For solo beauty professionals & small studios
The money side of your beauty business, finally under control.
You went to beauty school, not accounting school. IssaBudget records your sales in seconds, gives every dollar a job, and shows, in plain words, what you really make.
30 days free · then $29/month · no card needed · cancel anytime
Fully booked, and still wondering where the money went?
The most common story in this industry: the chair is full and the money side is a fog. Here is what IssaBudget changes:
Rent never sneaks up again
Every dollar you earn gets a job the day it arrives. Rent, supplies, taxes, and your own pay are set aside first, so a quiet week is never a scary one.
Your reports build themselves
Record the day's sales and the rest happens alone: revenue, profit, best clients, best services. No spreadsheets, no month-end homework.
Zero accounting words
No debits, no ledgers, no bookkeeping words. You record what happened, the app does the math. If you can text, you can keep your books.
Beauty businesses rarely close because the work was bad.
They close because the money was a fog. The research has said the same thing for years:
82%
of small-business failures involve cash-flow problems
Not bad work. Not too few clients. Money that wasn't managed.
U.S. Bank study
50%
of new businesses are gone within five years
The ones that survive know their numbers cold.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
61%
of small businesses run without a formal budget
The most common money plan is no plan at all.
Clutch small-business survey
You already do the hard part: the craft, the clients, the long days on your feet. IssaBudget exists so the easy-to-ignore part, the money, never gets to decide how your story ends.
30 days free · no card needed
Simple on the surface. Serious underneath.
It works like the envelope system your grandmother trusted, and keeps the real books your accountant wishes you had. Here is a day with the app:
Open it on your phone
Your whole month, in envelopes
Rent, supplies, sales tax, and your own pay, each in its envelope, funded first. One look tells you what is safe to spend.
Set up your envelopes in your free month
Open it at the front desk
The same books, grown up
What came in, what went out, where it went, what you paid yourself. One glance, no spreadsheet, on whatever screen is near.
See your own numbers this wayWhen a client pays
Recording a sale takes seconds
Tap ⊕, pick the client and the service from your own menu, save. The sale is in your books before the client is out the door.
Record your first sale today
Clients & services
Know your best clients and your best services
Your client book builds itself from the sales you record: who comes back, how often, what a visit is worth. Your menu learns which services carry your month.
30 days free · no card needed · cancel anytime
The IssaBudget method
Four rules. The app runs them, the guide teaches them.
- Every dollar gets a jobThe day money arrives, it is given a purpose: rent, supplies, tax, your pay. What is left is what is safe to spend.Read the chapter · 4 min ›
- Write it down while it is warmThe minute after a client pays is the cheapest minute in your week to record the sale. The app makes it seconds.Read the chapter · 4 min ›
- Pay yourself on purposeThe same amount every month, from a business where no two months are the same. Steady pay is this rule, automated.Read the chapter · 5 min ›
- Keep two cushionsOne for your pay on a slow month, one for the studio when something breaks. They are never the same envelope.Read the chapter · 6 min ›
Steady pay
Pay yourself the same amount every month
No two months look alike in this work, so most owners take whatever is left. Steady pay turns your months into one number you can count on.
It reads your months, not a guess
From what your studio really brings in and what it costs to run, the app works out what you can safely take home.
Taxes and savings come off first
Your tax share and your savings are set aside before your pay, so the number is yours to keep.
Good months fill a cushion for slow ones
A strong month's extra waits in a cushion. A quiet month still pays you the same.
It moves with your books, nothing to redo
Each new month joins the math on its own. The app recommends, you decide.
30 days free · no card needed
Try it with your own numbers first, free, no account ›
Want the idea first? Read Paying yourself on purpose in the Money guide, about 5 minutes.
Watch Issa walk through it
Grab a coffee and let Issa show you around. It is a short tour, not a course: what she taps after a client pays, where the rent money waits, and how she can tell in one look whether this month is going well.
Everything you need to get going is in the first few minutes.
Already have a booking app? Keep it.
IssaBudget does not book or swipe cards. It answers the question those tools leave open:
Your booking app takes the payment
IssaBudget is what happens after the payment: is rent covered, what did this month really make, what can you pay yourself. Nothing to switch, nothing to import.
A household budget is not a studio’s books
A personal budget app only records money in. It cannot record a sale: which client, what service, what the card fee took. Recording the sale builds real books, and the money lands straight in your envelopes.
