Built by school owners, for school owners.
20 years of mistakes, so you don't have to make them — and a client services team that came off the beauty school floor.
We've been in your chair.
We're not consultants who read a textbook about running schools. We're school owners who've been in the trenches for over 20 years, running multiple campus locations on the leading edge of technology. We've made a lot of mistakes along the way. It takes mistakes to understand how to do it successfully.
In the last three years alone, we added a new school location, standardized processes across campuses, moved from paper files to digital document management, and doubled our student population. All while reducing administrative overhead and tasks by 50%.
We built Prestige to solve our own problems. Now we want to help you solve yours.
A help desk with real people. And a phone number you can call.
Software support in this industry usually means a form and a four-day wait. Ours means a person who has actually stood at your front desk on the first day of a new class.
Call a real person
No phone tree, no bot, no "submit a ticket and wait." Pick up the phone during business hours and a human answers.
Staffed by former school employees
Every member of our client services team has worked inside a beauty school — front desk, admissions, financial aid, or ownership.
No ticket black holes
You get a named contact who knows your campus, your programs, and your accreditor — not whoever is next in the queue.
- Live phone support, not just email
- Staff who ran financial aid, admissions, and front desks
- A named contact who knows your school
- Escalation straight to the people who built the software
Your student data, locked down.
You're holding Social Security numbers, aid packages, and transcripts. We treat that like the liability it is — starting with multifactor authentication on every login.
Multifactor authentication
MFA available on every account — staff, faculty, and admin. Require a second factor at sign-in so a stolen password isn't a breach.
Role-based permissions
Admissions sees admissions. Financial aid sees aid. Instructors see their classes. Nobody gets more of the student record than their job needs.
Encrypted end to end
Student data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with modern TLS on every connection to the platform.
Access audit logging
Every record view and change is logged with who, what, and when — so you can answer an auditor's question with evidence, not memory.
Automated backups
Continuous, redundant backups with point-in-time recovery. Your transcripts and aid files don't live on one machine in a back office.
Built for FERPA expectations
Retention, consent, and disclosure workflows designed around the way accredited schools are actually required to handle student records.
Plays well with the tools you already run.
Your textbook platform, your email, your devices, your payment processor — a school management system that doesn't talk to them just creates another job for your staff. Prestige connects to the systems your campus already lives in, starting with the digital curriculum your students use every day.
Milady MindTap
Digital curriculum and eTextbooks connected to student records — no double entry between the LMS and your SIS.
Pivot Point LAB
Roster and progress sync for schools running Pivot Point's digital curriculum.
Chromebook management
Centrally manage hundreds of student devices — 650+ running with one part-time admin at our own campuses.
Payment processing
Card and ACH processing for tuition, student salon sales, and retail — reconciled against the student ledger.
Accounting exports
Clean exports for QuickBooks and your accountant, so month-end close isn't a manual rebuild.
Whatever you already run
If your school depends on a tool we don't talk to yet, tell us. New integrations get built when clients need them.
More than software. Someone who's been there.
Everything we've learned running our own schools is baked into Prestige. But sometimes you need more — someone to walk you through the process, help you avoid the pitfalls, and show you what actually works. Remotely or on-site, here's where we help most.
Technology & Infrastructure
- Create and configure your .EDU domain name
- Build and manage your own website and blog — no agency dependency
- Google and Facebook integration for marketing and operations
- Integrate Google Workspace (G-Suite) for Education across your school
Digital Transformation
- Move from paper textbooks to Milady MindTap or Pivot Point digital curriculum
- Transition students to Google Chromebooks and eTextbooks
- Centrally manage hundreds of Chromebooks with minimal staff (650+ with one part-time admin)
- Integrate document management and eliminate paper files entirely
Operations & Compliance
- Centralize inventory management and automate ordering across locations
- Audit preparation and compliance report management
- Manage multiple locations with a unified KPI infrastructure
- Streamline NACCAS, state, and federal reporting
The real power is in the user base.
As Prestige continues to grow, the advantage shifts from technology to collaboration. Our goal is a community of strong cosmetology, barbering, massage, nail, and skin care schools that rely on Prestige to add efficiency and automation.
Because Prestige is designed exclusively for career schools, our focus is squarely on the needs of our industry. Not K-12. Not universities. Just us.
When one school has a good idea, it benefits everyone. That's how a community-driven platform works.
- Feature enhancements built from user ideas — every school benefits from someone's good idea
- Monthly "Lunch and Learn" webinar series on school management topics
- Community forum and idea exchange for peer-to-peer support
- Shared best practices and how-to guides
- Collaborative compliance report completion and submission
Built for cosmetology, barbering, esthetics, nail, and massage schools.
Prestige is not a generic school management system adapted for beauty schools. It was built from the ground up by cosmetology school owners, for cosmetology school owners. Every feature, every Spark, every report, every workflow was designed for the specific needs of accredited beauty and wellness schools.
We serve cosmetology, barbering, massage, nail, and skin care schools. That's it. And that focus is what makes Prestige different from every other school management system on the market.
- Every product update is relevant to your school
- Our client services staff worked in beauty schools before they worked here
- Compliance features built around NACCAS, state boards, and federal requirements
- The community speaks your language
- You never compete with school districts or universities on the product roadmap
Flexible engagement, on your terms.
Whether you need a full digital transformation or help with a specific challenge, we offer three ways to work together.
Remote Consulting
Video calls, screen shares, and guided implementation sessions. We walk you through the process step by step from wherever you are.
On-Site Consulting
We come to your school. Assess your operations, train your staff, and help you implement changes with hands-on support.
Ongoing Support
Monthly check-ins, Lunch and Learn webinars, community forum access, and priority support for Prestige platform questions.