Experience Dance vs Kananas

Experience Dance is a web-based studio management platform for scheduling, billing, enrollment, and communication. Its tuition billing supports monthly, session-based, and drop-in cycles, tracks paid and pending payments, retries failed payments, and sends notifications. Scholarships and discounts are built in. Studios can create visual schedules and track attendance from any device, while automated parent messages cover schedule changes, closures, and reminders. Stripe supports major credit cards, debit cards, and ACH transfers. Teachers receive a phone-accessible dashboard for upcoming classes, attendance, notes, and participation. Agreement acceptances are timestamped and tied to their specific versions. The maker says migration tools and support are available for existing student and class information. The Free plan includes unlimited classes, staff and teacher users, and calendar scheduling. Pro costs $50 a month and adds a registration portal, Stripe billing and tuition management, and agreements and waivers.

Kananas combines membership CRM, a communication website and a member portal. Its dance-school offering covers recurring classes and private lessons, teacher assignment, student progress, tuition billing and access for students and parents. Studios can manage events and recital ticketing, and import data from spreadsheets or systems such as Mindbody and Jackrabbit. Kananas supports USD billing, and its FAQ names Stripe as a local payment gateway for US studios. The service offers a REST API, webhooks and a sandbox; Kananas says Zapier or Make can connect it to over 2,000 applications. Its dance-school page describes a built-in AI assistant for task automation and studio reports and insights. Members and administrators can use the iOS and Android app. The Free plan supports up to 50 contacts. Paid plans start at $99 a year for 250 contacts, while the M plan costs $366 a year for 1,000 members. A free 30-day trial has no commitment and converts to the Free version afterward. If a suggested tip covering payment fees is refused, the FAQ lists transaction fees of 2.4% plus $0.25.