Changelog
The latest changes we’ve shipped to StudioSide — newest first.
InvoicesSeptember 10, 2026
Emailing an invoice now attaches it as a PDF, and the Download PDF buttons on invoices and session reports produce the document instead of an error. If a PDF ever can’t be made, the invoice still goes out with its link and you’re told it went without the PDF, rather than a plain “sent”.
SessionsSeptember 10, 2026
If your studio trusts the calendar instead of pressing Start, a finished session now says it ran as booked. It used to say “Not started” right next to “Finished · Ready to bill”, which read like a session billed for time nobody worked.
ScheduleSeptember 10, 2026
Opening a studio and going straight to the schedule used to show two cards stacked on each other: “drag across a room to book your first session” sitting on top of the “no rooms yet” card, hiding the Add a room button underneath it and asking for a gesture there was nothing to perform. Now an empty studio just gets the card that helps — name a room, give it a price — and the booking pointer waits until you have somewhere to book. That pointer also stopped swallowing the drag it was describing, so you can start a booking straight through it.
SettingsSeptember 10, 2026
Creating another studio dropped you on your own schedule page, in a studio with no rooms, no team and nothing booked — which greeted you with “you’re not on the schedule for the next three weeks” and no way onward. It now continues into the same setup the first studio gets: add your rooms and what they cost, then book something. The Create studio button also stopped sitting there greyed out with no explanation — it tells you the address is what it is waiting for.
InvoicesSeptember 10, 2026
Comping a line, or correcting a session’s clock with Fix the time, changes the bill on the server — but the open invoice kept showing the old figures until you closed it and opened it again. It now saves anything you were in the middle of, makes the change, and redraws the invoice with the new amounts and total right where you are.
InvoicesSeptember 10, 2026
The fine print at the bottom of an invoice — a late fee, your cancellation policy — is now saved with each invoice when you send it, the same way its prices and terms already are. Editing the footer in Settings changes the invoices you send next, not the ones a client is already holding. A few invoices sent before today still show your current footer.
NavigationSeptember 10, 2026
Opening Help from inside the app used to keep the sidebar beside it, and going back from Help could leave the app with no sidebar at all until you refreshed. Help now always opens as its own page, and the sidebar is always there when you return.
StaffSeptember 10, 2026
When you block time off, the sheet now lists the sessions and shifts you’re already on in that window — before you press Save, not after — and says plainly whether your manager will be told or you should let them know.
StaffSeptember 10, 2026
Staff can now block a standing pattern — every Tuesday, weekday mornings — as well as single days. A pattern runs for up to a year, and your Time off card offers to extend it before it ends. Wherever a manager staffs a session, it shows as “Off every Tuesday”.
SessionsSeptember 10, 2026
A session now opens the same way from the schedule, the floor, your own page and every link: a window over the page you were on, a full page when you need the room, and a sheet you can swipe away on a phone. Crew, gear, the clock, notes and the bill all live in that one place.
InvoicesSeptember 10, 2026
On a draft, a session’s hours are no longer a box you can type over — if they are wrong, you fix the time on the session and the bill follows. Each session line says whose word its hours rest on: the engineer who ended it, or you, and a night that ran over with nobody vouching for it asks you once. Its price is picked from prices the client already knows — the room’s rates, their agreed rate, or what the session was booked at — and anything else has to be a one-off with a name, so the invoice can always say where a number came from.
NavigationSeptember 10, 2026
While a page loads, the grey placeholder now has the same shape as the page that arrives, so nothing jumps or reshuffles when it lands. Team no longer flashes tabs it dropped weeks ago, the phone's Schedule stops showing buttons it no longer has, and Activity and Support show a placeholder instead of leaving the last page frozen on screen.
SessionsSeptember 10, 2026
When you correct when a session started or ended, or log one late, a time the app won’t accept (one still in the future, or an end before the start) now shows its reason in red under the field. It used to appear in the same grey as the rest of the sheet, so it was easy to miss why Save stayed greyed out.
InvoicesSeptember 10, 2026
On a phone, the invoices list could print the same total four times before you reached a single client — under the title, in a summary card, in the bar and on a month heading. The summary card is gone, and each tab now shows its total once, in the bar at the top. The All tab just counts, because it mixes work to bill, money owed and money already paid.
InvoicesSeptember 10, 2026
The running total used to add three things that cannot be added: estimates for work you have not billed, invoices a client owes you, and money already in the bank. It now shows them side by side — to bill, owed, collected — and never as one number. Each tab names the kind it is showing, so the figure under Paid and the figure under Unbilled can no longer be mistaken for each other, and a fully comped invoice shows what the client actually owed rather than what the work would have cost.
InvoicesSeptember 10, 2026
A finished session in a room with no rate used to be missing from the invoices page entirely — real work, never billed, nowhere to be seen. It now appears reading Needs a rate, and opening it takes you to where the rate is set. Work you have waived shows under Not billed at the foot of the list with a way to put it back, and waiving now offers an undo instead of quietly taking the money off the books. A voided invoice stays on the All tab too, marked Void, so correcting a bill no longer makes the correction invisible.
InvoicesSeptember 10, 2026
Bill all ready now bills only what the list is actually showing you — filter to one client and it bills that client, not everybody. If your studio has no card payments switched on and no payment details saved, sending stops and offers you both ways to get paid, rather than mailing a bill nobody can act on and telling you afterwards. And a client with no email address can be invoiced again: the button that used to sit there greyed out now opens the send box with the address blank for you to fill in.
InvoicesSeptember 10, 2026
If you nudged a late client yourself, the automatic reminder could still go out to them the next day — two emails about one invoice, two days apart. A reminder you send now counts as contact, so the automatic one waits its full interval, and the courtesy note before the due date steps aside altogether once you have been in touch. The Past due tab also tells you when nothing is chasing for you, which is the case until you switch reminders on.
SessionsSeptember 10, 2026
When you added crew to a session, anyone who had blocked that day off could still appear under “Free during this session”. They now sit in their own group, Off during this session, with the day they booked off shown under their name, and adding them anyway takes a second tap to confirm.
StaffSeptember 10, 2026
Pressing a session under Recent in the sidebar now opens it over the page you’re on, instead of jumping into the Schedule — and when you do want the calendar, it lands on the session’s own day. My week on your page gains a Today button that brings you straight back after browsing other weeks, and paging between weeks is now instant — the week either side is loaded before you ask for it.
StaffSeptember 10, 2026
For the first ten minutes after you clock in, your shift card shows an Undo, and so does the “Clocked in” message when you clock in from the menu. Undo takes the punch back as if it never happened, so a mis-tap no longer leaves a two-minute shift in your hours.
GearSeptember 10, 2026
On a phone, Gear was the one tab drawn on a grey page, so it looked dimmed next to Clients and Invoices. It is white now, like every other tab, with each group of gear in its own bordered card and a search field you can actually see.
InvoicesSeptember 10, 2026
A deposit invoice was picking up your normal payment terms, so a deposit asked for on Net 14 fell due a fortnight out — often well after the night it was meant to hold. Deposits now go out due on receipt, dated in your studio’s own timezone, which is what a deposit is for. Your ordinary invoices are unaffected, and no deposit has gone out with the old behaviour.
SettingsSeptember 10, 2026
Settings → Account has always said “end this session on this device — other devices stay signed in.” It did the opposite: logging out anywhere signed you out on every device you use, so an engineer signing out of the studio laptop at the end of a shift found their phone signed out too. Logging out now ends only the session you are logging out of, wherever you do it — the account menu, the sidebar, or Settings.
InvoicesSeptember 10, 2026
When a session’s hours look wrong on a bill — an engineer who forgot to clock out, a night that ran three hours past its booking — you no longer have to leave the invoice, find the session in the calendar, correct it there and then find your way back. Every session line now has Fix the time next to it. Correcting the clock writes the session record, and the invoice follows on its own: the hours change, any overtime recalculates with them, and the total moves once. It refuses after an invoice has been sent, and the session keeps a note of what the time was before and after.
InvoicesSeptember 10, 2026
Gear failed, or the night ran badly, and you want to eat that session. Until now the only options were dropping the price to nothing — which tells your own reports the room is worth nothing — or taking money off the whole bill, which never says which night you meant. Any line can now be comped, in full or in part, with a reason. The invoice keeps the work at what it was worth, shows it crossed out beside what you are actually charging, and prints the reason underneath, so the client can see what you gave them. A line you have comped is locked to its price until you undo the comp.
InvoicesSeptember 10, 2026
Opening a draft now shows the four things that decide whether it gets paid — who it is from, where it is going, how the client can pay, and when it is due — in a row above the invoice itself. The one that catches people is how they can pay: if there is no way for this client to pay you yet, it says so there, while you are still working on the bill, instead of when you press Send.
InvoicesSeptember 10, 2026
If you bill a label or agency on month-end terms — “Net 30 EOM” and the like — those invoices were coming out due from the issue date instead, up to a month early. They went red inside the terms you had actually agreed, and if you had reminders on, we chased clients who were not late. Month-end terms now count from the end of the month the invoice was issued in, on the invoice and in the preview, and the note under the setting says so instead of quoting a day count that did not apply. Nothing about invoices you have already sent changes.
SettingsSeptember 10, 2026
The fine print at the bottom of your invoices is not frozen the way the terms and the charges are — both the PDF and the online invoice read it live. So adding a late-fee or cancellation line puts it on every invoice you have ever sent, at the link the client already has. Settings → Invoice now says so under the field, instead of letting that happen quietly. Freezing it properly is next.
PaymentsSeptember 9, 2026
While Stripe was still verifying your payout details, Settings → Payments said “No way to pay you yet — your invoices go out with nothing for the client to act on.” That was wrong: card payments switch on before payouts do, so your invoices already had a working Pay button and clients could already pay. The page now says what is actually true — clients can pay by card, and that the money is sitting at Stripe until payouts are switched on, rather than reaching your bank. The warning you get when disconnecting Stripe was wrong in both directions too, and now says what really happens: the Pay button comes off your unpaid invoices straight away, and you can still send invoices.
SettingsSeptember 9, 2026
If you had never set your opening hours, Settings → Hours said “Closed every day — utilization will read 0%.” That was not true: with no hours saved, Performance and Reports assume a twelve-hour day and label the number as a guess, which is what the Reports page has always said. Hours now says the same thing, so the two pages agree. And if you switch every day off, it tells you before you save that doing so clears your hours and puts that twelve-hour guess back.
SettingsSeptember 9, 2026
Studio and Client portal were the two pages left open after the rest of Settings was made manager-only. Anyone on your team who knew the web address could read your subscription and plan, reach the export that pulls every client and every dollar you have made, and see your booking rules — without being able to change any of it. Both now send anyone below manager back to the schedule. Your own Account page is unchanged, because that one is meant for everybody.
SettingsSeptember 9, 2026
Rooms & pricing had a “Fallback rate” at the bottom — a studio-wide price used when a room had none of its own. It quietly contradicted the page above it: a room with no rate is badged “Not bookable yet”, and the fallback let that same room be booked and billed anyway, at a number you never set for it. The section is gone. A room is priced or it is not, the badge now tells the truth, and nothing bills at a price you did not choose. Your room rates, client rates and saved charges are untouched.
SessionsSeptember 9, 2026
The date, start, end and length on a booking each opened a small panel floating over the field you tapped — a control built for a mouse, and awkward to hit with a thumb. On a phone each one now slides up from the bottom of the screen with the time you are picking named at the top. Nothing changes on a computer.
SessionsSeptember 9, 2026
A session’s printed report listed only the booking note and the closeout comment, so every note, flag and reply posted during the night was missing from it — a session where someone wrote “AC out, 11pm” printed as though nothing had happened. The report now carries the whole thread, and the thread now shows the clock — who started, who ended, and when — which only the report used to know.
SessionsSeptember 9, 2026
The report has always had rows for whether it was a smoking session, what was comped, and how many vehicles turned up, and nothing ever asked for them, so they printed empty. You are now asked when you close the session out — the moment somebody knows the answer — rather than having to find a details form later.
PrivacySeptember 9, 2026
Pay rates — a job’s and a person’s — have always been shown only to owners, managers, and anyone you have handed money access to. The database underneath was more generous than the app: it would answer the question for any signed-in member who asked it directly, so in principle a member of your studio could have read your whole pay scale. It refuses now, to everyone but you and the managers you choose — which is what the app was already telling you.
SettingsSeptember 9, 2026
Three Settings pages — Rooms & pricing, Payments, and Hours — opened for anyone on your team who knew the web address. They could not change a thing, but they could read every room’s hourly rate, the bank or Zelle details printed on your invoices, and the monthly overhead and payroll figures you had saved. All three now send anyone below manager back to the schedule, the same way the Invoice page already did. The new-session booking form did the same thing — it listed every rate you charge to whoever opened it, even though only owners and managers were ever able to book from it — and it is manager-only now too. The Studio and Client portal pages, which still show your subscription and your booking minimum, are manager-only as well.
NavigationSeptember 9, 2026
Every panel that slides up from the bottom of your phone — move a session, pick crew, add gear, waive a charge — now puts its main button at the bottom of the screen as a full-width pill, and keeps it there while you scroll. On a long panel that button used to scroll away with everything else, so saving meant scrolling past the whole thing to find it again. Panels also sit a little wider on the glass, which gives you back about half an inch of room on a phone.
SessionsSeptember 9, 2026
Opening a session and choosing Move gave you a calendar that refused every day before today — including the session’s own day, so a booking from last night could not be corrected there at all, even though the same Move opened from a session card allowed it. The calendar now lets you land in the past wherever you opened it from, and offers Yesterday as a one-tap shortcut.
NavigationSeptember 9, 2026
The in-app assistant is gone for now — the row on your phone’s own page, the panel, and the offer to ask him when a search came up empty. He could answer a question about your studio, but not reliably enough to be one of the things you count on, so we would rather take him away than leave him half-working while we finish the parts of the job you do every day. Search is untouched and still finds clients, sessions, invoices, rooms and gear; a search that finds nothing now just says so. He will come back when he is genuinely useful, and we will say so here.
ScheduleSeptember 9, 2026
Reading a day as a list on your phone, you can now swipe sideways to step to the next day or back to the last one — the gesture the ruled day and the month already had, and the same step the arrows take. The state on those rows also reads properly now: In session, Cancelled and Not started sit in a pill beside the client, instead of a grey word small enough to miss, and a room that is occupied right now wears the same dark mark it wears on the calendar.
PaymentsSeptember 9, 2026
When a client paid an invoice by bank transfer, the page they came back to showed a green tick, the word Paid, and a line saying a receipt had been emailed — three to five business days before any of that was true, and with the invoice printed beside it still reading Balance due. It now says the payment has started, names the wait, and tells them the receipt comes when the money arrives. The paid screen only appears once the invoice is genuinely settled, and it only promises a receipt when one really went — that email skips quietly when a client has no address on file, and the page used to claim it either way.
PaymentsSeptember 9, 2026
If a client disputes a card payment, StudioSide carries it — that is what the card fee buys, and the pricing page has said so for months. The terms of service said the opposite, reserving the right to take the money back off you. They agree now: we carry the chargeback, unless it came out of fraud or a breach of the terms on your side.
PrivacySeptember 9, 2026
The list of companies that touch your studio’s data now names Mapbox and OpenStreetMap, which see the address you type when you set your studio up. They were always there; the list was not. That list also called the Google Calendar connection two-way sync, which it has never been — StudioSide writes your sessions into a calendar it makes and never reads anything back out of yours, and the privacy policy, the data processing agreement and the Security page now all say so. The cookie section is straight as well: our public pages count visits and the app records which screens get used, where the policy used to claim only sign-in cookies.
SettingsSeptember 9, 2026
A failed sign-in used to print whatever our login provider said, including the name of a company you have never heard of on the occasions the service itself was down. It now says what happened and what to do next — a wrong password says so and points at the reset link, and an outage tells you nothing on your account has changed. The screens either side of a payment lost their jargon too. One rule changed with them: a password now needs at least eight characters at every door into StudioSide, where the sign-up and invite forms used to take six.
