One plan, one price. Bring your whole team, run as many rooms as you have, book as many sessions as fit. No per-seat charges, no per-booking limits.
One plan
Run the studio. Everything it takes to book a room, work the session, and get paid — no tiers to compare, and nothing on this list is waiting to be built.
One flat price, per studio
Agreed before you start. It doesn’t move with rooms, seats or sessions.
→Booking and the calendar, across every room you run
→The Floor — every room’s live state on one screen
→Client records, and the gear register with fault flags
→Invoices carrying your studio’s details and your own terms — the same document on the PDF and on the page your client pays from
→Card and bank payments through Stripe, or collect cash, Zelle and check yourself
→The staff rota, and the week your team actually worked
→Automatic booking confirmations and one-hour client reminders
→Your sessions pushed to your Google Calendar
→Unlimited rooms, sessions, and seats
Running more than one studio? Tell us how many and we’ll sort out one plan that covers them.
Included
Unlimited everything you do inside StudioSide.
No soft limits. No “you’ve used 80% of your invoices this month.” Bring your whole team.
∞ Rooms
∞ Users
∞ Bookings
∞ Sessions
∞ Invoices
∞ Clients
Payments
Your client is only ever asked for the invoice.
Nothing is added at checkout, on any rail, so no artist ever queries a line you did not put there. Collecting by card costs you 3.5% out of the payout and a bank transfer costs what Stripe charges us. Collect the money yourself and it never touches us, so there is nothing to charge for.
Card
3.5%
Out of the payout, not added to your client's bill. Stripe takes 2.9% + 30¢ of that and we keep the rest, which covers being on the hook for chargebacks. Every invoice gets a Pay button, the money lands in your bank in about two business days, and the invoice marks itself paid.
Bank transfer
0.8%
Exactly what Stripe charges us, passed straight through — and never more than $5 however big the invoice is. A $4,000 album block costs you $5 to collect this way instead of 3.5% of it. Much the cheaper rail, and worth pointing your regulars at.
Collect it yourself
No fee
Put your Zelle, bank, or cash details on the invoice and take the money however you like. No processing fee, no cut — mark it paid when it lands.
Questions
The honest stuff.
Why flat pricing and not per-seat or per-room?
Studios staff fluidly — engineers come and go, a runner today is an engineer next month, freelancers log in for one session. Charging per seat makes you hide the system from people who should be using it. Charging per room punishes you for growing capacity. One flat price per studio means you bring everyone in, run as many rooms as fit, and you always know what next month costs.
Is there more than one plan?
No — one plan, one price. There used to be a Starter and a Pro, and the split was meant to be about staff: you paid more once other people were on the schedule. We took it down because the staff surfaces it was selling — the rota and the team timesheet — weren’t finished, and charging more for something you can’t open isn’t a tier, it’s a bill. Those two are finished now, and they arrived on the one plan, for everyone already paying, exactly as promised. What works today: booking and the calendar, the live floor, clients, gear, invoices and getting paid, the staff rota and the pay week, unlimited rooms and seats and sessions. What is still being built: reports and the activity log — and when they land, they land the same way.
What happens when I add a room?
Nothing changes on your bill. Rooms are unlimited — add or remove them as your studio evolves, no upgrade flow, no surprise invoice.
Is there a free trial?
No free trial — StudioSide is paid from day one. We’re in private beta and onboarding studios in small batches, so it starts with a quick access request. Once you’re in, setup is self-serve — add your rooms and rates and you can be sending invoices the same day. No call, no setup fee.
Do I have to use Stripe?
No. Stripe is there if you want clients to pay by card or bank transfer in one tap — payouts land in your bank in a couple of days and the invoice marks itself paid. Prefer to keep it simple? Put your own details (Zelle, bank, cash) on the invoice, collect directly, and mark it paid — no cut, no processing fee, you keep every dollar.
Do you take a cut of the payments I collect?
No cut of the work itself — we do not take a percentage of your rates, your bookings or your seats. What a payment costs is 3.5% when a client pays by card, 0.8%, capped at $5 by bank transfer, and nothing at all on money you collect yourself. Stripe takes 2.9% + 30¢ of that card rate; the rest is ours, and it pays for StudioSide carrying the chargeback rather than you. Your client is never charged anything on top of the invoice.
Does the fee get added to what my client pays?
No. Your client is asked for the invoice and nothing else, whichever way they pay — the pay page shows the same figure on both buttons. Adding a card fee to a client's bill is a surcharge, and a surcharge cannot legally be applied to a debit card, so we do not do it to anybody. The fee comes out of the payout instead, which is how Square, QuickBooks and every other tool of this kind works. If you would rather pay nothing at all, put your own Zelle or bank details on the invoice and collect it directly.
What if we have multiple locations?
Email us with how many studios you run and we’ll sort out one plan that covers them. Just an email — no call required.
What happens to my data if I leave?
You own it. Ask us for an export anytime, and if you cancel we hand you everything and delete what’s left.
Stop running your studio out of texts and spreadsheets.
We’re onboarding a small number of studios right now. Request access and we’ll get you set up — no call, no setup fee.