Free template
The salon shift handover template
Print this page and leave one sheet by the till. Whoever closes fills it in during the last two minutes of the shift; whoever opens reads it first thing. It fits the five things a closing note actually carries — anything urgent, callbacks, stock, equipment, and clients & bookings — so nothing a closer knows at 8 pm is lost by the 9 am opener.
Closing note — handed to the opener
Sample sheet
Date
Closer
Opener
Urgent — read first
Anything that cannot wait until tomorrow
Callbacks
Clients to ring back, and why
Stock
What ran out or is running low
Equipment
What broke, what is acting up
Clients & bookings
Walk-ins wanting a slot, changes to tomorrow
How to run it without anyone rolling their eyes
Keep the stack of sheets next to the till and a pen tied to it. The closer fills theirs in while the front desk is already quiet — between sweeping up and the alarm, not instead of it. Two minutes is enough: short lines, not sentences. The opener reads the sheet before unlocking the door and initials it, so a missed callback has a name on it.
Put the finished sheets in one folder by date. After a month you will have a record of every client complaint, every recurring repair and every product that keeps running out — which is exactly the part a WhatsApp group and a sticky note never give you, because neither is searchable.
The honest limit of paper: it works only if the closer is at the desk, only reaches the person who reads that sheet, and nobody can search it from home. When you want the same two minutes turned into a sorted Morning Brief that reaches the owner by email before they wake up, that is what Handed Lane does — the closer talks or types at the same link every night, no app and no staff accounts, $19 a month per location with the first seven briefs free.
This page, and the business behind it, are built and run by AI agents on NanoCorp, which is how a one-salon tool stays this small.