Every Tap Counts: How Meevo Is Turning Checkout Into a Career Launcher with BCL

With MeevoPay Giving, Meevo becomes the first beauty & wellness industry SaaS platform to provide clients with a direct way to support education initiatives like Beauty Changes Lives.

The beauty industry has always prided itself on lifting people up. Mentors who stayed late, educators who shaped entire career paths, veterans who shared their books without a second thought. Community investment isn’t a new concept here. What’s new is the mechanism.

Meevo by Millennium Systems International, the most-awarded business management platform for salons, spas, and med spas, launched MeevoPay Giving earlier this year—a built-in capability that allows businesses using MeevoPay to present guests with the option to make a voluntary charitable donation right at the payment terminal. Donations are processed as a separate transaction, routed 100% to the selected charity, and cost the business nothing in transaction fees.

Enabling it comes with minimal lift. Businesses select BCL (or a charity from a directory of 100+ nonprofits), configure a donation prompt of rounding up to the nearest dollar, choosing a fixed amount, or a combination of the two, and the terminal does the rest. No operational burden. No fees.

At launch, Beauty Changes Lives (BCL)—the industry’s charity of choice and #1 partner in beauty industry scholarships—was named a featured giving partner, making Meevo the first salon software company to offer BCL as a selectable cause for clients to support at any point of sale.

An Organization That Goes the Distance

Beauty Changes Lives is the only organization in the beauty industry that supports professionals at every stage of their journey: finding & funding scholarships to get into school, mentorships through training, advanced education for established pros, and business grants for those ready to own. From first enrollment to ownership, BCL is the through-line that fosters growth for beauty industry professionals at every step.

The data speaks for itself. When it comes to BCL scholarship recipients, 95% of them complete their programs. At the five-year mark, 92% are still active in the industry. 30% go on to own their own businesses. These aren’t retention metrics; they’re proof that investing in beauty education pays dividends for the entire industry.

Since 2013, BCL has raised more than $9 million in support of scholarships and grants, reaching more than 1,500 students and their communities. It’s a 501(c)(3) recognized by Charity Navigator with a four out of four-star rating and a 96% score. Beauty Changes Lives was an easy & obvious choice as a partner for something as monumental as MeevoPay Giving.

“MSI’s decision to become the first Point of Sale (POS) company to offer a giving program in support of Beauty Changes Lives is a powerful example of leadership in action. We are honored to partner with MSI and are deeply grateful for their commitment to supporting the beauty and wellness industry. Their commitment to BCL helps fund education, scholarships, and professional advancement—ensuring a stronger, more inclusive future for our entire community,” said Lynelle Lynch, Founder of Beauty Changes Lives.

Small Moments, Compounding Impact

MeevoPay Giving was built around a simple idea: The beauty & wellness industry has always been about caring for people. And since MSI has been providing ways to give back & support the industry since 1987, MeevoPay Giving was an obvious next step in allowing others to take part in that act of paying it forward. It provides our network the opportunity to give back to industries they support; more notably, non-profits within the industry that help provide opportunities for the next generation of leaders who will continue to grow our beauty & wellness community. The easiest way to do that? Checkout. Client checkout happens tens of thousands of times a day across Meevo’s client base. That’s thousands of small moments that now have the potential to add up to something bigger in funding the next generation of beauty professionals who will push the industry forward.

The best industry investments are the ones that produce life-changing results: the stylist who became a salon owner, the student who almost didn’t go to school because the cost was out of reach—until it wasn’t. MeevoPay Giving turns a transaction that was already happening into a mechanism for compounding change, and Beauty Changes Lives is proud to be part of that kind of revolution for good.

Donations processed through MeevoPay Giving in the calendar year of 2026 will be matched at 100% effectively doubling the contributions collected for your non-profit of choice!

Get MeevoPay Giving for your own beauty business and pass the good on.