In a dance studio the person at the door is often the teacher, five minutes before class, with a speaker in one hand. Checking who still has classes left can't take longer than saying hello.
What makes it hard
- Class packs nobody counts. "8 classes a month" on paper depends on someone ticking a box every time, on the busiest evenings of the week.
- Several groups, one pass. Beginners on Tuesday, the show group on Thursday, and dancers who come to both.
- Holidays and injuries. A pass bought before a sprained ankle should wait for its owner, without you redoing the dates by hand.
- Children. Many of your dancers are kids, without email and sometimes without a phone.
How Abonatus handles it
- The teacher's phone is the front desk. Scan the dancer's QR code and see a green or red screen with their name, photo and the classes left. Or find them by name in two taps.
- Class packs counted for you. "8 classes in 30 days" loses one class at the door, never two on the same day. Dancers see what's left on their own phone, so "how many do I have?" is answered before class.
- Freeze a pass for two weeks of holiday or an injury: no entry while it's frozen, and it ends that many days later. Every change stays in the pass's history, with who made it.
- Kids without email get a six-character code from the studio to open the app on any phone, or are checked in by name.
- Renewals on time. Dancers who sign in with their email get a reminder three days before their pass ends, or at their last class. The list shows whose pass ends this week and who didn't renew.
- Your evening in numbers: visits by day, arrivals by hour, what sold and what came in, for each teacher who took money.
What it doesn't do yet
Class timetables and booking a place in a class are not in Abonatus yet. Today it handles passes, payments and the door. If booking is what you need first, tell us.
What it costs
Two months free during the pilot, with our help to move your dancers over from Excel. After that, one monthly price per studio, with no fee per class.