My Music Staff
About My Music Staff
My Music Staff is a cloud-based music school management software designed to help private teachers and music studios handle students, lessons, invoices, payments, attendance, expenses, billing, and more. Managers can send text messages to remind students and parents about scheduled lessons or events and generate weekly, monthly, annual, or custom invoices.
My Music Staff allows private teachers to record and track attendance, add notes to lessons, and accept payments from customers via credit cards, automated clearing house (ACH), bank transfers, cash, and cheques. Administrators can generate reports to gain visibility into sales tax, expenses, billed hours, student retention, completed lessons, and payroll, among other metrics, and export them into PDF or Microsoft Excel format. It provides a self-service portal, which can be used by parents and students to view upcoming lessons, monitor attendance, access invoice details or teachers' contact information, and cancel booked sessions. School administration can also store student information including contact details, attendance, lesson notes, practice time, and repertoire in a centralized repository.
My Music Staff facilitates integration with various video conferencing, calendar, website building, and payment processing applications such as PayPal, Stripe, Zoom, Wix, Skype, Weebly, and more. Music studios can also organize schedules for lessons, recitals, or other events by grouping teachers based on instruments or locations.
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- Industry: Music
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Amazing one stop shop for music teachers starting out
Reviewed on 22/09/2023
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Pros
Every music teacher starting out should use this. It just does everything correct and helps streamline lots of things for you!
Cons
Probably better organisation of the lesson resources and repertoire where possible
- Industry: Music
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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My Music Staff is great!
Reviewed on 15/09/2023
I've been using MMS for about 6 years and I love seeing it improve over time. My team and myself...
I've been using MMS for about 6 years and I love seeing it improve over time. My team and myself are always excited for each new update.
Pros
MMS is easy to use and easy to integrate into our business protocols. It helps tremendously in keeping us organized and limits the need for tons of paperwork and binders.
Cons
Missing Features:- Capability to take swiped card transaction- An easier way to track the difference between make-up lessons that were given due to teacher absence versus student absence in the student profile. Currently all issued make-up credits are grouped together in each student's profile, but since we have our studio policies set to where the students aren't penalized for teacher absences and they have a set limit of make-up credits they can receive for student absences per year it is very hard for us to track.
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MindbodyReasons for Switching to My Music Staff
The price and the fact that it is specific to music.- Industry: Music
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Essential for managing your music lessons
Reviewed on 15/09/2023
I started using MMS two years ago when I only had about 12 students and had to scale back everything...
I started using MMS two years ago when I only had about 12 students and had to scale back everything as I couldn't justify the extra expense. But now having nearly 70 students, I couldn't do without it!
Pros
Being able to invoice and email in groups and invoice in groups. The customer support is ace. Always quick to reply and sort out any issues.
Cons
The calendar is a bit of a pain as you have to scroll to the top of the page each time to move back or forwards.
- Industry: Music
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Streamline Your Invoices!
Reviewed on 02/09/2024
Great! Everyone has been very responsive and kind!
Great! Everyone has been very responsive and kind!
Pros
Automatic invoice and text messaging is my favorite.
Cons
To be honest, it’s a little pricey monthly. I wish we could subscribe to the program per year with a better price.
- Industry: Music
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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User of 10+ Years - I recommend MMS to all of my music teacher friends and associates!
Reviewed on 15/09/2023
My overall experience with MMS has been excellent. It is absolutely essentially to running and...
My overall experience with MMS has been excellent. It is absolutely essentially to running and maintaining my music school, and has taken away a lot of the stress of scheduling lessons.
Pros
The best part of the system, and by far the most used for us is the scheduling. Not only does in make keeping track of our lessons very simple and straightforward, we can very quickly make changes, and even provide our teachers with access so they can stay on top of their schedules. In addition, being able to synchronize the MMS calendars to Google Calendar or Apple Calendars means that I can see an updated schedule on my phone at any moment. I also love their automated payment system which has removed the need to chase down students/parents for tuition payments; everything goes through automatically at the end of the month and we can rely on a consistent stream of income to cover expense and make sure everyone is paid on time.
Cons
The only thing I don't like about MMS is the recent GUI change. I'd been using the earlier system for many years and have become quite comfortable with where everything was located. The GUI updated moved some features around which has been somewhat annoying - however I'm gradually getting used to the new layouts.
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At the time I was a smaller operation with fewer teachers on staff. MMS allows the price to scale based on the number of instructors you have which made their pricing very enticing for my business.My Music Staff FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for My Music Staff.Q. What type of pricing plans does My Music Staff offer?
My Music Staff offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: £9.95/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
My Music Staff is offered at $14.95 per month. A 30-day free trial is available.
Q. Who are the typical users of My Music Staff?
My Music Staff has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does My Music Staff support?
My Music Staff supports the following languages:
English, French, Japanese
Q. Does My Music Staff support mobile devices?
My Music Staff supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does My Music Staff integrate with?
My Music Staff integrates with the following applications:
Google Calendar, PayPal, Squarespace, Stripe, Weebly, Wix, WordPress, Zapier, Zoom Workplace
Q. What level of support does My Music Staff offer?
My Music Staff offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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