Music school software that understands a half-hour lesson
Thirty students, eight instructors, and no two weeks the same. Private slots, graded books and levels, tuition from the families who pay by card and the ones who still bring cash, and a recital in the spring. MyClassStudio holds all of it so nobody is running the school out of a notebook.
One student, one slot, every Tuesday at 4:30
What a single weekly lesson touches — and what the software does with each part.
The slot itself
A private lesson is a class with a capacity of one: pick the day, the time, and a 30, 45 or 60-minute length, and it repeats every week without being rebuilt. Group classes are the same thing with a bigger number in the same box, so theory, ensemble and Saturday choir live beside the private slots rather than in a second system.
Who teaches it
Assign the instructor and you are told before you double-book them — the check looks at everything else they teach and flags an overlapping time on the same day, which in a studio running back-to-back half-hours is the mistake that actually happens. From there it is their screen: they take the register and move a student up a level themselves, without going through the office.
The free first lesson
Offer a trial and it is counted in lessons, not days. Present and late count against it; absent and excused do not — so a family who cancelled for a cold has not spent their trial on a lesson that never happened. The remaining count is on the student’s page and on the teacher’s register as they mark it.
Books, grades and the evening they move up
Define the ladder you actually teach — Suzuki books, graded exam levels, your own beginner-to-advanced steps — and drag it into order. A student learning two instruments carries two ladders side by side. When a teacher moves someone up, the family hears about it that evening rather than at the next parents’ evening, which for a child practising alone in a bedroom is most of the point.
Tuition, by card and by envelope
Monthly tuition collects through Stripe on its own. The families who would rather hand over cash or a check get switched to manual billing and recorded month by month at the desk — and both land on the same ledger, so one page still answers who has paid and who has not, whichever way they paid.
The spring recital
Set it up once with the hall’s address, a flyer, RSVPs and automatic reminders, and families get a calendar file they can add. Charge for it if you charge for it, with guest tickets and a programme as separate paid add-ons. Volunteer slots cover the door and the page-turning.
Built for how a lesson studio actually runs
Every feature below is in the product today — nothing here is a roadmap.
One-to-one lessons, not a workaround
Capacity of one, a 30-minute length, its own weekly slot and its own tuition. A private lesson is an ordinary class here, so everything else — attendance, progress, payment — works on it unchanged.
Books and grades, defined by you
Build the levels you teach and order them. Separate ladders run side by side for a student on two instruments, and an overview shows where everyone currently sits.
A register that answers questions later
Teachers mark each lesson taught, missed or excused. A year of it is there per student and per class, which is what settles “how many lessons did we actually have this term?”.
Card families and cash families
Stripe for monthly tuition, manual entries for cash and checks, per-student discounts for siblings and scholarships. One payment history covers both, searchable, with receipts.
Word gets out the same day
A closure, a rescheduled lesson, a recital reminder — sent to the whole school, one class, or a group, by email as well as in-app, with read receipts so you know it landed.
Books, reeds and rosin
The shop carries method books and supplies with stock counts and low-stock warnings, and a book handed over after a lesson and paid for in cash is recorded like any other sale.
What it replaces
Most studios are not switching from other software. They are switching from this.
- A lesson book that lives in a teacher’s bag
- Each instructor’s own spreadsheet of who has paid
- A shared calendar nobody updates
- Envelopes of cash in a desk drawer
- A text thread with forty parents
- Notes about who is ready for their exam
Spend the evening teaching, not reconciling
Free for students, parents, and instructors — always. Schools start with a free trial, every feature included. No contracts, cancel anytime.