Manual

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...

GDPR and Data Protection GDPR and Data Protection Information Dance Studio Manager, LLC (“Dance Studio Manager,” “DSM,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) provides software used by dance studios to manage students, families, classes, attendance, billing, payments, communications, and related studio operations. This page explains how we think about data protection responsibilities under the European General Data...

Dance Studio Manager includes many ways to calculate tuition automatically, including billing schedules, pricing levels, hourly rates, multi-class discounts, multi-student discounts, member categories, and class-based tuition settings. Most of the time, those settings allow tuition to be calculated automatically when you run Global Tuition. However, some situations require a special tuition amount for one family...

Dance Studio Manager Help Guide How to Transfer a Student from One Class to Another Without Losing History The safest transfer is usually to remove the student from future schedules in the old class and then add the student to the new class. That keeps past history intact while helping future schedules, attendance, and tuition...

Under each family and student account there is a tuition override field. You can set custom tuition pricing for the family or student. Update May 30, 2019: Since this was first written we have developed MANY different approaches, and generally speaking we can handle just about any school’s pricing scheme. Of course, we must be...

Question from Dance Studio Manager customer: Q. I have a couple of students who have studio credit from fundraising. Is there a way I can add credit to their accounts so they can see what their balances are? A. Yes. In the lower left corner of the family ledger there is a blue button called...

It is very easy to create separate logins in Dance Studio Manager so that your instructors do not have full administrative access. When adding an instructor to DSM, there are three main options: Administrator, Instructor, and Instructor with restricted permissions. Administrator: Full access to all information Office Administration: Has access to all information with the...

Here is a quick guide to sending SMS text messages in DSM. First you will need to sign up for an account at Vonage or Twilio. Then fill in the fields here. After creating your account, your Account Key and Secret can be input on the Settings page. If you are reading this and just...

Staying in touch with your clients is very important, and DSM offers multiple methods, including Push Notifications through the use of Progressive Web App technology, as well as Automated Messaging. In addition, we offer text messaging through Vonage and Twilio, and email delivery through multiple email services. At the time of this writing, we are...

The online client shopping cart is very flexible when it comes to setting the ways that you want to collect payments. In this help topic, we will go over this in more detail. If you want to follow along and understand, it would be recommended that you have the Online Client open in one tab,...