SessionsSeptember 9, 2026
The session link you send a client has an “Ask to reschedule” button, and until now it went nowhere — the client read that you would be in touch about a new time, and nothing on your side was told they had asked. The request now lands in two places: on the session’s own activity log, and in your notifications as a row that opens the booking, so you can set the new time from where you land. The client’s screen says you have their request, because now you do.
StaffSeptember 9, 2026
The week across the top of your own page now carries the date on every day, so you can tell which Tuesday you are looking at once you page off this week. A day you are in shows the time you start; a day you are not shows a small dash instead of the word “off” repeated across the row, and a week with nothing booked says so in a single line rather than a card of blanks. Paging forward used to be one way — the dates in the header are now a button straight back to this week — and the header no longer flashes the wrong week’s dates while the next one loads.
NavigationSeptember 9, 2026
It used to be a second way into the Schedule, one row above the Schedule row that already goes there. Clicking it now opens the studio’s own menu — switch to another studio you belong to, open a new one, or go to Studio settings — so the thing that tells you which studio you are in is also the thing that changes it. Your own row at the bottom of the sidebar became a door too: click your name to open your page (your week, your shifts, your time off), and the small arrow beside it for your account menu. The bell moved down next to your name, because notifications are addressed to you. Your account menu has a new “Keyboard shortcuts” row listing every key the app answers to — and ⌘⇧. (hide financials) now works on every page instead of only Invoices. The search box came out of the sidebar — ⌘K still opens the same search from anywhere, Schedule has its own magnifier at the top right, and Clients and Gear search their own lists. And the red number on Invoices is gone — it counted sessions nobody had closed out, not invoices, so it said the wrong thing; that pile still has its own tab on Invoices and still reaches you through the bell.
ScheduleSeptember 9, 2026
A booking in the phone’s list, and a search result on your computer, draws a thin colour bar down its left edge. That bar was worked out from the ten stock colours rather than from the client, so an artist whose colour you had picked yourself wore the nearest stock colour on the bar and their real one on the disc beside it — and a client with no colour saved at all got a grey bar next to a coloured disc. Both marks now read the client, so a row is one colour, and it is the colour you chose.
ScheduleSeptember 9, 2026
The magnifier at the top right of Schedule now searches your bookings — a year back and a year ahead — by client, by room, or by what the session was for. Results sit under the day they fall on, split into what is coming up and what already happened, and picking one opens the booking over the calendar instead of taking you off it.
ScheduleSeptember 9, 2026
Clicking the empty space in a month square used to start a new booking. It opens that day now, like everything else in the square, with a small + Book on hover where there is room for it — and Week is unchanged, so clicking a free slot there still books it, because that square already knows which room you mean.
ScheduleSeptember 9, 2026
A square in the month view had room for three bookings and hid the rest behind a count. Pressing “+2 more” now opens that square where it sits, so you can read the whole day without leaving the month behind.
SessionsSeptember 9, 2026
When a session never got its end time, the bell used to say something like "34h over" — which read as if somebody had worked thirty-four extra hours in the room. Nobody had; the record was just still open. It now says "34h ago", so the number tells you how long the booking has been sitting unfinished rather than describing a night that never happened.
StaffSeptember 9, 2026
Your shift card on your own page said which shift you were on and when it ran — and then Clock in opened a small panel that said all of it again in miniature before giving you the one button you came for. The card is the clock now: clocking in and out, taking and ending a break, and fixing a night you forgot to clock out of all happen right there, at full width, on the phone and on a computer. While you are on the clock the card shows how long you have been in and when you started, and it keeps counting while you look at it.
SessionsSeptember 9, 2026
Opening a session from the calendar showed its gear, what it comes to and everyone on it; opening the same session from On now in the sidebar, your own week, a notification, a link somebody sent you or just a reload quietly showed less — no gear, no price at all, and the words Needs engineer even when the client’s own engineer was booked on the night. Every one of those doors opens the same record now.
InvoicesSeptember 9, 2026
The little coloured square beside a client’s name — on the invoice list, the sessions nobody closed out, the bill-all check, and the send and reminder dialogs — was picked from ten stock colours rather than read from the client. So an artist you had given a colour of your own wore it on their record and on the calendar, and the closest stock colour here; a client with no colour saved wore grey next to a coloured disc. Every one of those squares now reads the client, so a client looks the same on an invoice as everywhere else.
ClientsSeptember 9, 2026
Changing a client or company name used to end at a button marked Done, which never quite told you the new name had been written down. Anything that actually saves now says Save — the client record, a new contact, moving a session, correcting when one started or ended, changing its gear, and your studio logo. Done is left for the buttons that just close what you opened without changing anything.
PaymentsSeptember 9, 2026
For two days your clients were asked for the invoice plus the card fee — $1,030.18 on a $1,000 invoice. That has stopped. Your client is now asked for the invoice exactly as it is written, whichever way they pay, and both buttons on the pay page show the same figure. We took it off because a card fee cannot lawfully be charged that way: it may never be applied to a debit card, and the payment page we use cannot tell a debit card from a credit one until after the money has moved. The processing comes out of your payout instead, which is where Square, QuickBooks and every tool like them put it: 3.5% when a client pays by card, 0.8% capped at $5 by bank transfer. Money you collect yourself in cash, by check or through Zelle still carries no fee at all, and that option is on every invoice. If your client paid by card since the 7th and asks about the extra, it was real and we can refund it — write to us and we will sort it out.
ScheduleSeptember 8, 2026
The day now has two drawings on a phone — the ruled hours you already had, and a new List that reads the night straight down the page with each booking’s start and finish out at the right edge. Anything running behind says so there: Late, Ends, Needs end. Pick either from the new button in the top-right corner and the phone remembers your choice.
ScheduleSeptember 8, 2026
The black + that floated over the evening has moved up beside search, so nothing sits on top of the day any more, and Today has taken the bottom-left corner where your thumb already rests. Search results now look like the calendar itself, grouped under each day.
ScheduleSeptember 8, 2026
When a session ran past midnight, opening the day view dropped you at midnight with hours of empty morning to scroll through before you reached the current time. It now opens where the clock is, and last night is one scroll up.
ScheduleSeptember 8, 2026
The Staffing button has left the phone. Filling a rota needs a week in front of you, so it lives on the laptop where it always worked properly — a booking that still needs somebody reaches you by notification either way. The sentence summarising the day has gone too, along with the row of Open now chips under it; the day is now named plainly above the hours, in red when it is today.
NavigationSeptember 8, 2026
The bell carried twenty kinds of notification and most of them were just news. It carries ten now, and a row only survives if you can deal with it right there and something goes wrong if you ignore it — a booking with nobody on it, an engineer who turned the night down, a clash with someone’s time off, a flagged issue, a session still running past its end time, and the handful about your own shifts. Everything that went was already somewhere better: unbilled and overdue sit on Invoices, open faults on Gear, your own week on your home page — and nothing was lost, because the full history is still under See all. Two things also reach you earlier: an engineer turning down a session, the moment it happens rather than on the night, and a booking with nobody on it up to a day and a half ahead instead of an hour. A chargeback still buzzes your phone on its own, with the date we need your side of the story by.
ClientsSeptember 8, 2026
Last in, the session count and the history underneath were each worked out a different way, so a record could say a client had never been in while one of their sessions sat right below it — and a label's record showed no history at all, because its nights are booked in its artists' names. They all read the same sessions now, anything still booked sits under its own Next heading rather than in the past, and a session someone started and never ended says Needs end time, so a night you cannot bill yet turns up on the client instead of only on the Floor.
ClientsSeptember 8, 2026
Every name in the list now carries that client's colour disc — the same one they wear on the calendar and on their invoices — so you can pick someone out by shape instead of reading every line. On a phone the search field has moved down to the bottom of the screen, beside the tab bar, and their record is easier to read on both.
ClientsSeptember 8, 2026
A client's colour was being worked out separately on each screen, so the same artist could wear one colour on the calendar and a different one on their record — with nothing to tell you which was the real one. Every screen now reads the colour saved on the client, and picking a new one moves it everywhere at once.
NavigationSeptember 8, 2026
Every notification starts with the thing it is about — the client, the piece of gear, your shift — in the same place on every row, so you can run your eye down the list instead of reading each line. How long you have left ("45m", "1h over") has moved to its own column on the right, where one row can be compared with the next. Every row is the same height and the buttons all line up, and you can now clear a single row by hovering it and pressing the cross, instead of only being able to archive the lot.
NavigationSeptember 8, 2026
If you keep StudioSide on your phone’s home screen, the mark on the dark opening screen used to slide down a fraction of an inch in the last moment before the app appeared. It holds still now, from the first frame to the last.
ScheduleSeptember 8, 2026
On your phone, a session that runs past midnight is drawn again on the morning it spills into, so a room that is still busy at 3 AM does not read as free. Two of those used to come back side by side in a different order than they held the night before. They keep the night’s order now — whichever started first stays on the left.
SettingsSeptember 7, 2026
Settings → Pricing draws each room as a single line — its name, what it charges, and its overtime rate — that opens onto just those numbers. Colour and emoji move to the room’s own tile, where you click the thing you are changing, and Bookable, the booking page and Remove move to a ⋯ menu beside the row. Those three now take effect the moment you pick them instead of waiting for a Save. The same control draws the rooms step when you first set the studio up, so the screen you learn on is the screen you come back to.
NavigationSeptember 7, 2026
The bell had grown a stack under every row — a button, a line explaining the button, a line of quoted text — so three or four items filled a phone screen and the list read as a wall. Each notification is now two lines: what happened, then which room and when, with the one thing you can do about it on the end. Six fit where three did, and every row is the same shape, so you can scan the list instead of reading it. A mention still shows what the person actually wrote, since on those the message is the whole point. The count on the Inbox tab and the “new” count beside it also agree now — they were counting two different things a centimetre apart.
StaffSeptember 7, 2026
The list of sessions you are on — on your Me page, and behind “My full schedule” — drew every session as the same plain row, so a session running right now looked exactly like one that finished on Tuesday. It now draws each one the way the calendar does: a session in the room is black and says Live, finished work that has not been billed carries the green To bill mark, and each row says the room, what it is for and which seat you are in. Sessions you have not looked at since something changed keep the blue dot, and it clears in both places at once.
InvoicesSeptember 7, 2026
The template, accent, typeface and spacing pickers are gone. An invoice is one document now — the quiet, whitespace-led one — so Settings → Invoice is just the things that decide what you get paid: when clients pay, deposit, terms, payment instructions and your footer. Nobody was choosing a serif invoice on purpose, and every combination was one more version of the same page to keep good. While we were in there: two things we had been claiming were not true. Invoices have never carried an uploaded logo — they have always shown your monogram, on purpose, because a logo goes soft at the size a PDF prints it — and the pricing page said otherwise. It says what the paper actually carries now. And the preview used to draw “Net 14” even for studios who get paid in the room, where the real invoice says “Due on receipt”; the one screen meant to show you what your client sees was the one screen getting it wrong.
NavigationSeptember 7, 2026
Pressing a session in the sidebar’s “On now” list used to throw you into the calendar, so a quick look at who was tracking cost you whatever you were in the middle of. It now opens the session over the page you are on — invoices, clients, wherever — and closing it leaves you exactly where you were, the way tapping your own booking on your Me page already worked. When you do want the calendar, the session’s ⋯ menu has a new “Show in calendar” row that takes you to that booking in its room, on its own day.
PaymentsSeptember 7, 2026
The card fee used to come out of your money — send a $1,000 invoice, get $970.70. It comes out of your client’s instead as of today. Your pay page now shows them two buttons with the real total on each: card or wallet at $1,030.18, or bank transfer at $1,005.00, on that same $1,000 invoice. They pick, they see the fee before they tap it, and the full $1,000 lands in your account either way. Bank is much the cheaper of the two, so it is worth pointing your regulars at. Cash, check and Zelle are unchanged and still carry no fee at all.
ScheduleSeptember 7, 2026
Someone who runs one room and assists in another over the same hours works one evening, not two — but the figure under their name on Day → Staffing was adding both bookings together, so a crew member on an 11am-to-4am night could read “27h”. It now measures how much of the day they are actually in the building, which is the number the phone has always shown. Room columns are unchanged: two bookings in one room at one time still add up, because there that means you are over-subscribed and you want to see it.
ScheduleSeptember 7, 2026
Two changes to the Staffing button, both about not handing you a second calendar you have no use for. If nobody works at your studio but you, and you have never put anyone on the floor, the button now sits greyed with the reason on it rather than opening your own week with one column in it — it turns back on the moment somebody else is on your team, and a rota link you were sent still opens either way. And the month has stopped drawing staffing altogether. It was the one staffing screen you could not roster from, and the week already tells you who is on, seven days at a time; so the month draws your bookings, the button greys while you are on it, and Month greys while Staffing is on. Neither one changes the other half of the screen out from under you.
StaffSeptember 7, 2026
Pay had started telling you when a day was still on the clock or was priced from the booking rather than a clock-in — and there was nowhere to go and do anything about it. Open a person on the Pay screen and you can now see their punches for that week: what time each day was clocked, what was booked, who recorded it, and whether anyone has changed the times since. From there you can correct a punch, add the times for a day somebody worked without clocking in, or mark a day they were not in. Every change is recorded against your name, and the person sees on their own page that the day was corrected.
SessionsSeptember 7, 2026
The gear picker inside a session sorted everything into six fixed groups and dropped anything it did not recognise into “Misc” — which on a normal studio meant every pair of headphones, every monitor, the computers, the console and the drum kit, all in one pile. It now uses the same categories as the Gear page, in the same order, so Amp, Computer, Drums, Headphones and the rest each get their own heading. Gear with no category set sits under “Other” at the end.
GearSeptember 7, 2026
The panel that opens beside the gear list was laid out for a phone — a big square icon, the name and four round buttons stacked down the middle of a column with empty space either side. It now reads across: the name and the four buttons share one row at the top, and underneath, what the piece IS sits on the left (whether it is working, where it lives, warranty and serial) with when it is USED on the right (what it is booked on next, and what it has been on). Nothing moved on a phone. One thing it used to get wrong is fixed too: a piece whose only session was the one happening right now said “no sessions yet” directly underneath the live session it was showing you.
StaffSeptember 7, 2026
An hourly person was being paid the hours they were BOOKED for, because nothing on the pay screen read the clock at all. Someone who came in ninety minutes late was still paid the whole window; someone who stayed two hours past the last session was paid for neither; and a day spent at the studio with nothing on the calendar paid nothing whatever, however long they were here. Pay now counts the hours they were actually clocked in, and falls back to the booking only where nobody clocked in — the row tells you which of the two it used. A day where somebody is still on the clock is held back and flagged rather than paid short, because a missing clock-out is a question, not zero hours. Per-session and per-day people are unaffected: a fee is a fee and a day is a day.
ScheduleSeptember 7, 2026
On the day’s Staffing view, a session run by the engineer the client brought used to open a column of its own, headed with their name and initials beside your crew and captioned “outside” — so the night read as though you had a third engineer on. You don’t. Somebody the client hired is a collaborator: no shift, no clock, no pay, no coverage. Those sessions now sit in the Unstaffed column, where the block still says what it is short of — usually “Needs assistant”, because the desk is covered but nobody of yours is there. Your columns are your people, on every calendar. “Ask everyone to cover” now shows up on those sessions too — it used to hide as soon as any name was in the engineer slot, including one of theirs.
ScheduleSeptember 7, 2026
On the week’s Staffing view, the row of bookings none of your team was on used to read “Unassigned” — the same word the room grids use for a session with no ROOM, which are two different problems. It now reads “Unstaffed”, or “Ran unstaffed” once the week is behind you, which is what the row actually means: nobody on your staff was on it, whoever else was at the desk. Nothing about what gets flagged has changed — only what it calls it.
StaffSeptember 7, 2026
A booking a few hours out with no engineer, and a safety or no-show flag raised on a session, used to live only inside the app — so they reached you only if you went looking. Both now alert the phone of anyone who manages the studio, the unstaffed booking about four hours ahead so there is still time to find someone; quieter flags like a scratchy channel or a late artist stay in the bell rather than buzzing you.
