How to grow your payments app with hair and beauty training academies
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Hair and beauty training academies teach lash extensions, nails, brows, barbering, makeup and other skills, usually in one-day or weekend courses, sometimes with online study before a practical day. Students often pay a deposit to book, spread the rest over a few weeks and buy a starter kit. Many academies are run by working technicians who teach alongside their own clients. A payments app that takes a course deposit by link, collects instalments on set dates and sells kits can win these academies, and every student who pays sees your app, often just as they start their own beauty business.
Talk to training academies
Ask local hair and beauty training academies:
- How do students pay a deposit to book a course today?
- Do you offer instalments, and how do you collect them?
- How do students pay for their starter kit?
- What happens when a student cancels or moves to another date?
Book courses with a deposit link
A deposit link for each course date holds the place, and the academy can see at a glance who has paid.
Collect instalments and kit payments
Instalments collected automatically on set dates make a course easier to afford, and a kit link means the kit is paid for before the practical day.
Grow with new beauty businesses
Every student is about to start taking payments from their own clients. An academy that recommends your app can bring you a steady stream of new businesses.
Build it
Create your own financial platform.
Pick a template, name it, brand it, preview every page before you pay. Your brand, your users, your fees.
Build my platform →Questions people ask
What about first aid and workplace training providers?
The first aid and workplace training providers guide covers selling single course places online and whole courses to employers who want an invoice.
First aid and workplace training providers →What about nail and beauty technicians?
The nail and beauty technicians guide covers small studios, rented chairs and home visits, and the money lost to no-shows.
Nail and beauty technicians →Can I call it a bank?
In most countries "bank" is a protected word you can only use with a banking licence. Call it an account, a wallet, an app or a platform. The accounts and payments behind a SendPay Business platform are powered by licensed partners.
Is there a step-by-step plan I can follow?
Yes. The free launch checklist takes you from picking your people and naming your app to setting fees, going live and winning your first ten customers.
Digital bank app launch checklist →How do I start?
Pick a template, name it and preview every page before you pay. Your platform can be live on your own domain within 24 hours of confirmation.
Build my platform →Read next
This guide is general information, not legal or financial advice. SendPay Business is a technology company, not a bank, and does not take deposits; regulated services on the platforms are provided by licensed partners. PayPal, Patreon and Substack are named as reference points only and are not affiliated with SendPay Business.