Manual

  • Poll Questions

    The poll questions feature allows you to ask questions to students at registration or checkout. The answers to the poll questions are then stored, and you can access them under the student’s account or in the poll questions report. Some common poll questions might include: At the time of this writing, there is only one…

  • Lessons Remaining Report

    The lessons remaining report provides a list of all students with lessons remaining. You can filter this by Sales Item, Teacher or Student. For example, perhaps you have clients who have purchased Summer Camp Passes with 10 class credits per pass, and you want to get a list of students who purchased that have lessons…

  • Students by Town report

    While very simple, this report provides valuable insights into the geographic distribution of students, offering studio dance teachers and studio staff a host of benefits that ultimately contribute to a more efficient and successful dance studio. From the Admin Dashboard, go to Reports > Students by Town. Here is an example output: How it might…

  • Alert Icons

    Icons appear next to a student’s name in the student list, on the attendance list, in the search, and at the top of their account. Icon help you know about important details of a student’s account: Below you can see the most of the possible icons that might be associated with a student or member…

  • Lessons Not Paid

    In many cases, a teacher or staff member may opt to schedule a lesson for a student without requiring payment in advance. Perhaps a student purchases a package and wants to attend every week, so they are scheduled for a private lesson every week in order to secure their spot. Or maybe someone calls the…

  • Daily Cash and Check Totals Report

    The Daily Cash and Check Totals report is one of the many dance studio revenue reports available in Dance Studio Manager. From the Admin Dashboard, under Reports > Daily Totals, you can get the total receipts from Checks and Cash for a specific day or a date range. This can be very helpful in helping…

  • Charge for Late Cancels or No Shows

    You can set the system up so that if someone doesn’t show up to class or cancels too late, the system will charge them a fee that is some percentage of the price of the class. Many studio owners prefer there be some penalty for not attending, but they don’t want to charge full price….

  • Memberships

    Memberships use the subscription model. You can set up your clients on recurring payments. This setup will charge them automatically each month (or at some regular interval) and grant them more credits. For example, they will get 10 more classes added to their purchases. You can also create classes that are only for members, or…

  • Time Saver: Search Redirects

    By default in Dance Studio Manager (DSM), when you search for a client name or a class name, and then click on it, you will first see a preview page as shown below: Then in order to go into the client’s account, you meed to click on Account Details. Or in the cases of a…

  • Studio Scheduling Software

    Scheduling classes is what DSM does best! Whether you are booking private lessons, scheduling group classes, or planning other events, DSM has the tools you need to succeed. Once scheduled, our automated messaging system insures that your clients remember their appointments, and remember to reschedule more classes. Scheduling Group Classes: DSM offers a robust set…