Helios is a leader in salon software. Our salon POS (point-of-sale) system is designed for tanning salons, fitness gyms, day spas and beauty salons. We have developed our salon management software with the salon owner in mind with features like client rich data, detailed reports and WAN.

We are the only provider of salon management software to offer our software for FREE. For only $49.99 a month you get free updates. Helios has made managing your customer data easy and affordable for any salon owner.

When it’s time to cHaNgE…
06.06.08

A Diet Coke for anyone who knows where that line comes from!

So it’s June already and salon owners are now scrambling to compare their season to last year’s numbers and on a more global sense, trying to compare to other salons in the industry. Up? Down? Flat? It all depends on who you talk to and whether or not you are getting honest and accurate information.
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ACH Mailbag
04.14.08

Wow, what a response on last month’s article! Based on the number of calls and emails I received regarding the ACH processing I thought I would share some of the more common questions that came in.

A large number of the responses were in relationship to the savings salon owners were seeing by “doing the math”. There is a link on our website www.gohelios.com/math that is being provided in order to calculate actual savings based on each individual salon owners’ personal store data. It’s proven to be a valuable tool that breaks down the savings per month and per year. Salon owners are seeing hundreds, and in many cases thousands, of dollars worth of savings on an annual basis.
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A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
02.08.08
I was a typical kid growing up in a middle class town in Illinois and I guess I would say with middle class values. So what does this have to do with tanning? Well, I can remember my dad pointing out a penny lying in the parking lot one crisp spring afternoon while we were walking into the sporting goods store to pick out a new baseball glove for the upcoming season. And I can still recall my response, “Ah yeah…SO?”
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Email Marketing – The New “RAGE”
01.02.08
Viagra, pen!s enlargement, meet singles in your area… If you’re like me, you logged into your email account this morning and sifted through your Inbox trying to identify the “good” emails from the SPAM. Sadly, this has become a never ending routine that somehow seems normal to me. Personally I love email since it’s an easy, quick way to stay connected to my family and friends and it’s an even more effective way to keep our customers informed on important company information.
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The Power of Bar Codes
12.04.07
Bar codes are a fast, easy and accurate way of collecting and recording data in retail businesses and are very prominent in most vertical markets; however the tanning industry has historically lagged behind. While some salons have been utilizing bar coding for years and many more have been implementing this technology at an increasingly rapid pace, the majority of salon owners have still not fully automated their inventory process.
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Who’s That Knocking at My Door?
10.31.07
Here we go again…another busy season fast approaching. Time to get geared up for the revolving door of retail traffic in the salon and the bitter sweet joy of seeing the cash till filling up again! Of course the money is GREAT, but trying to juggle the time requirements of another job, children, social events and your salon can quickly taint the shear joy of rolling in the dough! It’s a tough job, but then again someone has to do it so you mite as well do it from the comfort of you own home.
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Important ITA Announcement
10.29.07
I am sure you have already heard the buzz concerning the Berman and Company PR firm that the ITA has contracted with to assist our industry in strengthening our perception both with the public and the legislative sectors.
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