Your studio and its people
Your studio is your whole workspace: your calendar, your students, and your books. You run one. A student is someone you teach. A billing account is who pays for them. Often that’s the same person; for families it isn’t: the Reyes kids each have a student profile, but one account, so the family gets one invoice a month. Contacts are the people attached to a student: some receive lesson emails, and an account’s contacts receive its invoices. See Accounts and students.Your calendar
Everything you do sits on the calendar as an event. An event is either a lesson (which you teach, mark attendance for, and can bill) or any other entry, like a gig, a rehearsal, or a personal block. A recurring event repeats on a schedule, so a weekly lesson is one event, not fifty. See Navigate your calendar.Letting people book you
Scheduling links are shareable pages where students or families book time from your open availability; a reschedule link lets someone move an existing lesson. See Scheduling links. Annotations mark patterns on your calendar, like your teaching hours, so you can see them at a glance. They’re visual only: nothing is blocked or booked through them. See Annotations.Getting paid
Money flows one direction:- A charge (what’s owed) comes from a lesson’s attendance, from a recurring charge like monthly tuition, or from a paid event like a gig.
- An invoice collects charges into a bill sent to the account. Each account bills on its own cycle, and Harness can draft or even send the invoice itself.
- A payment settles it. A credit (goodwill on an account) lowers a future bill, and a refund returns money.
- An account’s balance is what it owes, or holds in credit.
You never compute a balance yourself. Harness derives every total from the
charges and payments on record.