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See what your backbar actually costs you
Build your protocol step by step and get your cost per treatment, your margin, and what you would need to charge to hit your target. Free for licensed pros.
FACTORFIVE · Professional use only
Backbar Calculator
Build your protocol, step by step. See what the product costs you per treatment, what it leaves you, and what you would need to charge to hit your target margin.
Your service
What you charge and how oftenYour protocol
FACTORFIVE backbar
Add each step of your protocol below — whatever you use, whoever makes it. Enter what you pay for the container and how much you get out of it.
Leave the price at 0 for no-cost steps like consult, massage, or a steam towel. For a 500 mL cleanser at $34 used 5 mL at a time, enter 34 / 500 / 5.
Cost breakdown
Per treatment and per monthTake-home resale
Optional · not a backbar cost- Margin per kit
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- Added profit per month
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- Cost as % of price
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- You keep per treatment
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- Product spend / month
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- Kept per month
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- Target service price
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Where these numbers come from
- FACTORFIVE prices are wholesale list from the B2B catalog. Your tier pricing may be lower.
- Every default amount is the published spec for that product. Change any of them to match how you actually work.
- Backbar pumps dispense 0.5 mL. Retail pumps dispense 0.25 mL, minis 0.12 mL. Compare sizes by cost per mL, never by cost per pump — a backbar pump delivers twice what a retail pump does. Watch the dose column, not the pump count.
- Anti-Aging Cream and Eye/Lash Cream have no professional size, so they are costed at retail per pump: 2 pumps and 1 pump respectively. Using them on the table means drawing down retail stock.
- The 8–15% band shown on the meter is a widely cited benchmark for a standard facial, not a FACTORFIVE standard. Kit-based protocols land higher, because the kit is the dominant cost. Set your own target and price against that instead.
- The 7-Day Post-Treatment Kit is a client take-home you resell, so it sits outside the protocol cost and gets its own panel.
For licensed professionals. Backbar sizes are professional use only and not for resale. This tool estimates product cost only. It does not include room time, labor, disposables you have not added, devices, or overhead.
