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My Music Staff
What Is My Music Staff?
My Music Staff is the #1 studio management software that automates the way you run your music studio. Schedule lessons, create invoices, record payments and more! If you're looking for a solution that has everything all in one place and saves you time and money, then your search stops here! Discover why more music teachers are choosing My Music Staff. Start your FREE 30-day trial today. Free unlimited phone & email support.
Who Uses My Music Staff?
Individual music teachers, and studios with multiple teachers, who need affordable, easy to use software, to manage the core aspects of their teaching business.
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Reviews of My Music Staff
Time and Sanity Saver
Comments: So glad I signed up for this, saved me a lot of time, energy and money
Pros:
I love the auto invoicing - this has saved me so much time and energy. I also like that students can pay directly from the invoice by just clicking a button, and I like the late invoice reminders which means I don’t have to chase payments. I also love being able to track my income and expenses, I like that it automatically tracks my teaching revenue and expenses and I can also add in my other income from gigs etc. this has saved my tax return!
Cons:
My students find the online portal difficult to use. I think they struggle with getting into it. You need to have the link, so they always have to find the login email I sent ages ago. Of course they can save the link, or pin the site to their homepage, but students would prefer this to be easier
I can take on more students now!
Comments: I tried another business software, but it didn’t meet all of my needs as a music teacher. This is the whole package.
Pros:
Keeping up with my invoicing and payments has been a game changer!
Cons:
I’d like my emails to look more professional like a newsletter. I don’t know how.
On the surface it seems ok, but in the details they’re terrible
Comments: My music staff has been ok for us overall. There is a complete lack of data transparency. I’m most upset about their financial approach to the ledger. Support has been nearly useless. Blaming us for their software issues multiple times. My day job is software and systems design. I don’t recommend the software.
Pros:
It’s easy to use for our teachers and clients. The interface is clean and straight forward. We have almost never had to teach someone the interface.
Cons:
Where it counts most my music staff fails. The most critical failure is in their financial ledger. It is possible to entirely mess up a client ledger if a lesson is accidentally removed from the calendar. Or if a rate is changed. It’s a rule of finance that you NEVER make changes to a ledger after the end of the month is closed out and an invoice created. My music staff happily goes back in time and makes changes to billing that are nearly impossible to find. Zero stars in that category. Also they’ve made design decisions that are absolutely backwards of what you would expect. Such as needing to edit every single lesson to change the time zone of the studio.
My Music Staff Is Great!
Comments: Overall, I love this program. I'm not sure that I could run my studio without it.
Pros:
I like the all-in-one inclusiveness of scheduling, bookkeeping, tracking mileage, etc.
Cons:
It was quite difficult to navigate and find certain settings and features early on, and I've gotten pretty used to it but it'd be nice if certain features were a bit more streamlined and user-friendly.
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Love it! Scheduling DREAM!
Pros:
Helps SO MUCH with scheduling! Takes out the coordinating schedules component, and puts the responsibility on the parents to log in and find an opening.
Cons:
No complaints here! However, it's just me and 16-20 students, so I don't use ALL the features.
