Akada vs Rosterra

Akada is management software for dance studios, including ballet, hip hop, and multi-discipline performing arts academies. It provides online registration, student profiles, enrollment history, family accounts, and class rosters. Scheduling tools enroll students and identify conflicts among students, instructors, and rooms. Free texting and two-way messaging support announcements and direct messages. Billing covers automated tuition, recurring charges, balance tracking, and secure Stripe payments; the listed processing rate is 3.5% plus $0.30 per transaction. Akada Studio and Akada Portal apps support attendance, schedules, enrollment, messaging, and payments on mobile devices. Performance tools handle recital scheduling, costume sizing and billing, dancer spacing, and keeping family members together. The software tracks staff hours by hour or class and generates payroll reports. More than 200 reports cover finances, enrollment, attendance, accounts, and students. It runs on Android, iOS, and web, with Zapier and Stripe integrations. The plan costs $60 a month and includes all features.

Rosterra is management software for activity businesses, with tools for dance studios to manage rosters, attendance, billing, events, communications and student progression. Studios can track distinct grades and syllabuses for each dance style, publish exam sessions, collect entries and fees, and add recital or costume charges to recurring family bills. Billing supports card and ACH autopay, automatic family and sibling discounts, and failed-payment alerts. Members can check in at a tablet kiosk; staff can take class registers on a phone or tablet. Families can view schedules, progress, invoices and waivers in a web portal or the school's branded app. Listed connections include Square POS, two-way Zoho Books sync, Google Calendar sync and SMS through the customer's provider. Plans are billed monthly per location: Core costs $30 a month for up to 25 active members, Growth costs $60 a month for up to 150, and Unlimited costs $90 a month with no member cap. The terms describe a 30-day trial without a card, while the dance page also states 14 days.