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How many sales before anything is profit?

Your break-even point turns rent, wages, and margins into one concrete number: the sales a normal day has to produce. Most owners have never computed it, and it changes how you read a quiet week.

/month
Rent, base wages, insurance, software: costs that arrive regardless
per sale
Revenue ÷ number of sales
%
Materials, product, card fees: as a % of the ticket
/week
Contribution per sale (ticket minus variable cost)0
Break-even sales per month·
Break-even revenue per month·
Sales per week / per open day·
Formula: fixed costs ÷ (average ticket × (1 − variable cost %)). Everything above the break-even line contributes to profit; everything below it is a day that lost money.

Questions owners ask

What counts as a fixed cost?

Anything that arrives whether or not you sell: rent, base wages and payroll costs, insurance, software subscriptions, loan repayments. If a quiet month still has to pay it, it is fixed.

What counts as a variable cost?

The direct cost of each individual sale: product or ingredients, treatment consumables, card processing fees, per-job labour. Expressed here as a percentage of your average ticket, which is one hundred minus your gross margin percentage.

Why does break-even per day matter?

Because it converts your whole cost structure into a number the team can act on today. "We need 40 sales a day to break even" changes how a quiet Tuesday is read, in a way a monthly P&L never will.

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