A POS built for beauty schools.
The front desk is the customer service front line of every school. Catalina, our point of sale, manages all client interactions, service tracking, and cash handling activity from a touch-screen optimized interface built for beauty school operations.
This isn't a generic retail POS bolted onto a school system. It's purpose-built for cosmetology, barbering, esthetics, nail, and massage schools. Every transaction connects to the student record, the inventory system, the scheduling calendar, and the reporting dashboard.
- Touch-screen optimized interface with credit card processing
- Accept student tuition payments directly through the POS
- Client database automatically populated by sales activity
- Track all student activity on clients or mannequins
- Auto-increment service requirements as services complete
- Schools define which requirements count per service type
- Service counts visible in the Student Portal
- Multiple POS terminals per location
In-house, online, no clipboards.
Catalina includes a full scheduling system with both in-house and online booking. Clients can book appointments online, and teachers maintain override control to edit the schedule, adjust times, or reassign students based on their discretion.
The scheduling system sends automated appointment reminders to clients, including collecting any additional information required for the service. Massage intake forms, skincare questionnaires, and client check-in forms are all collected electronically in the waiting room before the appointment begins. No clipboards. No paper.
- Online booking with unlimited columns per student or resource
- PC-based and online scheduling for staff and clients
- Teacher-level override on schedule, time, and assignments
- Automated appointment reminders sent to clients
- Pre-appointment data collection (massage, skincare, etc.)
- Walk-in and appointment tracking
Clients book your clinic 24/7.
Your student clinic never stops taking appointments. Catalina's online booking lets clients choose a service, see real availability, and reserve a time from your website or a shared link — nights, weekends, and holidays included.
Every online booking lands directly on the clinic schedule, creates or matches the client record, and triggers automated reminders and intake forms. Front desk staff keep full override control to move, reassign, or block times.
- Branded booking page linked from your school website
- Real-time availability by service, student, and location
- Automatic client record creation and matching
- Automated confirmation and reminder messages
- Pre-appointment intake forms collected electronically
- Deposits and prepayment supported through Catalina checkout
- Staff override control over every online-booked appointment
- Cancellation and reschedule links for clients
Eliminate the guesswork.
Salon inventory is one of the biggest sources of waste and untracked costs in beauty schools. Prestige eliminates the guesswork with a centralized inventory system that tracks every product across every location from a single management portal.
The School Salon Management Portal lets you define services, prices, inventory requirements, costs, ordering thresholds, inter-school transfers, product receiving, and restocking. All from one place. Each location receives standardized data but can override at the local level when needed.
- Centralized portal to manage services, prices, and inventory across all locations
- Per-location quantity requirements with local override capability
- Automated reorder calculations based on sales activity and stock levels
- Purchase orders with auto-calculated trigger amounts and minimum order quantities
- Inter-school product transfers
- Product receiving and restocking workflows
- Automated Spark alerts for scheduled manual stock counts
- Stock count reconciliation to identify inventory leakage
Product Usage Tracking
The POS calculates exactly how much product is used per service. When a stylist does a color service, the system knows how much color, developer, and other products should have been used. Stock totals are recalculated automatically based on actual service activity, including back bar stock.
This feature identifies real product usage versus what should have been used, making it easy to spot waste, overuse, or theft. It's one of the most powerful cost control tools in the system.
- Product usage defined per service type
- Automatic stock recalculation after every service
- Back bar stock tracking
- Usage variance reporting to identify waste or leakage
- Cost-per-service analysis