Dance Studio Network · For dance studios · The page, the roster, the updates
Put your dance studio online with a roster, updates, and recital photos.
A dance studio needs a simple online home that is tied to its real roster — not a brochure that goes stale beside a spreadsheet nobody wants to reopen. Dance Studio Network gives a studio a branded page, a private student-and-family roster behind it, family updates sent from the same place as the page, and a recital photo day when the season comes — all on one platform. The page and the office run off the same list, so the public face and the back office cannot drift apart.
Free to start. The branded page, the roster, and family updates are built and live today; the recital photo store and texted reminders are early access, and money is honest-off — there is no live checkout on this page.
A page tied to a real roster
A branded studio page — classes, schedule, and contact — sits on top of the same roster the office keeps, so a class list on the page and a class list in the back room are one list, not two.
Updates from one place
Recital times, closures, and registration news go to dance families from the same platform that runs the page. Texted reminders are early access; the page and email-style updates are live today.
Recital photos, the studio earns
When the season comes, a recital photo day lets a parent find only their own dancer and buy from a store that carries the studio’s name. The store and live checkout are early access; money is honest-off today.
What Dance Studio Network is
Most studios end up with a website in one place and the real student list in another — and the two never quite agree. A class gets added, a family moves up a level, a session fills, and the public page keeps advertising last year. Dance Studio Network is built so that does not happen: the page and the roster are the same system. The branded page a family reads is drawn from the private roster the studio keeps, so updating the office updates the public face at the same time.
It is deliberately a hub, not a pile of tools. One place holds the studio’s page, the student-and-family records behind it, and the messages that go out to families — and, when the recital season arrives, the photo day rides in on the same roster. A small studio gets an organized, professional presence without stitching together a website builder, a spreadsheet, a mailing list, and a separate photo site that all disagree with each other.
Honestly, where the build is: the branded page, the roster, and family updates are built and live today. The recital photo store, the automatic payout rail, and texted reminders to families are early access — present in the platform, not yet enabled for live use. The honest next step is to put your page and roster up, free to start, and turn the rest on as it opens.
A studio page that stays current
Stand up a branded page with the studio’s own name and look: the classes you offer, the schedule, the age or level for each class, and how to reach you. It is the page a prospective family reads before they call and the page a current family checks for the week ahead — and because it is drawn from the roster, the class list on it is the class list you actually teach.
When a class fills, changes time, or ends for the season, the page reflects it because the page is reading the same record the office edited — not a copy someone has to remember to update. There is no second web shop to keep in sync, and no separate content system to learn. The result is a public presence a growing studio can be proud of, kept honest by the fact that it is fed from the real list rather than typed out twice.
A private student-and-family roster behind it
Behind the page is the part a studio actually runs on: a private roster of dancers and the families behind them — who is in which class, which family a dancer belongs to, and how to reach that family. It is the simple, dependable record a studio needs, and it is the one list the page, the updates, and the eventual recital photo day all read from.
Dancers are minors, and the roster is treated that way. Dancer and family details stay on our own private system; they are never sold or handed to an outside company or advertiser. A dancer’s record is not public and is not indexed by search engines; the branded page shows the studio’s classes and schedule, never a roster of children. A family sees its own dancer; it does not browse anyone else’s.
To be plain rather than to overclaim: this is not a “we hold no data” promise. A roster is data. The honest version is narrower and truer — it is minors’ data, kept on our own private system, owned by the studio and not the platform, never sold, and shown only to the family it belongs to.
Updates that reach your dance families
Recital call times move. A snow day closes the studio. Registration for the spring session opens on a Monday and a class has six spots. Dance Studio Network sends those updates to families from the same place that runs the page, so the studio is not copying the same notice into three different tools and hoping they match. The page a family reads and the update a family gets come from one system, keyed to the same roster, so a message reaches the families it is actually for.
Written updates — the recital-week note, the closure, the registration announcement — are built and live today. Texted reminders to families are early access: present in the platform, not yet turned on for live sending. Where a channel is a plan rather than an open door, this page says so, and the studio is told exactly which is which before it relies on either.
Recital photos, on the same roster — early access
When the recital season comes, the studio can run a recital photo day on the same roster the hub already keeps. A parent finds only their own dancer — a roster lookup keyed to a claim code the studio hands out, not a face scan turned on without permission — and reaches a store that carries the studio’s own name. Priced above a floor and split in exact cents, the model is that the studio keeps the larger leg of every sale.
Said plainly, so the money claim stays honest: that store, its live checkout, and the automatic payout rail are early access — present in the platform, not enabled for live transactions today. Automatic payouts run once a studio connects its OWN payout account. There is no live payment processing on this page and no billing; “parents buy, the studio earns” describes the model of the future store, not a checkout settling money right now.
On consent and photos: photos are never sold, and a photo is sellable only when a family’s permission allows. Facial recognition is off by default for their own child; when a parent does opt in, the face template stays inside our own private system with no outside recognition service connected to it, and withdrawing the opt-in stops the matching. The 365-day window marks that template due for destruction; the step that destroys it is not finished, and we say so rather than claim a deletion we cannot show you. Galleries of dancers are private by default, reached by a claim code, and not indexed by search engines. For the full costume-portrait and recital-night pipeline — capture, claim-code delivery, the enforced floor, and the split — the sibling surface at dancestudio.photos runs the photo day end to end.
What is live and what is early access — plainly
Built and live today: the branded studio page drawn from the roster; the private student-and-family roster behind it; and written family updates sent from the same place as the page. Free to start: standing up the page and the roster costs nothing.
