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Know who’s drifting before they’re gone

FreshTrim learns each customer’s rhythm and tells you the day they break it — then brings them back in one tap.

An extra €10 a month, on the free plan as readily as the paid one, free for the first 14 days. Everything above is included in your plan already.

Drifting

14

You can email

9 of 14

Worth a month

€327

  • Daniel Ryan

    Usually every 3 weeks · 9 weeks since the last one

    €24.00 a visit
  • Jack Moloney

    Usually every 2 weeks · 5 weeks since the last one

    €18.00 a visit
  • Oisín Keane

    Usually every 6 weeks · 4 months since the last one

    €21.50 a visit
  • Dara Walsh

    Usually every 4 weeks · 7 weeks since the last one

    €20.00 a visit
Each person measured against their own rhythm — the three-weekly regular is missing at nine weeks, the six-weekly one is not missing at seven. The second number is the honest one: only customers who ticked the box can be emailed, and the screen says so rather than quietly sending to everybody.

Six weeks is the wrong question

Every shop has a rule of thumb — "if I have not seen them in six weeks, they are gone". It is wrong in both directions at once. The customer who comes every fortnight is already drifting at three weeks and nobody notices for another month; the one who comes every six weeks gets chased while they are still perfectly happy, which is how a list gets burned. FreshTrim works out each person’s own gap from their own visits — the middle one, so a single six-month absence in an otherwise regular history does not skew it — and calls them drifting at half again their own rhythm. A fortnightly regular is flagged at three weeks. A six-weekly one is not flagged until nine.

It needs three visits before it says anything

Two visits is one gap, and one gap is a coincidence rather than a rhythm. So somebody who came twice and stopped is not on this list, and neither is anybody who booked and did not turn up — a no-show is not a haircut, and a shop chasing people who never sat in the chair is a shop wasting the goodwill it has.

And it tells you what it is worth

Beside the names: what each of them usually spent, scaled by how often they usually came. A fortnightly customer at €20 is worth more in a month than a six-weekly one at €30, and a list that added those up the same way would be telling you the wrong thing about both. The screen calls it an estimate and says outright that it is not money you have lost — most of them come back on their own, and a number that pretended otherwise is one you would stop believing.

Only the people who asked to hear from you

A customer ticking a box on your booking page is what makes an offer lawful to send in Ireland, and this will not send to anyone who did not. That means the screen shows you two numbers rather than one — fourteen drifting, nine you can email — and the gap between them is deliberate. It is uncomfortable and it is the honest picture, and it is also the argument for asking properly: the nine are worth more than a list of fourteen you are not allowed to use.

One email, and no more than one every ninety days

Your words, their name, and a button that opens your booking page. No pictures, no tracking pixel, nothing counting whether they opened it. The ninety-day floor is not a setting you can lower — a shop that messages a lapsed customer monthly is spending a list it took years to build, and the product will not help with that. Every message carries a one-tap way off, on a page that says plainly that booking confirmations and reminders keep coming, because the first thing anybody thinks when they unsubscribe is that they have cancelled their appointment.

Whether it worked, measured honestly

A nudge counts as having worked if that customer books within thirty days — by any route, including ringing the shop, which plenty of them will. You get sent, booked-after and what those bookings came to. It is reported as "booked after a nudge" and never as "caused by", because some of these people were coming back anyway and a report that took the credit would be the kind of number that makes you distrust the rest of the screen.

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