Music Teacher's Helper Blog

This month, we’re pleased to announce our new mobile app for Music Teacher’s Helper! We’ve completely redesigned the app with a simpler look & feel that matches our website better. We’ve also made it easier to navigate and have added several new features to help you manage your studio on the road.

This app is a precursor to the native iPhone app we’re also working on, and which will follow a similar format.

With the mobile app, you can view your student information, lesson information, mileage history, transaction log, invoices, payments, and income & expense report. You can also reconcile lessons, add payments and log mileage in the mileage tracker.

We hope you enjoy these new changes. Please let us know what you think, as we certainly plan to continue improving it and we welcome your feedback.

To access the mobile app, visit:

http://www.musicteachershelper.com/mobile

Do you have a passion for music, teaching, or writing? Do you have experience and insight you’d like to share with other music teachers across the world? Do you want to make yourself known in the music teaching community? Or would you like to be the catalyst for interesting musical, educational, technological, or business discussion?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then send me an email! I are looking for one or two new bloggers to write articles or posts that will be of interest to music teachers. Our goal is to provide an even more valuable resource and community for music teachers here on our blog. Also, let me know if own and operate a music studio and if you are currently a subscriber of Music Teacher’s Helper or Studio Helper (not a requirement, just interested).

The requirement to be on the MTH blogging team is Read more…

At Music Teacher’s Helper, we’re always working hard to bring you new improvements and make our program even better, based on the feedback we receive from our customers.

This month, we began working on two larger features, which should be done shortly, including foreign language versions of our site, and major improvements to our mobile version that will correspond with the native iPhone app we’re also working on. We’ll keep you posted via Facebook, Twitter, and our blog and newsletter when these new features are ready.

In the mean time, here is a list of the updates we’ve released in the last month.

Latest New Features

• Clicking the name of your studio after you login now opens up your studio website.
• Added Chinese Yuan, Turkish Lira, and Swedish Krona to the currency list.

Latest Bug Fixes

• Calendar event popup descriptions are no longer truncated to 40 characters. Only the event titles are.
• Lending Library was not showing the proper item names when student logged in. This is now fixed. Read more…

Here is a list of the latest updates to Music Teacher’s Helper. Thank you for using Music Teacher’s Helper, and for your great feedback.

• Knowledge base article suggestions were causing typing on the Contact us page to be slow. This is now fixed.
• Changing lesson information on the mobile app was resetting the time to midnight. This is now fixed.
• Some affiliates were getting overpaid because we were including “failed” payments. Keep the change. Affiliate reports also fixed.
• Some teachers were seeing errors when entering practice logs. This is now fixed.
• Student’s Owing Report now sorts the amount column properly when you click it.
• When viewing the transaction log for a student, the icon to Return to Transaction Log is now pointing the right way.
• When adding students, some of the miscellaneous information was in the Lesson Schedule section. Now we’ve moved it to be more clear.
• When editing a practice log Read more…

Music Teacher’s Helper continues to improve based on feedback from our users. We’ve added some great new features this month as well as fixed a few small bugs.

If you have feedback, feel free to send it to our Support Team, or share your thoughts on our public Music Teacher Forum.

New Features

• You can edit now photo captions of exiting photos, and change the sort order.

Latest Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug some were with experiencing with calculating available file area space.
• Fixed a bug with the automatic invoicing system that caused some invoices not to generate.

As we recently announced, Music Teacher’s Helper’s pricing plans will be changing on October 1st, 2010. That’s just over a week away! If you’re currently a Free plan user of Music Teacher’s Helper, now is the perfect time to upgrade to a paying account, since it will lock in today’s rates forever. If you’re currently a paying subscriber, you may also want to consider upgrading to the Platinum plan, which offers Unlimited students for only $24.95/month. This way, even after the prices change, you’ll still be at today’s low rates.

To upgrade your account, login to Music Teacher’s Helper, and go to the “My Account” page in the upper-right hand corner. Simply choose the plan you want, your preferred payment method (credit card or Paypal) and enter the details.

We’ve got a lot of great improvements in the works for the months ahead, so stay tuned through our Blog, Facebook, or Twitter account.