Manual

  • Cloning Seasons

    Ready to become a DSM superhero and clone a season in one click of the mouse? Let’s do this! 🙂 Let’s suppose you have finished all of your classes for the this year, and you want to setup next year’s classes, and let’s also suppose that for the most part your classes will be the…

  • Prerequisite Classes

    If your school or studio has requirements in order to participate in a class, Dance Studio Manager makes it possible limit registration until the prerequisite is completed. In the online client, if the student has not taken enough of the prerequisite classes, they will not be able to register for that class. And if an…

  • Private Lessons

    Here follows a guide to getting started with Private Lessons. There are a few parts of the program that you will want to review. These include: Also see: Setting Up Private Lessons Creating Sales Items for Private Lessons First, go to Settings > Sales Items, and click Add New, and you will see something like…

  • DSM Online Client

    In this tutorial, we will be going over many of the most commonly used features of the Online Client to help you get everything setup. Logging In If you additional assistance, of course we are ready to help. In DSM, you have a folder name like … clients.dancestudiomanager.com/name-of-your-studio/admin/ …which is the area you log into…

  • Hosting and Script Upgrades

    We do a lot behind the scenes, so you can spend more time rehearsing dance scenes! KVM Cloud We strive to make sure our hosting infrastructure and code running our software stays up to date with the latest technologies. In January we moved to a KVM Cloud Environment, meaning that this website, and the customers…

  • Add user Agreement Terms and Conditions to Your Online Portal

    In DSM, there is a section called Pages. It is located in the left side menu under Settings. If you click Add New, You will see Agreement – Creates a box when creating an account. This box will not allow the user to proceed with creating an account without ticking the box. Student Agreement –…

  • Marking Attendance in Dance Studio Manager

    Here is a recent question from one of our DSM clients: Our instructors take attendance with each class by a paper print out then they give it to me to enter. Is there an easier way for me to go in and check “present” without having to go to each individual student account? Yes! Go…

  • Processing Tuition and Emailing Statements

    Dance Studio Manager has the ability to add class charges to everyone’s account at once. From there you may email client statements to all clients, individual classes or to one person at a time. The instructions below for applying tuition charges are for Payment Method-Billing Schedule classes only (not Sales Items). In other words, students…

  • eSignature – Signing Documents in DSM

    Maybe you prefer to have your clients actually sign their names to documents online, rather than simply check a box to say “I agree”, and possibly this will give a little more peace of mind that you have further proof that your customers have agreed to your terms using an E-signature.  Below you can see…

  • General Data Protection Policy (GDPR)

    The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is not something that should be ignored for customers that are based in Europe, but with Dance Studio Manager (DSM), we have taken additional steps to make sure that we are in compliance with regulations, as well as make sure our customers can do the same. It is…