Manual

  • 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…

  • Setting Up Private Lessons

    Private Lessons have one student attending with one instructor. There are a few ways to create and schedule private lessons in DSM, here is one option. Before you can schedule the private lesson, you need to create the class. Everything is the same as a creating a “normal group class” except that you will Select…

  • Client Statements

    Providing your dance students with accurate client statements can help you to clearly communicate with your students about their balance and payment history. Below is a basic example of a client statement. There client statements can be configured in many different ways. From the Admin Dashboard, click on settings and then global settings. Next, type…