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Posted in Press, Site Announcements
Every week we post new features and fixes on our Facebook and Twitter page. We also post features and fixes weekly on our blog, as we are aware that many of you do not use social media accounts. You can also read current blog posts and new weekly updates at the bottom of your MTH home page after you log-in.
Here are the Latest Updates made in March 2013:
New Features:
- Free plan websites now show advertisements.
- Fixed several issues with the iPhone app (details can be seen on the app itself in iTunes).
- When exporting data to Excel, the date format can now be sorted in Mileage Tracker.
New Fixes:
- The iPhone app will now show the event status.
- Choosing students with the iPhone app was duplicating students. This has been fixed.
- The Japanese version is now showing the correct currency format.
- Cheque showing as default in U.S. instead of just the U.K. This as been fixed.
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Posted in New Features and Fixes, Site Announcements, Using Music Teacher's Helper
Music Teacher’s Helper has begun posting paid advertisements on the homepage of subscribers with the Free Plan. The cost of services spent by Music Teacher’s Helper (including programming and customer support) remain constant, whether the subscribers are on the Free or Payment Plan.
In order for us to continue providing services and customer support (e-mail, chat and phone support) to all of our valuable customers, we have implemented advertisements on the homepage of subscribers with the free plan. Subscribers on a monthly payment plan, such as the Basic, Plus, or Premium Plan, will have an “Ad Free” website and access to the many new Prime Themes.
The Basic Plan is only $14.00 a month, which is an excellent price for having your own website with Music Teacher’s Helper. The Basic Plan includes all of the popular features, customer support, up to 20 active students, and 47 new Prime Themes.
To upgrade your Free Plan to the Basic, Plus, or Premium Plan, click on “My Account” located at the top right corner of your studio website. You will be able to select a plan and payment option.
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Posted in Site Announcements
Every week we post new features and fixes on our Facebook and Twitter page. We also post features and fixes weekly on our blog, as we are aware that many of you do not use social media accounts. You can also read current blog posts and new weekly updates at the bottom of your MTH home page after you log-in.
Here are the Latest Updates made in February 2013:
New Features:
- Studio Policy: A new adult student or parent, when registering for lessons on your website, can be required to acknowledge and agree to your studio policy before completing the registration.
- The New Updated iPhone App is released and can be downloaded on iTunes. You must first uninstall the existing app before installing the new iPhone App.
- Music Teacher’s Helper is now available in Polish.
- Three new affiliate banner ads have been added.
- The page order can now be viewed on the edit pages screen.
- You can now edit the mileage tracker entries.
- Captions are now displayed on photos.
New Fixes:
- When reconciling an event with the iPhone App, the event fee will now use the default lesson cost if the fee is left blank.
- The iPhone App will now save lesson notes.
- The help section and video tutorials were not showing. This has been fixed.
- The iPhone App was not loading all payment categories. This has been fixed.
- Currency symbols were not customizing in the “Paid During Lesson” section of the event reconcile screen. This has been fixed.
- There was an incorrect date in the registration page for some users. This has been fixed.
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Posted in New Features and Fixes, Site Announcements, Using Music Teacher's Helper
We are announcing a new feature, “Studio Policy“. Once you create your Studio Policy under Website Pages, a new adult student or parent, when registering for lessons on your website, will need to acknowledge and agree to your studio policy before completing the registration. If they do not check the box to agree with your policy, the registration will fail.
Below are instructions for activating and using the new feature:
- Go to the Website tab in your teacher account and select Website Pages.
- Edit the Registration page.
- Scroll down to the section Parent Information.
- The last option under Parent Information is Studio Policy, where you can click to enable the feature.
- Click Save at bottom of the page.
- You will now have a link on your homepage for your studio policy, and a new page is also created in your list of Website Pages entitled Studio Policy.
- By default, the Studio Policy page is blank. This is where you can create your Studio Policy page.
- If the Registration page is active, and the studio policy enabled, the new student/parent will see a check box on the Registration Page. They can acknowledge that, by registering, they agree to your Studio Policy. Otherwise, the registration will fail.
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Posted in New Features and Fixes, Site Announcements, Studio Management
Below are the New Features and Fixes this week:
- If a user registers for an open event that is for just one eligible person, the title of the event will now be changed to that person’s name.
- Improved formatting of lesson notes.
- Dragging and dropping calendar event issues have been fixed.
