Figure skating software
for the school that lives on borrowed ice
Group lessons, privates with her own coach, badge days, and test season, all billed to families who may not live in the same house. Cadence keeps a skating school's whole ledger honest.
Last night at your skating school
Badge day marked forty skaters from one grid
Placements for next session updated as the grid closed
A private landed inside the early freestyle session
Coach free, skater admitted, session had room: booked
A mid-session vacancy quoted its own prorated price
Claimed that night at week five's number, not week one's
Sunday at four, the whole rink was a birthday
Skate rentals bundled, one invoice, calendar cleared
Group ice, private ice, test season, one bill
Group tuition is steady, privates are weekly, test season is a spike. One ledger absorbs all three shapes, split across two houses without a spreadsheet.
Group on her card, privates on his
Most systems attach the money to one household account. Cadence attaches it to each child's enrollment instead, so the adults who pay for her can be billed separately. Each parent gets their own invoice for their own share, pays with their own card, and does not need the other one’s login.
- ✓Group tuition splits by the household's percentages
- ✓Privates can bill entirely to one parent, by agreement
- ✓Test fees land where the family said they should
- ✓Each login opens to its own share, full stop
Declines thaw out before the early session
When a payment fails overnight, Cadence tries the backup card on file. If the other parent has agreed to cover a missed payment, their card is next in line. Everyone is told what happened before the doors open.
- ✓A failed charge is logged the minute it fails
- ✓Retries and backup cards run only as consented
- ✓The office reads outcomes, not voicemails
Fall and winter sessions run full; the spring show keeps families through the thaw.
Is the learn-to-skate ladder feeding the ice?
Answered on the screen, not rebuilt in a spreadsheet every quarter.
- ✓This month against the same month last year, so seasonality doesn’t fool you
- ✓Intro skaters who stayed for a second session, as a rate
- ✓“Email me revenue every Monday at 8 a.m.” and it just shows up
- ✓Ask in plain English: “who dropped after their first month this year?”
The month, session by session
From first wobble to freestyle group, six programs on one page.
Demo figures, not a real skating school.
Lists that quote prices, grids that mark classes
Week five's price, quoted by the claim
A family left the Saturday class at week four and the vacancy went to the list that evening carrying its own math: the offer quoted the prorated price for the weeks remaining, the next family claimed at that number from the kitchen, and nobody at the desk touched a calculator.
- ✓Mid-session offers quote their own proration
- ✓Payment and the waiver finish inside the claim
- ✓The desk reads the story instead of writing it
Badge day, one grid, forty skaters
On evaluation day the instructor opens one grid with the whole roster down the side and the session's skills across the top, and marks the class from the boards. Badges assign as the grid closes, next-session placement updates itself, and families read results that same evening.
- ✓One screen marks the whole class
- ✓Badges follow the grid, not the paperwork
- ✓Families read results the same evening
Test sessions that keep their own books
A test session is forty small invoices waiting to go wrong. Cadence makes it one package per skater, entered by the family, settled before the ice.
One skater's test day, itemized
The April test session posts as one package: two test entries, her share of the session ice, a coach at the boards, and the certificate. The family reads four lines, pays its split, and the test money lands beside the group month where the ledger can see it.
- ✓Test money lands beside tuition, findable
- ✓Caps hold the session to what the ice fits
- ✓Results write back to her record
Exhibition night fills from the app
The spring exhibition sells itself between carpools: families sign up from phones, the practice schedule attaches to every confirmation, and the count climbs where the office can watch it. Show week gets spent on the show, and the printer stays cold.
- ✓Signups happen on phones, not clipboards
- ✓Waivers ride inside every event signup
- ✓Counts update live where the office sees
Privates covered by choice, pay counted by lesson
Group classes get a substitute. Private students get a decision. And a coach paid by the lesson and by the hour gets one correct stub.
Her privates got a choice, not a memo
A coach out for two days is two different problems: her group classes took substitutes from the cleared list, and each private student's family got a choice in the app, take the offered sub or bank the lesson. Both answers were honored automatically and nobody's money moved wrong.
- ✓Groups and privates get different answers
- ✓Families choose from the app, once
- ✓Money follows the choice without a correction
Paid by the lesson, paid by the hour, one stub
A skating coach's pay has two shapes: privates count by the lesson at her lesson rate, group ice counts by the hour at the group rate, and Cadence adds shapes it can tell apart. The stub reads like the week actually went, and nobody reconciles a notebook against a calendar.
