Weekly availability
Each teacher sets the days and hours they teach, and where, in order of preference.
Teachers & payroll
Your teachers, their pay and what each one sees
Add teachers and office staff, decide what each one can see and do, and let payroll add itself up from the lessons they teach.
Teachers and staff
Add teachers and office staff, each with their own login.
Permissions
Choose what each person can see and change.
Payroll
Pay by the hour or a share of each lesson.
Availability
Weekly hours, open to online booking if you like.
Roles and permissions
Show each person what they need, and nothing else.
The owner sees everything. Everyone else sees what you allow.
The whole studio: every teacher’s lessons, family accounts, payroll, reports and settings.
Their own lessons and students, attendance for the lessons they teach, and their own payroll if you allow it.
Admin logins without a calendar of their own, for the front desk: students, families and invoices, as you allow.
- Take attendance
- See other teachers’ events
- Manage students
- Manage invoices and accounts
- Record payments at lessons
- View their own payroll
Teachers & payroll is in every plan. Each login uses one seat.
Teacher payroll
Payroll that adds itself up.
Every billed lesson adds a payroll entry for the teacher who taught it, so what you owe each teacher is always current.
Hourly or a share
A flat hourly rate, or a percentage of what each lesson earns.
Rates by category
Pay group classes, recitals or meetings differently.
Make-ups, your way
Pay when a credit is issued or when the make-up is taught.
Availability
Let teachers set their own hours.
Weekly availability decides when families can book with each teacher.
Each teacher sets the days and hours they teach, and where, in order of preference.
Open any block of time to families, with start-time intervals, a break after each booked lesson and a limit on gaps between lessons.
Set minimum notice and how far ahead families can book, for the whole studio.
Allow online booking
Open any block of time to families, with start-time intervals, a break after each booked lesson and a limit on gaps between lessons.
Studio booking rules
Set minimum notice and how far ahead families can book, for the whole studio.
Substitutes
Cover a lesson without redoing the books.
Give a lesson a substitute and Sonely sorts out who sees it and who is paid.
On both calendars
The lesson shows for the teacher and for the substitute.
The substitute is paid
Payroll goes to whoever taught, at their own rate.
Payroll report
Know what you owe, and what you’ve paid.
Each teacher’s balance on any date, the payments you’ve made, and a report for your records.
Payroll report
Each teacher’s earnings over the dates you choose, as PDF or Excel.
Payments and adjustments
Record a payment, extra income or a deduction. Payments go into your expenses too.
Teachers see their own
Teachers you allow can check their own payroll.
Frequently asked questions about teachers and payroll
For anything else, contact us.
No. It works out what you owe each teacher and keeps the balance. You pay them your usual way and record the payment.
Payroll in Sonely is gross pay. Add deductions by hand if you need them, and give the Payroll report to your accountant or payroll service.
Set the teacher’s payroll to a flat hourly rate. Each billed lesson then adds the rate for its length: a 30-minute lesson at $30 an hour adds $15.
Yes. Choose percentage of revenue, for example 60%, and each billed lesson adds that share of its price before sales tax.
Every teacher, admin or staff login uses a seat. Students and families don’t. See pricing.
Yes. Each teacher can edit their own availability, and the owner can set it for anyone.
Try the demo
Look around a sample studio with four teachers, their students and their lessons.
Open the demo studio
Talk to us
Ask us anything about running your studio on Sonely. Real people read and answer.
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See what’s new
Every update we ship, in one place. See what changed in each release.
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