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Every class, every family,
one term at a time.

Plenty of families enrol two or three children on one account. Moving a Tuesday class lands on forty households at once. The costume levy falls due in the same week as the fee. Nixie is studio management built around the way a dance school actually runs its term.

See the studio
Nixie open on the weekly timetable. The application's own navigation runs across the top: Timetable, Building, Rooms, Staff, Roles, Payments, Reminders, Messages, Requests, Reports and Accounting. The week runs Monday to Saturday with today marked, and every class block names the class, the start time, the places filled, the studio and the teacher.

This is the screen you land on. Every block carries its time, its places filled, its studio and its teacher.

Five screens run a dance school.

The money, the requests, the rooms, the building and the week itself. Pick one to bring it forward, then read it flat underneath.

Payments in Nixie. Every term fee runs by direct debit at no fee to the family, with the studio's own discount rules applied as the invoices are raised.

Payments

Every term fee runs by direct debit at no fee to the family, with the studio's own discount rules applied as the invoices are raised. The studio sets the rules once and then looks only at the exceptions.

The money, the floor space and the quiet room,
in one place.

A term's fees, the rooms that earn them and the one studio sitting pale all week are the same question asked three ways. Nixie keeps them next to each other, so the answer sits in one scroll.

Payments

Direct debit costs the family nothing, and the studio's own sibling, loyalty and early payment rules are applied as the invoices are raised. The rules are set once; after that only the exceptions need a person.

The payments screen in Nixie. A banner shows the amount saved this year by steering families to direct debit. Three cards compare direct debit at no fee to the family, one-off card with a disclosed surcharge, and BPAY. Beside them the studio's discount and fee rules are listed with their percentages, and below is the outstanding list by family.

Floor space

Every studio drawn on its own floor and shaded by how hard it works, measured in hours booked, seats filled or revenue earned. Support spaces stay hatched and sit outside every figure.

The rooms screen in Nixie. Each floor lists its studios with the hours booked that week, shaded from pale to deep, with support spaces hatched. A panel beside them ranks the hardest working studios and names the quietest teaching space with the hours it takes and what filling it would be worth.

The building

The whole building drawn open over its floors, so you look down into every space in the place you would walk past it. A quiet room stops being a number in a report and becomes a pale room you can point at.

The building screen in Nixie, drawn as two open floor plans seen from above. Each teaching studio carries its name and how full it is, shaded pale when quiet and deep when working hard, with support spaces hatched. A panel beside the plan names the class on now, the class next, and lists the week's classes with their teachers and places filled.

Watch a week run through the building.

Rooms warm as classes fill them and fade when they empty. The pale one is the one to ask about.

This week
The building through one week Two storeys drawn as open floor plans with low walls, so every room is visible from above. As the playhead moves from Monday afternoon to Saturday, each teaching studio is shaded by how full it is at that moment: pale when empty, green as it fills, rose when it is working hard. Support spaces such as the foyer, office and change rooms are hatched and sit outside the count.

    Empty Quiet Ticking over Working hard At capacity Not a teaching space

    One account per family,
    and every invoice is their own.

    Sarah Whitfield signs in once and finds both her dancers, Ava and Mia, in one place: the class name, the day and time, the teacher and the room. Behind that sits her statement, and every invoice on it belongs to her account. Nothing from any other family appears there, and there is no class roll.

    The account statements panel from the same family view, headed every invoice on your account. Each row carries its invoice number, the date it was issued, whether it is awaiting payment, paid or sent, when it falls due and the amount. A note explains that the customer reference number is the same on every invoice and never changes.
    Nixie's family view, headed Hello Sarah, with a note that the page shows only this family's own dancers. Below it the coming week lists the next classes for Ava, aged nine, and Mia, aged six, each with its day, time, studio and teacher.
    • One account per family, however many dancers are enrolled.
    • Every invoice on that account is the family's own, with its status and the date it falls due.
    • The privacy holds on every account, with no setting that can relax it.

    Someone at the studio decides.

    A private lesson is two diaries and can genuinely move. A group class runs at one time for everybody in it, so what a family is really asking for is a transfer, and that depends on space. Either way a person at the studio decides. Approving it tells the family and the teacher whose class moved, in the same action.

    1. Sarah Whitfield parent of Ava and Mia

      Asks to move Ava's private lesson from Tuesday 7:00pm to Thursday 5:30pm.

    2. Elena Castellan studio manager

      Picks it up in the queue, with the room and the teacher already checked.

    3. Reschedule requestPending
      Class
      Private lesson: exam prep, with Marguerite Hale
      Proposed
      Thursday 5:30pm, Studio 4
      Conflicts
      The room and the teacher are both free.
      Approve and notify Reject
    4. From the studio
      To: Sarah Whitfield the parent who asked

      Ava's private lesson now runs Thursday 5:30pm in Studio 4, with Marguerite Hale.

      From the studio
      To: Marguerite Hale the teacher whose class moved

      Your Tuesday 7:00pm private lesson with Ava moves to Thursday 5:30pm, Studio 4.

    Where the records live.

    Stated plainly, so you can check every line of it.

    Stored in Sydney, encrypted at rest.Family records, enrolments and attendance sit in an Australian data centre and are encrypted where they sit.

    Bank and card numbers stay with the payment provider.Nixie holds only a token that can charge the account, and that token reveals nothing about it.

    Traffic is inspected before it arrives.Every request passes through a security network that checks it at the data centre nearest the visitor. For people in Australia that is normally an Australian one, which follows from how the network routes.

    Sign-in runs on identity you already have.Sign in with Google, with Microsoft, or with a link emailed to the address the studio already holds. Passwords stay out of it entirely.

    Nine dollars a student, and a ceiling.

    $9 per enrolled student, per month, capped at $1,400

    Australian dollars, GST inclusive. The ceiling starts to bind at 156 students, so the larger the school the less it pays a head. Email is included. SMS is a paid add-on. Payment processing is billed to you directly by the payment provider, and that money stays with them.

    $1,260 a month

    140 × $9 = $1,260, under the ceiling.

    The whole term, in one system.

    The week, the rooms, the teachers and the families sit together, priced on the students you actually enrol.

    Work out the price