For music schools
Music school software built by people who still run a music school.
Smart scheduling, automatic payments, recitals, room rentals, and one app for every family, instructor, and front desk. Tested every day at our own school, not adapted from a gym app.
Then try it free for 14 days
Signed in as family
Next lesson
Guitar with Ms. Alvarez · Thu 4:30
Makeup rebooked by family
Maya R. · Piano · Sat 10:00
For the holidays
Lessons make the best gift.
Holiday weeks are slow for enrollment. Gift cards bring in cash now and new students in January, and you can start selling them before you’ve finished switching. Codes go straight to the recipient, and every balance tracks itself.
What changes in your first month
Run your school with confidence, relief, and control.
New families find their way in. The admin that eats your evenings runs on its own. And your whole team works from the same page.
Confidence
Your school isn’t just busy. It’s growing.
Inquiry forms and a sales pipeline that track every trial lesson to enrollment.
Booking proposals families accept and pay for online.
Darcy, your AI assistant, guides new families through sign up while you teach.
Relief
Your school finally runs itself.
Makeups five ways: reschedule in the app, bank it, sub it, assign a video, or credit it.
One click holiday blocking that banks or credits every affected lesson.
One click payroll with multiple pay rates and substitutes included.
Control
Your staff stays aligned. Your families stay engaged.
Attendance, notes, and goals on every student’s profile.
At risk alerts when a student’s attendance starts to slip.
Staff tasks and roles so everyone knows what to do and sees only what they should.
Enrollment
Turn trial lessons into enrolled students.
Your waiting list belongs in a pipeline, not a notepad.
Inquiry forms
Every lead from your website lands in one pipeline, and Darcy answers questions while you teach.
Tasks and goals
Your team gets reminded to follow up after every trial, so no family waits on a call that never comes.
Booking proposals
Send lesson times and pricing by text or email. Families accept and pay online.
Pipeline view
See every family from first inquiry to enrolled, and who needs a nudge.
Smart scheduling
No gaps. No double bookings. No Monday untangling.
Switch views by instructor, room, or location, see who has paid right from the schedule, and let the Smart Scheduler find the perfect time.
Smart Scheduler
Suggests open times around availability and buffers, with no gaps and no double booking.
Paid at a glance
See who has paid and who hasn’t without leaving the calendar.
Lessons, groups, and events
Private lessons, group classes with caps and multiple instructors, recitals, and masterclasses.
Owed lessons tracked
Banked makeups and credits follow every student until they’re used.
One click holidays
Block a date or a range for everyone or chosen instructors, and lessons bank automatically.
Built for busy days
Multiple locations, waitlists, calendar sync, bulk attendance, and virtual lessons from the calendar.
iOS and Android
One app. Fewer calls to the front desk.
Your front desk, staff, instructors, and families all download the same app. Each person signs in and sees exactly what they need, and nothing they shouldn’t.
Front desk
Students check in on a tablet, and attendance is always current.
Admins and staff
The whole school at a glance, from anywhere.
Instructors
Their schedule, attendance, practice assignments, and chat.
Families
Lessons, makeups, practice, tickets, messages, and payments for every child.
LR
Want your school’s name in the App Store?
Upgrade to your own custom branded app with your logo and colors. Families download your school, not ours.
Rivera family · November
Guitar, weekly
Nov 6 · Lesson
$45.00
Nov 13 · Lesson
$45.00
Nov 20 · Lesson
$45.00
Nov 27 · Lesson
Holiday
$0.00
Charged automatically
$135.00
Example only
Automatic payments
Get paid on time without chasing anyone.
Card and bank payments run on their own, and every plan, pass, credit, and promotion lives in one place.
Recurring billing
Card or bank, charged on schedule, with proration and receipts.
Variable billing
Each month charges for the lessons on the calendar, holidays included.
Payment plan builder
Custom plans for private lessons, groups, and room rentals.
Credits and class passes
Families buy, use, and transfer credits, with balances tracked.
Promotions
Sibling, bundled, and tiered discounts for multiple lessons.
Gift cards and online stores
Unique codes sent straight to the recipient, plus stores for lessons, gear, and tickets.
Contracts at sign up
Registration with custom questions and electronic signatures.
Reports and payroll
Payment reports, accounting sync, and one click payroll.
Promotions in a minute
Sibling discounts, bundles, and back to school offers, ready when enrollment opens.
Gift cards for the holidays
Sell lessons as gifts with unique codes, and track every balance automatically.
Credit balance · Rivera family
4 lessons
Use credit
Transfer to sibling
Credits, not refunds
Families keep lesson value as credits they can use or move to a sibling, so tuition stays in your account.
Communication
Fewer no-shows. Fewer "nobody told us" calls.
Reminders, receipts, and updates go out on their own by text, email, or in the app, all editable to sound like your school.
