Fast music school software setup
A new setup paradigm for music school software
Start with a working school in minutes, not weeks
Software built for music schools shouldn’t hand you a blank catalog and turn every new instrument or plan into a setup project. Pick the service categories, programs, and instruments you offer; Music School Manager connects the durations, enrollment, trials, make-ups, and billing defaults.
- Add saxophone later? Add it once. It uses the Private Lessons durations and rules you already configured. No duplicate 30-, 45-, and 60-minute appointment types.
- Work smarter, not harder. Set up the service category and its plans once. Every instrument shares them.
- Completed: Programs
- Completed: Services
- Import
- Not started: Billing
- Families and students248
- Teachers12
- Lessons and schedules612
- Plans, invoices and payments1,904
Bring the school you already built
Move in without starting over
Drop in the exports you already have. The import copilot maps the columns and keeps teachers, families, students, schedules, plans, invoices, and payments connected. You review the choices that matter instead of spending launch week retyping your school.
- CSV, TSV, Excel, ODS, and JSON supported.
- families.csv248 families and studentsMapped
- teachers.xlsx12 teachersMapped
- schedule.csv612 lessons and schedules2 to review
- billing.ods1,904 plans, invoices and paymentsMapped
- Students linked to their families
- Lessons linked to teachers and rooms
- Invoices linked to their payments
Add programs, not setup projects
Your catalog remembers the rules. When the school grows, you can add what is new without rebuilding what already works.
Start with music-school defaults
Choose from 21 common instruments and ready-made categories for lessons, bands, groups, and events, then make them yours.
Set shared rules once
Set durations, trials, make-ups, enrollment, and billing for a category once. Every connected instrument follows the same playbook.
Change anything you need
Booking windows, capacities, billing cadences, and make-up rules give you a useful starting point without boxing you in.
Bring the whole school with you
Move teachers, families, students, schedules, plans, invoices, and payments together, with the relationships still intact.
Setup in practice
Get running quickly without setting yourself up for cleanup later
A new system should not turn into a second job. Start with music-school-ready categories and 21 common instruments, then set durations, trials, make-ups, enrollment, and billing once for the programs that share those rules.
If your school is already running, bring the records with you. The import flow keeps teachers, families, students, schedules, plans, invoices, and payments connected, then shows you the choices that need review before anything goes live.
Connected in one workflow
- Ready-made service categories and 21 common instruments
- Shared durations, trials, and booking policies
- Connected enrollment, billing, and make-up rules
- Reviewed imports for people, schedules, and financial records
Inside a working school
A faster start that still fits the way you run your school
Use a strong starting point, change what makes your school yours, and leave the duplicate setup work behind.
Owner setup, day one
Set up private lessons once
You choose Private Lessons, select the instruments you teach, and confirm the shared durations, trial options, make-up behavior, and billing. Every default is editable, but you do not have to build the same 30-, 45-, and 60-minute lesson three times for every instrument.
What changes
When you add saxophone later, the private lesson rules are already there and ready to use.
Migration review, before launch
Move the school without rebuilding it
Your admin uploads exports from the previous system and reviews how teachers, families, students, schedules, plans, invoices, and payments fit together. The import flow calls attention to the exceptions that could change a final record.
What changes
Your team spends migration time making the important calls, not retyping years of school history.
Simple pricing
One platform, sized to fit your studio
Start with the scheduling essentials for your freelance studio, or run an entire school with unlimited students and teachers.
Freelancer
A flexible teaching schedule without piecing together multiple tools.
Get early access$49per month
For independent teachers
Scheduling essentials
- Lessons, groups, bands and events
- Trials and make-ups on one calendar
- Availability, attendance and cancellations
- Invoices, payments and reminders
- Email, SMS and the family portal
- Practice assignments
Music School Manager
For growing schoolsMulti-teacher, multi-room booking with enrollment, billing and family communication in one place.
Get early access$249per month
Includes one school
Everything in Freelancer, plus
- Unlimited teachers and students
- Pipelines and lead management
- Rooms and make-up booking
- Events and programs
- Pre-built plans and workflows
- Support ticketing and white-glove onboarding
Optional add-ons
AI agent
The world’s first AI-native agent built for music schools.
- Daily brief
- Sales follow-up
- Sick-day planning
- Rescheduling
- Payment reminders
- Report cards
$99per month
Pipelines
FreelancerLead tracking and automatic follow-up for independent studios. Included with Music School Manager.
$25per month
Additional teaching locations
Add another school and manage it from the same account.
+$199per location, per month
Monthly AI usage limits apply. Additional usage is billed separately; limits and rates may change.
Setup FAQ
Setup and import questions
What to know about shared rules, editable defaults, and bringing your current school data along.
Looking for something else? Explore general questions
No. Instruments can share the durations, plans, and operating rules configured for their service category.
Yes. The defaults provide a music-school-ready starting point, but the school can edit its booking, capacity, billing, and make-up settings.
The setup experience supports CSV, TSV, Excel, ODS, and JSON files. It can stage connected operational and billing records for review before they are saved.
More music. Less managing.
Grow your school while spending less time managing it. Get early access to the new Music School Manager.
No account to create. No payment details.