Billing for your beauty parlour and cosmetics shop in Andhra Pradesh
A facial, a face pack and a bangle on one bill, whether the shop is a parlour chair or a counter.
What a parlour counter in Andhra Pradesh bills and counts
Low stock warnings
Bindi packets and bangle boxes carry a count of their own, apart from the services, so the warning names only the shelf goods that are running out.
Offers for regular customers
A discount for the bride's mother, kept for the quiet weeks after the wedding, when she comes back for threading.
Daily reports
On the festival eve, today's sales at a glance at six o'clock: how many sittings are billed so far and how many jars have gone, to decide whether the second chair is needed tonight.
Why the evening before Ugadi is the hardest evening at a parlour
Ugadi eve, with mehendi and threading asked for at the same hour
The evening before Ugadi or Sankranti, the same woman asks for mehendi and threading in the same hour, hands for the cone and face for the thread. One girl cannot do both at once, so one waits while the other is done, and the two services of one woman are written as two separate bits.
Threading, and bangles by the dozen in the Ugadi weeks
Threading and a facial are done with the hands and have no stock. In the Ugadi weeks the bangles go by the dozen and the bindi by the packet, and both must be counted on the shelf. Put them in one notebook and the dozens run out unseen, and nobody can say which sale emptied the hook.
A wedding in a weaving town dresses a whole party in handloom sarees
When the family of a bride in a weaving district comes in, the guests wear handloom sarees, and every saree needs draping and its pleats set. The party arrives in the same hour, and the draping takes longer than the facial. The chairs are blocked by the sarees, and the bill is made up from memory when the party has gone.
The festival eve read by chair and by jar, face packs ordered at noon, the monthly threading regular
The festival evening is read by the chair and by the jar, and next year's is planned from it
Open the evening of last Sankranti. You see what the chairs brought in and what the shelf sold, each on its own line. This year you know whether the second chair for the festival eve was worth its hire, and how many face packs the evening really needed.
Face packs and bindi packets are ordered at noon, before the festival evening
On the morning of Ugadi or Sankranti eve the phone shows the face packs and the bangle boxes nearly gone. Send for more at noon, while the suppliers are still open, so the evening does not begin with a bare shelf.
The monthly threading and trim keep the chair busy after the festivals
When the festivals are over the bridal rush is gone and the chair has gaps. The women who come every month for threading and a hair trim fill those gaps. Bill each as an item with its own rate and no count, and the evening's list shows how many chairs went to these regular visits and how many to the one-off festival ones.
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Mango carts, a port and orchards: where the festival money starts
The money for a new hairstyle and a festival saree comes from the crops and the trade of the district, and a parlour sees it in the weeks the chairs are full.
- Nunna Mango Market, on the edge of Vijayawada, gets its mangoes from farmers of NTR, Eluru and Krishna districts. When the market has paid, the families around it spend on weddings and festivals.
- Kakinada port plays the lead role in exporting rice to nearly 25 African countries, and also to China and Vietnam. Families whose work is tied to the port buy for festivals when the trade is good.
- Anantapur grows bananas, sweet oranges, mangoes and pomegranates, and the Collector said in 2025 that 10.70 lakh tonnes went to northern states. A good season in the orchards brings a busy one to the chairs.
Questions from parlours and cosmetics shops in Andhra Pradesh
Saree draping for a wedding guest is a service. Can I give it a rate of its own?
Yes. Draping is an item with its own rate and no count, and it goes on the guest's bill beside the hair set or the facial.
A wedding party in handloom sarees takes the chairs for the morning. Can I see what the draping earned and what the chairs earned?
Yes. Open that day's sales after the wedding morning. There is a line for the draping, a line for the facial and a line for the hair set, so you see which of the three paid for the chairs.
The chairs are quiet for a fortnight after Ugadi. Can I see which days were slowest?
Yes. Open the sales of each day since the festival and read them one after another. The short days are the slow ones.
Venkatagiri sarees and the Palasa cashew market
Venkatagiri sarees, woven on pit looms, are Tirupati district's One District One Product; about 3,064 households make them. A bride or a guest in one of these sarees is the kind of customer a parlour prepares for the day, and the weaving district is where such weddings are dressed with care.
The district portal says the Palasa cashew market is the largest cashew kernel centre in Andhra Pradesh. When a market of that size has paid the growers, the families around it spend on celebrations, and a parlour's busiest days follow the money.