Fees Rates & Cost
Requiring Recurring Payment for Tuition and Materials
I am considering implementing credit/debit card payments for all my students’ monthly tuition and materials fees and have a few questions for those who are already doing this. I only have a few students right now and have had no problems with payment by check…
Missed Lessons
I have a family of 2 boys that are giving me problems with missed lessons. In the early spring of this past year the mom didn’t want to pay for missed lessons while they went on vacation so had them quit for the summer rather…
All Inclusive Tuition
Alex (Thai), Stephanie, and I opened our combined commercial studio in March. So far, so good! We’re still working together and Thai doesn’t have too many white hairs yet. We recently started a discussion about switching to an “all inclusive” tuition package, where we would…
Extra Fee for Lesson in Students Home?
I just received this email inquiry, and wondering 1) if you travel to students’ homes; and 2) how much extra to charge. I’m new, and have only 2 other students. I also work outside the home 3 days/week. Any suggestions would be awesome! This person…
Charging Fees per Level
I will be teaching group lessons through the local Parks and Recreation Department. Since I have to have “sections” I have arranged them by levels running 10 weeks. The students also pay a lump sum for the 10 week session. To figure out the price…
Charging Sufficient Tuition
Editorial note: a teacher was concerned about setting tuition rates so as to do better than merely covering expenses. It generated the following discussion. I am a new Simply Music teacher, but before I taught simply music I was in a very similar situation to…
Tuition and Material Costs
I’m a new teacher since September and have been charging my families monthly for their tuition and then invoicing separately for materials costs as they arise. As I look ahead to next year I’ve been wondering if there are other ways of doing this so…
Spreading Materials Cost
I’d seen someone talk about handling materials expenses by just upping the monthly fee to include a contribution toward materials, avoiding lots of separate administrative stuff with separate orders and such. I realized that I like this idea a lot, and I’ve run it by…
Outrageously Priced Materials?
Who has a nice response to this missive that I received today? “I am happy to pay you for your time, and am overall pleased with the program (and with you especially), but paying for the books is more difficult when they are, quite frankly,…
Friend Lesson Visit
A parent just called to ask if she could bring her daughter’s friend to the lesson today. Partially because she is watching her, but the friend had been begging her own mother to go to piano with my student. I said it was fine. I’m…