Dance Studio Management Without the Mess
Running a dance studio means tuition, attendance, recital lineups, costume orders, parent emails, autopay declines, and a dozen other small fires. Most software tools handle one of those. Presently handles all of them, in one place, so you can stop pinballing between five tabs to find out whether a kid is paid up.
No credit card. Free migration from your current tool.
What it actually does
Six features that cover the operational ground for most studios. Each one exists because somebody at our studio kept saying "this is killing me."
Tuition and autopay
Sibling discounts that actually compound the way you mean them to. Family caps. Prorated drops mid-season. Autopay on a day you pick, monthly or weekly. Stripe processes the cards; you handle the dancing.
Schedule builder
Drag classes onto a weekly canvas. Tag them by instructor and studio room. Mark some as tentative while you're still figuring it out. Promote the whole season into real classes in one click when you're ready.
Attendance
Instructors mark attendance from their phone in the lobby. Makeups, drop-ins, no-shows, and trial classes are all distinct so the reports tell you what actually happened.
Family portal
Parents pay tuition, see schedules, commit to costumes, and message you back. It works on a phone browser, so there's no app to install or update.
Costume management
Measurements per student. Vendor orders with size variants. Family commitments and invoices. Costume season is the season most studios dread; this is the part that fixes that.
Recital lineups
Drag classes into the running order. Presently flags it when the same kid is in two adjacent numbers, before opening night, so nobody is doing a costume change in 90 seconds. Export the program and the running order in a click.
Built for dance studios and dance schools
Whether you call yourself a dance studio, a dance school, or an academy, the operational pain is the same. Tuition that needs to bill correctly when one sibling drops a class mid-month. Families who want to know whether their kid is in Ballet Int. or Ballet Adv. and what time it's at. Instructors who need to take attendance without thinking about it. Costume orders that have to ship in time for pictures. A recital running order that doesn't trap the same kid in back-to-back numbers.
My wife and I own a dance studio. We spent years stitching together QuickBooks, Google Calendar, a spreadsheet, MailerLite, and whatever class-management tool we hadn't fully given up on yet. Every dance school management system we tried treated dance like a footnote, built for generic class businesses with dance bolted on as an afterthought. So we built Presently the other way around: dance first, then opened up to other class-based studios. Costume books, recital lineups, multi-instructor classes, and sibling discounts that actually compound across siblings are real features, not roadmap items.
That's the difference. The features you'd expect a dance studio tool to have are the ones we built first.
Simple, transparent pricing
No hidden fees. No long contracts. Plans scale with your student count.
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