Lumière Nail Bar Business Plan — Appendix E: Glossary
Glossary of salon, membership, utilisation and financial terms used throughout the Lumière Nail Bar business plan.
Appendix E: Glossary
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- Overview & contents
- i. Important Notice and Basis of Preparation
- 1. Executive Summary
- 2. Market and Positioning
- 3. How a Salon Actually Makes Money
- 4. The Membership Programme
- 5. SWOT and Competitive Position
- 6. Operations and the Capacity Build
- 7. Compliance and Standards
- 8. Management and Team
- 9. Financial Plan
- 10. Break-Even and Debt Service
- 11. Investment Analysis
- 12. Sensitivity and Scenario Analysis
- 13. Risk Analysis
- 14. Implementation Roadmap
- 15. Key Performance Indicators
- 16. Key Assumptions
- 17. Conclusion and Recommendation
- A. Appendix A: Consolidated Financial Summary
- B. Appendix B: Capital and Capacity Schedules
- C. Appendix C: Funding, Debt and Working Capital Schedules
- D. Appendix D: Risk Register
- E. Appendix E: Glossary
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Term |
Meaning |
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Attachment |
Retail revenue as a percentage of treatment revenue. 16.0% by Year 5, or 15.1% measured against total service revenue including ancillary. |
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Breakage |
Prepaid value bought and never redeemed, recognised at 11%. It is a residual rather than a target, and unredeemed value is a liability until the validity period lapses. |
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Certificate of acceptability |
Municipal environmental health approval of the premises, covering ventilation, ablutions, water, waste and treatment areas. A salon trading without it is trading unlawfully and is uninsurable. |
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Churn |
Members lost as a proportion of the base. A member who stops redeeming is a churn signal months before the debit order stops. |
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Consumer Protection Act |
Under which prepaid vouchers in South Africa remain valid for three years, making unredeemed value a balance sheet liability long before it is income. |
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Membership retained margin |
The 26% of the R690 monthly fee not consumed in included treatments — R179 a member a month, carrying no additional direct cost. |
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POPIA |
The Protection of Personal Information Act, requiring consent for client skin records and imagery, and requiring that client data be held by the business rather than on therapists’ personal devices. |
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Realised rate per treatment hour |
Treatment revenue divided by treatment hours sold, approximately R312 at Year 5. Blended across nail and treatment room services. |
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Rebooking rate |
Clients leaving with a next appointment as a proportion of clients served. The leading indicator of every other number in the business. |
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Revenue per station |
Total revenue divided by nail stations plus treatment rooms — R907 333 by Year 5. The benchmark against which a second site is judged. |
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Section 20 limitation |
The South African rule capping the set-off of assessed losses at the higher of R1 million or 80% of taxable income in any year. |
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Utilisation |
Hours sold divided by sellable hours, measured per station and per hour of day. A practical ceiling of around 70% reflects the concentration of demand into peak periods. |
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