Dance studio software built around the season, not just the schedule
Fall registration, a winter of classes, costume measurements collected without forty text messages, and a recital with tickets, backstage volunteers and a dress rehearsal nobody misses. MyClassStudio holds the parts of a studio that are not dancing.
One season, August to the last bow
The year a studio actually runs — and what the software is doing at each point in it.
Registration week
Build the week once — Ballet II Tuesday at 4:30, tap after it, jazz on Thursday — and families enroll themselves into it. Each class carries its own cap, and a full one takes a waitlist that promotes the next dancer the moment somebody drops, so you are not the one keeping a list. Assign the teacher and you are warned before you put her in two rooms at 4:30.
One family, three dancers, nine classes
A parent holds every child under one login and enrolls each of them from it — no second account, no second password. Charge per class, or set one flat monthly studio fee and let the classes be free above it; either way a second sibling can carry a discount you set once, as a percentage or a flat amount off.
Measurements, before the costume deadline
Build the measurement sheet once with number fields that will not accept a typo for a torso, send it to a class or the whole studio with a due date, and watch the responses come in against a progress bar. Everyone still pending gets reminded in one click. Then export the lot to CSV and hand it to the costume company — which is the entire job, and usually the worst week of the year.
Costumes, tights and the shoe order
The shop carries size and colour as real variants with their own stock counts, so “child 8 in pink” is a thing that can run out and warn you before it does. A pair of tights handed over at the desk and paid for in cash records against the same ledger as everything else, instead of a cash box and a good memory.
Picture day, dress rehearsal, recital
Each one is an event with its own reminders, a map link, and a calendar file parents can actually add, so “what time is dress rehearsal?” stops being a phone call. Recital registration takes payment, and guest tickets ride along as a paid add-on with a cap on how many each family takes. Backstage, dressing rooms and the ticket table go up as volunteer slots with a number of spots each, and parents claim them themselves.
The competition team, told separately
Put the team in a group and it becomes an audience: announcements, events and reminders that reach those dancers and their parents only. The rest of the studio never sees the extra-rehearsal thread, which is what makes them read the ones they do get.
Built for how a studio actually runs
Every feature below is in the product today — nothing here is a roadmap.
A week that holds itself
Recurring classes across any days and times, 30 minutes to two hours, each with a cap and an automatic waitlist. Teachers are checked for double-booking as you assign them.
Forms for everything paper used to do
Measurements, media releases, medical notes, recital consent. Fifteen field types including real signatures, a due date, a one-click reminder to whoever has not answered, and CSV out.
Recitals that take money
Paid registration with add-ons for guest tickets, dinner or a DVD, priced separately and capped per family. An add-on can carry its own form, so choosing it assigns the dancer that intake sheet.
Volunteer slots parents claim
Name the jobs — backstage, dressing room, ushers, ticket table — give each a number of spots, and let parents sign themselves up. You see who is covering what without running a sign-up sheet.
Tuition, and the ones who pay cash
Monthly tuition and studio memberships collect through Stripe on their own, billed on the 1st. Cash and checks at the desk get recorded against the same ledger, so one page still answers who has paid.
A shop that knows sizes
Products with up to three variant attributes — size, colour, style — each with its own stock count, a low-stock threshold, and up to five photos. Sales draw the stock down as they happen.
What it replaces
Most studios are not switching from other software. They are switching from this.
- A shared spreadsheet of costume sizes
- One group text per class
- A clipboard of volunteer slots by the door
- Registration forms in a folder behind the desk
- Chasing recital fees by payment app
- The studio calendar taped to the mirror
Spend recital week backstage, not at the desk
Free for students, parents, and instructors — always. Schools start with a free trial, every feature included. No contracts, cancel anytime.