NavigationSeptember 7, 2026
Signing in used to drop you on the day’s board — every room, every booking, whether or not any of it was yours. You now land on your own page: your next shift, the week you are on, whether you are clocked in, and anything waiting on you. The Schedule is one click away in the rail and one tap on a phone, and a link someone sent you still opens the thing they sent, rather than bouncing you home first. Adding StudioSide to your home screen opens there too, and finishing setup or opening a second studio now finishes there rather than on the board.
NavigationSeptember 7, 2026
A flagged issue in the bell used to name the room and the client and give you no time at all, so “Gear issue flagged on Whitney” meant opening the session to find out which night. Someone naming you in a note named no session whatsoever. Every row now carries the booking under it, written the same way everywhere — room, then the day, then the hours, and the day word is never left off. Times read in your studio’s clock, which two of them were quietly getting wrong. What somebody actually typed — the flag detail, the note that named you — now sits on its own quoted line instead of being glued onto the end of the headline, and the time it arrived has moved to the right of the row rather than holding a line of its own underneath. When a coworker names you, the face on the row is theirs.
StaffSeptember 7, 2026
On your page, a session that was running showed the word "Now" where its time should have been. On a day with two rooms live at once that left two rows saying the same thing, told apart only by the room name — and today was the one day of the week whose sessions had no times on them at all. Every session now prints its own start and end, the red still marks the live one, and a night that runs past midnight says which day it ends on. The line above the list now says "On shift" so it is clear that time is your shift and not the booking.
StaffSeptember 7, 2026
Forgetting to clock out used to be a dead end: the next day the clock said you were already clocked in, and the only button left stamped the current time, which turned a Friday evening into a twenty-hour shift. Your clock now recognises a punch nobody closed, asks what time you actually finished, and offers the end of the shift you were on so it is usually one tap. The day is marked as corrected, and until you answer, the floor and the engineer picker stop counting you as being in the building.
StaffSeptember 7, 2026
Engineers paid per session and runners paid per day never see a clock-in button, but starting a session was still quietly opening a shift for them in the background — time nobody would ever close, because they had no control that closes it. Starting a session now only puts someone on the clock when they are paid by the hour.
SessionsSeptember 7, 2026
Open a session on your phone and there is a “…” next to Edit. It holds the things that are not everyday buttons: go straight to the client, draft a message, copy a link to the session, download the report once it has run, and — at the bottom, on their own — mark a no-show or call the booking off. Those last two used to be words along the bottom of the card and everything above them could not be reached from a phone at all. It is the same menu the desktop has, so a session can be handled the same way wherever you opened it.
SessionsSeptember 7, 2026
The message tool picks a template that fits the session — still coming?, running late, directions, near the end, a payment reminder carrying the amount and the invoice link — fills in the real details, and hands the finished text to your own Messages or Mail app for you to send. It was labelled as though StudioSide sent it, and on desktop it was wired to text sending, which is switched off, so it never appeared there at all. Both are fixed. One more thing: copying the text no longer leaves a note on the session. Only actually opening your Messages or Mail does, and only once.
StaffSeptember 7, 2026
Your page — the one behind your avatar, with your next shift, the week you are on and anything a manager has asked you to cover — now reloads when you drag it down from the top on a phone, the same gesture every phone feed has. It is the only refresh button that page has: there is no keyboard on a phone, and what is on it changes while you are looking at it. The list parks under a spinner until the new answers have actually landed, so what you read is what is true.
NavigationSeptember 7, 2026
Signing in used to drop you on the studio calendar, and so did the installed app on your phone. Both now open on your page instead — what you are on, what is waiting for you, and the clock. It is the one screen that means something whoever you are, where the calendar mostly answers a manager. The calendar has not moved: it is the first thing in the sidebar and in the phone tab bar, one tap away, and a link somebody sends you still opens straight to it.
SessionsSeptember 7, 2026
Open a live session on your phone and the panel goes dark, the way a live room does everywhere else in the app. The strip along the very top of it stayed white, so the one band that exists to tell you across a room that tape is rolling arrived with a white lid on it. It runs to the edge now.
StaffSeptember 7, 2026
When a session finishes we write down what it cost you in crew pay, so a rate you change in October cannot quietly restate September. For anyone paid by the hour, that written-down figure was built from the booked window instead of the hours they actually punched — so a host who left ninety minutes early was paid for time nobody worked, and one who stayed past the last artist was paid short. The pay week showed the right hours on screen and the written-down ones overruled them, with nothing to say they disagreed. Hourly days now freeze what the clock says. Days nobody clocked into still fall back to the booking and say so, and jobs paid per session or per day are unchanged — those are not counted in hours.
PaymentsSeptember 7, 2026
SUPERSEDED — see 9 September. This lasted two days. Your client is no longer charged anything on top of the invoice, and the processing comes out of your payout instead. What no longer stands from the entry below: the $1,030.18 card figure, the claim that the full invoice reaches you, and the advice to point regulars at bank. Kept here because it did go out, and because some of you answered a client about it. — The card fee used to come out of your money — send a $1,000 invoice, get $970.70. It comes out of your client’s instead as of today. Your pay page now shows them two buttons with the real total on each: card or wallet at $1,030.18, or bank transfer at $1,005.00, on that same $1,000 invoice. They pick, they see the fee before they tap it, and the full $1,000 lands in your account either way. Bank is much the cheaper of the two, so it is worth pointing your regulars at. Cash, check and Zelle are unchanged and still carry no fee at all.
InvoicesSeptember 5, 2026
Paid used to be a green tag on the invoice list, on the session page and in the sessions table. It is grey now, and Unbilled took the green. A paid invoice is the one row on the page that wants nothing from you, and it was wearing the loudest colour on it — so forty settled invoices lit up while the seven you still have to send sat quietly. That is the wrong way round, and it is fixed. Green now has one job across the whole app: money that has not come in yet. It is what the calendar marks on a session you have not billed, what the session panel says instead of the old purple, and what the Unbilled tag and the "Ready to bill" figure on your invoice list wear — so the same money reads the same way wherever you meet it.
ScheduleSeptember 5, 2026
A finished session waiting to be billed said "To bill" in a small grey word on a grey block — the same grey the calendar uses for work that is done and needs nothing from you. It now wears a green bar down its left edge and a green "To bill" tag, exactly the way a booking with nobody on it wears an amber bar and an amber "Needs engineer" tag. Those are the only two things the calendar ever asks of you, so they are drawn the same way: the bar is what you catch scanning a week, the tag is what you read on the one booking you stopped at. A session can never want both at once, so they never fight for the same edge. Day, Week, Month, both the rooms and the people grids, and your phone all changed together — including the phone's month, where a chip is too narrow for any words at all and so had never said anything about money before.
StaffSeptember 5, 2026
Settings → Hours now sets arrival and teardown time per role, not just once for the whole studio. Each role starts out following the studio default and only differs when you say so — so an engineer can get an hour of setup while a runner gets none. One thing worth knowing: only the senior-most person on a session gets this time, so a runner’s setting applies on sessions they cover alone.
NavigationSeptember 5, 2026
The sidebar has a grey background now, so it reads as a panel beside the page instead of blending into it, and the page you are on sits in it as a white tab you can actually pick out. Under that, the bottom of the rail says what the studio is doing: the rooms that are running, with the client, the room and when the session ends — or the next session up if nothing is on, or that the day is clear. Click any of them to open it. The red “live” line that used to sit under your studio name has moved into that list, where it names the rooms instead of just counting them.
StaffSeptember 5, 2026
Lead and wrap set when someone is expected at the studio — they were also quietly being counted as paid hours, so raising "Wrap time" in Settings raised payroll without anyone booking a minute more. Pay now counts the session hours themselves. A placed shift you rostered by hand still pays in full. Weeks you have already agreed are untouched; rebuild a week if you want it recounted.
SettingsSeptember 5, 2026
The "Session length" setting said it also decided where overtime starts billing. It never did — overtime has always been measured against the hours you actually booked on the session. The setting is now called "New booking opens at" and says what it really does: it picks the length a new booking starts at.
ScheduleSeptember 5, 2026
Settings → Hours has a "Session length" and nothing was reading it — every new session opened at a fixed block no matter what you had chosen. Now the number you set is the one you get, whether you click an empty slot on the schedule, hit New in the rail, or open the full booking form.
ScheduleSeptember 5, 2026
Two ways a booking could quietly come out unbillable, both closed. A room you have not put a price on can no longer take a booking — Settings → Pricing has been badging those rooms "Not bookable yet", and now that is actually true, with the booking form naming the room and sending you there. And every session needs a room: if you have one room it is picked for you, and if you have several the form asks instead of letting a booking through blank. What changes is when you find out. A booking like that used to go through fine and turn into a $0 invoice that refused to send — weeks later, after they had already been in and played.
NavigationSeptember 5, 2026
While a session you are on is running, the Me tab on your phone stops being just your initials — it becomes the room, with the client and whoever else is in there stacked behind a red ring. Tapping it opens Me, where a glowing card at the top says who you are in with, how far into the booking you are, and takes you straight back to the session. On a computer the same thing happens to your avatar at the bottom of the sidebar, and its menu carries a row back into the room. Nothing appears unless the session has actually been started and you are on it.
SettingsSeptember 4, 2026
Under Settings → Hours, adding a person to a shift opened a list of your job titles that was sliced off at the bottom of the card — a studio with more than a few jobs could not reach the ones lower down. The list now sits above the page and shows everything, flipping upwards when the shift is near the bottom of the screen.
ScheduleSeptember 4, 2026
The Schedule icon in the sidebar has written today’s date inside it for a while. It now carries the month above the date too, the same way the icon on your phone does. Both read your studio’s own day rather than the clock on whatever machine you happen to be at, so a night that runs past midnight still shows the right one.
PaymentsSeptember 4, 2026
A client paying an invoice by bank transfer used to cost you 1% of it, up to $100. It is now 0.8% and never more than $5, however big the invoice — which is exactly what Stripe charges us to move the money. A $4,000 album block costs $5 to collect instead of $40. Card payments were already priced this way at 2.9% + 30¢, so StudioSide now keeps nothing at all on either rail: we make our money on your monthly plan, not on your takings. Money you collect yourself in cash, by check or through Zelle never touches us and carries no fee. Nothing changes for your clients — they still pay the invoice total exactly as written, with no surcharge at checkout.
InvoicesSeptember 4, 2026
Your studio-wide deposit under Settings → Invoice is still the default, but any client can now be set differently on their own record, next to their rate — studio policy, no deposit at all, a percentage, or a fixed amount. “No deposit” and “studio policy” are kept apart on purpose: a client you promised would never be asked stays that way even if you later start asking everyone for half. Until now this control was hidden for anyone on account, which meant nearly everybody, on the assumption that a client billed afterwards is never asked for anything up front. That is not how studios work — half at booking with the balance invoiced later is the commonest arrangement there is — so the two settings are now asked separately. Their deal sheet reads the whole thing back in one line: “A 6-hour session comes to $720. $360 up front, the rest due 14 days after you send it.” The Deposit setting also names the clients who are on their own arrangement, the way the terms setting already did.
ClientsSeptember 4, 2026
The billing email, the invoice address, the tax ID and the SMS consent box had no way in — the editor holding them was still in the app, but nothing opened it, so those fields could not be changed anywhere. They are back, under the ⋯ menu on a client’s record as "Invoice details…", which is where the rest of that client is edited. Everything you had already put in them was safe the whole time; it just could not be corrected.
GearSeptember 4, 2026
Narrow the list to a category — Amp, say — then search for something in a different one, and the page said "No gear matches" about a studio that owns it. The category row hides itself while you type, but it was still cutting the list from behind the control that had gone: nothing on screen to disprove it, and the only way out was clearing a search you had no reason to suspect. The filter now says its own name while you search — a chip you can dismiss in one click — and the empty result reads "Nothing in Amp matches ‘mac’" rather than pretending the studio is empty.
ScheduleSeptember 4, 2026
Opening the booking form from anywhere that does not name a room — the New session button, the keyboard shortcut, the plus on your phone — used to arrive with your first room already selected, though nobody had selected it. The room is the one field where a wrong default double-books somebody, and a default you stop noticing after a week is the kind you book on top of. Those three ways in now open with no room chosen, and the "is it free" line stays quiet until you pick one. Clicking a slot inside a room’s column, or a room’s own Book button, still fills it in — those name a room, so they keep choosing it.
StaffSeptember 4, 2026
The old Hours page drew your people down the side and seven days across, and every square held minutes — which only helps if everyone is paid by the hour. It is now Pay: one line per person, showing what they worked in the unit their job is actually paid in. An engineer paid per session reads “4 sessions”, a host paid hourly reads “22h 30m”, a runner paid daily reads “3 days”, and each line carries what that comes to, biggest thing on the row. Open a line for the rate, the sessions behind it, and a link to fix anything missing. Anyone the app cannot price yet, because they have no job or no rate, is flagged in place rather than quietly counted as zero, and people who worked nothing fold away behind a single line. It opens on the last finished week rather than the half-finished one, and the week is in the address so you can bookmark it or send it to someone.
ClientsSeptember 4, 2026
Clients is no longer a manager-only page. Everyone on your team now has it, and they see the client the way the floor needs them: preferences, tags, how they usually arrive, the sessions they have had with you, and the notes. No money. Not what the client was billed, not what they owe, not the deal, and not the invoice lines in their history — those stay with owners and managers exactly as before. The part that changes how the day runs is that the floor can now write things down: the engineer who finds out an artist wants the room cold, brings six people, or never shows before two can put it on the record instead of carrying it in their head. Preferences and tags are editable by anyone on the team, and there is now an editor for them at all, which there quietly never was. The client's name, contact details and billing still take a manager.
NavigationSeptember 4, 2026
Opening a page used to wait on a queue of database lookups that had no reason to be in a line, and Schedule was loading a big pile of code for the session panel before you had clicked anything. Both are fixed, so every page starts sooner and Schedule now loads about half of what it used to.
InvoicesSeptember 4, 2026
Automatic reminders used to be one switch covering all three emails — the heads-up before an invoice is due, the first reminder once it is late, and the weekly chase after that. Each is now its own switch under Settings → Invoice, so you can send the polite ones and never the pushy one. Nothing changes unless you change it: every studio already using reminders keeps the same cadence.
SessionsSeptember 4, 2026
Opening a session dims and blurs the calendar behind it, but two thin white stripes were left down the far left and right of the screen where the blur stopped short. The blur now reaches both edges, so the card reads as lifted off the page instead of sitting in a frame.
SettingsSeptember 4, 2026
Settings → Pricing told you a removed room was "archived, not deleted" and that past sessions and invoices were preserved. It was doing the opposite: the room was deleted outright, and every session that had run in it quietly lost the record of which room it was. Removing a room now checks what points at it first and tells you — "Studio A is on 7 sessions and 8 pieces of gear" — then archives it, so it disappears from the schedule and from new bookings while your history keeps naming it. Archived rooms sit under the room list and come back with one click. A room nothing has ever used is still deleted properly, and the dialog says so.
StaffSeptember 4, 2026
Both surfaces were finished but locked to a second, higher tier — so the studios paying our advertised price were the only ones who could not open them. That lock is gone. Build the week on Schedule, read what your team actually worked at Team → Pay week, on the plan you already have. There is one price and everything the product does today is in it, which is what the pricing page has said all along.
SettingsSeptember 4, 2026
Our pricing page said your clients could log in to check their own sessions, and that you could turn that off in Settings. That was wrong — the portal is built but is not part of StudioSide yet, so nobody has it. Nothing about your setup has changed and nothing was ever exposed to a client. Paying an invoice still needs no account: your client opens the emailed link and pays. We will say so here the day the portal actually opens.
StaffSeptember 4, 2026
When a week’s work finishes, what each person earned is recorded against it — the rate, the unit and the amount, as they stood that week. So putting someone’s rate up next month leaves last month exactly as it was, instead of quietly restating it at the new number. Each line on Pay tells you which it is: written down, or still live and able to move. Changing a rate now asks when it starts, from today or from a date you pick, and tells you how much is already settled and will not be touched. There is a Rebuild button if a week ever looks out of date — it settles the week again from the sessions and shifts it actually holds, and it is safe to press twice.
