It’s an exciting time at Music Teacher’s Helper. We hope your year is off to a good start and that your studio is running well.
We’re working hard right now to bring you some awesome improvements to Music Teacher’s Helper, including a brand new graphics design, and several features that we know you’ll love. The new design will look more more up to date than our current site, and will also make the program easier to use, especially for those just starting out.
We’re also giving you a brand new calendar, with a week and day view that actually show the duration of tevents visually (like Google calendar or Outlook), along with the ability to e-mail all students on a given day. These improvements and much more aren’t quite ready yet, but we’re getting closer and will keep you posted to let you know when they’re done.
Here are the recent changes, mostly minor bug fixes, that we have already launched (not related to the new design):
- Feature: Added better validation to the Student Registration page (on your studio website), and username availability checking.
- Feature: File Area is now sortable, on the page where you upload the files.
- Feature: Families Owing Report now sorted by last name.
- BugFix: Student List Excel Export was missing a column.
- BugFix: Currency symbols showing properly on PDF invoices.
- BugFix: Invoices were sometimes pulling the monthly lesson rate as the per lesson rate, for teachers charging monthly.
- BugFix: The issue some teachers were experiencing with creating pdf invoices is now fixed.
- BugFix: Student Registration Forms now checks for available usernames properly (once again).
About the Author
Brandon Pearce is a piano teacher, choral director, computer programmer, and entrepreneur from Murray, Utah, and is also the creator of Music Teacher's Helper.
As his teaching studio grew, he found it increasingly difficult to keep track of how much each student owed. Having recently received a B.S. in Computer Science from Weber State University, he decided to write a web-based computer program to manage billing and scheduling in his studio. Realizing that he wasn't alone in his studio management frustrations, he soon made the service available to other teachers. And they loved it! Since 2003, several additional programmers, and thousands of teachers from around the world have participated in creating the world-class studio management software you know today as Music Teacher's Helper.
Brandon currently spends his time managing and improving Music Teacher's Helper, traveling with his family, and writing hymn arrangements for piano. He is also the assistant director of the Oratorio Society of Utah, a 90+ year old choral organization that performs Handle's Messiah each year, as well as other choral masterworks.
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