My Music Staff – Bewertungsseite 4

Vorteile

MMS is typically very intuitive to use and helps me keep track of my schedule and tuition. It integrates seamlessly with my WordPress site and has made getting new students much easier.

Nachteile

Some features are a bit "clunky," especially on the parent's side. Getting parents to use the site to schedule lessons or check their bills is difficult just because it takes several steps.

Vorteile

I can track what and where staff are meant to be at any one time quickly and see if they have any free slots for new customers. I can also trac customer payments and make sure every one is getting paid when they should be.

Nachteile

Not being able to have more than one teacher added to an event - I have to set up events for each teacher, then pick one who will charge the customer and then set the others to no charge for the customer. It would be great if it was possible to set multiple teachers in an event and that it would automatically show on their calendar. Also I can set different pay levels for different teachers even different groups but somehow if I pay a teacher £20 per hour and they have a 45 min lesson the system doesn't always calculate the new charge automatically - this could just be me not setting it up correctly.

Vorteile

The software is easy to use and makes my music school sit above the rest with its technology. Students are emailed reminders before lessons, can log in and access their music and files and I can keep on track of my teachers payroll. It’s the one stop shop! I couldn’t imagine not using mymusicstaff.

Nachteile

Doesn’t integrate with xero
Auto-pay function could be improved with more payment schedule options.

Vorteile

I have been using MMS for the past 3+ years and highly recommend. I am always discovering new features and they are constantly updating the software on their end as well. Customer service has been great and the interface is very intuitive.

Nachteile

Would like to see the function for students to have a bit more control over their schedule and applying makeup credits if I had to choose something.

Vorteile

I love using the scheduling calendar and invoicing for all my students through My Music Staff. It’s even possible to set up automatic payments from your studio’s families!

Nachteile

Some functions take a bit of understanding in order to master them, but the support is readily available!

Vorteile

I was using an Excel spreadsheet before I transitioned to MMS. Of course, that was back when I had less than 100 students. Now with 300 students (and still growing), I would've been lost without this amazing product! I love the automatic invoicing, the ACH capability (this is KEY), the easy-peasy payroll and other reports, but all of these features are just a BONUS on top of the best scheduling system I've ever used. We would be poorly organized, and I'd be out a ton of $$$ hiring staff to take care of all of these facets that MMS offers in ONE platform. Kudos, My Music Staff!

Nachteile

It's been buggy from time to time, but we knew that it was a new product going in. Your staff has been awesome in responding to all service requests.

Vorteile

It's incredibly easy to use and automatically allows you to present your business as that of a professional who cares about what they do. Invoicing is easy and professional and parents find it easy to pay me which makes my life a lot easier! My students love it because they they can engage with me in ways they previously couldn't allowing me to be their tutor for more than just 30 minutes a week. Parents love it because they know what's happening, can contact me easily and feel part of the child's musical journey. Plus it's really affordable. I attract and retain more students because of My Music Staff so it pays for itself.

Nachteile

I would like to be able to change the colouring of the website after logging in to match my own 'corporate' colours but that's a small thing.

Vorteile

The amazing features (unlimited storage!!!! to paypal and square integration to calendar and billing and lesson note management) come at such an affordable price and in such a user friendly software!

Nachteile

There are frequent updates but they never seem to get to certain features that keep being requested (such as a timer on the practice log and the ability for teachers to see the same view as students see when they log in).

Vorteile

Constant updates and improvements; best customer service ever, great value too!

Nachteile

Some features are not intuitive BUT since customer service is so outstanding that more than makes up for it!

Vorteile

All the admin of my business in one place; invoicing, calendar, notes, repertoire lists, website hosting...! The list goes on but having My Music Staff means I can focus of giving the best lessons as the software takes care of the rest!

Nachteile

Occasionally runs a slight delay - no more than 5 seconds but irritating compared to the instant responses I’m used to!

Vorteile

Honestly, there are too many to list. Here are a few: the automation features in invoicing and scheduling save me hours of work, I love that I can have multiple teachers on a single account, I love the student portal and practice log feature.

Nachteile

Any time I’ve felt that something could be improved upon I’ve written to the company and they’ve been very helpful every time.