SettingsSeptember 4, 2026
Until now anyone you made a manager could do everything to a session — book it, move it, start it, cancel it, delete it. In Settings → Team, the ⋯ menu beside a manager now has “Can change sessions”. Switch it off and they keep the whole calendar, the rates, the clients and the invoices, but every control that changes a booking disappears — on the laptop and on the phone. Their row says “View only” so the roster tells you at a glance. Only the studio owner can set it, and not on their own account.
SessionsSeptember 4, 2026
New session and New shift used to read back “Today · 12:00 PM · 3h” — a start and a length, which you had to add up before you could check it against anything. They now read “Today · 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM”, so the end time sits next to the studio’s closing time, the client’s arrival and the next booking without any arithmetic. A night that runs past midnight names the day it ends on — “10:00 PM – Sat 4:00 AM” — and one that finishes on the stroke of midnight no longer pretends to reach into tomorrow. The row above it is called Date now rather than Day, and both windows lost some empty space around the title and the buttons.
ReportsSeptember 3, 2026
"Where did it come from?" has a fourth cut: Charge. Kind of work sorts money into six fixed buckets, so a smoking fee or a cleaning fee always landed in Other — this one names it. It counts charges you picked from your saved list rather than typed, which is also the reason to save them: what you pick is what you can count. Renaming a charge keeps its whole history in one row, and the charge is now in the CSV export too.
GearSeptember 3, 2026
The “Free” filter is now called “Free now”, because that is what it answers — a piece booked for tomorrow morning is still free to pick up today, and the old wording read as a promise about your week. Section headings count everything they hold, so a type with one item out of service no longer reports one fewer than you own. A piece that is out of service no longer says “nothing booked ahead — it’s free from here”, and booking one says so before you tick a session. A minor flag is now a grey dot on the list instead of a red one, matching what the item panel has always shown — red is kept for gear that is actually down.
StaffSeptember 2, 2026
Tell us once how you split the day — under Settings, Hours — and we cut the shifts straight from your opening hours: one long shift, day and night, or three. Then the rota grows a Publish next week button that lays that pattern onto real dates. It shows you what it is about to make before it makes it, leaves out anything already on the rota so it is safe to press twice, and there is an Undo on the way back. Tick the box and the whole week goes out for staff to pick up, with one buzz each about the week rather than a phone full of them.
StaffSeptember 2, 2026
Filling a gap used to mean picking someone and hoping. You can now add a shift and leave the person as Anyone free: everyone who could actually work it — nobody who is booked on a session then, nobody who has blocked the time off — gets a buzz on their phone, and the first one to tap I'll take it is on it. It shows up under Up for grabs on their Me tab alongside the shifts that are already theirs. This is off until you switch it on under Open shifts on the Team page, where you can also narrow the buzz to certain jobs. It is a phone alert only — an open shift is gone by the time an email gets read.
SettingsSeptember 2, 2026
Settings → Invoice checked that you were signed in and on the studio, but never what your role was. Anyone on your team who typed the address — a runner, an engineer — could read your payment instructions, your deposit policy, and the names of clients on their own terms. They could never change any of it, and hiding the tab from them was the only thing standing in the way. The page now turns away anyone who is not an owner or manager, the same as Invoices and Reports already did.
SettingsSeptember 2, 2026
Cancel put back most of what you had changed, but not when clients pay, or the deposit basis and amount. Change how clients pay, think better of it and hit Cancel, and the setting stayed changed — then went in with your next save of anything else on the page, quietly taking the due-date clock off every invoice you sent afterwards. Cancel now puts all of it back.
SettingsSeptember 2, 2026
The preview was leaving out the whole pay block — the amount, the payment instructions you set under Payments, and the code your client scans — so the one button on the page whose job is to show you the real thing was showing you an invoice missing the part that gets you paid. It draws the full document now. The template and accent pickers moved into that preview too, next to the paper they change: the settings page just says which one you are on, with a Change button. Pick Aria or Ledger there and the invoice redraws under you.
SettingsSeptember 2, 2026
Three things went wrong while setting up a studio. A room you had priced but not yet named was thrown away without a word when you moved on — it now tells you the name is missing and waits, the same way it already did for a missing rate. If anything interrupted you between naming your studio and adding your rooms — a refresh, a flaky connection — you were told you were already set up and dropped into an app with no rooms in it, with no way back; you now pick up where you left off. And the button on the rooms step said Finish while a step remained after it, so it now says Continue.
SettingsSeptember 2, 2026
Setting or changing your studio address could quietly do nothing: you picked your building from the list, the spinner stopped, and the field sat empty as if you had never chosen anything — with the hint underneath still telling you to pick an address. Behind it, working out the time zone from your address is a separate lookup, and if that lookup dropped it threw away your address along with it. Your address now sticks even when the time zone cannot be worked out, and the field asks you to pick the zone instead. And if the address itself will not resolve, you get told so, over the list you were choosing from, so picking it again is one tap.
InvoicesSeptember 2, 2026
If you had taken a deposit or a first instalment, the invoice page showed your client the balance and no way to pay it — the Pay button disappeared the moment any money was recorded, and they had to email you. The button stays now, and it collects the balance rather than the whole invoice again. It says what has already been received above the amount, and the card statement calls it a remaining balance so nobody queries it. This also covers a payment you logged before the invoice went out: the bill still shows what the work was worth, and the Pay button asks only for what is left.
InvoicesSeptember 2, 2026
Settings → Pricing has a list of the charges you bill for — mixing, mastering, a cleaning or smoking fee. Until now that list did nothing at billing time: "Add line" on an invoice gave you an empty row, so you retyped a name and a price you had already saved. It is now one field: start typing and your saved charges narrow down, pick one and the line fills itself in, or keep typing and it takes whatever you wrote. A charge is also shown in the unit you priced it in — a $1,200 flat lockout no longer reads as one hour at $1,200 an hour — and picking one off the list records which charge it was, so your revenue report can tell mixing from studio time.
ScheduleSeptember 2, 2026
On the week’s Staffing view, the row of bookings none of your team was on said “Nobody was on” — even where the artist had brought their own engineer and somebody had been at the desk all night. That row now reads “Unassigned”, or “Ran unassigned” once the week is behind you, and the booking in it says “No assistant assigned” instead of “Client’s engineer ran it”. On a wide enough calendar it spells the whole thing out: “Client’s engineer · no assistant”. Nothing about what gets flagged has changed — only what it calls it.
SessionsSeptember 2, 2026
Opening the date on a phone gave you a month grid and a single Today link buried under it. It now offers the same three shortcuts the desktop has — Today, Tomorrow and Next week, or Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow when you are logging something that already happened — sitting under the month where your thumb is. Most bookings are one tap now instead of hunting for the right cell.
StaffSeptember 2, 2026
Team now has Jobs. Name the jobs your studio actually has — Engineer, Host, Runner — say whether each is paid per session, per hour or per day, and set what one of those is worth. Then give each person their job from the roster, with their own rate if they don’t take the standard one. The job is what someone DOES, which is a different question from what they can manage, so it sits in its own column beside the access role. Setting it changes something real: a clock only makes sense for people paid by the hour, so an engineer paid per session no longer gets a Clock in button they had no use for. Nobody who hasn’t been given a job yet loses anything, and anyone already on the clock can always clock out.
StaffSeptember 2, 2026
The app has been recording clock-ins and clock-outs for months with no way for a manager to read them back. Team → Hours now opens: everyone down the side, the week across, what was planned against what was logged, and a CSV you can hand to whoever runs your payroll. It shows hours, not money — the question it answers is "agree what everyone worked".
ScheduleSeptember 2, 2026
A session the artist’s own engineer is running drew an empty chair and “Needs assistant”, which read as though nobody was on the booking at all. The block now says “Client’s engineer · needs assistant”, so you can see at a glance that somebody is in the room and that what’s missing is one of yours. Narrow week columns keep the short version, and hovering any block spells it out in full. Those bookings also stop wearing the amber stripe down their left edge: that stripe now appears only where a room will genuinely be empty, so scanning a week tells you which sessions cannot go ahead without you and which will simply run unwatched.
SessionsSeptember 2, 2026
Booking a session already emails the client the time. Until now that was the only thing they ever heard — moving or cancelling told your engineer and told the client nothing, so the confirmation sitting in their inbox quietly went stale and you found out at load-in. Both now send: the move email leads with the new time and shows the old one underneath, and the cancellation says plainly that they do not need to come in. Neither one mentions a fee, because we never charge one, and neither fires about a session that has already been and gone.
InvoicesSeptember 2, 2026
An invoice due the 25th was printing as the 24th, and a payment reminder started reading as a chase the evening before anything was actually late. Both are fixed, and every email StudioSide sends — invoices, receipts, booking confirmations, your team’s schedule digest — has been redrawn to read the same way, with the date and the amount easier to find at a glance.
SettingsSeptember 2, 2026
Whether clients can pick a room themselves is a separate switch from whether the room is bookable at all — a tape room you book by hand every day shouldn’t sit on a public menu. The second switch existed but had no control anywhere in the app, so any room that came off your booking page was stuck off it for good. Open a room in Settings → Pricing and you’ll now find "On your booking page" under "Bookable", and a room that is priced and bookable but still hidden from clients says so in the list.
SessionsSeptember 2, 2026
A session run by the artist’s own engineer used to put their name beside the word "engineer" and tag it "Guest" — the same word your team list uses for a membership tier, so it read as somebody you had taken on. The session now says "client’s engineer" on the row itself, which also explains the "Needs assistant" underneath it: the desk is covered, but nobody of yours is there yet. The word guest is gone from sessions everywhere — the crew picker groups outside people under "Not on your team", the staffing columns say "outside", and Rhodey uses the same words. Your engineer row now means one thing on every screen: who of yours is on it.
SettingsSeptember 2, 2026
Changing your studio address put the divider that separates the country picker from the address on top of the first character, so "932 west" came out with a stripe through it. It now sits in the gap where it belongs, and stays there when the country picker changes width.
SettingsSeptember 1, 2026
Every email that goes out under your name has been redrawn. The one after a session is now a session card: it leads with the date, then lists what was worked on, when the room went in and out, who engineered, and which drive the files are on — things Studioside already knew and never told your client. Your studio name, address and phone sign the bottom of all of them, because a record of work should say who issued it. Fill your address in under Settings if you have not; without one the emails just sign with your name. Your logo or your monogram colour now sits at the top of all of them too — whichever you picked for your invoices is what your clients will see in their inbox.
SettingsSeptember 1, 2026
Every email we send on your behalf said “reply to this email to reach us” — and the reply came to StudioSide instead of your studio. Replies now go to the contact address on your studio profile (invoices and receipts use your billing address if you set one). If you haven’t filled either in, the email no longer offers a reply it can’t deliver — so it is worth adding one under Settings.
InvoicesSeptember 1, 2026
If you asked for a deposit on a session and the client paid it, the invoice that followed charged them the full amount again — the credit was worked out correctly and then thrown away the moment you pressed Send, and there was no line on the bill for the client to query. The deposit now stays off: it shows on the invoice as money already received, the balance is what your client is asked for, and that is the figure on the Pay button, in the email and on the Send screen. Where a deposit covers the whole night, the bill goes out reading as settled instead of asking for the money twice.
InvoicesSeptember 1, 2026
An invoice billed to a label already had the label on the paper, but the Send screen still offered the artist — their name on the button, their address in the recipient box — so the bill went to somebody who could not pay it. It now offers the payer, and says so. Reminders follow the same rule: an automatic chase goes to the address the invoice was actually sent to, then the payer, and only then the artist. Before this, chasing a label-billed invoice emailed the artist three times and then gave up. Nothing changes for a client who pays for themselves.
InvoicesSeptember 1, 2026
A session that ran but never got an end time — or that nobody said whether it happened at all — cannot be invoiced, and until now it was missing from every figure on the Invoices page without saying so. Invoices has a new Unanswered tab that lists exactly those sessions, oldest first, with the booked hours you cannot charge for yet. Clicking one opens the session so you can set the end time or mark it a no-show, and it moves straight to Unbilled. The tab only appears when you have some, and the count now rides on Invoices in the sidebar so you can see it without opening the page. The red strip that used to sit above the Schedule is gone with it — the calendar still marks those sessions, and clearing them now happens next to the money.
ScheduleSeptember 1, 2026
On a computer, New session used to put every answer behind a panel that floated over the rows beneath it — including your five rooms and the purpose field, on a screen with room to show both. The rooms are now drawn in the form, purpose is a box you type in with the usual five beside it, and the client, crew and gear lists open inside the form instead of over it, so what you have already filled in stays readable. The form reads down one column in the order a booking is actually said: when, where, who, what. New shift got the same treatment.
ScheduleSeptember 1, 2026
The New session form tells you whether the room is free for the hours you have picked, and names the booking in the way if it is not — "Studio A has Whitney Houston, 4:00 PM–1:00 AM". Before, a double-booking was only refused once you had filled in everything else and pressed Book, and the message read like a fluke rather than telling you who was in there. It updates as you change the day, the time or the room.
InvoicesSeptember 1, 2026
Bill all ready has always held back a client with no email on file, or one whose hours worked look long against what was booked, and shown you why before anything went out. Bill now on a single row — and the Bill swipe on a phone — did not: they sent straight away. Now they answer to the same two checks. A row that passes still sends on one tap. A row that does not opens for review instead, where you can add the address or confirm the hours before it goes.
SessionsSeptember 1, 2026
Open a session and there is a small label next to the client name telling you what state it is in — Upcoming, Late, Live, In session, Needs end time, Missed, No show or Cancelled — so you can tell at a glance without reading the numbers underneath. On a session that has already run it answers a different question: To bill, Invoiced, or Waived. That is the part the card could never tell you before — whether a night had actually been billed meant going to the invoice list to find out. A session that still owes you money is marked in the same colour the calendar uses for it, so it reads the same wherever you meet it.
SessionsSeptember 1, 2026
On a phone, End session sat at the very bottom of the session sheet, while on a computer the same action was a circle at the top beside invoice and note. One session, one act, two places to look depending on what you were holding. It is the circle at the top on both now, along with Start session, Set end time and Log it late. The one the session is actually waiting on wears a ring around it, which your phone never showed you before.
ScheduleSeptember 1, 2026
The little calendar that drops down from the date used to shade each day by how busy it was, which meant today and the day you had selected — the two days already wearing a colour — could not show it at all. Every day now carries dots under its number instead: grey for work, amber when something on that day needs you, red when a session is on air, the same three colours the arrows either side of the date have always used. Hover a day for the exact count. Separately, stepping or swiping to the next month used to paint the first few days and leave the rest blank for a moment, which read as a quiet month rather than one still loading; the next and previous month are now loaded ahead of you, so a month arrives complete.
StaffSeptember 1, 2026
On a phone, the Staffing screen — who is on, and what still needs someone — now steps a day at a time when you swipe it sideways, the way the day and the month already did. It works while the day is still loading and after a failed read, which is when you most want to move off it.
SessionsSeptember 1, 2026
Open a booking you have offered to someone and the engineer line now reads "Asked · waiting" in plain grey, instead of "Needs engineer" in amber — the same thing the block on your calendar has said for a while, so the two finally agree. Amber is kept for the seats that are genuinely still yours to fill, which means a week with three open holes and two offers out now shows you the three. If everyone you asked turns it down it goes back to amber and says "No one free", and you can still tap the line at any point to assign somebody over the offer.
InvoicesSeptember 1, 2026
Until now money could go into your books and never come out. If a cheque was logged against the wrong invoice, or one you had already banked bounced, that invoice was settled for good — off your chase list, out of Owed, counted as revenue — and there was nothing in Studioside that could put it back. Open an invoice now and every payment on it is listed, including a fully paid one; hover a row and choose Reverse. The original stays on the ledger with a matching reversal beside it, so you keep the history of what happened rather than pretending it never did, and the invoice goes back to being owed. It asks first, and tells you the client will owe that money again before you commit. Card payments taken through Stripe are the exception — refund those in Stripe and the record follows, because that money genuinely moved.
GearSeptember 1, 2026
Every item now has a “Use on” button: it lists your upcoming sessions — the ones you are working first — and ticking one racks the piece up on it. Untick to take it off. Sessions where the piece is already out on something else are greyed out with the booking that has it, so a clash shows before you tap rather than as an error afterwards. Anyone on the team can do this, the same as flagging broken gear.
