Finance software for music educators
Log your incoming piano and guitar tuition, record outgoing maintenance costs like string replacements or tuning, and manage semester packages without complex accounting sheets.
Create your workspaceTeaching back-to-back lessons across various instruments fills your schedule, but overhead from instrument upkeep, score printing, and room hire eats into those gains. If you aren't logging overhead against incoming fees, your true margin remains obscured.
Receiving a large lump sum for a full term makes that month look incredibly profitable while subsequent months look barren. Depleting lesson credits individually as they happen ensures your cash records reflect reality.
Keeping track of appointments in one calendar, noting music book purchases on scrap paper, and verifying bank transfers in another app creates an unmanageable administrative burden.
Whether you just finished a guitar session or need to log sheet music costs, the entry takes only seconds. Recording transactions at the point of service gives you an accurate financial picture without any spreadsheets.
Marking a lesson as attended verifies the teaching happened. Payment is tracked as a distinct event, meaning uncollected tuition is never mistaken for settled cash.
When a payment is recorded, it attaches to the specific student and lesson, keeping financial history tied to the instruction provided.
Drawing down a credit from a Term Lesson Block settles the visit without cash movement. Delivered instruction and payment records remain separate.
Display lesson revenue, recorded costs, and calculated profit across a day, week, month, quarter, or year, broken down by student or lesson category.
| In your studio | In Perelai | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Piano Lesson, Guitar Lesson | Services on a Visit | The music teacher template includes two starter lesson options for instrumental repertoire, ear training, and scale practice. Each scheduled lesson becomes a Visit carrying the student, lesson type and payment record together. |
| Sheet Music | Add-on on a Visit | Sheet Music books or printed scores register as add-on items attached to a student visit record. |
| Instrument Maintenance | Recorded Expense | Record tuning, restringing and other teaching expenses as period costs. They contribute to the calculated profit shown for the selected period. |
| Term Lesson Block | Prepaid Package | Prepaid lesson packages sit as credit balances, redeemed lesson by lesson without distorting period revenue. |
The music teacher template opens with two editable lesson types, one add-on and one expense category, so your first screen already resembles a working studio.
Choose instrumental lesson durations and tuition rates from the seeded music teacher template.
Schedule recurring lessons, complete visits and add Sheet Music when it forms part of the lesson record.
Filter your records by week or academic term to compare lesson income against maintenance costs. The resulting profit margin is clearly displayed, keeping unpaid invoices isolated.
Perelai runs in your browser. Installing it is optional. How you open Perelai
Perelai records completed lessons, teaching expenses and calculated profit for a chosen period. It does not act as your full studio back office.
It displays period revenue, logged expenses and calculated profit. Bookkeeping, tax preparation and financial advice belong to your accountant.
You can track services, add-on items and package redemptions. Sheet music notation, composition and audio recording are not part of it.
You own your booking link. Perelai does not take marketplace fees or interpose on student relationships.
Prepaid term packages act as student credits. When a student attends their scheduled time, a credit is deducted, aligning attendance perfectly with revenue.
Absolutely. Log expenses like piano tuning, restringing, score purchasing, or studio leasing. These deduct directly from incoming tuition to yield your net profit.
The system separates the completion of a teaching session from its payment. Any unpaid sessions clearly show up as outstanding balances.
Yes. The seeded services (like Piano Lesson) and Add-ons (like Sheet Music) are fully adaptable to your specific teaching model.
Start with a music studio lesson list to manage completed instruction, recorded payments, package redemptions and open order balances as readable records.
You'll get a verification email to finish setting up.
