One press for the whole group, and a certificate anybody can check
A certificate is only worth what it can be checked against. Yours gets a serial number, a design of your own and a public page that confirms it is real — and your graduate leaves with more than a file.
Your design, your serial numbers
You set the certificate up once: your name, your logo, your wording, your signature. Every certificate issued from it takes the next serial in your own sequence, and is rendered as a PDF you can print or send.
- The serial belongs to your academy and counts upwards, so a number is a number and not a random string.
- The design is reusable across programmes; a new course does not mean a new layout.
- Withdrawing one is recorded, and so is issuing a replacement.
The whole group, once the course has actually happened
At the end of a course you press once and see the list: who qualifies, who does not and why not — too few days attended, already holds one, no longer on the course. You change what you want to change, and then it issues.
- A course that has not finished cannot be certified. The button says so instead of producing real serial numbers for a day that never came.
- Attendance is what decides it, using the register you took on the day.
- You can still issue one person on her own when somebody catches up later.
Anybody can check it, nobody can harvest it
Each certificate is printed with a QR that leads to a public page. Scanned, it confirms the certificate and names its holder. Typed in as a bare serial, it confirms the certificate and names nobody — because a page that printed a name for any serial would be a list of every graduate, one request at a time.
- A salon owner checking a candidate scans the paper and gets an answer in a second.
- A withdrawn certificate names nobody, even with the code from the QR.
- There is no login and no account on the checking page. It is a public answer to a public question.
What she leaves with
Finishing a course makes a graduation pack: her certificate, the pictures of her own work she is allowed to have, the materials from the course and, if she wants it, a head start on her own Slotora booking page — with the first treatments already named for the trade she just learned.
- The pack is made when the course is marked completed, once, and cannot be switched off.
- Nothing about her own business is activated without her explicitly agreeing to it.
- You see how far she got as a row of dates — invited, registered, started, published — and nothing about her guests, her bookings or her takings.
Questions about certificates
Can I issue a certificate before the last day, for somebody who has to leave early?
The bulk press waits for the course to be over, because a certificate says the course was completed. An individual certificate is a separate press, for exactly this kind of exception.
What does a stranger see if they type a serial number in?
That such a certificate exists, from which academy and for which course — and no name. The holder's name appears only with the key in the printed QR code, which is what a person holding the paper has.
Does the graduation pack cost my student anything?
No. She is not charged and she is not signed up for anything: the pack is hers to open, and her own booking page is created only if she says yes to it herself.
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.
Look inside before you type anything
There is a demonstration academy in Slotora with everything already in it: courses, students, a register, payments and certificates. Open its page and see exactly what a student sees of an academy that runs on Slotora. And you can go straight in with one press — no password — and see the academy from the educator's own chair.
It is a demonstration academy: the courses, the dates, the teachers and the reviews on it are invented, and no place can be booked there. It is a shared demonstration seat, so somebody else may be in it at the same time: you can open every screen and look at everything, and it is read-only — nothing in it can be changed, and nothing you do there reaches a real person.
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