- Users were getting a “contact support” message on viewed or printed invoices. This has been fixed.
If you have an idea for improving Music Teacher’s Helper, Use our feedback site:
http://mth.uservoice.com/forums/116093-submit-your-ideas-here
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Posted in Customer Support, Site Announcements, Using Music Teacher's Helper
Happy New Year! We hope your studio is off to a great new start for 2013! Now is the perfect time to review how you’re doing in your business, and your goals for the coming year. If you use Music Teacher’s Helper to manage your studio, you know how helpful it is to have your teaching business organized all in one place. If you’ve been with us for over a year, you also have the benefit of a full year’s worth of financial data, making it easy to run an income/expense report to help with taxes.
We are excited about the new venue of topics in our newsletter, and the features we released in December 2012. Exclusive content this month includes Frequently Asked Questions, Past Blog Articles of Interest, and a little Music Teacher Humor.
Survey: Resources Used to Learn Music Teacher’s Helper
We also ask that you take a few minutes and take our new survey on the resources you found most helpful in learning how to use Music Teacher’s Helper, and how you would prefer to learn about the many features of Music Teacher’s Helper in the future.
Click here to take our survey.
Here are the latest Features and Fixes made in December, 2012:
- New Prime Website Themes for paying customers.
- A Rating/Score entry to show up in the student profile when the student goes to Repertoire Tracker and clicks the “View” link located next to the piece.
- An Improved Mileage Tracker which allows the user to select if a trip was “personal” or “business” miles.
- Teachers can now set the Parent of the Students as default on the registration form.
- Student management was added in the mobile web app, creating functions for adding, editing and deleting students.
- Students can no longer register for an event in which they’re already registered.
- When reconciling an event by the iphone, the default lesson cost is assigned if the event fee is left blank.
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Posted in New Features and Fixes, Site Announcements, Using Music Teacher's Helper
Having a professional looking website helps students feel more confident that you take your teaching business seriously. Your website is often a student’s first introduction to you as a teacher.
Today we added 41 new studio website themes to Music Teacher’s Helper. These themes are available on all paying plans. To see the new themes, or change your current theme, click Website -> Theme/Layout, then click the “Prime Themes” tab.
Here is a sample of three of them.
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Posted in New Features and Fixes, Press, Site Announcements, Using Music Teacher's Helper
As we enter the Holiday Season, students are preparing for winter break, studio recitals, and parties. We hope to release dozens of new studio website themes within the next few weeks, as we are currently testing each template thoroughly making them available to our members.
Every week we post new features and fixes on our Facebook and Twitter page. Last month we will also begin posting the features and fixes weekly on our blog, as we are aware that many of you do not use social media accounts. You can also read current blog posts as well as the new weekly updates at the bottom of your MTH home page after you log-in.
Here are the Latest Updates made in November 2012:
New Fixes:
- The Mobile Web App would not reconcile all day events. This has been fixed.
- Inaccurate Automatic Invoicing sidebar widget calculation has been fixed.
- Automatic invoicing was not sending out invoices. This has been fixed.
- The PDF version of invoices will now shows the symbol for the chosen currency.
- Under “Manage Students”, the Advance Search field is now working.
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Posted in Customer Support, New Features and Fixes, Site Announcements
As we enter November, we are reminded that the holidays are quickly approaching. We’re also getting closer to releasing dozens of new studio website themes, and hope to have them available by the end of this month.
Every week we post new features and fixes on our Facebook and Twitter page. This month we will also begin posting the features and fixes weekly on our blog, as we are aware that many of you do not use social media accounts. You can also read current blog posts as well as the new weekly updates at the bottom of your MTH home page after you login.
Here are the Latest Features and Updates made in October 2012:
New Features
- Lessons are now stored in email history when sent from a reconciled lesson.
- Hawaii time zone has been added.
- You are now able to export data to excel from the transaction log.
- You can now add a date an item when lent from lending library.
- The Student Information Sheet can now be printed.
- Polish zloty as currency type has been added.
Fixes:
- Piano template quote was too big. This has been fixed.
- Australian time zones are now more clear.
- Former students were showing up in calendar filter list. This is now fixed.
- Parent email address were copying to the child student email address. This has been fixed.
- Apostrophes were not displaying properly in Event Titles. This is fixed.
- IE users were unable to click on any existing events to either view or edit. This has been fixed.
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Posted in Customer Support, Site Announcements, Using Music Teacher's Helper
