Hello everyone,
This week we’ve have made a number of smaller fixes, improvements, and enhancements to My Music Staff.
Here’s a list of the changes we made:
- The home page agenda now displays the Event/Lesson location if one is provided.
- We’ve updated the way event conflict detection works so that it’s a little smarter with absent students (and teachers for events with all students absent). This should reduce the number of false conflict warnings.
- We’ve added an option to the “Studio Settings” page that allows you to completely disable the calendar conflict detection. For multi-teacher studios, this is a studio-wide setting (on or off for everyone) so that individual teachers can’t disable it and accidentally create conflicts in your beautifully organized studio.
- We’ve changed the language used on the family account pages. The phrase “Add Credit” has been replaced with “Add Discount” so that it doesn’t get confused with make-up credits.
- On the family account pages the column names have changed to “Payments & Refunds” and “Charges & Discounts” for better clarity. Refunds are shown as negative payments and discounts are shown as negative charges. We’ve also added tool-tips for each item so that you can hover over the family line items to see what’s what.
- If you’re using a custom domain name with My Music Staff, we’ve made some changes so that the “www” hostname prefix can be omitted. If you want to take advantage of this feature you’ll need to setup your DNS settings to alias both “www.yoursite.com” and “yoursite.com” to our servers.
- We changed the way make-up credits are issued for make-up lessons. If a student is on a fixed monthly billing plan (or is not using automatic charges at all), My Music Staff won’t issue a second make-up credit if the original make-up lesson is cancelled.
- We’ve added a new option to the attendance screen so that when you mark a student as absent in advance, that lesson time can be converted to a make-up lesson slot. This option is only visible if your studio allows event sign-ups through the student portal and the deadline to join an event has not passed.
- We fixed a handful of other minor looks and feel issues throughout the site.
We hope you enjoy all the bits and bytes! Have a great week.
– The My Music Staff Team
Hi!
I’m new to My Music Staff but am really happy with my experience so far. 🙂
Is there any way for the email templates to support html? I’m trying to use “a href” tags for some of my longer links, but the system keeps freezing every time I try to preview or save the template. It doesn’t freeze when I have emails that don’t contain html. Please advise. Thank you!
Thanks!
Hi,
Thanks for all the continuous improvements.
Three suggestions for you for future development:
1. A text box for ‘Next lesson Subjects’ – i.e. forward planning. I normally plan lessons for the week ahead so this would be very useful. This could maybe be added to the diary entry and would then appear on the agenda on the Home page.
2. The ability to click on the student in the calender and jump to the student’s own details page directly would be useful.
3. On the ‘Student’ sheet, I believe it would be better to order the students in terms of Christian Name / Surname – the Family name is ok as it is. It would just make it quicker to find the student on the list as it is harder to recall their surname sometimes lol!
Thanks again.
Mike
Hi Mike, thanks for these suggestions. If you’d like to make notes for upcoming lessons, you can by setting attendance notes for events that haven’t occurred yet. You can do this either from the calendar, or from the student’s “Attendance & Notes” tab. You can add notes to any lesson/event without changing the attendance status from “Unrecorded”.
I’ve added your other comments to our suggestion list.
Hello Ruth,
Thanks so much for the kind words. The HTML issue should be resolved. Please let us know if you experience anymore problems with it.
Thanks.
I love seeing these regular updates. I had previously been using a service that hardly ever added features let alone fixed bugs, even when I reported security issues. Absolutely awesome service you run. You seem to be really on top of things. Been a happy customer for many months now.
I’m new here and am trying to set up my website, but really don’t like the one and only look available. Are the “template” options supposed to change it to look differently?
Hello Jared,
Thanks so much for the kind words. We do our best to make My Music Staff the best it can be.
Thanks again!
Keith
Hello Krysten,
The available “template” options will not affect the overall layout of the website but will affect colours and fonts. You can further customize the look of your website by choosing one of our stock background images or uploading your own. You can also upload a custom logo. If you need any assistance along the way feel free to email us at support@mymusicstaff.com
Thanks!