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, but it doesn’t have to be. Contacts are the people connected to a student. They can range from family, emergency contacts, or even school staff. See Accounts and students.Your calendar
The calendar is your workspace where your schedule and lessons live. Everything you do sits on the calendar as an event. An event can be a lesson (which you teach, mark attendance for, and can bill) or any other entry, like a gig, a rehearsal, or a personal block. 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 or a student’s availability, so you can see them at a glance. See Annotations.Your financial ledger
Harness tracks your transactions like payments and expenses in one unified history.- 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.
- An expense helps you keep track of what you’ve spent for your studio.
You never compute a balance yourself. Harness derives every total from the
charges and payments on record.