Hello Everyone,

Here’s what’s new and improved this week:

• You can now set the « Color Mode » used in the « Student Portal » Calendar. For teachers who prefer to color code by location, this can ensure that your students see the same colors in their calendars as you do. This is a studio wide setting, and you can adjust it from your « Studio Settings » page (on the Options tab).
• If you’re using a My Music Staff hosted website, we adjusted the colors on the « Sign-Up » page (if you have one) so the text matches the default color of your theme.
• We changed the format of the Student List Excel/CSV « Download » file. Parent contact info is now on the same line as the student (rather than below in a separate block).
• We added two new placeholders to the standard email template for the « Account Balance », and « Balance Date ». For studios that don’t use invoices, this is a great way to include the amounts that families owe you in emails.
• If you edit a previously scheduled event and set it to « Make-Up Credit Required« , any associated lesson fee is now (temporarily) removed until you take attendance. This makes the behavior consistent with newly scheduled events that have « Make-Up Credit Required » enabled.
• When the « Make a Payment » button is used in the « Student Portal », the amount on the payment page is prefilled with the family’s outstanding account balance.
• We added a new « Student Since » column to the Student List page that includes the number of years and months the student has been with you.
• We updated the « Golden Rod« , « Mia » and « Ocean » website templates so that multi-line menus won’t hide the top text or logo of your page.
• Now when you click a link to a blog category, it opens to the most recent posts for that category.
• Student Profile pictures now leverage browser caching so loading the main student list page should be a bit snappier (if you’re showing profile pictures)
• We updated the layout on the « Studio Settings » page to make things a bit easier to find. We’re still reorganizing this area, but this is a step in the right direction.
• We updated the « Sales Tax » feature so that when taxes are added to lessons retroactively, students who pay a flat monthly rate are included.

We hope you enjoy this week’s updates. Have a great week!

– The My Music Staff Team

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