Sonely for new studios
Open your studio with everything in place
Whether you're taking your first students or leaving another system, Sonely gets your lessons, website and sign-ups ready fast.
It's easier to start with a system than to switch to one later. Set up your studio the way you mean to run it.
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Every feature, free for one teacher.
No card needed. Set up your studio, invite families and send your first invoices without paying anything. Hiring teachers? Extra seats are free for your first 30 days.
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Get set up in an afternoon.
A short setup and a getting started guide take you from an empty account to a working studio.
Tell us about your studio.
Enter your studio's name, region and time zone, and choose whether to build a website or use the one you have. Skip any step you're not ready for.
Bring your students with you.
Import students and families from a spreadsheet: match the columns, fix any rows in the preview, then choose their status, their teacher and whether they get reminders.
Follow the guide.
The getting started guide takes you through adding students, scheduling lessons, taking attendance and sending your first invoices. Read it now.
The first months of a studio go to finding students. Sonely takes care of the paperwork while you do.
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Get found and get booked.
Build a studio website from a template, add a sign-up or booking form and publish it on your own domain, with your own words, photos and colors.
Sign-ups land on your list.
Each sign-up becomes a lead or a student in Sonely, tagged automatically with the tag you choose for that form.
Book a first lesson.
Families pick a time from your availability. Make the first lesson free or set its price, and take payment when they book.
Already have a website?
Embed the same forms and a family login on any site. Each sign-up sends an event to Google Analytics and Meta Pixel, so you can count sign-ups where you already track your site.
Take payments from day one.
Connect your own Stripe or PayPal account and families can pay online from their very first invoice.
Online payments.
Families pay invoices by card, bank account or PayPal, from their portal or a payment link. Card details are held by your processor, never by Sonely.
Packages and registration fees.
Sell a starter pack of lessons, or add a registration fee to your sign-up form.
Taxes and records.
Add sales tax where you need it, log expenses with receipt reading, and keep a mileage log for the drive between students' homes.
Build habits that grow with you.
The routines you start with now will carry your studio through its first hundred students.
Plan lessons in advance.
Put weekly lessons on the calendar for the whole term, each with its price and length, and let invoices follow from them.
Add teachers when you're ready.
Start on your own and add a teacher seat when you hire. Choose what each teacher can see and how they're paid.
Keep families coming back.
Reminders, lesson notes and a practice log keep families involved between lessons, and the Student retention report shows who stayed.
Look after families' information from the start.
Even a studio of five keeps names, addresses and payment details. Treat them well from day one.
Two-factor sign-in.
Turn on two-factor sign-in, and every sign-in asks for a code from your authenticator app as well as your password.
Payment details stay with your processor.
Saved cards and bank accounts are held by Stripe or PayPal. Sonely never stores them.
Tell a studio, get a month free.
When a studio you refer becomes a paying subscriber, you each get one free month.
Sign up freeCore features
Sonely has many features. These are the ones a new studio sets up first.
Open your doors
Website templates
Five templates and blocks to build with.
Your own domain
Point your domain at your studio site.
Sign-up forms
New students land on your list as leads.
Fill your first lessons
Online booking
Families book from your availability.
Trial lessons
Free or at a price, paid when booked.
Recurring lessons
Weekly lessons that repeat until you stop them.
Bring your records
Import students
From a spreadsheet, columns matched for you.
Families
Several students and contacts per family.
Tags
Group students by instrument or class.
Get paid
Auto-invoicing
Each family invoiced every week or month.
Online payments
Through your own Stripe or PayPal account.
Packages
Sell a block of lesson time up front.
Keep track
Attendance
Ten statuses, billed or not.
Reports
Revenue, retention and more, as PDF or Excel.
Expenses and mileage
Receipts read for you and trips logged.
Look after families
Family portal
Lessons, invoices and practice in any browser.
Reminders
By email, and by text for families who allow it.
Practice log
A timer, notes and uploads from students.
Your studio, ready in an afternoon.
Free for one teacher, with every feature and no card needed.
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