How much cash will I need to open?
Separate what you pay before opening from the money needed while bookings build. Include owner pay, package visits still owed and unexpected delays.
Your takeaway: an editable 12-month cash-flow model.
FOR PEOPLE OPENING, OWNING AND RUNNING AESTHETIC PRACTICES
Build your practice with a clearer picture of what comes next.
Practical guides, cost calculators and saved planning tools for the decisions that shape your practice. Understand your options, test the numbers and decide what deserves your time and money.
For solo providers, medspa owners and dermatology or plastic-surgery teams. Shaped by approximately seven years of practice ownership.
START WITH THE DECISION IN FRONT OF YOU
What would help your practice most right now?
Go straight to a worked guide. Each one explains the decision, shows an example and gives you a way to use your own figures.
Which equipment offer makes more sense?
Compare the same handpieces, supplies, service and financing. See what a lower purchase price or monthly payment can leave out.
Your takeaway: two offers on the same cost basis.
Which software will work for my team?
Follow a patient from booking to payment and follow-up. Compare subscriptions, transaction fees, package balances and the cost of switching.
Your takeaway: a demo checklist and editable cost comparison.
Do I need more staff, another room or a better schedule?
Work through provider time, room use, cleanup and cancellations before adding another fixed commitment.
Your takeaway: a weekly capacity model and expansion example.
SEE HOW THE GUIDANCE WORKS
A cheaper machine can cost more to own.
This fictional example from our quote guide compares equipment, setup, service and supplies over three years.
The purchase price is only the beginning.
At 24 completed treatments per month, the higher-priced machine has lower modeled service and supply costs. At six treatments a month, that advantage becomes much smaller.
The guide shows the arithmetic, the exclusions and how financing changes the comparison. Then you can replace the example with your own offers.
See the complete quote comparison ↗FICTIONAL EXAMPLE · 36 MONTHS
| Cost being compared | Offer A | Offer B |
|---|---|---|
| Equipment purchase | $80,000 | $90,000 |
| Equipment, setup, service and supplies | $181,080 | $164,800 |
Offer B is $16,280 lower within this defined comparison. Staff time, rent, marketing, owner pay and taxes are outside these subtotals. These are illustrative figures, not current device quotes.
CONSIDERING AN EQUIPMENT PURCHASE?
Which equipment makes sense for your practice?
Start with the service you want to offer, the demand you can support and the team delivering it.
Get a starting point for your practice.
Tell Darryl which equipment you are considering, or describe a quote you would like help reviewing. He will follow up personally about the questions, costs and next steps worth focusing on.
YOUR FREE PRACTICE PLAN
Keep the numbers, questions and next steps together.
Try the examples first. Save your own work when you want to return to it.
Give the next decision a place to live.
Keep an opening budget, equipment comparisons, software costs or a capacity worksheet with the questions you still need to resolve. Update the figures as your plans change.
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Start with a useful example
Read the reasoning and inspect the calculation.
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Make it your own
Enter your figures, mark open questions and save the worksheet.
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Pick up where you left off
Return through your private practice workspace and update your next action.
Saving is free and asks for your name, work email and permission to store your plan. It does not sign you up for marketing or authorize a vendor introduction. Keep your private return key to reopen your plan in another browser.
EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE GUIDANCE
We’ve owned the machines. And paid the bills.
Founder Darryl Howard operated an aesthetic practice for approximately seven years. That meant buying equipment, selling treatment packages, paying for supplies and covering monthly commitments when the schedule was quieter.
EmpowerRF’s treatment range and responsive support were valuable. So was a harder lesson: establish demand for one new device before adding another payment.
Read the actual treatment and package examples ↗See what each conclusion is based on.
Our guides distinguish published information, fictional calculations and Darryl’s ownership experience. Follow the sources, inspect the math and change the assumptions.
No active equipment referral agreements apply to the current guides. Saving work does not authorize vendor contact.
How we use sources and disclose relationships ↗CONTINUE THE RESEARCH
A resource for the next question, too.
Explore more guides, comparisons and planning tools as your practice develops.
Work with aesthetic practices?
We are developing a referral program for equipment manufacturers and dealers. Agreements and the buyer’s separate permission must be in place before introductions begin.
Read about the planned partner program ↗