Vorteile

It is so hard to pick! Definitely the invoicing software has been most helpful for me.

Nachteile

I haven't had any issues that weren't cleared up immediately by a chat with the super helpful staff.

Vorteile

I love it for the ease of scheduling students and having it sync to my phone/ipad calendars.

Nachteile

Hard to say. I don't think there's anything I don't like.

Vorteile

*Fairly easy to Use
*Account Management
*Pricing can't be beat - way more features than other platforms
* Student Alerts are so helpful

Nachteile

I would like to see more options for invoicing as well as an option to designate preferred payment cycle by customer.
Additionally, I would like to be able to create studio room assignments on the calendar.
We would like to see an App!

Vorteile

It is so easy to use. It keeps my records all together in one place. I can keep track of students lesson notes, payments, invoices, events and so much more!

Nachteile

Really I have nothing bad to say. Love the software

Vorteile

The best part of the program is organization it makes my time more reproductive in actually teaching rather than admin. the automatic reminder of lessons to students reduces the absent rate tremendously. The Invoicing system is fantastic from raising an Invoice to payment received ,the tracing of payment is made easy with auto reminders when payments that are not made. at a glance you can see if a payment has been made. Communication with student and parents is fantastic it all around your fingertips within the program.

Nachteile

Learning how to use the program. even though it is easy to use, if you haven't used a particular section of the program for a while it tends to take a little time to remember what to do again,

Vorteile

automatic billing feature!!!!! this saves me countless hours and headache each month when billing time comes around plus it guarantees that I will get paid on time

Nachteile

n/a They are constantly improving the program and this program meets all of my business needs. Only one suggestion would be to create a way to list waiting list and leads by the date they inquired or were added to the wait list. That way when a student drops I can easily locate students in the order of their inquiry or in the order of the wait list

Vorteile

My Music Staff is my accountant, my secretary, my calendar, communications, public relations, it is one of the biggest reasons I'm a successfully self-employed piano teacher! I love the price, how easy it is to use, they're always updating, and they're customer service is top notch.

Nachteile

Whenever I have a little concern or small thing I'd love to have available, they have always fixed it or updated it within a few weeks. So I don't really have a least favorite thing.

Vorteile

-Very simple, elegant layout.
-Easy communication between individual or all students and teacher.
-Provides simple distribution of sheet music, lesson notes, or other materials for download to students.
-Students can provide practice notes and practice time that both them and the teacher have access to, allowing for mutual communication and creating more valuable lessons with provided information.

Nachteile

-Lesson notes are on an "honor system", and there is no tracking of whether or not students truly do track time as they go or if they simply write words into the practice log and submit straight away, making it very easy for students to lie here.

Vorteile

My Music Staff keeps me organized and professional. My studio enrollment has more than doubled since I began using this wonderful program.

Nachteile

It's not free! I can't think of anything that I do not like about it!

Vorteile

We use MyMusicStaff to track attendance and payments. Works very well for those for us.

Nachteile

We just got the basics up and running and haven't spent much time exploring additional functionality. Maybe a weekly or monthly newsletter with a video tip would be nice.

Vorteile

It can be accessed anywhere by all my Teachers. Changes can be made instantly.

Nachteile

There is nothing that I dislike, as all suggestions i have made have been taken on board

Vorteile

Ease of use and availability of options.

Nachteile

Batch or group email has not worked for me.

Vorteile

I liked the easiness to be familiar with the software mostly.

Nachteile

Not sure I have found anything yet that is not working.

Vorteile

The calendar is a Godsend. I truly could not run my studio without it. I am able to run a happier, easier, more organized studio because of this feature. In addition to the user-friendly functioning of my calendar for myself, my families are able to be completely responsible for scheduling all cancellations and make-ups for their students. This takes all of the scheduling stress off of my plate and gives them complete autonomy.

Nachteile

When batch-taking attendance, I can not do “present-use make up lesson” and have to do that individually.

Vorteile

With my ever changing scheduled, it helps keep student payments SO easy to track

Nachteile

There is a lot that I don't use as I have a smaller studio - but its not really a con

Vorteile

How it encompasses everything I need to manage my student body in one easy to use app, like lesson scheduling, lesson reminders, billing, repertoire, downloads. I also love how it allows excellent communication between my students which is especially Importnat when dealing with parents of students. The student portal is also a fantastic feature.

