How many clients can I fit in a day, and what does that day gross?
A nail day runs on four clocks, not one: the minutes your hands are busy, the minutes a set is curing or drying with your hands free, the minutes a station is taken, from your first hands-on to the last of two moments, the last cure finishing and the last wipe-down finishing, which is the clock your day runs on, and the minutes the day gives you once the breaks are out. This page foots your day against all four, prints each of them as a total of its own in section C, and prints a day sheet you can take to the desk. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
This page is arithmetic on figures you type. It never supplies, suggests, averages or benchmarks a price, a wage, an earnings figure or a target, and it prints no gross per hour and no comparison against any other tech, shop or app. It is not an appointment book: it has no state, no reminders and no client list, and it keeps nothing. It carries no stock table, no product cost and no sanitation or disinfection log of any kind, and no field anywhere for a client's name, health, allergies, conditions or medication.
The walkthrough is on. Each section says what its figures mean and who holds them. Turn it off at the top once you know your way around. The minutes, stations and client counts in the blanks are a worked example so the page answers before you touch it; every price field starts at nothing, because a price on this page is only ever one you typed.
A service row in section B still holds this page's own example, so the clients, the minutes and the gross at the top of this page are worked from that example's services and not from yours.
Type your own services into section B, with your own client counts and your own times, and every figure on this page becomes your day's.
Clients the day fits once the cure windows are on the clock9 clientsnot yet yours: section B still holds the example
Minutes your mix asks of your hands440 minutesnot yet yours: section B still holds the example
Minutes your mix puts on the clock450 minutesnot yet yours: section B still holds the example
Your mix's gross at your own prices$0.00not yet yours: section B still holds the example
A
The day you are planning
Five figures you already hold. The turnaround is hands-on work, so it is never hidden inside anything. A station is a place a client can sit while a set cures, whether or not you are standing at it.
Start time
The time you unlock. Offered from 05:00 to 14:00 in quarter hours.
Length of the day
How long you are in the building, in hours and quarter hours. Held as minutes, so the day and the break are in one unit.
Unpaid break
The minutes in the day you are not working. The page takes them out of the day before it lays the work out; where in the day you take them is yours, and wherever you take them the finish moves by the same minutes. The day sheet's clock times carry none of your break, so they are the sheet for a break taken once your last client is done.
Turnaround a client
Wipe-down and set-up between one client and the next. Watch yourself do it once and put that number here.
Stations
Count the places a client can sit. One station means a client cures in the chair you need for the next one.
Start time the time you unlock
Length of the day hours and quarter hours
Unpaid break in the day minutes
Turnaround a client wipe-down and set-up, minutes
Stations places a client can sit and cure
Taking the break at a different hour changes none of the totals in section C: the page takes the break minutes out of the day before it lays the work out, so the finish time moves by exactly the break however you place it. The day sheet in section E is the one block where the hour matters: it lays your clients out from your start time and carries none of your break, which is the sheet for a break taken once your last client is done, and a break taken earlier pushes every line from there on later by your break minutes.
B
The services in the day's mix
One row per service. Each row carries two durations, which is the whole point of this page: the minutes your hands are on the client, and the cure, dry or soak window during which your hands are free. Lamp cure times are printed on the lamp; a soak is your own. Every price starts at nothing and this page never fills one in.
Service name
Your own name for it. A blank row is still counted; the tables call it unnamed.
Clients in the day
How many of this service you are planning, from the day in front of you.
Hands-on minutes each
The minutes you are working on the client with no gap. You have timed your own sets.
Cure minutes each
The lamp, the dry or the soak: the window your hands are free and the client is still at the station.
Price each
Off your own price list. This page has no view on what anything should cost and prints no average.
Service 1
Service 2
Service 3
Service 4
Service 5
Service 6
Hold only your totals, with no split by service? Put one row in the mix with your average client, all of your minutes in hands-on and nothing in cure, and your own average price. The page then prints the one-clock answer, the overlap gain reads as nothing, and it says so where the figures are: nothing in cure is a true entry, not a missing one.
C
The day, footed twice
Once against your hands and once against the clock. Every line is computed from the figures printed beside it; minutes are whole, because a nail day is not scheduled in fractions of a minute, and money is worked to the cent.
The working, so none of it is a black box.
This arithmetic written out for anything that reads this page instead of looking at it: api.json beside this page carries every input, every output, the formula line by line, this worked example, and a list of what the calculation deliberately leaves out.
D
One row per service
Hands-on and cure minutes are each a client's own figure multiplied by the clients in the row. The hidden column is the row's share of the cure minutes the day managed to hide, handed out in the order the rows are entered; the footing is the day's own figure. Minutes are minutes, money is money, and no cell carries a unit because the column heading does.