GearSeptember 1, 2026
Open any item on the Gear page and it lists the sessions it is booked on ahead of now — who, which room, and the hours it is out for, soonest first, each one a tap through to the session. Before, the panel only knew about the next few hours, so the way you found out the mic was already on Thursday was to build Thursday’s session and have the save refused. An item with nothing ahead of it says so, and a booking running past midnight shows the day it ends on.
SettingsAugust 31, 2026
Downloading a copy of your studio — the zip with every session, invoice, payment and client in it — had been failing for anyone who tried, with nothing to say why. It was asking the database for three gear fields that were removed a while back, and that was enough to stop the whole download. It is fixed, and the gear file now lists what a piece of gear actually has: name, type, serial, quantity, where it lives, and its purchase and warranty dates.
SessionsAugust 31, 2026
A booking with nobody on it used to be red on the session card — the same colour as a client who has not turned up or a session that ran past its end — so an ordinary hole in next week's rota looked like tonight going wrong. It is amber now, which is what the calendar has said for a while, and red is kept for the night in progress. Same words, and still one tap to fill the seat.
SessionsAugust 31, 2026
Open a session that is running right now and the top of the card is dark, the way its block already is on the calendar — so you can tell at a glance you are looking at the room in use, not a booking. If your studio goes by the calendar instead of pressing Start, it is a slightly softer dark, and the red dot still only appears once somebody has actually clocked in. The details underneath now read as one even list, instead of drifting apart around the engineer and the note.
InvoicesAugust 30, 2026
Labels, universities, agencies and production companies mostly will not pay an invoice that does not quote their purchase order — and the sting is in the clock, because terms that run from receipt of a valid invoice never start on one that is missing it. So the bill is not late, it is invalid, and we were happily ageing it, turning it red and sending reminders for money that was never in a payment queue. You can now put a PO number on an arrangement, where it is typed once and copied onto every invoice raised under that deal, and you can change it on any individual invoice for payers who issue a fresh one each time. It prints beside the invoice number on the paper, the PDF and the page your client opens — which is where their accounts-payable system looks for it.
InvoicesAugust 30, 2026
Settings → Invoice has a new switch: remind clients about invoices for me. Turn it on and you get two things. Three days before an invoice is due, the client gets a friendly heads-up that says plainly that nothing is late — that is the one that stops a bill going overdue at all, and it is the email nobody minds receiving. Then if it does go past due, we chase: three days later, then once a week, three times at most, stopping after a month, because past that it wants a phone call rather than another email. Both schedules are written out under the switch instead of being something you have to set up, and nothing goes out until you turn it on. Only invoices you have already sent, only clients with an email on file. If there is one client you would rather handle yourself, open their invoice and choose "No reminders for this one" — that silences both emails for that invoice while everyone else carries on, and Send reminder still works by hand whenever you want it.
InvoicesAugust 30, 2026
Hitting Send reminder used to email the client the original invoice a second time — same subject line, same attachment — and leave them to notice the date had passed. It now sends a proper reminder: it says it is a reminder, it says what is still owed and when it was due, and it carries the pay button without re-attaching the PDF the client already has. Nudge someone before the due date has arrived and it changes its tone rather than its facts: it leads with the invoice being due soon, says outright that nothing is late, and puts the due date in the subject line.
InvoicesAugust 29, 2026
If a client was on Net 45, Net 60 or Net 90, three screens quietly rewrote it to Net 14 — the invoice printed what you agreed, then went red a fortnight later and started sending reminders for money that was not late. That is fixed: any terms you set are now carried through everywhere, and anything up to Net 365 is understood. There are also new month-end terms — End of month, Net 30 EOM and Net 60 EOM — where the clock starts at the end of the month the invoice lands in rather than the day you sent it. That is how most labels and agencies actually write their terms, and billing it as a plain Net 30 was making invoices look overdue up to a month early. Every place that shows a due date now works it out the same way, so the preview, the send screen, the quick-pick buttons and the sent invoice can no longer disagree.
InvoicesAugust 29, 2026
If you bill somebody other than the artist — a label, a management company — the app already knew who to bill, and said so on the invoice screen. But the paper that actually left the building did not: the page your client opens, the PDF they download, and the email itself all carried the artist’s name, and the email went to the artist’s address. That is fixed. The bill is addressed to whoever pays it, at their address, with one line underneath saying whose sessions it covers — “For Michael Jackson” — so their bookkeeper can match it to a booking. The email goes to the payer by default, and the payment description on their card statement names them too. Searching the invoice list by a label’s name now finds the invoices they were sent, which it never did before. A deposit raised against a label-covered session used to go out in the artist’s name even when the balance went to the label; both now go to the same place. Nothing changed for an artist who pays for themselves.
ScheduleAugust 29, 2026
Booking a session, the end time opens a list of times with the length beside each one — so "six till ten" and "four hours" are the same click, whichever way you were thinking about it. Times past midnight are marked as landing the next day, which makes an overnight lock-out one pick instead of arithmetic. Typing still works exactly as before: 9p, 2030 and 8:30 PM all land, and the separate length button is gone because the list now covers it.
SessionsAugust 29, 2026
Adding people to a new session used to hand out roles down a ranking — the first person became the engineer, the second the assistant, the third the producer — so if you added the host first because they were the one you were sure about, the booking came out wrong. The first person you add is still the engineer in one tap, since that is the seat the calendar reads. Everyone after is asked which role, with nothing chosen for them, and a role someone already has says who has it.
ScheduleAugust 29, 2026
A session that ran past midnight showed on the night it started and nowhere else, so stepping to the next day left the room empty — the small hours blank, the column reading “Free”, and a plus sign inviting you to book into a room that already had someone in it. The next day now draws the tail of last night’s booking, squared off at the top with the start time labelled by its own day, and counts those hours in the room’s load — and the same goes for whoever is covering it, so a host on until 3:30am shows up beside the work instead of the grid claiming nobody is on. The room still offers you the rest of its day: it says how many hours are spoken for rather than “Free”, but you can still book into it, and a shift carried over from last night never claims someone is working tonight. The booking itself still belongs to the night it began on, so nothing is counted twice.
SessionsAugust 29, 2026
The card you open from the calendar used to show the client’s name twice, and kept the day, time and room in a header of their own — away from the facts you were checking them against. The name appears once now, beside the client’s colour, and when and where sit in the list with the purpose, the crew and the gear, so you read straight down. A session that has run shows its actual times directly under the booked ones, which makes an overrun something you see rather than work out, and one still going reads “9:00 AM – now”. A called-off booking leads with how much notice you got instead of the day somebody pressed cancel — a date that used to sit right under a different one — and a missed booking says “never arrived” rather than repeating the booking’s own date. Two labels changed to the words those fields already use elsewhere in the app: purpose instead of booking, and actual instead of ran.
SessionsAugust 29, 2026
Type a name the New session window does not recognise and it now offers to add them as a client, right there, and puts them on the booking. Before this you had to close the window, go to Clients, add them, and start the booking again — and a session saved with the client left blank never appears in your billing list at all, which is a quiet way to lose money on your first week. Admins and owners only, the same as adding a client anywhere else.
SettingsAugust 29, 2026
The rooms step used to offer to skip itself. Taking it left you with a calendar that had nothing to draw and no rate to bill against, so the first session you booked came out at zero. One room with a rate is now required to finish setup — you can add the rest, and change any of it, in Settings whenever you like.
InvoicesAugust 29, 2026
When a label covered an artist’s booked hours — or agreed to pay up to a set amount — the bill could still land on the artist: for a night that finished on time, and for a whole run of nights billed together from the invoices list. Those invoices now reach whoever agreed to pay for them, whether you bill one session or a month of them. The label gets the hours it covered, the artist gets anything past them, as two separate invoices. A ceiling is now counted across every night the deal has already paid for, so an arrangement capped at an agreed figure stops there instead of starting again each evening. One thing to know: Send all holds an account whose nights fall to two different payers rather than sending half of it — both drafts are made and correct, and you send each one.
ScheduleAugust 29, 2026
A booking that starts at 9pm and wraps at 7am belongs to the night it started on, but the day only had hours ruled to 11pm — so on a phone it disappeared into blank space below the last hour, and on a Mac the small hours ran on with nothing saying whose day they were. The day now rules as many hours as the night actually needs, and where it crosses midnight it says so: the date sits in the hour column and a line marks the change. Tapping an hour past midnight books it on the next day, the way it reads.
SessionsAugust 29, 2026
On a Mac, the Add crew and Add gear panels grew as tall as the window, so a list of a dozen people ran off the bottom edge and hid the session you were adding them to. Both now sit in a panel you can see the end of, with the list scrolling inside it, and the rows are sized for a cursor rather than a thumb. Add crew also separates guests from your own staff instead of listing everyone together under one heading.
StaffAugust 29, 2026
Switch the Schedule to Staffing on a phone and the New button makes a shift instead of a session — person, day, hours, all asked up front. Rostering someone used to mean waiting until you were back at a laptop.
StaffAugust 29, 2026
On the Schedule’s Staffing view, drag down someone’s column and those hours become their shift — the same gesture that books a room on the calendar. Putting a host on the floor used to mean taking the default evening window and correcting it afterwards; now you set the hours as you go, and clicking the shift still changes or removes it.
ScheduleAugust 29, 2026
A studio that had not added its rooms yet opened the Schedule on a ruled grid with no columns in it and nothing explaining why — the hours down the side, and blank space where the rooms belong. Day and Week now say what a room is and give you a button straight to where you add one, and the month says it in a line under the calendar instead of replacing it.
ScheduleAugust 29, 2026
Opening the Schedule on a phone flashed a placeholder built for an older version of the screen: it carried a view toggle the app no longer has, no Today button, and a date band the real screen had dropped, so the calendar shifted as the sessions landed. The placeholder now matches the screen that arrives, and opening the month draws a month instead of a day of hours you watch disappear.
ScheduleAugust 29, 2026
The New session window used to be a tall, narrow column you had to scroll to reach the Book button, with the same question asked in several different-looking ways. It is now one screen: the day and time across the top, the room, client and crew on the left, purpose and gear on the right, and a proper note box at the bottom. The length lives on the time line rather than as a separate row of buttons — it reads back whatever the start and end times say, and clicking it still gives you the common lengths in one press. Rooms and purpose open from their own line, so the window is the same size whether you have three rooms or nine. New shift got the same treatment, and it now asks who the shift is for first instead of fourth, so you pick the person while you are still thinking about them. The old Role question is gone — a shift takes the role that person already holds, set on the Team page. Nothing changed on a phone.
PrivacyAugust 29, 2026
There is a new Security page, linked from the footer, that says how your studio’s data is protected — how one studio is kept apart from another, what is encrypted, what our own error reports and analytics can see, and what we have not built yet. It also carries the complete list of the companies that help us run StudioSide and exactly what each one receives. That list was four names; it is nine, and the five that were missing were always there — our host, the assistant, error monitoring, and two analytics tools. Nothing changed about how your data is handled; what changed is that we now say all of it. The privacy policy and the data processing agreement read from the same list, so the three pages cannot disagree.
ScheduleAugust 29, 2026
A cancelled booking now shows on the Schedule by default, struck through, instead of being hidden until you went looking for it. The room was held and the client may still turn up, so the board now agrees with what you remember booking. The switch has flipped round: Show cancelled in the filter panel is on, and turning it off hides them and counts on the filter button like any other thing you have hidden. On a phone this matters most — the calendar there dropped cancelled bookings with no filter to bring them back, so a night with one on it drew as an empty night. They show now, and calendar search finds them too.
ScheduleAugust 29, 2026
Tapping search on the Schedule used to open the app-wide search box. Before you had typed a word it offered New session — the black + is in the other corner of the same row — then every client alphabetically, then invoices, gear and rooms, three of which already have their own tab along the bottom. It searches your sessions now, and nothing else. Open it and you get what is coming up, grouped by day. Type a client, a room or what the session is for and you get two lists: what is upcoming, and what already happened with the most recent first — so “when are they next in” and “when were they last in” are both one question. It looks a year either side of today rather than only the day on screen, so last month’s booking is findable again. Picking a result moves the calendar to that day and opens the session card, instead of taking you off the page you were searching from. If what you want is not a session — someone on the team, a room, an invoice — one row under the results hands the words you already typed to the full search.
InvoicesAugust 29, 2026
Marking an invoice paid now asks when the money came in, and defaults to today. Before, a payment was always filed on the day you typed it — so a cheque that arrived on the 29th and got logged on the 3rd landed in the following month, and one that arrived in late December and was logged in January landed in the following tax year. If you back-date an entry the dialog tells you which month it will show up in. Your payments export now has both dates side by side: when it arrived, and when it was recorded. A part-paid invoice also finally shows its payments — you can see when the first instalment came in and how it was taken, instead of just a smaller balance.
InvoicesAugust 29, 2026
Putting a discount on a draft made the invoice show the wrong amount owed — $800 with 10% off read as $640 on the page you approve, while the Send button beside it said $720, and $720 was what the client was billed. The invoice you look at and the one they receive now always agree. Separately, taking a session off a draft removed it from the screen and from the running total, but the client was still invoiced for it. Take-off now really takes the work off, and the session goes back to Ready to invoice as the tray has always said it would. Putting it back restores it properly too.
ScheduleAugust 29, 2026
The Booking / Staffing pair at the top right is now a single Staffing button. Booking has no button because booking is what the page is — staffing is a job you go and do, and press again to leave. The button carries a small amber number when bookings in view still need somebody, so a hole is easier to notice than it was when the pair sat there saying nothing. The Schedule also stops remembering which of the two you were last in: fill Sunday’s rota, come back Tuesday, and you land on your bookings rather than on the rota you finished with. A link with the rota in it still opens the rota.
ScheduleAugust 28, 2026
Copying the URL with a session open and sending it (or just reloading) used to open the big full-page view instead of the card you were actually looking at — and opening a card on the calendar would flip itself into that full page a second later, on its own, burying anything you had already clicked. The two are separate links now, so a card stays a card and stays shareable. Links from notifications, emails and your Recent list still go straight to the full page, which is what they always meant.
SessionsAugust 28, 2026
The bar under the big number came out three times too thick on the full page — a black slab resting on the bottom of the number rather than a thin gauge under it — and on a session still missing its end time it washed out across half its width instead of fraying at the edge. It measures the booking again, the same way the pop-up and your phone draw it. The notes on that page were stuck in a narrow column about a third of the width of the record, with the rule beside each entry stopping in mid-air and the box you type into shrunk to match. Notes now run the full width, which is most of the reason to open a session full-page at all.
SessionsAugust 28, 2026
Opening a session from a link, a notification or a reload used to paint the calendar’s loading screen first, then a loading screen shaped like the older session page we have since replaced, and only then the session itself — three unrelated layouts in a row, which reads as the app loading twice before it settles. There is one now, and it is the shape of the session window: the toolbar, the rail and the record all sitting where they are going to stay, with the client’s name already on it. It fills in rather than being replaced.
StaffAugust 28, 2026
A session that ran and never got an end time can’t be billed, and the only person who knows when it stopped is whoever was in the room. Until now that showed up on the calendar — which engineers don’t open — so the studio’s only options were to remember or to chase. Your own page now lists them, under “Asked to cover”, with one button that files the end time without leaving. It opens on the booked end, so a night that ran to plan is one tap. No money is shown anywhere on it.
InvoicesAugust 28, 2026
Two ways an invoice draft could quietly drop work. Anything typed in the last second before you closed the editor was thrown away while the toolbar still said “Saving…” — it now saves on the way out. And a charge you took off a draft used to vanish for good if you closed the editor by accident, even though the tray says nothing is deleted; taken-off lines are now still there when you open that invoice again, and clear once you send or waive it.
SessionsAugust 28, 2026
The money circle on a session card said “invoice” whether or not one had already been raised, and pressing it on a session that had one could only answer “Session already invoiced” — so the only way to find out was to try and fail. It now says which of the three it is on sight: “invoice” to raise one, “draft” when somebody has started one and not sent it, and an eye when the invoice is out. Pressing it opens that invoice instead of refusing to make a second one, which also means “resend” finally does something — it never could before.
