Every salon owner has their stress points—chasing down inventory, overmixing color, dealing with backbar chaos, or second-guessing a formula. For Aisha, owner of The Color Collective Salon in San Diego, these daily frustrations used to eat up time, money, and mental energy.

Then she found CLICS.

The Backbar Burnout

“I decided to use CLICS because I was over doing the whole inventory thing,” Aisha says.

“I was paying a lot of money to have someone else do it for me, and when I wasn’t doing that, I was running back and forth to the beauty supply which was really annoying and taking time away from me and my clients.”

And when the beauty supply shelves were bare—especially during the pandemic—she was stuck.

“I was also really frustrated that the beauty supply didn’t always have the colors that I needed or wanted. There was a break in the supply chain during the COVID situation and I wasn’t able to get all the colors that I needed when I needed them. So I was having to mix tubes together and it was really not working out the way that I would have loved for it to.”

Sound familiar? It’s the reality for so many stylists: wasting hours managing backbar inventory, throwing away unused products, and praying the shades you need will be in stock when your client walks in. CLICS was built to take all of that off your plate.

Color Confidence at Your Fingertips

With the CLICS mobile app, Aisha now formulates digitally.

“Formulating is a lot faster. It’s all digital on my phone which I love. I don’t have to sit there and stare at the millions of colors in the color cabinet to figure out what I want to use.”

Every formula she creates is automatically saved by client and date, so whether someone wants their usual or last season’s color, she can dispense the exact same formulation again with a tap. No more manual notes, no more guesswork.

From the app, Aisha can mix, adjust, and re-dispense color—all tracked by the gram and saved to each client’s profile. It’s like having a digital memory bank for every service—no second-guessing, no reformulating from scratch.

When CLICS Saved the Day

The information in the app doesn’t just make life easier—it can save you from those high-pressure moments where one misstep could throw off an entire service.

“CLICS has helped save many color services for me. One that comes to mind specifically is where I had a client that had two very similar colors going on. We were doing a dimensional brunette with just two levels of difference. After they were both mixed, I forgot which one was which. CLICS helped me because I could go on the app and look and see what color bowl was for which color and I cannot tell you how much that helped me at that moment.”

Inventory Without the Headache

Instead of spending hours stocking shelves, counting tubes, or rushing to the beauty supply store, CLICS handles inventory automatically. The color canisters are stored neatly inside the dispenser, and smart tracking monitors every gram used. When color runs low, CLICS ships out replenishment canisters automatically—before you even notice you’re running out.

One of the biggest game changers for Aisha was what this meant for her budget.

“If I had not chosen to use CLICS I think my biggest regret would have been the time savings, money savings, and the environmental savings… it just keeps going on and on.”

Because CLICS operates on a Pay-As-You-Go model, there’s no need to invest in bulk inventory upfront. You only pay for the product you actually use—freeing up cash flow and cutting down on products that might otherwise expire on the shelf. It’s inventory without being overwhelmed.

A System Built by Stylists, for Stylists

CLICS was created by former salon owner Leilani Macedo with one mission: to free stylists from the constant stress of managing color, inventory, and wasted time. Together with tech innovator Charles Brown, they built a smart, connected color system that lifts the daily burdens stylists face.

And for Aisha, it’s done exactly that. “CLICS honestly has been super great to me and great to my clients.”

Ready to ditch inventory drama and color chaos?

Let CLICS take the stress out of your backbar so you can focus on what you love: creating beautiful hair. Contact CLICS and join the growing community of stylists who are reclaiming their creativity and simplifying their salon life.