Case Study: Ratner Companies achieves faster, more transparent budgeting across nearly 1,000 salons with Board

Family-owned hair salon business selects Board to budget and plan for its nearly 1,000 salons

Ratner Companies is the largest family‑owned chain of hair salons in the U.S., operating nearly 1,000 salons and employing over 9,000 stylists across multiple brands. When their legacy planning system was being retired, the finance team needed a more user‑friendly, versatile budgeting tool that allowed finance users to run and modify processes with minimal IT involvement and much faster turnaround.

After discovering Board at an AFP conference and comparing several vendors, Ratner implemented Board for budgeting and planning thanks to its flexibility, multi‑method support and competitive pricing. The new system dramatically sped up implementation (from days to under half a day), enabled easy testing of alternative budgeting methods, improved transparency so any team member can view and edit procedures, and automated sales‑based budgets—delivering significant time savings across their salon network.

Ratner Companies

Evie McCown

Operations Business Analyst