ScheduleAugust 28, 2026
Clicking a session on the calendar opened its card, and then a second later the full-page view slammed open over the top of it — unasked. Anything you had already pressed went under it: hit Invoice and the editor opened behind the full page, so the invoice was raised but you never saw it, and every save after that stacked another copy on the pile. The card now stays a card. Opening a session from a link, a notification or a reload still goes straight to the full page, and Collapse still drops you back onto the card.
ScheduleAugust 28, 2026
On Month, clicking a free day used to walk you into that day’s grid — so booking a Tuesday you were already pointing at cost a view change and a second click. An empty square now opens the booking form for that day, and the date in the corner still takes you to the day itself. On the Staffing side the same square starts a shift instead. Days that have already been and gone are unchanged: they can’t be booked, so they still just open.
ScheduleAugust 28, 2026
The switch only ever did anything on the Booking side. Turn it on and a week could show three sessions under Booking and one under Staffing — the two called-off nights were missing from your crew’s rows and from the “Nobody on” lane, with no way to bring them back. Both spans now show them, struck through the way they look everywhere else. They count toward nobody’s hours and never appear as a hole somebody needs to fill, because a night that was called off is not work waiting to be staffed.
SessionsAugust 28, 2026
If a room was booked 9–10 PM but the session actually got going at 11, ending it at the booked time wrote an end that came before the start. The session finished with no hours on it, so it could never be billed — and nothing anywhere said so. The End window now says it under the time you picked and leaves End greyed out until you change it, and a session that gets there by any other route is refused rather than quietly finished with nothing to invoice.
ClientsAugust 28, 2026
Running your mouse down the client list and then clicking a name could leave that person’s outstanding balance, who-pays row and notes feed shimmering for ever — the app was quietly dropping the request your hover had already started. Opening a client now asks again for anything that went missing, so the record fills in every time. Pasting a client link straight into the address bar always worked, which is what made this so hard to pin down.
SessionsAugust 28, 2026
Open two sessions in different states and the card used to rearrange itself — the big number, the bar and the line under it each sat somewhere different depending on what the session was doing, so every card had to be read from scratch. They hold still now, to the pixel, whatever state the session is in. The bar under the number carries the booked start and end on its two ends, and it draws what actually happened rather than just how much of the block is gone: a client who walked in an hour late leaves an empty stretch at the front, a session that wrapped early stops short, one that ran long fills past the end. A session still waiting on its end time fades out instead of pretending to know when it finished. And instead of a line of advice, the one button the session is actually waiting on — set the end time, log what happened, bill it — now wears a ring, on your phone, in the pop-up and on the full page.
ScheduleAugust 28, 2026
Pressing + used to open a little window asking whether you meant a session or a shift, before it would let you fill anything in. It does not ask any more — it goes straight to the form. Which one you get comes from the Booking / Staffing switch you are already looking at: on Booking the + books a room, on Staffing it puts someone on. Same on your phone, where + always books. One less click on every booking you make.
ScheduleAugust 28, 2026
Day, Week and Month were drawing the same booking three different ways, so moving between them meant re-finding every fact. They are one drawing now. The client’s avatar leads every block, the way it does on their record and on the session page. Whatever the booking needs — Late, Missed, No-show, Live, or To bill — is always the last thing on the first line, in the same red, on all three. The engineer’s initials sit beside the time. Two things that used to go missing now do not: the month says when a finished session is still waiting to be billed, and it shows the red on a session that is on air. Long client names have stopped wrapping onto a second line, and the clock reads the same way everywhere — 10 – 11:30 AM rather than one view saying 10:00 AM and another saying 10 AM. Your phone gets all of it too: it used to say nothing at all about whether a session was late, missed, on air or short of an engineer, so a problem you could see at the desk was invisible in your pocket.
ScheduleAugust 28, 2026
On the week’s Staffing view, a shift is made by clicking the hole where you want it. Pick Day, Eve or Night the first time and that window stays loaded, so the next forty shifts are one click each — and while it is loaded, clicking a person’s name gives them every open day of the week, and clicking a date at the top puts everyone free on that day. Whatever you just did can be undone from the toolbar, including a whole week at once. The three windows are now cut from your own opening hours rather than being our guess at a studio day, so a room that runs ten till ten is offered ten-to-two, two-to-six and six-to-ten. Clicking a shift you already placed now opens it instead of deleting it: you can see the hours, change them after the fact, see if that person said they were off, and remove it from in there. The row above the people is called “Nobody on” now — everything in it is a booking with no one on it, and calling those shifts was wrong.
ScheduleAugust 28, 2026
The Schedule on a phone now carries the same Staffing button as a computer. Press it and you get who is in the building that day, what each person is on, anyone booked off, and any session still waiting for an engineer; press it again to come back to your bookings. When sessions on screen still need somebody the button wears a small amber number, so a hole is easy to notice without going to look for one.
ScheduleAugust 28, 2026
On a phone, the dots under the week’s dates only appeared on the day you were already looking at. Every day with work now carries one, and it turns amber when that day needs you and red while a session is running.
SessionsAugust 28, 2026
The window for changing when a booking happens was the last one that still looked like it came from somewhere else — a title bar with an X, one dense field, and a black button in a footer. It now opens the way Notes, Waive and Add crew do, with the booking laid out a fact per line: the date, when it starts, when it ends, and how long that makes it. You edit the start and the end; the length follows on its own. Type “830p” or pick from the list, whichever is quicker. Done stays grey until you actually change something, and a night that crosses midnight simply says tomorrow’s date under the end time instead of warning you about it. On the session page the button that said “Adjust time” now says “Move” — it only ever moved the booking, and the old name needed a sentence underneath explaining that it would not start or end the session. One fix underneath all of it: the date and time lists used to open behind the window and come up half-hidden, which also affected picking crew.
SessionsAugust 28, 2026
The When sheet in the new-session form had its own way of asking: four sideways rails of chips you flicked through — one for the day, one for every start time, one for every end time, and one for lengths behind a “set a length instead” link. It now says the same four things the rest of the app says them with: a day, a start and an end on their own labelled lines, each opening the month or the spinning clock in place, and the lengths a studio actually books — 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 hours — still one press. Setting an end still sets the length and setting a length still moves the end, and a booking that runs past midnight still says the next day’s date underneath instead of warning you.
SessionsAugust 28, 2026
Opening a session by reloading the page or pasting its link read every one of them as unbilled — so a night you had already invoiced came up with “Send invoice” as its main button, while the same session opened by clicking it on the calendar correctly said Invoiced. That path was never looking at the invoice; it is now, and all three ways in agree. Two smaller versions of the same fault went with it: a session still in the room, in studios where the calendar is the record, was being read as finished and asked to be billed halfway through; and while the page is still loading the calendar no longer assumes a session with any invoice attached has been paid for — it says nothing until it knows, and it now knows on the first paint.
SessionsAugust 28, 2026
The line under the client’s name is the booking again — the day, the start and end time, and the room — instead of the day and the room with the clock shrunk down beside the progress bar, which made the one thing you open a session to check the smallest type on the card. The bar underneath is now thick enough to read at a glance. Under it, the card says what the session still wants from you in plain words: “Bill this session”, “Set the end time · so you can bill it”, “Log what happened · or mark a no-show”. Dark type means something is outstanding, grey means it is handled — so going down a week of finished sessions you are looking for the dark lines. A client who has not turned up now says how long you have been waiting rather than that the session starts now, and the number’s label stopped changing with the billing: ten hours worked reads “worked 10h” whether or not you have sent the invoice.
ScheduleAugust 28, 2026
Day, Week and Month each have a Booking side and a Staffing side, and until now flipping between them moved the page around: the rota pushed the week’s columns down to make room for a strip of its own, the month’s day cells came out different widths depending on how long your clients’ names were, and a booking nobody is on yet was amber on one view and indigo on another. All six now share one grid, one toolbar line (“3h · 3 sessions · 1 open”), and one colour for “this needs somebody” — amber, everywhere. The crew chips that ran along the top of Day have gone; the Staffing side gives every one of those people a column of their own, which is where you were already editing them.
ClientsAugust 28, 2026
When a label pays for one of your artists, that used to be two questions on a small menu: does it follow an overrun, and when does it stop. Open it now and you get the whole agreement on one card — what it covers, a ceiling if there is one, when it runs from and to, and who agreed it with you. Underneath, in plain words, is what it does to the next bill: “a 12-hour night in Studio A bills Motown Records $1,200 and Stevie Wonder $1,500.” Change any line and that sentence moves, so you can see the effect before you save rather than on an invoice afterwards. A ceiling keeps a running total against it — $27,600 of $40,000 — and is counted across the whole arrangement, the way a purchase order works, not per night.
InvoicesAugust 28, 2026
Every payer arrangement on record started on the day somebody typed it. Because an arrangement takes over from the older “usual payer” setting the moment it exists, that quietly pushed earlier unbilled sessions outside it — so a night the label had agreed to pay for would have been invoiced to the artist instead. Arrangements now start at the client’s first session, and the ones already on your records have been corrected. You can see and change the start date yourself, and if you move it forward the card tells you how many earlier sessions would fall outside.
SessionsAugust 28, 2026
The five things you do to a session from its footer — start it, end it, log one that already ran, mark a no-show, text the client — each opened a different-looking box. Two of them, no-show and text, floated in the middle of a phone screen with nothing to grab, while every other action on the same session rose from the bottom edge. They now all wear the same chrome as notes, waive and add crew: the client’s name and room at the top so you can see what you are about to act on, the verb in the middle, the commit on the right. Ending a session says out loud on a laptop, not just a phone, that you have ten seconds to undo — and it says it in the same sentence as the time and the worked total, instead of on a line that was half-hidden behind the buttons. Logging a session that already ran is four short lines now — the day, the two times and the hours they come to — rather than four large cards asking you to confirm times that were already right, and an overnight one no longer has to be entered by hand. Starting and ending a session read the same way — the day, the time, and what pressing the button will do — instead of a stack of cards on a laptop and a stepper on a phone. On a phone, picking a day or a time now works the way it does everywhere else on a phone: a month, or a spinning hour-and-minute dial, opens inside the sheet and pushes the rows below it down instead of floating a panel over them — so the length, or the hours worked, stays on screen and keeps counting while you choose. Only one of them can be open at once, so the sheet never grows past the number you are watching. All of these sheets are also sized for the screen you are on now: finger-sized on a phone, and noticeably tighter on a laptop, where they were showing phone-sized type and controls inside a small panel.
SessionsAugust 27, 2026
The session card listed what was racked up but gave you no way to change it — the only place to add a mic or take an amp off was the booking form, before the night happened. Tap Edit and the gear block now has an “add gear” row like the crew block above it. It opens your whole inventory grouped the way the card lists it, with a tick against everything already on the session, so adding two mics and taking a DI off is one trip and one Done. It also tells you what Done will do — “2 added · 1 taken off” — instead of making you re-read the list.
SessionsAugust 27, 2026
Move and the start/end corrections were the last two things on the session card that opened a boxy dialog with an ✕ in the corner while every other action — notes, waive, cancel, add crew — opened a sheet. They now wear the same chrome, and they say more than they used to: Move lays out date, starts, ends and length one per line and the end slides with the start, so moving a booking keeps its length. Fixing when a session really ended shows the other end of the clock beside it and the worked time it comes to, and refuses an end before the start or a time in the future on the spot rather than after you press save. Waiving a session now names the amount you are writing off.
ScheduleAugust 27, 2026
Day × Staffing gave every person on your roster a column whether or not they had anything on, so a Friday with one session that needed an engineer spent most of the screen saying nobody was doing anything — and the engineer who was double-booked got squeezed into a column narrower than her own name, with the “Needs end time” flag knocked onto its own line. Now the day draws the people who are actually on: anyone with a session or a floor shift, plus the Unstaffed column. Everyone free folds into a small tab at the right edge that says how many they are and opens with a click, so nobody disappears. Someone double-booked gets twice the room, so both bookings read in full rather than as two half-legible slivers, and a column stops widening past the point where a booking is easier to read. Blocks no longer repeat the person’s initials inside their own column — the column already says whose it is — and a session run by a guest engineer now says out loud that it still needs an assistant.
ScheduleAugust 27, 2026
Flipping between Booking and Staffing moved things that should not have moved. On Week, the two grids never quite registered: the staffing side grew a scrollbar the booking side did not have, so every day column shifted and Saturday sat ten pixels from where it had just been. That is fixed, and the header rule is the same weight on both. The staffing week now carries the marks the booking week already had — the blue dot for a booking that changed since you last looked, the outline on the one you have open — and its day headings are doors again, so clicking Thursday takes you to Thursday. Both weeks state their total in the same place: 118.5h · 13 sessions on one side, 102h · 10 shifts on the other. Every chip on both grids now names the other axis with the same small mark in the same spot — the room’s glyph on staffing, who is on it for booking — and a booking with nobody on it wears the same shape here as it does on the day.
ScheduleAugust 27, 2026
A month entry named the client but never the time, so you had to open a booking to tell a lunchtime session from an all-nighter. Both months now print the start time on the right of every line. On the staffing month that time replaces the single letter that used to stand for the room, which needed a key nobody had. More importantly, the staffing month was quietly dropping any night that had already gone by with nobody of ours on it — the day and the week both keep those on screen, so the one place you review a month from was the one place that made them vanish. They are back, in plain grey and the past tense, and they stay out of the count of holes you can still fill.
ScheduleAugust 27, 2026
Switching Day from Booking to Staffing used to turn the whole calendar on its side: hours stopped running down the page and ran across it instead, and every session changed from a tall block to a wide one. Staffing now draws the day exactly as Booking does — the same hours down the same left edge, at the same scale, with the same red line for now — and the only thing that changes is what a column is. A column is a room on Booking and a person on Staffing, so a booking simply moves from its room’s column to its engineer’s. Two sessions on one person split their column the way two bookings on one room do, so a double-booking looks like a double-booking. Bookings nobody is on go in an Unstaffed column pinned beside the hours, which says how many still need someone and names the role each one is missing — and once a day has closed over it says nobody was on it instead of asking. People rostered on the floor get a quiet band in their column, which the room grid has never been able to show, and a person with nothing on can be put on the floor straight from their name.
ScheduleAugust 27, 2026
Day already told you how much each room had on it. Week and Month did not, so crossing from one to the other meant the top of the calendar went quiet and changed height. Now a week’s date carries that day’s hours the same way a room carries its own — 29h, 9h, 16h — and a day with nothing booked stays blank rather than saying so seven times across. The numbers are shorter too: a room reads 11h instead of “1 session · 11h”, and a free room reads Free instead of Open, which was the same word as the button that opens it. Month keeps its weekday letters, because a Monday column holds four different Mondays and there is no honest number to put there — but it now sits in a band the same height as the other two, so the header stops growing and shrinking as you move.
SessionsAugust 27, 2026
The calendar has always flagged a session nobody is on, but opening it showed a dash beside the word engineer and left you to work out that it mattered. The session now says what it is waiting for, in the same words and the same red the calendar uses — “Needs engineer”, or “Needs assistant” when the artist’s own engineer is running it and nobody of yours is there. Press it and the crew picker opens on that seat, so it takes one click instead of Edit, find the row, assign. Sessions that already ran keep the plain dash: there is nothing left to ask. Starting a session with nobody on it also warns you again before it begins the clock.
ScheduleAugust 27, 2026
The Schedule used to give up three stacked strips before it drew a single hour, and the strips changed as you moved: the date arrows sat in a different place on a long date than a short one, the Day/Week/Month buttons jumped sideways depending on whether you were on today, and only Day had the summary line under the bar. It is one row now, the same shape on all six views. The summary line that used to sit under the bar on Day — how many sessions were booked, whether the floor was covered — has gone with it: every word of it was a worse retelling of the calendar directly underneath. Who is on the floor moved up into the space the bar was already wasting, because those people are the one thing on Day with no lane of their own. Rooms and People are now called Booking and Staffing, which is what you are actually switching between. And “+ New” is a single ＋ that offers a session or a shift, so adding somebody to the floor is the same button as booking a room. The two week views got the same treatment: the staffing week’s row of totals moved up into that one line, its extra hours column moved onto each person, and the seven days now sit in exactly the same place whichever way you turn the week — so a booking looks and reads the same on both.