Early access — present in the platform, not yet enabled for live use: the recital photo store surface, the live checkout that accepts a parent’s payment, the automatic payout rail (which runs once a studio connects its OWN payout account), and texted reminders to families. Money is honest-off — there is no live payment processing on this page, no billing, and no subscription being charged.
And there are no invented numbers here: no studio counts, no dancer counts, no testimonials. The anchors on this page are what the hub is designed to do — a page tied to a roster, updates from one place, and a recital photo day on the same list — not a claim of how many studios use it.
Common questions
How is this different from Dance Studio Photos?
They are two surfaces on one spine, kept separate on purpose. Dance Studio Network — this page — is the studio’s online HUB: a branded page, a private roster, and family updates, all reading from one list. Dance Studio Photos is the costume-portrait and recital-night PHOTO-DAY pipeline: capture, claim-code delivery, the enforced floor, and the split. This hub links families to that pipeline for the deep photo-day work; it does not duplicate it.
Why tie the page to the roster instead of just building a website?
Because a website that is separate from the real student list drifts out of date the moment a class changes and nobody remembers to edit two places. Here the page is drawn from the roster the office already keeps, so updating the office updates the public page at the same time. The page cannot advertise a class you no longer teach, because it is reading the same record you edited.
Is a checkout or a payment live today?
No. The branded page, the roster, and written family updates are built and live today. The recital photo store, the live checkout that accepts a parent’s payment, the automatic payout rail, and texted reminders to families are early access — present in the platform, not enabled for live transactions. There is no live payment processing on this page, no billing, and no subscription. When the store opens for a studio, it is a deliberate, opt-in step.
What does “free to start” mean, exactly?
It means standing up the page and the roster costs nothing to begin — it is not a claim that money is moving anywhere. Money is honest-off on this page: there is no live checkout, no billing, and no subscription being charged. The recital store and its payouts are early access, and payouts run only once a studio connects its own payout account.
Is our dancers’ and families’ information kept private?
Yes. Dancer and family details stay on our own private system and are never sold or shared with outside companies or advertisers. A dancer’s record is not public and is not indexed by search engines, and a family sees only its own dancer. This is not a “we hold no data” claim — a roster is data. The honest version is that it is minors’ data, owned by the studio, kept private, and never sold.
How does a parent find only their own dancer in the recital photos?
A parent claims their dancer with a code the studio hands out, and from then on they see only the permitted photos of their own child. It is a roster lookup keyed to a claim code, not a face scan turned on without permission. Facial recognition is off by default; when a parent does opt in, the face template stays inside our own private system with no outside recognition service connected to it, and withdrawing the opt-in stops the matching. The 365-day window marks that template due for destruction; the step that destroys it is not finished, and we would rather tell you that than claim a deletion we cannot show you. Photos are never sold, and a photo is sellable only when permission allows.
Do we have to run the recital photo day to use the page and roster?
No. The page, the roster, and family updates stand on their own and are the built, live-today core. The recital photo day is one part of the hub for when the season comes, and it is early access. A studio can run the page and roster now and turn the photo day on later, or hand the deep photo-day work to the sibling surface at dancestudio.photos.
How do we get started?
By a conversation, not a checkout. We show the current state honestly — how the page is drawn from the roster, how updates reach families, and exactly what is live versus early access on the recital store — and, if it fits your studio, we help you put the page and roster up, free to start. There is no pricing commitment and no signup fee.
Related surfaces
Dance Studio Network is the studio’s online hub — the page, the roster, and the updates. These adjacent destinations cover the photo-day pipeline, the operations platform, and the platform underneath.
dancestudio.photos
The costume-portrait and recital-night photo-day pipeline — capture against the class roster, claim-code delivery so a parent finds only their own dancer, the enforced floor, and the split. This hub links families to it for the deep photo-day work; the two are separate surfaces.
danceschool.software
The studio operations platform for the studio itself — enrollment, tuition, and the recital command center that runs the studio day to day. The roster this hub keeps is the same kind of list the operations platform runs on.
homeroom.software
The school platform this hub is built on. The private roster, the page, and the family updates ride the same privacy-first spine as the rest of the platform.
What this page is and is not claiming
Dance Studio Network — a role-network hub for a dance studio: a branded page tied to a private roster, family updates from one place, and a recital photo day on the same list — is a real product with a built, live-today core (the page, the roster, and written updates) and early-access parts (the recital store, live checkout, the payout rail, and texted reminders). This page describes what the hub is designed to do; it does not present the early-access parts as finished or open. There are no invented stats, studio counts, or testimonials here. Money is honest-off — no live checkout, no billing, no subscription being charged today; “parents buy, the studio earns, the studio keeps the larger leg” describes the model of the future recital store. Privacy is stated honestly: dancer and family data stays on our own private system and is never sold; a dancer is found by a claim-code roster lookup, not a face scan; facial recognition is off by default and takes an explicit per-dancer opt-in to switch on, and an opted-in face template stays on our own private system with no outside recognition service connected to it. Withdrawing the opt-in stops the matching at the gate. The retention window — 365 days by default — is what marks that template due for destruction, and the step that destroys it is not finished; we would rather write that down than claim a deletion we cannot show you. We do not dress the rest up as a blanket impossibility either — the honest statement is that recognition is off by default, a withdrawal stops the matching, and photos are never sold. No competitor brand names appear on this page. The honest next step is to put your page and roster online, free to start.