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Run the dance school,
not the spreadsheet.

Plenty of families enrol two or three children on one account. Moving a Tuesday class lands on forty households at once. The costume levy falls due in the same week as the fee. Nixie is studio management written to those facts, not adapted from a gym booking tool.

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Nixie open on the weekly timetable, with the Nixie wordmark and the studio's navigation across the top. The week runs Monday to Saturday with today marked, and every class block names the class, the start time, the places filled, the studio and the teacher.

This is the screen you land on. Every block carries its time, its places filled, its studio and its teacher.

Five screens run a dance school.

The money, the requests, the rooms, the building and the week itself. Pick one to bring it forward, then read it flat underneath.

Payments in Nixie. Every term fee runs by direct debit at no fee to the family, with the studio's own discount rules applied as the invoices are raised.

Payments

Every term fee runs by direct debit at no fee to the family, with the studio's own discount rules applied as the invoices are raised. The studio sets the rules once and then looks only at the exceptions.

A quiet room is a pale room
you can point at.

The building is drawn open over its floors, so you look down into every space in the place you would walk past it. Watch a week run through it: rooms warm as classes fill them and fade when they empty. A hole in the timetable stops being a number in a report.

Teaching studios
Eight, over two floors
Support spaces
Hatched, never counted
Shading
Pale is empty, deep is full
This week
The building through one week Two storeys drawn as open floor plans with low walls, so every room is visible from above. As the playhead moves from Monday afternoon to Saturday, each teaching studio is shaded by how full it is at that moment: pale when empty, green as it fills, rose when it is working hard. Support spaces such as the foyer, office and change rooms are hatched and are never counted.

    Empty Quiet Ticking over Working hard At capacity Not a teaching space

    One account, every invoice, only their own children.

    Sarah Whitfield signs in once and finds both her dancers, Ava and Mia, in one place: the class name, the day and time, the teacher and the room. Beside them sit her own invoices, each marked sent, awaiting payment, paid or overdue, with the amount and the date it falls due.

    Nothing belonging to any other family appears there. No other family's children, contact details, attendance, invoices or fees, and no class roll.

    • One account per family, however many dancers are enrolled.
    • The privacy is built in, not a setting the studio can switch off.
    Nixie's family view on a phone, headed Hello Sarah, with a notice that the page shows only this family's dancers, followed by the next classes for Ava and Mia with their times, studios and teachers.

    A request is not a booking.

    A private lesson is two diaries and can genuinely move. A group class runs at one time for everybody in it, so what a family is really asking for is a transfer, and that depends on space. Either way a person at the studio decides, and the family hears back by email from the studio.

    1. Sarah Whitfield parent of Ava and Mia

      Asks to move Ava's private lesson from Tuesday 7:00pm to Thursday 5:30pm.

    2. Elena Castellan studio manager

      Picks it up in the queue, with the room and the teacher already checked.

    3. Reschedule requestPending
      Class
      Private lesson: exam prep, with Marguerite Hale
      Proposed
      Thursday 5:30pm, Studio 4
      Conflicts
      The room and the teacher are both free.
      Approve and notify 4 people Reject
    4. From the studio
      To: Sarah Whitfield

      Ava's private lesson now runs Thursday 5:30pm in Studio 4, with Marguerite Hale.

    Where the records live.

    Stated plainly, so you can check every line of it.

    Stored in Sydney, encrypted at rest.Family records, enrolments and attendance sit in an Australian data centre and are encrypted where they sit.

    Nixie never holds a bank or card number.Those go to the payment provider directly. Nixie keeps a token that can charge the account and read nothing.

    Traffic is inspected before it arrives.Every request passes through a security network that checks it at the data centre nearest the visitor. For people in Australia that is normally an Australian one, a matter of how the network routes rather than of contract.

    Nobody resets a password.Sign in with Google, with Microsoft, or with a link emailed to the address the studio already has. There is no password to forget, leak or reuse.

    Nine dollars a student, and a ceiling.

    $9 per enrolled student, per month, never more than $1,400

    Australian dollars, GST inclusive. The ceiling starts to bind at 156 students, so the larger the school the less it pays a head. Email is included. SMS is a paid add-on. Payment processing is billed separately by the payment provider and is not Nixie's revenue.

    $1,260 a month

    140 × $9 = $1,260, under the ceiling.

    Open the timetable.

    Sign in and the week is already there, with the rooms, the teachers and the families attached to it.

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