Your students, schedule, and billing live in three different apps.
Encore brings recurring lessons, attendance, practice assignments, and parent billing into one place — built for how music teachers actually teach, not generic business scheduling.
How it works
From spreadsheet chaos to a running studio in an afternoon
No new habits to learn. Encore mirrors how lessons already work — weekly slots, makeups, monthly billing.
Add your roster
Import your students from a CSV or add them by hand — instrument, level, rate, parent contact, and notes all live on one profile.
Set recurring lessons
Weekly slots with drag-to-reschedule. Attendance and makeup credits are tracked automatically — no more mental bookkeeping.
Bill from lessons taught
Monthly invoices generate themselves from actual lessons. Stripe for online payment, or mark-paid for cash — parents see it all via magic link.
The problem
Generic scheduling tools don't understand lessons
Calendly plus a spreadsheet plus a payment app can just barely work — until you have 20 students and need to track makeups.
Makeup lessons fall through the cracks
Recurring weekly slots, cancellations, and makeup credits need real tracking. A shared calendar just shows an event — not who owes a makeup and who doesn't.
Per-student progress lives in your head
Instrument, level, notes, and practice assignments for each student rarely live anywhere a parent can actually see them.
Billing means chasing parents manually
Without lesson-based invoicing, billing means remembering who paid, who didn't, and sending awkward reminder texts every month.
What we'd build
Everything a lesson studio needs — nothing else
Encore isn't another all-purpose booking tool. It's built around the weekly rhythm of teaching: lessons, makeups, practice, billing.
Student roster
Instrument, level, parent contact, notes, and rate — one profile per student, everything in one place.
Recurring scheduling
Weekly lesson slots with drag-to-reschedule. Built for the rhythm of teaching, not one-off bookings.
Attendance & makeup credits
Cancellations become makeup credits automatically. Always know exactly who's owed what.
Practice assignments
Auto-emailed to students and parents after each lesson — the follow-through that usually gets skipped.
Invoicing from lessons taught
Monthly invoices generated from the actual schedule. Stripe, or mark-paid-manually for cash and transfers.
Parent portal via magic link
Read-only view of lessons, assignments, and invoices. No passwords, no app to download.
How it compares
Encore vs. what teachers use today
The honest alternatives are MyMusicStaff — the dated incumbent — or duct-taping Calendly to a spreadsheet. Here's the difference.
MyMusicStaff is the established incumbent — functional, but the UX hasn't kept up. That gap is the opening.
Planned pricing
Simple, honest pricing
2 months free on annual billing. Not final: tell us below if this works for your studio.
Solo Teacher
$19/mo
For up to 30 students
- Up to 30 students
- Recurring scheduling
- Parent portal
Studio
Most Popular$29/mo
For growing studios
- Unlimited students
- Recurring scheduling
- Parent portal
The first 10 teachers who sign up below get lifetime free access in exchange for feedback while we build.
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