In build — free when it opens
Free. However many students enrol.
Class, enrolment and invoicing software for dance, music, martial arts and kids' activity studios — free for the whole studio. No per-student fees, no tiers to cross, and nothing that can bump your bill in the middle of a semester.
Autumn term · Ballet, ages 6–8
Preview · in build
Tuesdays 17:00 · Studio 2 · 12 of 14 places taken
12
enrolled
11
here today
10/12
term invoices paid
✓ Emma
Present
✓ Nora
Present
– Sofie
Away, sick
✓ Ella
Present
Term invoice, Emma · 2 400 kr
Paid with Vipps
and 8 more on the register · The term view Semesterstart is being built to. Not usable yet.
“Three more students, and the bill went up.”
Nearly every class-management platform prices in tiers measured by your student count. It reads as a flat monthly fee and behaves like a per-student one: cross a threshold and the price steps up — usually in the middle of a term, after your class fees are set and your invoices have gone out.
The 2026 comparisons say it plainly. Entry plans start around $49 a month for a small roster, the cost “climbs meaningfully” as a studio reaches 200, 300, 400+ students, and owners report hitting the next pricing tier unexpectedly mid-term. The thing that makes your studio healthier is the thing that makes your software more expensive.
Free
for the studio — any number of students
No per-student fee
No student-count tiers
No add-on shelf for core features
No price that appears later
What are you paying now?
Two numbers, no email, no account. Yours stays in the browser — we only count that a price check happened.
What you get
The operation a studio actually runs: a term, a timetable, a register and an invoice. This is the build list, in the order it is being built.
Enrolment
A form a parent finishes on a phone, straight into the right class — siblings and waiting lists included.
Timetable and capacity
Terms, classes, rooms and teachers, with the class size you actually allow.
Attendance
A register that works in a hall with no signal and syncs when you are back.
Term invoicing
One run per term, sibling and multi-class handling, receipts the parent can find again.
Vipps and Stripe
Parents pay how they already pay. The money goes to your accounts, not through ours.
Your data, exportable
Students, classes, attendance and balances out in one click, any day, including the day you leave.
The pricing, written down
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How to avoid mid-term price increases with dance and music studio software: one flat semester fee, no per-student billing, no surprise invoices.
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Class management software alternatives to Jackrabbit without per-student fees: Semesterstart charges one flat price per studio, not per sign-up.
Questions studios ask first
How can it be free?
Because serving one more studio costs us almost nothing beyond hosting. A studio with 40 students and a studio with 400 use the same forms, the same calendar and the same invoice run — the cost of serving them differs by a rounding error, and neither is worth putting a price and a billing system in front of.
Is there a paid plan later, or a per-student fee?
No. There is no price and no tier boundary anywhere, which is the entire reason this exists. If we ever have to charge for something extra, it will be a separate thing you choose, not a threshold you cross by growing — and the software you already run will not start costing money.
Can I use it today?
Not yet. Semesterstart is in build. What is on this page is what it is being built to, and the interest list is how you find out the day studios can move in.
What is the catch?
No catch, and no advertising, no selling your families' data and no free tier that runs out. If you want to give something back once it is open you can, and it is entirely optional — that is what the support box on this page is.
What about the payment fees?
Vipps and Stripe charge their own fees on the money your families send you, on your own accounts. That is the one place money moves, and it never moves through us.
Told once, when it opens
Semesterstart is in build. Leave your studio and an address and we will write to you the day it takes its first studios — and, if you tell us what you run on now, that goes into what gets built first.
Want to support Semesterstart?
Everything here is free, and that is completely fine. It costs us nothing beyond being on our server, so it costs you nothing.
Want to chip in anyway? It goes straight to keeping these tools free for everyone. Pick an amount, or write your own.
Other things we made
Also for families keeping the everyday coordinated between them.
Also for families keeping the everyday coordinated between them.
Also for families keeping the everyday coordinated between them.
Also in English, made by the same people.