--- title: YourVirtuoso Blog | Payments description: Payments | Helpful Information about the management of music and dance studios/schools, including systems for online enrollment; websites; customer accounts; reporting; email blasts... --- ![Yourvirtuoso studio and school management marketing and administration](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/hs-fs/hubfs/yv_2line_logo_rgb_HiRes-806534-edited.png?width=300&name=yv_2line_logo_rgb_HiRes-806534-edited.png "Yourvirtuoso studio and school management marketing and administration") - [Home](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com) - [About](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/studio-administration-services) - Features - [Music Features](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/music-studio-administration-features) - [Dance Features](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/dance-school-features) - [Online Registration](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/online-class-registration) - [Pricing](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/free-music-dance-studio-management) - Blogs - [YV Blogs](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog) - [Miss Julia's Musings](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/blogs/julia) ## YourVirtuoso Blog With a decade of experience running and supporting children's enrichment activities, we aim to provide some valuable insights here for you. ## [Surviving COVID-19 the CARES Act and your Music Studio](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/covid-19-cares-and-your-music-studio) by [Gerry Cobley](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/author/gerry-cobley) on Apr 2, 2020 4:29:20 PM ## My Short Term Survival Update The last week has been a little stressful with respect to the music school I help manage. I suspect yours has been too? [Read More](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/covid-19-cares-and-your-music-studio) [![](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/hubfs/20_0305_opa_coronavirus-micro.jpg)](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/covid-19-cares-and-your-music-studio) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ![](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/213882/images/HubSpot_Templates/Arrival/shadow-separator-3.png) ## [COVID-19 and your Music Studio](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/covid-19-and-your-music-studio) by [Gerry Cobley](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/author/gerry-cobley) on Mar 28, 2020 6:44:14 PM ## Surviving COVID-19 ...and maybe thriving Here is the content of a recent email to our YourVirtuoso customers covering my recommendations for dealing with your current business challenges based on my experiences helping your fellow music studio owners with YourVirtuoso questions, and being on the management team that transformed the studio my wife founded 30 years ago into an online music school - all in a matter of days. Please comment and keep the discussion going so we can all continue to learn from each other... [Read More](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/covid-19-and-your-music-studio) [![](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/hubfs/20_0305_opa_coronavirus-micro.jpg)](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/covid-19-and-your-music-studio) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ![](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/213882/images/HubSpot_Templates/Arrival/shadow-separator-3.png) ## [How To Manage a Music Studio](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/bid/102443/how-to-manage-a-music-studio) by [Gerry Cobley](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/author/gerry-cobley) on Nov 15, 2013 5:28:00 PM Thinking through all the actions, and potential pitfalls, involved in running your own music school or studio can be daunting - especially for a teacher new to running a business. [Read More](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/bid/102443/how-to-manage-a-music-studio) [![](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/hs-fs/file-384334535-jpg/images/b0306246-resized-600.jpg)](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/bid/102443/how-to-manage-a-music-studio) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ![](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/213882/images/HubSpot_Templates/Arrival/shadow-separator-3.png) ## [Subscription Business Model for Music Studio Management](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/bid/82987/subscription-business-model-for-music-studio-management) by [Gerry Cobley](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/author/gerry-cobley) on Mar 13, 2012 12:48:00 PM While individual lessons have generally been paid on amonthly basis, because group classes have set schedules and durations, the most common form of payment has been "Up Front", or a deposit and balance at first class. [Read More](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/bid/82987/subscription-business-model-for-music-studio-management) [![](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/hs-fs/file-14156203-jpg/images/bcard23.jpg)](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/bid/82987/subscription-business-model-for-music-studio-management) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ![](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/213882/images/HubSpot_Templates/Arrival/shadow-separator-3.png) ## [Quickbooks Accounting and Dance Studio Management](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/bid/66490/Quickbooks-Accounting-and-Dance-Studio-Management) by [Gerry Cobley](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/author/gerry-cobley) on Jul 13, 2011 9:59:00 AM After outgrowing and "graduating" from the spreadsheet management technique, I used Quickbooks for several sessions as my only management system for managing class enrollment in an enrichment studio. You can do a lot by defining families as customers, students as jobs and setting up memorized invoices for each class. However, very soon the limitations of using an accounting system as a registration database drove me to a more modern database approach. Modern dance studio management systems for tracking family/student enrollments are the natural, and the best, place to keep on top of customer fees and payments. [Read More](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/bid/66490/Quickbooks-Accounting-and-Dance-Studio-Management) [![](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/hs-fs/file-14156369-jpg/images/nomorepaperwork.jpg)](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/bid/66490/Quickbooks-Accounting-and-Dance-Studio-Management) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ![](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/213882/images/HubSpot_Templates/Arrival/shadow-separator-3.png) ## [Music Studio Management - Keeping Quickbooks Up to Date](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/bid/65839/music-studio-management-keeping-quickbooks-up-to-date) by [Gerry Cobley](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/author/gerry-cobley) on Jul 8, 2011 12:50:00 PM Modern [music studio management](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/our-blog/bid/102443/how-to-manage-a-music-studio) systems for tracking family/student enrollments are the natural, and best, place to keep on top of their fees and payments. This raises the question of how to use them in combination with the rest of your financial accounting systems and processes. Our approach, using [YourVirtuoso](https://www.yourvirtuoso.com/Studio-Administration-Features/) and Quickbooks as an example, is described below. 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