Loyalty Programs

• Monitoring Sales

• Year End Procedures

• General Information

• Legal Issues

• POS Hardware

• Appointments

• Tanning Program

• Spa Program

• Reports

10.1 Backing up your Information. 

Your information and records should be backed up at frequent and regular intervals in case something should happen to your computer or to one of your files. Once backed up, if something should happen you could re-install the program and restore the records without loosing much, if any, of your information. 

Backups may be made to floppy disks, optical disks (CD/R) and to the newer chip drives plugged into your USB ports.  We have found that the inexpensive USB drives are by far the cheapest and best backup media.

To backup your system data files select Backup Salon & Spa from the Tools Menu and follow the onscreen prompts.

The location must be a windows designated drive and have a drive letter. You can also backup to another hard drive but it cannot be backed up to the drive that the system is running from.  For instance if you have set up your system on drive C you will not be able to backup to that drive.   You may select a path to a subfolder on any drive.  If you are using floppy disks make sure to have some formatted disks ready or disks from an older backup as the backup may require one or more disks depending upon the size of your data files.

The system will remember your backup path and location after the first use.

Sales Tools Menu

Backup Screen

Each time you shut Salon & Spa down it keeps an automatic backup of all of your data files.  There are three backups, even days, odd days and Friday.  Count the days starting with Sunday as 1 (odd day), Monday is 2 (even day), etc.

10.2 Restoring Your System. 

If you have lost all of your information through a hard drive failure, which is the most common problem, or any other type of system failure you have to re-install the SalonTrac program first and then restore your data files.

To restore the system after a hard disk crash or other problem with your computer select Restore Salon & Spa from the Tools Menu.

Restore will prompt you as required. Note that if you have to reinstall the SalonTrac Program you must do that before restoring the salon data. 

Restore Screen