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Encore is studio-management software built for dance and performance studios. It connects students, families, instructors, classes, attendance, registration, communication, tasks, reporting, choreography, costumes, and other studio workflows.

Encore is designed for dance and performance studios that need a modern system for both day-to-day administration and the creative work surrounding classes and performances.

No. You can create your studio account and subscribe online whenever you are ready. Demos are available for studios that want a guided walkthrough or help deciding what fits.

No. Encore begins billing when you complete registration and secure checkout. Your studio account activates after payment.

Billing begins when your studio completes signup and checkout. Encore subscriptions are billed monthly.

Yes. Encore can help plan onboarding and migration based on your current system, your studio size, and the data you need to bring over.

Yes. Administrators can add staff access as the studio is configured and ready to invite instructors or other administrators.

Encore uses student-record pricing bands combined with two software tiers: Essentials and Pro. Each tier also has a lower Software + Payments price when Encore Payments is enabled.

Every non-deleted student record associated with the studio counts, including inactive and historical student records.

Encore automatically schedules the correct student-record band for your next billing cycle. The change does not unexpectedly reprice the middle of your current cycle.

Yes. Encore creates an in-app subscription notice and sends an email when a student-record band change is scheduled.

Yes. Upgrades take effect immediately and the current billing period is prorated.

Yes. Downgrades are scheduled for the next billing cycle so you keep your current Pro access through the period you already paid for.

Yes. Studio administrators can schedule cancellation from Subscription & Billing without contacting sales.

Your studio continues to have access through the end of the current billing period. The subscription then stops renewing.

Yes. Before the subscription ends, you can choose “Keep My Subscription” and remove the scheduled cancellation.

Encore does not immediately shut the studio down. The system supports payment retries, warnings, email and in-app notices, and a grace period before access is restricted.

Not at launch. Encore is billed monthly.

Studios using Encore Payments receive a lower monthly software price. That discount applies while Encore Payments is enabled and connected.

Essentials includes the complete core studio-management foundation: students and families, instructors, classes and seasons, enrollment and waitlists, scheduling, attendance, basic calendar, tasks and reminders, announcements and notifications, family, teacher, and student portals, basic email sending, registration, basic reports, and studio branding.

Pro adds advanced and differentiating operations including evaluations, task templates and automation, advanced calendar, teacher time-off requests, substitute management, email templates, signatures, campaigns, scheduling, analytics and automation, birthday email, costumes, measurements, music, dance and choreography management, dashboard customization, advanced reporting, and multi-location management.

Yes. Multi-location management is part of Encore Pro.

Yes. Teachers can access class rosters and record attendance from their workspace.

Yes. Encore includes role-aware family, teacher, and student portal experiences.

Yes. Encore supports a student workspace in addition to family and teacher workspaces.

Yes. Costumes and student measurements are part of Encore Pro and are designed to stay connected to performance workflows.

Yes. In Pro, teachers can request one or more dates off and administrators can review the classes affected by each date.

Yes. Pro supports substitute assignment for individual class occurrences with schedule and time-off conflict checks.

Pro includes advanced email functionality such as templates, signatures, campaigns, scheduling, analytics, and automation.

Birthday email is part of Encore Pro's automated email tools.

Yes. Dashboard customization is a Pro feature.

Drawing Board is Encore's premium visual choreography and formation-planning workspace. It is designed to help studios plan dancers, formations, stage pictures, and performance movement inside the same system used to manage the studio.

No. Drawing Board is a separate premium add-on so studios can choose it independently of their main Encore tier.

Drawing Board is $39 per month as a flat studio add-on.

Yes. Drawing Board can be added to either Essentials or Pro.

No. The current pricing is one flat $39 monthly add-on for the studio rather than a per-teacher or per-dance fee.

Yes. Removal takes effect at the next billing cycle, so you retain access through the current paid period.

Encore Payments is being built to support family payments directly through the platform. Final payment-processing rollout and rates will be published separately.

Card and ACH support are part of the planned Encore Payments architecture. Final processing pricing is still being modeled.

Yes. Every pricing band has a Software Only option.

Encore has a recurring tuition billing foundation tied to class enrollment and studio billing policies. Payment processing through Encore Payments is a separate rollout.

Encore's billing foundation supports recording family-account payments and credits in addition to future online processing.