Nachteile

I would liKe some functionality around grading student results and the ability to include technical exercises and written and aural tasks in this. This would help in preparing students for school,based tasks and external examination preparation like AMEB

Vorteile

I love that I can run my entire business from MMS and that I don't need any external invoicing system or anything else to know exactly what is going on in my business.

Nachteile

Learning how to use the invoicing system was an absolute nightmare trial and error and I still think it is slightly over complicated to just add something to an invoice or change something small.

Vorteile

This software is easy to use, very aesthetically pleasing, and an overall lifesaver for teachers juggling many students.

Nachteile

There’s nothing I dislike about the software.

Vorteile

I am the Head Teacher of Creative and Performing Arts at a High School; I also run a school band program. It has been a very useful tool for admin, accountability (student and tutor logs), timetabling, lessonn reminders and also from a data base perspective. It provides a easily accessible web based platform to connect a range of people that don't always have the opportunity to meet up.

Nachteile

I would like to be able to forward sent emails. This is really useful when I am contacting parents about overdue fees.

Vorteile

What DON'T I like?! MMS has proven itself a very affordable way for me to cut back on HOURS of administrative work each month. I appreciate the professional invoicing systems, attendance tracker, repertoire lists, Stripe payments, auto-email features, student profiles, expense/mileage logs, etc etc etc. I never want to be without this system again!

Nachteile

I can't name a thing :) I suppose the lag-time on the website is somewhat annoying, but that seems like a miniscule complaint, compared with the benefits.

Vorteile

I love the fact that I can now see at a glance what my schedule for the next day or week is. Invoicing is simple, and when I come to my tax return at the end of the year it is so much easier than when I used a spreadsheet. I also keep all my student notes on the system, and share them with my students, and encourage them to log their practice and contact me during the week if they have any problems.

Nachteile

I would be so happy if MMS introduced a phone/iPad app rather than it being web based. I sometimes find interacting with the calendar a bit fiddly.

Vorteile

Automatic billing and payments means I don’t have to talk money or waste time every month sending invoices and processing payments.

The note feature allows me to key my lesson notes in and print and/or mail to students and/or parents. It also means that at a glance I can skip an down everything I’ve done with a student ever. Fabulous.

Nachteile

Sometimes I have to ask how to do something because it’s not always obvious. I can’t edit text the way I want in notes or emails, and it’s not easy to add videos or audio sometimes, but if I ask, MMS will usually load it for me. I’d just like more independent functionality that way.

Vorteile

This software makes my administration of 180 students a breeze. The database and functions allow me to filter and group students easily for my school events.

But I think the most important part of any software, is that when I had a problem, I would contact Mymusicstaff folks and they would be on the ball, helping me to solve the issue. Timely and effective support from the Mymusicstaff folks makes me look very good with the parents!

Nachteile

I don’t really have anything I dislike about this software. In fact I highly recommend this to many of my friends.

Vorteile

I joined MMS 3 years ago. It has revolutionized my studio. Every business solution in one place. From scheduling to tracking expenses for taxes, keeping track of my lending library to maintaining a contact list. MMS is always updating and really keeping up with what teachers need to run their businesses efficiently. KUDOS and Congratulations My Music Staff on 5 years of making our business easier to handle.

Nachteile

There are a few hoops to jump through to get to all the features and use them efficiently. Nothing seriously crazy but it does take some time to learn all the features.

Vorteile

The ease of use, wonderful and quick customer support, constant updates and new features, & affordable cost make MyMusicStaff the hands down best music studio management site.

Nachteile

I’d really like students to be able to have accounts without having an email (maybe they can and I just don’t know how to do that?!) and I’d like a timer on the practice log so students could just click when they started and click again when they finished and have the time automatically updated for them.

Vorteile

All the "Studio" business needs are kept in one place. Since I teach at several locations, the information comes with me on my computer or phone. I love that the parents can easily see their accounts and that usually clears up any confusion. The lesson reminder feature is wonderful and my parents and students so appreciate this reminder in their busy lives.