Service
Clients
Hands-on each, min
Cure each, min
Hands-on total, min
Cure total, min
Hidden, min
Price each
Row gross
E
The day sheet, to print
One line per client, in the order the rows are entered, from your start time. Hands on; wiped down, which is the moment your turnaround is finished and your hands are free for the next client, so the turnaround sits inside that column; and the time the cure finishes, with the station the client is sitting at. A cure that finishes while you are still wiping the station therefore shows an earlier time in the cure column, which is the station still being yours while you wipe it. A line past the clients your clock fits carries a marker of its own, and such a line can run its hands-on, its wipe-down or its cure out past the end of the day you entered. No line on this sheet is marked, so every client printed here is one your clock fits, and where the sheet left clients off the end, the count of the clients your clock fits is the figure the glance prints and cannot be read off this sheet. These times carry none of your break: they lay your clients out from your start time, which is the sheet for a break taken once your last client is done, so a break taken earlier pushes every line from there on later by your break minutes, and a time here can read before midnight while the finish time in section C, which has your break counted in it, is past it.
Service
Hands on
Wiped down
Cure done
Station
F
Words that come up
Hands-on minutes
The minutes you are working on a client with no gap in them. Your own figure, timed on your own sets.
Cure minutes
The lamp, dry or soak window after the hands-on work: your hands are free and the client is still at the station.
Turnaround
Wipe-down and set-up between clients. Hands-on work, so it is never hidden inside a cure window. The day sheet's wiped-down column is the moment it is finished, so your turnaround sits inside that column, not after it.
Usable minutes
The length of the day with the unpaid break taken out.
Station
A place a client can sit. A client holds a station from the moment you start on her until her cure is done, whether you are standing there or not.
Hidden cure minutes
The cure minutes in your mix with the cure minutes on the clock taken out. Two clients can be curing at once, so a mix can carry a cure total your day has no room to hold minute for minute: this figure is that subtraction and not a count of minutes spent one particular way. The minutes it stands for cost the day nothing.
Cure minutes on the clock
Cure minutes the day has to find room for: the minutes you waited for a station, plus the part of the last cure that runs on once your last wipe-down is done, because there is no later client to hide it inside.
Clock minutes
The minutes from the first hands-on to the last of two moments, breaks aside: the last cure finishing and the last wipe-down finishing. Your hands-on and turnaround minutes plus the cure minutes on the clock.
Fits by your hands
The clients the usable day holds when only hands-on and turnaround minutes are counted, taken in the order the rows are entered until the minutes run out.
Fits on the clock
That walk again, with the cure windows and the station waits in it, and with each client's wipe-down and her cure both required to finish inside the day. The count stops at the first client the day could not hold, so a client whose own hours land inside the day is still outside the count if she sits after one that did not. Where the day sheet carries a marked line, the clients your day holds are the lines before it; the sheet prints only its first two dozen lines and names how many it leaves off, so a day whose count runs on past the end of the printed sheet has no marked line on it at all and the count is the one the glance prints.
Stations in use at the fullest moment
The most stations held at once anywhere in the day this page laid out, counted as each client sits down: her, and everyone before her whose cure has not finished by then. A client holds one from the moment you start on her until her cure is done, so the figure is never past the station count you entered.
Clients your hidden minutes would fill, if your hands were free
Your hidden cure minutes divided by what one more client of your commonest service would cost you in hands-on and turnaround minutes, taken down to whole clients, because a part of a client is not a client. It is your cure total measured in clients and not clients you can add: the minutes it counts are minutes your hands were busy through, which is why they were hidden, and one more client asks for your hands again. The quotient to two decimals is printed beside it in the working in section C, so you can see both.
Clients the minutes your hands have spare would take
The minutes left over against your hands, divided by what one more client of your commonest service costs you in hands-on and turnaround minutes, down to whole clients and floored at nothing. A day that asks of your hands everything it has gives nothing here. This is the row its neighbour is read against, and wherever the neighbour's count runs on past this one the page prints a sentence between the two saying which of them is a count of clients you could take. The other way round is the ordinary day and needs no sentence: a day with hands to spare and little or nothing hidden simply holds the clients its hands hold.
Your mix's gross
Your own prices multiplied by your own client counts, added up over every client in the mix, including any client your clock cannot hold. It is the gross of the mix you entered and not of the day the clock fits, which is why the glance names it for the mix. Arithmetic on what you typed.
The day's capacity and gross follow from the service times, buffer and prices you entered; every figure on the page is computed from the figures shown.
The figures and the day sheet print with it. Nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is saved except whether the walkthrough is on.
The week this page cannot keep
This page plans one day and forgets it when you close the tab. What it cannot do is carry a week, or tell you what the product in one set costs you, because that only exists in a record you keep: what you used, what you paid for it, and how many sets it covered.
The kit is two files, for one price, yours to keep:
A weekly book, as a spreadsheet with the formulas left in - your own service list with its hands-on and cure times, one line a day for a week with the mix you worked, and a footing that gives the week's gross, the minutes the week asked of your hands, the cure minutes in it, what one set of each service leaves you over its product, and a reorder flag off a level you set yourself. The clock side of a mixed day is this page's job and is not in the workbook, which says so itself. There is no client sheet in it at all: no name, no contact, and no health, allergy, condition or medication field anywhere, because a book left open on a desk is the wrong place for any of that, and the PDF says so in as many words.
The decisions the arithmetic cannot make, as a short PDF - deposits, a no-show fee, a late arrival, how far ahead to rebook by service, and what counts as a redo. Each one written as a decision to settle on purpose and write down, with the figure it moves.
One payment, no subscription, no account on this site. A spreadsheet and a PDF; files, not software. Nothing on this page needs it, and the page stays free and complete without it.