- ✓Lesson-count pay and hourly pay share one stub
- ✓Rates follow the work, not the calendar's guess
- ✓Payroll reads the week as it was taught
Rink bag, skate guards, one download
A parent reads the split, a skater watches her badge ladder, a coach marks a grid from the boards.
Parents and skaters
Sessions, badges, and the bill, together.
- ✓One calendar holding group ice and her privates
- ✓Her badge ladder, filling in as grids close
- ✓Test season entered without a checkbook
- ✓Waivers and skate sizes handled before day one
- ✓Split households see split screens
Marked at the boards, synced at the office
Coaches and the office
Rosters, grids, and two kinds of pay.
- ✓Today's sessions with rosters at the boards
- ✓The badge grid, marked class-wide in minutes
- ✓Private requests answered from the kiss and cry
- ✓A stub that knows lessons from hours
Privates that fit inside sessions
A private inside the early ice
A private lesson at a skating school lives inside a session, so the booking checks three doors at once: the coach is free, the skater is admitted to that session, and the session has room. All three said yes for Tuesday's early ice, and the confirmation carried the session admission with it.
- ✓A private books coach, skater, and session together
- ✓A full session refuses early, with an alternative
- ✓Session admission travels with the confirmation
Sunday at four, the ice is a party
A birthday buys the whole rink Sunday at four with skate rentals bundled into the one invoice, and the buyout clears the public session behind it the moment the deposit lands. Tuesday mornings, the preschool group's standing hour renews monthly and bills itself without a call.
- ✓Buyouts clear the calendar behind them
- ✓Rental gear rides the one invoice
- ✓Standing hours renew and bill themselves
Russian on the account, season after season
The language is an account setting made once, and every invoice, reminder, and screen keeps to it from then on.
He signed a release he fully read
Cadence translates its own screens and buttons, but not your waivers and forms. That is why Cadence has a multi-lingual form generator, so you can create your waivers in any language you need, because a parent who signs a document she couldn’t read is a document you may not be able to enforce.
- ✓He signs the Russian waiver you created, not one a computer produced
- ✓Medical forms and photo permissions work the same way
- ✓Your terms of service stay in English, which is how they stay enforceable
Set once, kept for good
The dad reads every test invoice in Russian. The office reads the same account in English. One account, two readers, and every reminder arrives in the language its reader chose.
- ✓Every notice you send arrives in the reader’s language, from one message you wrote once
- ✓Right to left languages are laid out properly, not bolted on
- ✓The account knows its language, so the desk opens it that way
Cadence has the languages skating schools actually need. Nineteen and counting at launch.
First wobbles become second sessions
Every intro skate ends with a kid who did not want to leave the ice. The nudge toward next session goes out on its own schedule.
Invoices outrank the unsubscribe
A parent off the newsletter still gets invoices, session renewals, and test deadlines. Billing correspondence takes the protected lane.
Worth checking: billing tied to a marketing switch is how a family misses a renewal window.The Monday after an intro skate
First-timers get one note with next session's times and the skate-rental answer, written once, sent each time.
Segments read the roster, live
Message every bridge family, every private-lesson parent, or every intro from January, no exports.
A first badge is worth a note
A badge earned, a first test passed, a fifth season, each can trigger the message the office wrote once.
Ask for reviews after the glow
The link lands after the exhibition or a badge day, not beside an invoice.
Session renewals sell themselves
When the next session opens, current families hear first, automatically, with placements already set.
The whole school glides over intact
Your families, enrollments, balances, and history come with you. Do it yourself with our tools, or hand it to us and we’ll do it for you.
Families and skaters
Households, splits, and payer setups arrive exactly as they stand.
Badges and balances
A badge ladder half filled arrives half filled. Credits and plans keep their place.
Sessions and privates
Group grids, standing privates, and session admissions come over conflict-checked.
Tests and history
Test results, payment history, and signed waivers land searchable on day one.
Staging before live
The import waits in a staging copy until you read it and choose the cutover.
Or hand off the files
Export from the old system, send it over, and the migration team skates it in with you.
Figure skating questions, answered without spin
Put your ice on the screen
Send the session grid and badge levels ahead, and the demo opens on your school's ice, not a stranger's.