Want to send emails directly from DSM using your Gmail account? This video will walk you through everything you need to set it up using SMTP. It’s a quick “set it and forget it” process… once configured, all your DSM emails will be sent through Gmail automatically. Once setup, don’t forget about automated messaging with…
Categories are pivotal in personalizing your Dance Studio Manager and should be one of the initial setup steps. For each category, set up options that best fit your dance studio. Below are tips, tricks, and explanations of each category option and its application in the software. Blue highlight – This means the setting is especially…
Sales bundles offers a way for you to sell a package of classes together as a bundle. For example, let’s say you have a ballet academy, and you have a youth ensemble. Each member of the ensemble will be enrolling in several classes that are all part of the same program (tap, hip hop, modern,…
Gift cards are a great way to encourage your students to recruit their friends to come to your dance school for the first time, and they make great gifts for holidays, birthdays or special occasions. Let’s dive right in and go through the steps needed to get gift cards set up correctly. Create a Notification…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
