What Pirouette does
The full list, with honest status next to each one.
We show what’s live, what’s being built for launch, and what’s on the roadmap. No vapor, no asterisks, no “coming soon” badges that mean “next year.”
Committed for the next release.
Already in the protected app.
Showcased now so you know it's coming.
Front desk
The front desk shouldn't need two screens and a sticky note. Check-ins, messages, schedules, and policies live on one surface, so anyone on shift keeps the lobby moving — and teachers stay in the room instead of getting stopped in the doorway.
A name lookup answers everything before the parent finishes talking — and shift handoff to Diane stops being a guessing game.
Parents enter their own card. Christina handles the next person. Rush-hour stops being a single-threaded bottleneck.
Owner dashboard
Most studio software buries your numbers behind menus — some even show your balance backwards. The owner dashboard puts receivables (30 / 60 / 90), growth versus drain, and payroll where you actually look: the top of your phone, between drop-offs.
The first thing Mike sees when he opens the app. Total owed, split into the three aging buckets, click into any bucket to see who.
Money paid for competition entries earmarks itself. The variance tile tells Mike when the bucket is being spent down for the wrong reasons.
Hours roll up from the classes that actually happened. Mike's weekly payroll digest lands Wednesday. Edits leave an audit trail.
Past-due 30/60/90 on top. Growth/drain dual lens. Studio health. Payroll digest. Reports a tap away.
Parent portal
Parents shouldn't need a manual to pay you. One page answers the three things they ask — what's my balance, when's class, how's my kid doing — so your front desk stops fielding the same questions all season.
Your balance. Your kid's schedule. Your kid's progress. No drilling, no emailing the front desk, no calling.
Your studio's name and logo on the parent's home screen. Included. Not an upsell.
Your studio's colors, your studio's wordmark, your studio's photography. Parents don't notice it's a third-party platform.
Teacher mobile
Attendance and sub-coverage shouldn't route through your personal phone. Teachers take roll, raise a sub request, and leave lesson notes from an app built for the studio floor — not a desktop after hours.
Teacher opens the app, sees today's class roster, taps a kid, the kid is present. No drilling, no laptop, no end-of-day catch-up.
Billing & payments
The loudest complaint about studio software is the bill — per-student creep, surprise fees, and money you quietly never collect. Billing here is autopay that collects itself on your own Stripe, with discounts and late fees applied correctly and no middleman skimming the top.
Stripe charges the stored card on the billing date. Christina doesn't push autopay. Diane doesn't push autopay. Nobody pushes autopay.
No 1% middleman markup. The studio's connected Stripe account receives the money directly. We are not in the payment path.
One running invoice per family. Line items per student. Credits and discounts visible. No screen that reads backwards.
Schedules & enrollment
Plan your season once, then let it run. Season, class, session, and private lessons live in one table with caps and waitlists that enforce themselves — and families book a trial in a few clicks instead of phone tag.
Mike asks what's happening at 6pm Thursday and gets an answer in two seconds — the whole year in one view, season at the top, sessions on the day.
Communications
One message, every channel — text, email, push — reaching both parents and logged to the right family. No four separate “blast” tools scattered across the app, and nothing sent from a teacher's personal cell.
Parents ping the studio. The studio replies. The channel stops mattering. Christina stops triaging two inboxes.
Studio composes one broadcast. Each parent receives it on their preferred channel — push, SMS, email, or in-app — based on category.
Costumes & recitals
Costumes, recital seats, and the comp-fee money parents pay — kept where they belong. Comp-fee escrow stays earmarked for recital instead of getting commingled with operating cash, so the bucket and the bank always agree.
Parents reserve seats online; pay at the desk. Held seats release if the parent doesn't show. Two-show $30 discount auto-applies.
Three states, free-text notes for the exceptions. Parents see 'coming soon' or 'you have it'. Staff sees the full picture.
Automation
The chase work runs itself: past-due nudges, sub-coverage routing, payroll roll-ups, attendance compliance. The mechanical parts happen in the background, so your morning stops being four hours of email triage.
Teacher raises a sub request. It fans out to front desk, owners, and qualified teachers. First-to-claim locks. The original teacher sees it happen.
A student stops showing up. The system tags the family at 45 days, freezes the Stripe line at 59. No more refund chase at month's end.
Pull the studio's history out of Dance Studio Pro. Preserve every field that matters. Cut over once.
Walk a real studio’s day with us.
We’ll show you the front-desk homepage, the owner dashboard, and the parent portal — running the workflow your studio actually has.