Run Your Dance Studio More Efficiently

Enrollment, billing, attendance, and communications in one place, so you spend less time on admin and more time on the studio floor. With Presently, you manage the moment instead of chasing it.

30-day free trial 0% payment markup $0 setup fees Free migration help
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Built for the way studios actually work

The things studio owners spend way too much time on. Presently fixes them.

Recitals

Recital chaos, gone

Drag-to-reorder your running order. Spot conflicts before opening night. Print and export to Excel for your stage manager.

  • Automatic back-to-back warnings. Spot students who appear in adjacent classes without enough costume-change time.
  • Multi-show events. Matinee and evening shows with separate lineups, intermissions, and capacities.
  • One-click PDF and Excel exports. For the stage manager, MC, or pinned to the dressing room wall.
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Recital lineup editor with conflict warnings
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Family ledger with sibling discount
Tuition

Tuition that just works

Set up your tuition rates once. Sibling discounts, payment plans, and prorated holidays apply automatically. Families never get a surprise charge.

  • Sibling discounts and family caps. Calculated automatically across all enrollments, every billing cycle.
  • Holiday-aware proration. Mark your closures and tuition adjusts. No more "why was I billed for the week of Christmas?"
  • Stripe at cost. 2.9% + 30¢, no markup. Bank account ACH at 0.8%, capped at $5.
Families

One inbox for your studio

Families enroll, pay, and message you in one place. New parents can register at midnight without you lifting a finger.

  • Self-serve registration and enrollment. Shopping cart, waivers, payment, and pre-approvals before they ever call you.
  • Live chat (add-on). Replace the back-and-forth on text, email, and Facebook with one threaded conversation per family.
  • Public class schedule. Embed on your existing site or share a clean URL. Pick which fields to show.
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Family portal home

Plus everything else you'd expect

All on every plan, no nickel-and-diming.

Class calendar
Family & student records
Attendance tracking
Makeups & drop-ins
Digital waivers
Skills tracking
Tags & segments
Email templates
Bulk communications
Autopay
Promo codes
Holiday calendar
Instructor timesheets
Reports & exports
Roles & permissions
Activity log
CSV imports
Custom branding
Built-in Twilio SMS
Family/student merge

Optional Add-Ons

Only pay for the features you need. Add or remove these anytime.

Events Management

+$9/mo

Multi-show recitals with drag-to-reorder lineups, automatic back-to-back conflict warnings, intermissions, and Excel/PDF exports.

Costumes & Sizing

+$9/mo

Costume worksheets, vendor tracking, instructor measurements, family commitments, and a virtual costume book per recital.

Live Chat

+$9/mo

Real-time messaging with families from their portal. Chat history saved, online/offline status, and notifications.

Simple, Honest Pricing

Your monthly rate is based on your student count, with core features included at every tier. Only active enrollments count, so seasonal studios pay less in the off-season.

No contracts. No setup fees. No surprise charges. Cancel anytime (though we hope you won't).

Starter

$49

per month

Up to 100 students

Professional

$99

per month

Up to 500 students

Enterprise

$149

per month

Unlimited students

Every Plan Includes

All the features you need to run your studio

Unlimited classes & instructors
Online enrollment & registration
Family & student portal
Automated billing & payments
Class scheduling & attendance
Email communications
Advanced reporting & analytics
Custom branding & logos
Data migration assistance
Email support

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Simple, Transparent Fees

2.9% + 30¢

per successful card charge

0.8% capped at $5

per successful ACH Direct Debit

  • No setup fees
  • No monthly fees
  • No hidden fees
Fast

2-day payouts

Fraud

Built-in protection

Built by Studio Owners, For You

Since 2011, my wife has built and operated a successful dance studio. She's done the real work: teaching classes, managing staff, building relationships with families, and handling everything that makes a studio thrive. I've been behind the scenes providing tech support, and over the years I've spent countless hours building custom systems and workarounds on top of (and around) our existing studio management software, trying to fill the gaps and fix the shortcomings.

We've experienced the frustration of carefully managing student counts to stay just under pricing thresholds, only to face steep jumps in monthly bills. We've paid extra fees for credit card processing, SMS messaging, and basic features that should be standard. Every added expense, every limitation, every "that's not how our system works" response chipped away at what we could invest back into our business and our families.

Presently was born from our own experience running a studio. Every tool, process, and feature you see here came from real challenges we faced and solved in our own business. But we also know that every organization is different. Whether you run a dance studio, music school, martial arts academy, tutoring center, swim school, or any business that manages students, families, classes, and instructors. What works perfectly for us might not be exactly what you need.

That's why we're building Presently to fit your operations, not forcing you to change how you run your business to fit our software.

We're still pretty new, but we're building this for real studio owners (like you). Found a bug? Tell us. Want it to work differently? Let us know. Missing a feature? We'll probably add it. Your feedback shapes what Presently becomes.

We built Presently from scratch with modern technology, the same tools used by companies like Shopify and Netflix. The result? A faster, more reliable platform that we can improve and adapt quickly based on what you actually need.

We're studio owners ourselves, and we're building the software we wish we'd had from day one. Transparent pricing. No hidden fees. No contracts.

Let's build something better together. Your business deserves software that works as hard as you do.

🐻 Why "Presently" and why a bear?

The name is a play on words: "present" as in taking attendance in class, and "presently" meaning current, modern, happening now, as opposed to the outdated legacy systems that don't adapt well to how studios actually operate today. That's the spirit behind our promise to you: manage the moment, whether it's a Tuesday-night class, a costume invoice, or recital weekend.

As for our crowned bear logo? When I told my wife the name, she immediately thought of a scene from Brave where Queen Elinor (just before her transformation) says the word "presently" in a very regal, queenly way. The bear wearing a crown is our little tribute to that moment, and to the queen who runs our own studio.

From the blog

Things we've learned running a studio

Honest writing about the day-to-day of dance and music studios. By an operator, for operators.

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