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Sell a block of lessons up front, let students book their own slots, and let parents and grandparents buy lessons as a gift. No card machine, no app for your students to download — just a link you can send.
Sell a ten-lesson or term-long block at one price, paid up front. Each lesson redeems against the balance, and the remainder is always the lessons still owed.
The person paying for music lessons is usually not the person taking them. A gift certificate for a block of lessons is something a parent or grandparent can actually buy online.
Publish your available times and let students or parents book into them. Every booking is confirmed by email to both of you the moment it is made.
Turn on approval and a requested slot arrives as a request, not a commitment. You accept or decline, and the student is emailed either way — useful when a time only works some weeks.
Every student who books or pays is captured with their contact details, lesson history and remaining balance — including the parent who pays but never attends.
Write one message and send it to every student or parent on your list — enrolment for next term, a recital date, an exam entry deadline. One message, not forty.
A music teacher does not sell one lesson at a time. They sell a term, or a block of ten, invoiced before the first lesson — which is why generic appointment software fits badly: it books a slot and takes a payment for that slot, leaving the teacher to track the balance in a notebook. On Shopolo the block is sold as a prepaid card and each lesson redeems against it, so the money arrives once and the balance looks after itself.
One payment for ten lessons instead of ten payments and the follow-up messages that come with them. Funds settle to your own Stripe account.
Partial redemptions are tracked as they happen, so "how many lessons are left?" is something you look up rather than reconstruct.
Yes. A gift card on Shopolo is a prepaid balance with a code, so a grandparent or parent can buy a block of lessons for someone else, and the recipient gets it by email to redeem against bookings. This is the most common way music lessons get gifted — at birthdays and at Christmas, by someone who is not the student.
Sell the block as a gift card at the block price — for example a ten-lesson card — and redeem a lesson against it each time the student attends. Partial redemptions are tracked automatically, so the remaining balance is always the number of lessons still owed. You get paid for the whole block up front, through Stripe.
No. Payments run through Stripe Checkout from a link, which matters more for music teachers than most trades: plenty teach in schools, in students' homes, or from a room at home, and have no counter to put a terminal on. Everything works from a phone or laptop browser.
Yes. You publish your available times and students or parents book into them, and both of you get a confirmation email straight away. You can also require approval, so a requested slot reaches you as a request rather than a booking — you accept or decline it and the student is emailed the outcome.
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