Questions, answered plainly
What a studio asks before it switches, and the same help its owners, teachers, students and parents read inside the app. Every answer says what DanceFlow does today.
1062 answers · in fourteen languages
Before you start Most askedWhat does it cost?
DanceFlow is free for studios while we are in early access. When paid plans start there will be one plan, $89 a month or $799 a year, with unlimited students and teachers, and every studio will hear about it well in advance.
Before you start
What a studio asks before it switches
19 answers
The basics
What it is, who it is for, and how a studio moves in
13Price, payments and your data
What it costs, how money moves, and what stays yours
6Studio owners
Running the studio, the money and the week
430 answers
Getting started
The order to set things up in, and where the studio’s own settings live.
44Running alongside your old system
What works today when the balances still live somewhere else, and what does not.
5The schedule
Views, booking, breaks, studio events and the order teachers appear in.
77Students
The roster, names, couples and families, custom fields and registration.
78Money
Packages, invoices, the day’s cash, what each number counts, and teacher pay.
69Messages and announcements
Conversations, group threads and who receives an announcement.
31Meetings
The weekly meeting note, pinned notes and follow-ups.
12Events and showcases
Parties and showcases: who is coming, tickets, routine fees, the running order and who has paid.
24Competitions
Marking the ones you are going to, entering students, and where results land.
36The portals
What a teacher, a student and a parent each see, and what they cannot do.
13Reports and insight
What each report counts: insights, attendance, analytics, staff, sales, profit and loss, teachers and the activity log.
18Leads and growth
Inquiries, the intro offer on the booking page, Google reviews and where students come from.
16Shop and gift cards
Shoes, practice wear, dress rentals and gift cards at the desk.
7Teachers
Lessons, students and your own numbers
162 answers
Your portal
What this side of DanceFlow is, what it holds, and what belongs to the studio office.
25Your week
The calendar, the hours you work, days off, breaks and booking a lesson yourself.
26Lessons
Finishing a lesson, what it deducts, doubles, couples, no-shows and the notes you write.
23Your students
The roster you teach, what is on a student’s profile, and who is worth a word this week.
27Group classes
The classes you teach, the term plan, the register and covering somebody else’s class.
5Requests and messages
Booking requests, students asking to move, conversations, announcements and feedback.
11Your numbers
Insights, My numbers and My pay: what each figure counts and what it does not.
17Everything else
Notifications, forms the studio sends you, the handbook, meetings, competitions and your profile.
28Students
Lessons, packages and how you are getting on
144 answers
Getting in
Codes, signing in, and what to do when the app says it does not know you.
4Finding your way around
What is in the menu, what is on the home screen, and where the rest of it hides on a phone.
23My schedule
The views, what the marks on a lesson mean, and getting your lessons into your own calendar.
7Asking for a lesson
How a request works, what the studio can answer, and cancelling or moving a lesson you already have.
19Group classes
What is on, taking a place, and the waiting list.
5Packages and invoices
Lessons left, when one comes off, what you owe, and how to pay.
24Progress and your diary
Where you are dance by dance, what to practice, and the notes only you can read.
12Messages and feedback
Talking to the studio, announcements, and rating a lesson.
8Forms and policies
Things the studio asks you to read, sign or answer.
7Your account
Your details, notifications, privacy, and leaving.
21Competitions and results
Going with your studio, the bill, the checklist, your day sheet and your placings.
14Parents
Following your children's dancing
130 answers
Getting in
The code from the studio, and what the portal is for.
8Your household
Your dancers, their details, and the other grown-ups who can see them.
20Lessons
What is booked, asking for more, and changing one.
18Invoices and paying
What is owed, what is left on a package, and how a studio takes payment.
16How they are getting on
Progress, and the recap after each lesson.
12Competition results
What has been published about your dancer, and the one switch that is not reversible.
8Forms and messages
Waivers, forms the studio sends, and talking to staff.
16Your account
Notifications, the family calendar, growing up, and leaving.
22Competitions
When the studio takes your dancer to a competition: asking to go, the checklist, the bill and the day itself.
10Competitions
Organizers, judges, scrutineers and dancers
177 answers
Everyone
Getting in, what your role lets you see, and why this portal needs no studio.
13Running a competition
Creating it, the program, rounds, floors, the panel and the day itself.
79Entries, numbers and money
How entries arrive, what they cost, back numbers, and what each studio owes.
17Spectator tickets
Selling seats to the people watching, taking the money, and the door.
4Scrutineering
Recalls, the Skating System, ties, and reopening a signed sheet.
19Judging
Marking a sheet, signing it, and what happens when the ballroom wifi drops.
16Competing
Being entered, finding your heats, and your own record.
17Results and who can see them
Publishing, the page with no sign-in, and withholding a name.
12Did not find your question?
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