It’s all peace and love with your fantastic staff until you find out an ex-employee has stolen your entire client base, right?

Then, it’s war.

The shocking truth for salon owners is sometimes this kind of sh*t happens.

And nothing is quite so sh*t as losing all your hard work—the years of accumulating clients one by one—by finding out your precious data base has suddenly evaporated into thin air.

But how do you stop your staff stealing your data? Simple. Make sure whatever booking software system you use has these 4 must have security features:

1) Unique log-in codes. Identify each user with a unique log-in. It should be non-transferrable, meaning only you, the owner or whomever is at the top of the management chain has access to creating and editing log-ins.

2) Levels of access. Booking software must serve the varied needs of the different users by offering variable user access. This means not everyone gets the same access as each other; including limiting access to mobiles and emails. YOU must be able to decide who gets access to what.

3) Global lock. This is a feature which allows the owner to lock out staff, including managers, from accessing data whilst they are not at the salon. It’s vital to have this feature especially to stop disgruntled employees from stealing data by stealth.

4) Track staff activity. Protecting your data also means having a feature that keeps track of your staff activities. Whether it is the deletion of an appointment, deletion of a client (!), staff exporting client lists or a simple log-in, you must be able to know exactly what your staff are doing with your data at anytime.

As you can see, and no matter which booking software you use, these 4 software security features are essential for protecting your data, protecting your clients, and protecting your business.

Fortunately Simple Salon includes all these essential security features while allowing you to customise the level of access you give each individual staff member easily at anytime.

If you’re ready to give a truly secure software a go you can sign up for a FREE 30-day trial HERE and take a step closer to protecting your data better than ever before.