Private in app chat
Instructors, staff, and families talk safely, with file sharing and full history.
Text and email
One family, a whole class, or the entire school in one send.
Hundreds of automations
Reminders, receipts, schedule changes, and welcomes, all editable.
At risk attendance alerts
Know when a student starts missing lessons, before the family quits.
MA
Ms. Alvarez
Guitar · Rivera family
Ava nailed the G chord today! Here’s this week’s practice sheet.
Week 6 practice.pdf
Thank you! She’s been playing it all afternoon.
Love it. See you Thursday at 4:30.
Lesson reminder sent
Text and email · 24 hours before
Edit
Payment receipt sent
Email · after every charge
Edit
At risk: Leo M.
Missed 3 of his last 4 lessons
Call
Group text to Rock Band 2
“Rehearsal moved to Room B tonight”
Examples only
New revenue
Your rooms earn while your students are in school.
Rent out your recording studio, rehearsal rooms, and recital hall with online booking, availability you control, and payment taken up front.
Recitals and masterclasses
Schedule the show, sell the tickets, fill the seats.
Put recitals, showcases, and masterclasses on the same calendar as your lessons, then sell tickets online with guest checkout. Grandparents buy in seconds, and ticket buyers never count toward your monthly bill.
Spring Showcase
Los Rios Rock School Recital
Sat, May 16 · 6:00 PM · Main Hall
Example
$15
Buy tickets
Learning Hub
Success happens between lessons.
Practice assignments, videos, and goals parents see every week, so families see progress and stay enrolled.
Evergreen courses. Your Beginner Guitar or Rock Band Basics course works for every student who joins.
Unlimited media library of videos, PDFs, backing tracks, and links.
Assign practice after every lesson, and families see it in the app.
Video lessons as makeups, so a missed week still moves a student forward.
Beginner Guitar
1
Holding the guitar
Video · 6 min
Done
2
Your first three chords
Video and PDF
Done
3
Strumming patterns
Backing track
Rock Band Basics
1
Counting in as a band
Video · 4 min
2
Song form and cues
PDF chart
Why we built it
Chris Bates and Tyler Marolf own Los Rios Rock School. Every lesson, payment, recital, and paycheck there runs on SessionUp, so every feature is tested at our own front desk before it reaches yours.
SessionUp grew out of TeacherZone, built alongside music schools since 2016.
New platform. Not new to the game.
10M+
lessons scheduled
$1B+
in tuition managed
1,000+
organizations served
Getting started
Try it free. A real person moves you in.
Pricing
$99
/mo to start
Pay per active student, or one flat rate.
Active student pricing follows your enrollment, so summer dips lower your bill. Parents, instructors, staff, and ticket buyers are never counted. Prefer the same bill every month? We’ll quote a flat rate on your demo.
Example: a school with 300 active students pays about $290 a month.
Switching
Your onboarding lead does the heavy lifting.
Moves your students, families, and staff
Builds your schedule and payment plans with you
Trains your admins and instructors live
You pick the go live date. Typical setup: 1 to 4 weeks
14 days free
Try everything before you pay.
Start a free trial on your own, or book a demo and we’ll set it up around your schedule. After that, there’s no contract and a 30 day money back guarantee.
Syncs with your calendar, accounting, and video tools, with an open API for everything else.
Questions
Everything you need to know before your first demo.
Is SessionUp Right for My Music School?
Is SessionUp built for music schools, or is it generic scheduling software?
Built for music schools. SessionUp grew out of TeacherZone, a music lesson platform built alongside music schools since 2016, and our owners run Los Rios Rock School on it today, recitals included.
Can we try it before we buy?
What is SessionUp, and how does it help music schools?
What types of music programs does SessionUp support?
Features That Run Your Music School
Can we run recitals and sell tickets?
How does SessionUp handle make-up lessons for music students?
Can SessionUp manage both private lessons and group classes on one calendar?
How does tuition billing and payment collection work?
Does SessionUp include a CRM or sales pipeline for enrolling new students?
Can parents communicate with instructors directly through SessionUp?
Does SessionUp offer tools to keep students practicing between lessons?
Does SessionUp have mobile apps for owners, instructors, and parents?
Pricing & Getting Started for Music Schools
How much does SessionUp cost for a music school?
How does pricing change as we grow?
Music School Setup, Contracts & Fit
Who handles our onboarding, a person or a bot?
How long does it take to set up SessionUp for a music school?
Do I need to sign a long-term contract?
What if SessionUp isn’t the right fit?
Not ready for a demo? See where your school stands.
10 questions. Instant results. No spreadsheet required.
Your school, on SessionUp
See what’s possible in 15 minutes, or try it free for 14 days. No contracts, no commitments, and no hard feelings if it’s not a fit.