Retention & follow-up

Average ticket is up? That may be bad news

Your report shows average ticket going up, so you relax. Don't. Price-sensitive customers leave first, which pushes the average up while total customers fall. Rising ticket plus falling headcount is churn halfway through.

CCS Plus Consulting Team 4-min read
A salon owner holds a tablet showing business reports, with only one customer in the waiting area behind her

You see the average ticket going up on your report and breathe a sigh of relief. Not so fast.

A rising average ticket often means you have fewer customers.

1. How the average gets pushed up

The first to leave are always the price-sensitive customers. Once they're gone, the big spenders remain and the average naturally goes up.

But your total number of customers is falling.

Average ticket up, customer count down. That isn't growth. That's churn halfway through.

2. Do this today: look at average ticket and customer count together

  1. Put the last few months of average ticket and total customers side by side.
  2. If ticket is up and customers are down, find out who left. What they had last time and which staff member served them.

Look at only one number and it's easy to read the direction wrong.

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