Built by one of us
Meet Issa
Issa is an esthetician and the owner of Skin by Issa. She got licensed, filled her book, and grew her solo practice into a studio. Somewhere along the way she learned the industry’s open secret: the treatments are the easy part. The money is what keeps you up at night.
Nobody teaches you the money side in school. The tools that exist were built for accountants or for booking, not for the person with a full book of clients who just wants to know: am I actually making money, can I pay myself, and will tax season hurt this year?
So Issa built the tool she needed, tested it on her own studio’s real numbers, and made it simple enough that you never need to learn a single accounting word. That tool is IssaBudget.
The same app Issa runs her own studio on.
One price. Everything included.
Your first 30 days are free: the whole app, no card needed. After that, pick the plan that suits you. Every feature is in both, and the whole thing costs about one client visit a month.
Monthly
$29 /month
Month to month. Cancel anytime from inside the app, and your books stay saved.
Start free monthYearly
$290 /year
Pay for 10 months, get 12. It works out to about $24 a month.
Start free monthNo setup fees. No per-client charges. No processing fees. No add-ons. No card until you decide to stay. And when you need help, a real person answers you on WhatsApp, 7 days a week, 11am to 7pm Eastern.
Questions, answered straight
Everything you might be wondering, in plain words. No budgeting experience needed, no accounting words used.
Your plan, your trial, your data
The buying questions, answered straight.
How much does it cost?
$29 a month, or $290 a year. The yearly plan is two months free, which works out to about $24 a month. One price, every feature: nothing is held back for a higher tier, and the cost does not climb as your client list grows.
Your first 30 days are free and we do not ask for a card to start. After that, it costs less than one client visit a month.
Is the free month really free?
Yes. Your first 30 days are the full app, every feature, and we do not ask for a card to start. If it is not for you, you walk away having typed nothing but your email and your studio's name.
What happens when my free month ends?
You choose a plan: $29 a month, or $290 a year, which is two months free and works out to about $24 a month. Your books pause behind a locked door until you do, and nothing is ever deleted. The day you subscribe, everything is exactly where you left it.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes, from the Billing page inside the app, in two taps. You keep full access until the end of the time you already paid for, and your books stay saved. If you ever come back, you sign in and your history is waiting.
Is my information safe?
Your books live in an encrypted database where every business is walled off from every other one. We never sell your data, never contact your clients, and your client notes are visible only to you. You can read the plain-English version in our Privacy Policy.
What if I get stuck or have a question?
You text us on WhatsApp and a real person answers, 7 days a week from 11am to 7pm Eastern. Not a chatbot, not a ticket number, a person who knows the app and knows this industry. The same help line lives inside the app, one tap away, and email works too if you prefer it.
Do I need to be good with numbers?
No. This app was built for people who went to beauty school, not accounting school. You record what happened in plain words, and the app does the math, the reports, and the explaining. If you can text, you can keep your books.
Is there an app for my phone?
Yes. IssaBudget installs straight from this website: tap Install, or Add to Home Screen on an iPhone, and it gets its own icon and opens full screen like any app on your phone. No app store needed.
Because it installs from the web, there is nothing to update. The icon always opens the current version.
Every how-do-I question about envelopes, sales, clients, and services is answered inside the app’s Help, in the same plain words. You are never left guessing.
Money guide
Not ready to start? Read first.
Issa wrote down the money side of running a studio, the way nobody taught it in school: short chapters, plain words, no account needed. It is free to read, whether or not you ever use the app.
11 chapters · 4 to 6 minutes each
- Every dollar gets a jobThe whole idea behind envelope budgeting, explained slowly, with no math and no spreadsheets.4 min
- What you actually keepThe number on your booking app is not your money. Here is what is really left once everyone takes their piece.6 min
- Write it down while it is warmThe minute after a client pays is worth more than any other in your week. Here is what it saves you from carrying.4 min
- Paying yourself on purposeHow to pay yourself the same amount every month, out of a business where no two months are the same.5 min
- And 7 more chapters ›
One tap from your home screen
IssaBudget installs straight from this page: its own icon, full screen, no browser bar. There is no app store visit and nothing to update. It is the same app, always current.
Know your numbers. Keep more of what you earn.
Set up takes minutes: name your studio, and your budget arrives with envelopes built for this industry. Your first 30 days are on us.
Your books are encrypted, walled off from every other business, and never sold. We never contact your clients.