Avana's cash book fills itself with every cash payment you record, alongside your costs and stock, and it comes with Business Plus. At closing time you count the drawer and Avana tells you whether it adds up.
Counting the drawer only helps if you know what should be in it. Avana works that out from the cash payments you already recorded.
When a client pays cash, the amount is already in your cash book with their name and the service. The notebook next to the drawer can go.
You count what's there, and Avana tells you if anything is short or over. It also works out what's left to bank.
Every payment on its own line, adding up exactly to your cash book, plus a tax summary from your invoices. No more typing up receipts.
It all lives in the payments section of your dashboard: the cash book, the end-of-day close and your costs.
Cash payments and cash refunds go in automatically. If you add change to the drawer or take something out, you log it in a couple of taps.
You see the day's takings per payment method and enter what you count. Avana tells you whether it matches, and how much goes to the bank or the safe.
Log your rent, your stock orders and other spending, with the receipt attached. Products you buy in go straight onto your stock count.
Download your receipts with every payment on its own line, adding up exactly to your cash book, and a tax summary built from your final invoices.
Keeping track of cash with a notebook or your own spreadsheet, compared with letting Avana do it.
| Notebook or spreadsheet | Cash book in Avana | |
|---|---|---|
| A cash payment | Written down, if you remember | Already there |
| At the end of the day | Add it up and hope | Count, and Avana works out the difference |
| Money missing from the drawer | Nobody knows why | A note on that day |
| Buying in stock | Receipt in a drawer, stock in your head | Receipt attached, stock updated |
| What you actually keep | Only when your accountant calls | Every month, takings minus costs |
| Year end | A pile of receipts | Files that add up |
Avana's cash-up is five parts that connect, so every amount is only entered once.
The cash book, end-of-day close, costs and stock are part of Business Plus and Business Max. Invoices and the monthly invoice download are in every plan.
Because you take payments, invoice and sell in Avana, the money is already in the right place by the time you count.
Create an invoice without an appointment and have the client pay cash, and the amount goes into your cash book. If you credit it later, you choose whether the cash was given back.
If a client pays for the second session of a package in cash, that part lands in your cash book and that day's close. A session without a payment doesn't count as takings.
Your reports show what's left after costs, and you can download your receipts and VAT summary for your accountant. Both from Business Plus.
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Everything paid in cash through Avana: a cash payment on an appointment, cash given back on a refund, a one-off invoice or an order paid in cash, and an expense paid from the drawer. Card and online payments stay out, because that money never passes through your drawer.
In Avana, open the end-of-day screen, check the day's takings per payment method and enter what you count, note by note if you like. Avana shows any difference, and you choose what stays in the drawer for tomorrow. The rest is what goes to the bank or the safe.
Avana lets you close the day anyway and add a note explaining the difference. A closed day doesn't change afterwards; if you find the cause later, you add a correction with your name and the reason, so your history stays complete.
Yes, Avana keeps costs and stock next to the cash book. Log an expense with the amount, the tax rate and a photo or PDF of the receipt. If you paid in cash from the drawer, it comes out of your cash book automatically, and a stock order adds the products to your stock count.
You can hand over a receipts file with every payment on its own line, adding up exactly to your cash book, a VAT breakdown from your final invoices, and a month of invoices as PDFs in one zip. They can use those without you typing anything up.
Team members only see Avana's cash book if you give them access to takings and invoices. Without that permission, team members don't see the cash book, the end-of-day close or your costs.
The cash book, end-of-day close, costs and stock are part of Avana Business Plus at £28.99 a month and Avana Business Max. Invoices and the monthly invoice download are in every plan, including Avana Business.
When a client pays online, a small service fee is part of the price they see from the very first screen: 3% of the booking, at least £1.49 and at most £2.29. You pay nothing on your takings, because Avana charges no commission. That small amount from the client is what lets us pay you out in full, so the whole treatment price stays with you.
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Avana is salon software with a cash book that fills itself. Every cash payment, cash refund or cash expense you record in Avana goes in automatically, while card and online payments stay out. At the end of the day you count the drawer, Avana shows any difference and works out what goes to the bank, and a closed day can't be changed afterwards. Alongside it you log costs with their receipts and keep a stock count that updates with every sale and order. The cash book, end-of-day close, costs and stock are part of Avana Business Plus: £28.99 a month.
Plenty of clients still pay cash, and that's fine until the end of the day, when you're counting notes and wondering why you're £10 short. A salon cash-up in Avana starts from what you already recorded: every cash payment on an appointment is in the cash book with the client's name and the time, so the count starts from the right number.
The close itself takes a minute. You see the day's takings split by card, cash and online, count the drawer and get the difference straight away. What you leave in becomes tomorrow's float, and the rest is what goes to the bank. If something doesn't match, you note why and the day is closed. Online payments are explained under payments.
The same section holds your costs and stock. Log the rent, a stock order or a box of foils with the receipt attached, and at the end of the month you see what you took, what you spent and what's left. Products you buy in update your stock, and your reports give you files for your accountant. It's all part of Business Plus, as shown on the pricing page.
Cashing up is checking at the end of the day that the money in the drawer matches what you took in cash. For a salon that takes even a few cash payments, it's the only way to spot a mistake while you still remember the day: change given wrongly, a payment never recorded, or a float that wasn't what you thought.
In Avana it starts from your own records. Every cash payment you take on an appointment is already listed, so the expected amount is right before you count. You see the takings per payment method, enter what you count and see the difference. A closed day is locked, and any correction is added with your name and the reason.
Only money that actually passes through your drawer. Cash payments on appointments, cash refunds, one-off invoices or orders paid in cash, and expenses paid from the drawer are added automatically. You can add your own movements too: change put in, cash taken to the bank, or a correction.
Card and online payments stay out because they never touch the drawer, but they do show in the end-of-day close so you see the whole day. Service fees clients pay online aren't part of your takings, so they don't count either.
Log each expense when it happens, with the receipt, and you never have a pile to sort out at the end of the quarter. In Avana you choose a category, enter the amount and the tax rate, and attach a photo or PDF of the receipt.
Each month you see your takings, your costs and the result, including tax. That's a picture for yourself rather than a profit figure for your tax return, but it tells you quickly whether a quiet month was really quiet. Stock orders logged as costs also update your stock count, and cash spending comes out of your cash book automatically.
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