SessionsAugust 27, 2026
The session card on the calendar now has a title bar, and the arrow beside its close opens the session as a full page — before this there was no button anywhere that got you there. The full view is a window: a column down the left with the clock, the four things you can do to the session and what it comes to, and the record beside it. The gear list is spelled out instead of “+3 more”, and the notes thread sits on the page rather than behind a button — type @ to pull somebody in or / to flag what happened. The card itself gained the same four buttons, so starting or ending a session no longer means finding a different control depending on which size you opened. A running session paints that left column black, the same as everywhere else. Phones are unchanged.
SessionsAugust 27, 2026
A label covering one session used to mean pointing that artist’s whole account at the label — and remembering to point it back. Every session now has a “Bill to” line you can set at booking, and it says whether the answer is just this one or their usual payer. When you pick somebody new, the app asks once whether to make it their default, so you never have to go and set that up separately.
SessionsAugust 27, 2026
Deposits could be configured in Settings but there was no button anywhere to actually ask for one. A session that has not run yet now shows “Ask for $X deposit” under the estimate, using your studio’s rule or whatever you agreed with that client.
ScheduleAugust 27, 2026
Schedule’s People rows only went as wide as a week, so "is next month covered?" had to be asked seven days at a time — Month was greyed out with a note saying it wasn’t drawn yet. It is now: pick Month with People, and every day says who is working, which room they’re in, and how many are on. Nights nobody has picked up show as an amber "Needs engineer" slot in the day they belong to, and the line above the calendar totals the month’s hours, shifts and open slots. Click a name to open that session, an amber slot to go and fill it, or a date to drop into the day.
ScheduleAugust 27, 2026
The coloured dot beside a person’s name on the rota was picked at random for each role, which meant two roles could land on the same colour — including the amber the app uses for a shift nobody is on, so a staffed line and an unstaffed one could look alike. Engineers, assistant engineers, hosts and runners now each have their own colour everywhere they appear, and none of them is that amber.
ClientsAugust 27, 2026
Who pays, when they pay and what they pay were three separate little menus on a client record, and none of them could tell you what the arrangement actually was. They now live together in the deal sheet, opened from a single “deal” line. Every term says whether you negotiated it or it came from your studio defaults, and a negotiated one shows the standard it moved from — so a discount is visible as a discount.
InvoicesAugust 27, 2026
Your studio deposit was all-or-nothing: everyone paid the same share up front. You can now set a different one for an individual client, or agree that a particular client never pays a deposit — and that exemption sticks even if you later start asking everyone else for half.
NavigationAugust 27, 2026
Opening any session lit up every session in the sidebar’s Recent list at once, and clients in that list were never marked at all. Recent now highlights exactly the one you are looking at, session or client. Reloading keeps your place too — the client you had open stays open instead of dropping you back to the plain list of names.
GearAugust 27, 2026
Anything out of service now sits in its own short list at the top of the Gear page, and every row says “down” in red — including when you find it by searching, which is when it used to look like everything else. Who flagged it, what they wrote and the fix are all one tap away.
GearAugust 27, 2026
A piece of gear now says when you get it back — “busy till 6pm”, “booked from 8pm” — and names the room it is actually in when that is not the room it lives in, so nobody walks to the wrong studio. Gear that is free says nothing at all, so a clean row means take it.
GearAugust 27, 2026
Pick Type or Room and the chips underneath become your mics, amps and computers — or Studio A, Studio B and the mic locker — each with a count, so “how many mics do we own” is answered before you tap anything. Search finds a room or a locker by name now too, and the number beside “Gear” counts pieces rather than lines, so a lot of eight headphones counts as eight.
GearAugust 27, 2026
On a wide screen the piece you pick opens in a column next to the catalogue instead of a panel sliding over it, so the list stays visible and you can read down your kit one item at a time. On a phone it still comes up from the bottom as before.
NavigationAugust 27, 2026
Clicking a session under Recent in the left rail only opened it when you happened to already be looking at the week it was in — the rest of the time the click did nothing at all. It now opens the session every time, and the calendar behind it moves to that session’s day, so closing the session leaves you on the right day rather than back where you started.
ClientsAugust 27, 2026
Who gets the invoice, when they pay, what they pay and what you take up front were scattered across two settings pages and three separate controls, and nothing anywhere showed you the arrangement whole. Every client record now has a "See the whole deal" link that opens it as one page, written as plain sentences, starting with what a session actually comes to — worked out from their own rate, or from what they were last charged. A client on your standard terms says so in a line rather than repeating your settings back at you.
InvoicesAugust 27, 2026
Payment terms could only ever say "so many days after the invoice", which is not how most studio work is paid for. Each client can now be set to pay up front, pay at the session, or be invoiced on account — and only the last of those gets a due date, so a session settled in the room stops producing an invoice marked Net 14 that turns red a fortnight later for money you are already holding. Net 45 and Net 60 exist now too, which labels ask for. You can also set a deposit in Settings → Invoice, as a percentage or a fixed amount: a booking that has not happened yet gets an "Ask for a deposit" button, it goes out as its own invoice, and whatever the client pays comes off their final bill automatically.
InvoicesAugust 27, 2026
An overtime rate typed against a room saved, showed itself back to you, and never reached a single invoice — sessions that ran past their booked time were billed at the normal rate. Overtime now charges what the room says it charges. We also reconciled every existing room so the number on screen matches the number being billed; no room’s charge changed, but four of them were showing you the wrong figure. Separately, an invoice marked Net 60 was quietly falling due in 14 days, which also meant reminder emails could have gone out six weeks early. Both are fixed.
ScheduleAugust 27, 2026
Switching the schedule to People used to ignore the filter bar completely — you could hide a room or untick a status and the rota carried on showing everything. It now follows what you asked for, with one difference that matters: hiding a PERSON takes them off the rota entirely rather than emptying their row, because an empty row reads as "free" and that is how somebody gets booked onto a day you had deliberately hidden. Hiding a room or a status takes those sessions off the people who were on them, and the week’s hours and shift count follow, so the summary always describes the week you can actually see. Bookings nobody is on stay put whoever you have hidden — they are the work still waiting for someone.
ScheduleAugust 27, 2026
On the People view, any booking without an engineer sat in the Unstaffed row with an Assign button on it — including ones from weeks ago, which the rest of the app was already treating as finished work ready to invoice. Assign now appears only where it can still be answered: bookings ahead of you, running late, or on right now. A booking whose time has passed still shows in that row — a day of missed sessions should not look like an empty rota — but it sits there quietly in grey, and clicking it opens the session so you can start it late, mark the no-show, or close it out. The row counts to match: "1 need someone" when there is something to fill, "Nobody assigned" when it is all behind you. The week view follows the same rule: its Open shifts row used to sit there in amber above seven empty cells on any past week, promising something it could never show, while the sessions that actually ran with nobody of yours on them left no trace at all. Both now appear — amber where you can still put someone on it, quiet grey where the week has closed over it — and the row heading reads "Nobody assigned" once there is nothing left to fill. Each of those past bookings says which seat was empty rather than a blanket "nobody" — "Nobody assigned" when none of yours was on it at all, "No engineer assigned" when somebody of yours was there but nobody was running the desk.
ScheduleAugust 26, 2026
A session on the calendar used to be one of five colours, and you had to have been taught which was which — amber meant a client was late, pink meant a no-show or a session nobody closed, violet down the left edge meant you had not billed it. On an ordinary week that lit up in three directions at once. Now the colour answers one question: is the room busy? White is ahead of you, dark means someone is in there right now, grey means it is over. Everything else is written on the block in plain words — Client late, No-show, Missed, Needs end — in red, which now means one thing everywhere: somebody has to do something. Sessions you have not billed say "To bill" rather than wearing a coloured stripe. One real fix came out of it: a room in use right now, where nobody had clocked in, was drawn exactly like a booking next Tuesday, so a busy studio could look empty.
ClientsAugust 26, 2026
Opening a client used to give you two different screens: a record beside the list, and a fuller profile behind an “Open profile” link. Two places to look for the same person, and only one of them let you do anything. The record now holds all of it. You write notes straight into the bar along the bottom, and they land in the same history as the sessions and the invoices — pin one and it lifts to the top, and managers can still mark a note as theirs only. Who a client pays through and what they are charged are rows you can change in place. A label shows the artists it pays for, and you can add or remove one from there. Tags are edited in Edit like everything else, the identity colour is set by tapping their disc, and archiving lives behind the … at the top right. Old links to a client’s page still work — they open the directory with that person selected. On a phone the record is a proper bottom sheet now, with a grab handle and the list still visible behind it.
ClientsAugust 26, 2026
Edit used to slide a second panel over the person you were reading, with the same fields written out again in a different order. It now sits at the top right of the record and turns the record into the thing you type in — same rows, same order, same place on screen, so nothing has to be found twice. Their name, email and phone are editable; what they were billed, what they owe, when they were last in and how they arrive are not, in any mode, because those are worked out from your sessions and invoices rather than typed. There is no Save and no Cancel: each field saves when you click away from it, the same way the full editor saves. A brand-new client used to be a column of dashes with no hint that Edit was the thing that filled them — those rows now read Add email and Add phone, and the mail and call buttons above them sit as dashed outlines rather than dead grey circles. Clicking any of them opens the record for editing with the cursor already in that field. On a phone the record now rises over the list as a sheet you push back down by its top bar, instead of replacing the list and making you find your way back.
NavigationAugust 26, 2026
The counts came off the sidebar. "3 open" next to Invoices only ever told you that you run a studio — open invoices are normal, so the number could never tell you to do anything. The one count worth keeping was the live one, and it has moved to where it belongs: under your studio’s name at the top, which now reads "1 session live" in red while a room is running and your city the rest of the time. Search became a proper field at the top of the rail, and it is also how you reach Rhodey — type a name to find it, type a question to ask him. Clocking in and out moved into the menu behind your name, which already carries your shift underneath it, so you can see whether you are on the clock without opening anything. Clients moved up beside Schedule and Invoices, Recent now remembers eight things instead of four, and a session in that list carries its date so two bookings for the same client in the same room stop looking identical.
ClientsAugust 26, 2026
A client record has always had a billing address, a billing email and a tax ID, and your invoices have always had a space for them — but there was no screen anywhere in Studioside that let you fill them in, so that block came out blank on every invoice. The ⋯ menu on a client now has Invoice details, which edits exactly those fields. When a label or management company pays, the details belong to them and the sheet says so, because changing them changes the address on every invoice billed to that company.
SessionsAugust 26, 2026
Opening a session from the calendar used to stop at who, when and where — it could not tell you the rate or the total, because the calendar was never sent them. It is now: the hourly or per-session rate, what the night comes to, and the gear that was in the room grouped the way you would list it. The total is worked out by the same code that bills the invoice, so the figure on the session and the figure the client receives are the same figure, and an overrun is priced at your overtime rate automatically. A session we cannot price — no rate set anywhere — shows no money at all rather than a misleading zero.
SessionsAugust 26, 2026
Cancelling a booking used to pop a grey browser box promising you could reverse it from the session page. You cannot — nothing in Studioside undoes a cancellation, so that sentence was never true. It now asks inside the app and says what actually happens: the booking comes off the calendar, the room frees up, everyone assigned to it is notified, and it cannot be undone. There is a box for why, and what you write lands on the session where anyone can find it in three months.
SessionsAugust 26, 2026
Opening a session now gives you three round buttons next to the hours: invoice, waive and note. Notes are a proper thread, so every line carries who wrote it and when, and a runner can no longer type over what an engineer said — it is the same set of notes the session page has always shown, just reachable from the calendar. Waiving asks the question plainly and lets you say why, and the reason lands on the record where anyone can find it in three months. A button you cannot use yet, like invoicing a session that has not happened, is greyed rather than hidden, so the same three things are always in the same three places.
SessionsAugust 26, 2026
Editing a session now puts a red circle beside each person and a green one under them, so taking someone off and adding someone else is one tap each, and their role sits next to their name where you can tap it to change it. Adding crew asks one question — who — instead of making you pick a seat first and then hope you had not just overwritten somebody; people already booked elsewhere during those hours are still offered, but marked with where they are. On the desktop the session card is narrower and tighter, and the fields you type into no longer run to the edge of it.
InvoicesAugust 26, 2026
All, Unbilled, Open, Past due and Paid were five bordered boxes sitting between the page title and the first amount, so the heaviest thing on the screen was the filter you were not using — and they still did not fit, so they scrolled as a row of boxes. They are plain words now, with a single line under the one you are on. Same five tabs in the same order, they still scroll and still filter exactly as before; they just take up a fifth of the ink. On a computer they stay as they were, where they sit in a row of same-shaped controls and look right.
GearAugust 26, 2026
Every room in your studio had started showing up in the storage list as if it were a locker you could rename or delete, next to an entry called “Studio-wide” that nobody created — so a studio with two real storage spots was looking at eight. They are gone from both places they appeared: the Storage dialog in Gear, and the “Lives in” picker you use when you file a piece of gear. Those lists show the storage spots you made yourself, and nothing else. Nothing moved — every piece of gear is still exactly where you put it.
ClientsAugust 26, 2026
Adding someone now starts with one question — are they an artist, a company or label, or a collaborator — and each answer says in plain words what it means: a session is booked in an artist's name and they get invoiced, a label pays for its artists' sessions, and a collaborator works on someone else's session and is never billed. If an artist is paid for by a label you have not added yet, type its name right where you pick the payer and the label is created and set as their payer when you press Done, instead of making it separately and coming back to link them. Before you save, the sheet lists exactly what it is about to create and anything still missing — nobody set to pay, or a label with no billing email — and it tells you when the name you are typing is already in your list.
ClientsAugust 26, 2026
Clients used to be a wide table that told you four things about every person on it — how they are billed, when they were last in, what they owe, what they have spent — and then repeated all of it in a panel when you picked someone. It is now a narrow list of names down the left, sorted A to Z with companies filed in among the people, and the person you pick fills the rest of the screen: their picture, their name, buttons to mail or call them, and everything else as a plain row you can read. Money still shows there, and still turns red only when an invoice is actually past due. The Artists, Companies and Collaborators tabs have become the heading at the top of the list — click it to switch, and to pull up everyone with an overdue invoice in one go. Edit sits in the top right, the way it does in Contacts: tap it and the record you are reading becomes the record you are typing in — same rows, same order, nothing moves — and their name, email and phone are yours to change. Tap Done and it is a record again. Billing, payment terms and the rest still live on the full profile. On a phone the list keeps the screen and the person rises over it in a sheet — throw it back down with your thumb, or tap the list behind it.
ScheduleAugust 26, 2026
Tapping a session on the calendar opens a card with everything it is — what it is for, the room, the booked window, when it actually ran, who is on it and any note. Edit now turns that card into an editable one in place: the same rows, in the same order, with the ones you can change ready to type in or tap. Nothing jumps around when you switch, and you can still start, end or cancel from the same card. Once a session has been invoiced, waived or called off the record is fixed and only the note stays open, because the numbers on it have already gone to a client.
SessionsAugust 26, 2026
A cancelled session used to offer a Reinstate booking button, and the session page carried a small Edit on each block of details. Both have been removed while the session card is rebuilt: one Edit at the top of the card now covers the whole record. To bring back a session that was called off, book it again.
InvoicesAugust 26, 2026
Paid invoices load a year at a time so the list stays quick to open, but nothing on the page said so — it simply stopped at the 1st of January, and the count along the bottom read as though that were every invoice you had ever settled. It now says “Showing this year” next to that count, with a link to load the rest and a way back once you have. On a studio with a couple of years behind it that was a few dozen paid invoices you had no way to reach.
InvoicesAugust 26, 2026
Opening the ⋯ menu on a row left “Bill now” already selected, so a stray space bar could send a client their invoice — and “Don’t bill”, which takes that work off the books everywhere, sat two lines under it. Neither of those stops to ask you first. The menu now opens with nothing picked, and the arrow keys still walk down it.
SessionsAugust 16, 2026
The sheet you use to start or end a session put the running total in the biggest type and the actual time in small type between two arrows, so the number you were changing was not the number you could read. The time leads now, with the worked total underneath it as the consequence, and the nudge moves in five minutes rather than fifteen so you can land on when something really happened. The named answers — Now, the booked start, the booked end — are a list you tap instead of a row of buttons that wrapped. Starting a session now also tells you what it is about to do, worked out from the time you picked, the way ending one already did. And setting an exact time anywhere in a session now uses the same date and time controls as booking one, instead of a different-looking pair that did the same job.
