Your own system for running courses, free
Not a listing and not a profile page. The software an academy actually runs on: who applied, who is coming on Thursday, who has paid, who was in the room, and who left with a certificate.
Set your academy up tonight
Create the workspace, add your first course and send the link. Nobody has to approve you.
The academy side costs an educator nothing: £0 a month, 0% commission, and no cut of what your students pay you.
What have we forgotten? We built this before a single educator had used it. If something you do every week is missing — or is wrong here — write and say so. We read every one. Write to hello@slotora.io
What you get
The whole thing, at no charge, whether you teach four people a year or four hundred. Your courses get public pages and an application form; your students get a portal; you get the register, the money record, the certificates and the letters that would otherwise be twelve messages a week.
- No monthly fee, no charge per student, and no percentage of your course fees — your students pay you directly and you invoice them yourself.
- You do not need a Slotora salon. An academy stands on its own, and so does an educator who has never run one.
- It is not a trial version: nothing is held back for a paid tier, because there is not one on this side of the product.
How it works, one part at a time
Twelve pages, because twelve things happen in a year of teaching and each of them deserves a straight answer rather than a bullet on a features list.
Setting a course up
Programme, group and dated days — write the course once and start it as often as you like.
Applications and admission
A public page per course, its own application form, and a yes or a no in one press.
Recording payments
Who has paid, what is outstanding and by when — without a penny passing through us.
The course day
The register, the photographs and the group message, built for the phone in your pocket.
Students and the register
One register that survives the course: import a paper sheet, keep the history, control who reads it.
Certificates and the pack
Your design, your serial numbers, the whole group in one press, and a public check.
The Student Portal
What your student sees: her dates, her balance, her materials, her certificate.
Team and permissions
Twenty-four permissions, so a teacher can take the register without seeing the money.
Calendar and time off
Every course, room and teacher in one week — with clash warnings you may overrule.
Statistics and the log
Fill, completion, repeat students — and the figures we refuse to invent.
Automatic letters
Eighteen letters you would otherwise type, plus rules of your own.
What it costs
Exactly what free covers, what is paid on the salon side, and what we do to get you started.
Who this is for
Beauty education, in the shape it actually has: a person or a small team teaching a trade in a room, over several days, to people who paid to be there.
- Nails, lashes, brows, hair, cosmetics, make-up, massage — and the business courses that go with them.
- One teacher with a studio, or an academy with several teachers, rooms and a reception desk.
- Courses that run over days or weeks, with practice models, attendance and a certificate at the end.
Questions educators ask first
Is it really free for educators?
Yes. There is no monthly fee for the academy, no charge per student and no percentage of your course fees. Your students' money never passes through us, so there is nothing for us to take a cut of.
Do I need a Slotora salon to use it?
No. The academy is its own workspace. You can teach with us without ever running a salon on Slotora, and closing a salon does not touch an academy.
Does the money go through Slotora?
No. Your students pay you the way they already do — cash or transfer — and you invoice them yourself. What you get here is the record: who owes what, by when, and what has been refunded.
Will my teachers see my revenue?
Only if you tick it. Revenue, payment status, recording a payment and exporting are four separate permissions, and the teacher role starts with none of them.
Does it work on a phone?
The parts that happen standing up do, and they are native: the register, the photographs of the work, the group message, taking a payment on a roster row, issuing certificates. Setting courses up is desk work and is built as desk work.
What happens to my students' data?
It is your academy's and it leaves with your academy. You decide who on your team may read what, exports are their own permission, and every export, role change and deletion is written into your own log.
And what becomes of your graduates
A graduate can start her own booking page on Slotora straight from her graduation pack, with the first treatments of the trade she just learned already named. You see how far she got as a row of dates — and nothing about her guests, her bookings or her takings.