My Music Staff Erfahrungen

Every music teacher starting out should use this. It just does everything correct and helps streamline lots of things for you!

Probably better organisation of the lesson resources and repertoire where possible

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.

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.

Automatic invoice and text messaging is my favorite.

To be honest, it’s a little pricey monthly. I wish we could subscribe to the program per year with a better price.

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.

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.

Easy and intuitive inner face. Very easy to train schools' managers and staff. Teachers love My Music Staff. Especially transparency of payroll.

Student setup has too many steps and too much going back and forth between steps.

Manages all aspects of my music school including scheduling and invoicing! I couldn’t carry 50+ students without My Music Staff!

Some things are tricky to find or figure out. But the customer service is so good, it doesn’t take long before my problem is solved!

It really helps me run my business. From collecting waitlist information, scheduling classes, collecting payments, and keeping track of business expenses for tax time, it has been easy to use and helps take a lot of the busy work of running a music school off my plate. I also really like the make-up credit option for my piano students.

It is confusing to start. The learning curve is steep. I also don't like that the website has to be encrypted onto my current website, because my current website is through Canva, which doesn't allow encryption.

Auto invoicing saves me an incalculable amount of time. The schedule layout is intuitive. Pricing is an upfront $10 per month plus $5 per staff member with zero hidden fees or costs.

I've had some very minor quality of life complaints that the support team has added to their list. I'd really like to be able to accept Venmo, which they say is on the horizon. No complaints that would actually make me stop using the program.

Everything that I mentioned about MMS being the best possible music lesson software out there on the previous page! The best things are it allows students to make payments via Stripe, and has a fantastic scheduling and lesson notes system.

Only thing I could say is that the formatting for lesson notes can be a little glitchy sometimes. Otherwise everything's perfect.

The calendar is my favourite feature, but it's more than that. It's how all the additional features work together with the calendar for efficiency and organization. Without My Music Staff, I would not be able to keep up with the number of students my school now has.

The only thing that comes to mind is how make-up lessons are recorded under teacher payroll when a substitute teacher is involved. The original teacher is given the income from a cancelled lesson instead of the substitute, but is corrected only if the substitute teacher gives a make-up lesson. The substitute should be the one being compensated regardless.

I love the ease of organizing and tracking my students. I easily set up recurring time slots and set permanent weekly times for each student. I can also send mass messages and emails about recitals and news. It automatically sends invoices each month and I can customize my fees for each one if I'd like to give discounts, for example.

I wish it had an app, though the developers have been constantly updating and improving it for as long as I've used it (over two years).

I love that My Music Staff integrates my Studio Calendar, my billing, and allows me to track my income and business expenses. Having all of that in one location saves me so much time when doing my taxes each year!My students find it very easy to work with when they need to swap out their lesson time occasionally.

It took me a while to understand some of the details of the invoicing process. There are still times when the charges are not what I expected them to be.

All aspects were very easy to use except the Webpage setup. Most of that is due to my inexperience. I love how easy it is to timetable students, create resources for them to access, and keep lesson notes.

I wish there was more consistency on the notes page and it was easier to imbed images (graphics).

Integrating MMS was incredibly easy. There are a few small features they could add to make it even easier but overall it went quickly enough. I love the transparent (and inexpensive) per teacher pricing. Uptime is fantastic; I don't think I've ever experienced the site being down.

MMS is great but not quite mature. I appreciate the really solid uptime but the site can be very slow. As an administrator, I am used to the system and I can generally make it do what I want. My teachers sometimes complain about it (navigating to the contact information for the parents of a child student can be a pain, and has to be explained to them because it's not obvious) but overall they enjoy having student and schedule info at their fingertips. None of them make use of the notes, repertoire, library, etc. so these features don't do much for us though they seem like solid features

Love the calendar organization features, being able to see all my students info and arrange my time appropriately. It also comes with a website to build that I utilize. Also helps me track my invoices and payments in a timely manner.

Downside is no app available, but I hear it's in the works

We rely on this software for our day-to-day tasks managing our music studio of 15 teachers and 200+ students. It's great to have software that is designed for the particular needs of a studio; we especially love the practice tracking feature!

The one thing I would love to see is some features with billing; for instance, we should be able to send late reminders en masse. I also think that having a date range on reports would make a lot of sense. For instance, if I ask it to send me financial reports, it will include the next month as well, which does not make sense.

Easy to set up and use, integrates with Squarespace and PayPal easily. I also love the ability for students to self-register for lessons.

Website builder is very outdated but apparently being upgraded in the future. I also would like the ability to charge students before they self-register for a lesson.