Nachteile

I appreciate almost everything. I do not believe the CON is the software, but the lack of knowledge and understanding of concepts on my end because I still do prefer paper.

Vorteile

I love that My Music Staff makes scheduling easy. Plus I can auto bill students. And best of all are the reports I can create to handle payroll, make-up lessons, and overall finances.

Nachteile

I hated that they paid teachers for lessons that would need to be made up at the time the lesson was missed instead of when the teacher gave the make up lesson. Thankfully, they have given me the option one of what lessons to pay for.

Vorteile

I love the ease of scheduling, the fact that all my lessons are in day view as well as calendar view, and most important for me, it tracks how much my students owe so I don't forget to charge them!

Nachteile

One thing about changing/ trading a student's time with another - it's awkward. You have to delete one student, change the time of the other student, and then add the other student back in - there's no ability to swap times with 2 students. If that could be fixed, I would love life!

Vorteile

The online portal means that you are able to use any device to access and control your information. Students and parents have a simple, all in one place platform that they have control over. The functionality is simple and effective. The updates are based on customer feedback and the support team are truly on the ball.

Nachteile

Different clients are all labelled as students. Would be good to have a variety of client options to enable schools, charities, students etc to have their own designation.

Vorteile

The software makes my life easy! I have an easy make-up policy that leaves me out of it, so parents have to do all the work themselves. Invoicing and online payments are really easy and I get paid much faster! It is a great system for me because I easily lose paper so having all my stuff online and accessible everywhere works great for me!

Nachteile

There are some features that could be improved, but MMS is constantly working on improving their software!

Vorteile

It helped consolidate multiple students and teachers into one hub.
Its easy to use.
Multiple features.

Nachteile

Dedicated app for phone or tablet.
SMS doesnt always work - possibly due to multiple network providers or country I'm in.
very minor formatting issues or bugs in email templates but support is helpful and they roll out updates regulalry.

Vorteile

I love the ability to manage many different facets of my business--student progress and notes, materials loaned, billing, attendance, etc.

Nachteile

I can't think of anything! It is fantastic!

Vorteile

Customer service is AWESOME. Quick response and have always successfully helped me with any questions or issues!

Nachteile

I wish it had a true app interface. But the mobile website works well as a substitute. For some reason I struggle with the make-up lesson tracking feature, and I would like to be able to customize reports better as well as create my own reports that may not be standard based on specific desired fields of info.

Vorteile

I can't imagine ever teaching without this software. It keep my sometimes crazy teaching schedule organized, invoicing and billing is amazing, reminders to parents and students about upcoming lessons is invaluable. Great customer service--website has wonderful tutorials! Very easy to use after you set it up. It just runs my studio like clockwork! I had used a couple of other calendar/invoicing software systems before, but My Music Staff is my forever software. I just couldn't operate without it!

Nachteile

I absolutely don't have any cons. Just take some time when you set it up and it will run perfectly!

Vorteile

I love that I can see my schedule as well as upcoming classes/events for the school I work with!

Nachteile

I wish there was a tab for teacher availability

Vorteile

The calendar can be personalized & it has simple reports to make my taxes easy.
It hooks up to many forms of payment... PayPal and credit cards.
I can upload scans of as much music as I want. It truly is magical!

Nachteile

The “app” is just a link that take you to the website. (Unless it got fixed...it’s been so long since I used it).
But, that is me finding an issue. Lol!

Vorteile

Very easy to manage, great auto-features, love the calendar and staff management.

Nachteile

I wish it would have better functionality for setting up single time workshops or classes.

Vorteile

Its funny, what I hate most doing, is what I like best about this software. Administration!

It helps me, my clients and my teachers keep track. My clients are much more grateful, especially having many kids, with many different schedules, and extra murals, sending them a reminder, really helps. I like the fact that it's user friendly, and its the only place I can use to manage everything.

Nachteile

That it does not have an app version. Although its great to login on the net, an App will encourage my clients to use it more often.

Vorteile

I appreciate the affordable price point and that it's easy to use.

Nachteile

I'd really like to be able to attach files (PDF of receipts) to expense records.