InvoicesAugust 15, 2026
Opening an invoice to look it over before it goes out used to hand you a desktop form on a small screen: outlined buttons with icons in them, a dashed box for adding a line, and a due date that looked like a dropdown. The controls belong to the phone now — Send sits full width at the bottom where your thumb already is, with Preview next to it — and the paper above them is still the real invoice, so what you are reading is what your client receives. Sending is a sheet that rises from the bottom like everything else in the app, rather than a dialog floating in the middle of the screen. It leads with who the invoice is going to and their email address at a size you can actually proof-read, and you back out of it by pulling it down, tapping the X, or tapping the page behind it. If you have not set up how clients pay you yet, that step is now two full-width choices instead of two cramped cards, and the question is the biggest thing on the screen instead of the grey example sitting inside the box. On the paper itself: your studio name and your client name sit at the same size, the session line no longer prints the year twice — it reads “2 sessions · Aug 1, Aug 4” — and the note at the foot has lost the dark bubble it used to wear across your totals.
SessionsAugust 15, 2026
Opening a session on your phone gave you the desktop page squeezed down, with a bar of buttons pinned over the top of everything. It now opens as a sheet you can flick back down: the client at the top with their picture over their name, and whatever you can do right now — start it, end it, bill it — as big tiles you can reach with a thumb, rather than a bar sitting on top of the session log. When, who is on, and what gear is in are rows you tap to change. The money splits in two where it used to be one list, so what the client owes you and what actually reaches your account are no longer added up together.
ScheduleAugust 15, 2026
Day used to be two screens behind an Agenda / Hours switch, and the Agenda was the same sessions you were already looking at, just sorted differently. There is one Day now: your rooms and hours, with a line across the top that tells you the day in a sentence — who is on and where, what is ready to bill, anything that needs a decision, and what is next. Rooms sitting empty for the rest of today show up beside it, and you can book straight into one. History has gone with it; you page back through the days themselves.
ScheduleAugust 15, 2026
Your week can be read two ways. Above the calendar there is a new Rooms / People switch: Rooms is the board you already had, and People is the rota — the same seven days and the same bookings, drawn against your crew instead of your rooms. It is the only view that can show you someone with an empty week, a night nobody is on, or that one engineer is down for fifty-five hours, and you can still place and pull shifts straight on the grid. It used to live under Team, and had been switched off for a few days; it is back on, in the same place you book the work. Old links to the rota still work and land you in the right week. Team keeps timesheets.
GearAugust 14, 2026
Every piece of gear used to sit in its own outlined box on a white page, several boxes across, so nothing looked like it belonged to anything. Each kind of gear is now one card with its name written above it and your pieces listed inside, one under the next — the same shape a client record already has. A piece that is fine says nothing; a piece that is down says so in red words instead of wearing a red badge, and a small arrow shows the row opens. Grouped by room, gear that is live in that room now just says "in session" rather than repeating the room name down the whole list. Under the page title there is one line telling you where the kit stands — how many pieces you have, how many are flagged, how many are in use.
GearAugust 14, 2026
Search, the filter chips, the Type/Room switch and Select were scattered across the top of the page at three different sizes, with the filters stranded on one side and everything else piled on the other. They are one row now, reading left to right: find a piece, narrow the list, then — past a divider — how the list is arranged. On a phone search gets the full width it needed, with the grouping switch and the filters on the line beneath it.
ClientsAugust 14, 2026
On a phone the client list was the desktop table with most of it hidden, so a row came down to a name, a dash and an arrow. Every row now says something: how many sessions they have had or who they are billed to, what they have paid you over the years, when they were last in, their tags, and a red note when an invoice of theirs is late. Tapping someone brings their record up from the bottom of the screen as a sheet you can flick back down, rather than a narrow panel sliding in from the side — and that record only shows an outstanding figure when there is one, in red only when it is genuinely past due rather than the moment an invoice goes unpaid.
NavigationAugust 14, 2026
When the sidebar sits slim and widens as you point at it, opening your account menu made it flinch — the sidebar narrowed back under its own open menu, and the menu jumped with it. It now stays wide the whole time a menu is open on it, whether that is your account, the bell, or your clock, and only slims back once you have closed the menu and moved away.
ScheduleAugust 11, 2026
Booking a session only ever let you name an engineer, so anyone else working it — an assistant, a producer, a host, a runner — had to be added afterwards on the session itself. The engineer row is now a Crew row that holds all five. Tap a name and they take the top open seat, so booking one person for one session is the same single tap it always was; tap another name and they take the next seat down. Once someone is on, their seat shows beside them and you can tap it to change it — if you hand someone a seat another person is already in, the two of them swap rather than one falling off. Picking crew also works exactly like picking a client now: the same search box and the same list of names, instead of the row of buttons it used to be.
SettingsAugust 11, 2026
There were two plans; there is one now — $149 a month for your whole team, as many rooms as you have and as many sessions as fit, with no per-seat charges and no per-booking limits. The old $299 tier was mostly selling five things that either are not built yet or are not part of the product we want to stand behind, so rather than leave them sitting behind a price they have come out of the app for now: the staff rota, timesheets, the financial reports, the client portal and its requests inbox, and the activity log. In practice that means Requests, Hours and Reports have left the sidebar, and the rota says plainly that it is not ready — which is the honest version of what was already true. Nothing about your bill changes: if you are already paying, you keep the plan and the price you signed up on. The five are listed on our pricing page under “In the works”, with no price and nothing to buy, and each one moves up into the plan on the day it actually works.
InvoicesAugust 11, 2026
Money moves while you are looking at the page — a client pays, a session finishes and becomes billable — and on a phone there was no way to ask for the latest short of leaving and coming back. Drag the list down from the top and let go, the way you would refresh any feed on your phone, and it fetches again. The dial spins until the new figures are actually on screen.
ScheduleAugust 11, 2026
New session on a phone was a desktop form squeezed onto a small screen: every picker opened a menu that flipped up over the fields you had just filled in, and the button that actually books sat below the fold. It is a proper sheet now. Book sits in the bar at the top where you can always reach it, your rooms are buttons you tap once, and the day, start time and length live together on one screen instead of three. Opening it no longer brings the keyboard up over everything.
InvoicesAugust 11, 2026
Every row now opens with its own state in plain words — “Not billed · 3 sessions”, “Due Aug 11”, “Paid Jul 10” — instead of a status tag repeated down the right-hand side that said the same thing on every line. Coloured tags are kept for the two that mean something needs you: past due and part-paid. Client initials are a quiet grey tile rather than a bright square, so the amounts are the loudest thing on the screen again, and the paragraph explaining each tab now appears only when that tab is empty, which gives you two more rows on every visit. The button for hiding money on screen has moved into the ⋯ menu, where it says what it does, and that menu now sits beside Filters instead of at the end of the tabs, where it looked like a way to see more tabs. The running total under the tabs says “Showing 15 · $34,400.25”, so it can’t be mistaken for the unbilled figure beside the page title — they answer different questions. Filters have been rebuilt as well: all five are laid out in front of you instead of hidden behind rows you had to open one at a time, so you can see what is set without tapping anything, and the panel no longer jumps up the screen away from your thumb every time you touch it. Searching for a client sits at the top, dates are one tap for the common ranges with a Custom option for anything else, and the button at the bottom simply says Done, because filters have always applied as you set them. Client initials on the phone are now one plain grey tile: a screen where every row is a client gets nothing from a different colour per row, and the six bright squares were louder than the amounts they sat next to. Colour has gone where it earns its keep instead — unbilled work now wears the same indigo as the Bill all button that acts on it, so the money you have not asked for yet stands out the way overdue money always has, and Scheduled has gone grey because it is the one state that needs nothing from you. Each tab also carries its own count, so you can see whether Past due has anything in it without opening it. And every tab on a phone now opens with a line that answers its own question, instead of leaving you to add the list up: Past due tells you how much is overdue, how old the oldest one is, and — this is new anywhere in Studioside — how much of it has never been chased, counting both your own reminders and the automatic ones. Unbilled tells you how much is ready and across how many clients. A late invoice also now says how many days late it is rather than the date it was due, and says so on the row if nobody has ever nudged that client about it.
ReportsAugust 11, 2026
Every bar on the trend now has last year drawn behind it in a paler shade, so you can see at a glance where you beat the same month a year ago and where you slipped — pick a bar and it tells you the change as a percentage. It only appears once you have a year of history behind you, so a studio that started in the spring gets a clean chart instead of a row of empty bars. Day and Week have also joined Month, Quarter and Year in the timeframe picker: Day shows the last 30 days, Week the last 13 weeks running Sunday to Saturday, the same week your rota uses.
StaffAugust 11, 2026
Your studio’s join code now has a QR code beside it, so a new engineer can point a phone at your screen instead of typing eight characters. Both the code and the QR stay hidden until you tap Show — handy when you are sharing your screen on a call or sending a screenshot to support, since anyone who can read either one can put themselves on your studio. Copy still works while it is covered. Resetting the code hides it again.
StaffAugust 11, 2026
Your people now come first on the page, with the join code moved below them, and the rows are tighter so a ten-person studio fits on one screen. What each person can see reads more clearly too: money and client access are the same kind of tag whether they are on or off, so a studio where nobody has been granted anything no longer looks broken. The list of alerts already sent has folded away behind a summary line that tells you how many went out, when the last one was, and how many did not reach anyone. One correction: the last column was labelled “Last active” but has only ever shown when someone last signed in, so it now says “Last sign-in” — someone who stays signed in for weeks was being shown as though they had stopped using StudioSide.
GearAugust 11, 2026
Tapping a piece of gear already opened its details from the bottom of the screen, but adding a new piece or editing one still dropped a small box into the middle — a different kind of thing arriving from nowhere. Both are sheets now, so everything on the page comes from the same place and you can throw any of them back down with your thumb. The buttons underneath are full-width and thumb-sized instead of three cramped ones wrapping onto two lines, and the form no longer opens the keyboard on top of itself before you've read it. Adding a piece is one screen instead of two: picking the kind of gear used to fill the whole screen with tiles before you could type a brand, and it's now just the first field on the form — a dropdown with the same little icons, which editing gained as well. Every button on the page is the same size and shape as every other one, and the text sizes match the rest of the app.
GearAugust 11, 2026
Eight pairs of the same headphones are one row with a ×8 on it — one lot, not eight records. That had consequences you couldn’t see: booking the row books all eight, flagging it marks all eight down, and the serial number and receipt on it cover the whole set rather than one pair. Each of those places now says so before you act — the flag form warns you that all eight go with it, the gear picker shows the count beside the name and tells you what you’re reserving, and a lot that’s already on an overlapping session says that in plain words instead of a database error. If you need one unit tracked on its own, with its own serial and its own repair history, add it as its own item.
GearAugust 11, 2026
Flagging a piece of gear used to tell nobody — it waited on the gear page until someone happened to look. Now the studio hears about it: anything marked out of service pushes to the owners and managers with what was actually written, and both kinds of flag show up in the bell. It also reaches the next person before they patch it in — flagged gear carries its note right in the gear picker when you build a session, so you see "capsule crackles on loud vocals" while you're choosing, and adding something that's out of service warns you instead of letting it through quietly. Flagging asks one question — can it still be used? — instead of asking you to rate how critical it is, and asks what happened, so the person fixing it knows the job. Closing a flag now asks what you did about it, with one-tap answers for the usual ones, and that stays on the piece: a mic on its third repair says “3 faults on record” instead of you having to remember. If it turns out nothing was actually wrong, the person who raised it can withdraw it and it won’t count against the gear. Needs attention itself used to fill up with gear whose warranty had run out — eleven rows, nine of them receipts, with the one dead keyboard buried in the middle. It now lists only what somebody flagged, and says who flagged it and when; warranty moved to a quiet line on the item and its own filter. The list is half the height: one row per piece, and a working piece that nobody has booked says nothing at all. On a computer you can now pick several pieces at once and move them somewhere in one go — reorganising a locker used to mean opening, editing and closing each piece one at a time. You can also flip the list from grouping by kind of gear to grouping by room — which is the question you actually have when you’re packing a session or walking the building — and a mic that lives in a locker shows up under the room that locker is in, not off on its own. Gear is also on your phone’s bottom bar now — if you own or manage the studio it wasn’t there at all, so the page had no way in from a phone. On a phone the search box stays put at the top while you scroll, and tapping a piece brings its details up from the bottom of the screen where your thumb is.
NavigationAugust 10, 2026
On a phone, a small card now offers to add StudioSide to your home screen — it opens full screen, with no browser bar and no hunting for the tab. On Android that’s one button. On iPhone, where Apple won’t let any website install itself, it dims the page and points at the exact button to press, naming it correctly for Safari or Chrome. That’s also what turns alerts on: an iPhone can only buzz you about a session if the app is on the home screen, so Settings → Alerts now offers the same walkthrough instead of just telling you it can’t. It waits until your second visit, and “Not now” puts it away for a month.
ScheduleAugust 10, 2026
The top bar used to hold Day, Week and Month plus a second row of unlabelled icons that split Day into two and Month into two — six screens you had to name with two clicks. It is Day, Week and Month now, and Day carries its two readings on one labelled switch: Agenda for what the day needs from you, Hours for the room-by-room grid. The calendar itself got much quieter. The heavy grid lines are gone, hours sit centred on their own lines, the current time shows as a red tag in the margin, and today is marked in red everywhere instead of black in some places and red in others. Room columns now say how much of the day is booked — “1 session · 11h” — or just “Open”. The week and the month finally use the same lettering. A session that runs past midnight no longer pretends to end there: it squares off at the day boundary and names the day its other end falls on, so a 1pm–4am mastering session reads the same on both nights. The day view also stopped ending in a grid of room cards and an empty “on the floor” box — what is still free is one line under the heading instead, and a day with nothing on it just offers you one New session button. Pinning a view moved off the top bar to the sidebar’s Pinned list, which now has a + that saves whatever you are looking at.
ScheduleAugust 9, 2026
Live session cards are about half the height they were, so three rooms running at once no longer fill the screen twice over and push the rest of the night below the fold — on a wide screen three of them sit side by side. Sessions that were never closed out have come off the top of the board: they are a small button beside the day’s title now, and it opens over the board instead of pushing everything down while you work through them. The top bar also keeps the same shape on every view — the Board/Rooms and Grid/Agenda switches have moved back into it beside Day, Week and Month, and History’s date range sits up there too instead of down on the page, so nothing jumps as you move between views.
ScheduleAugust 6, 2026
The day board used to show one card per room, so a room with three bookings only showed one of them and a free room got a card with nothing on it. Every session is its own row now, grouped by what it needs from you: tonight reads what’s coming up then what has wrapped, and a night that’s over splits into what needs a decision, what finished, and what never happened. Each group folds away and carries its count. Underneath, every room says whether it’s free and until when before you book it, so you can’t put a session on top of one that’s already running. There’s also a new History tab for looking back — pick the last 7, 30 or 90 days, this month, last month, or any two dates.
ScheduleAugust 6, 2026
The requests page used to hand you a calendar and leave you to work out whether the room was free. It now tells you: either the room they asked for is open, and there is one button to book it, or it is taken and you get a short list of what you could give them instead — the same hours in another room, or the same room a few hours over — each one labelled with what the client gives up, and flagged if nobody is rostered to cover it. Requests arrive one at a time, longest wait first, and Skip sends one to the back without deciding.
SettingsAugust 6, 2026
If you take your bookings by phone and text, you can now switch the client portal off in Settings → Client portal. Your clients stop being able to sign in or ask for time, and Requests leaves the sidebar. Nothing is deleted — any requests you’d already received are waiting for you if you turn it back on.
StaffAugust 6, 2026
Inviting a new person used to send them two emails at once — ours naming you and the studio, and a second generic one from behind the scenes — both leading to the same place, so they had to guess which was real. Only the first one goes out now.
SessionsAugust 6, 2026
On a phone, opening a session and immediately pulling it back down made the panel snap to the top of the screen before it started following your thumb. It now picks up wherever it happens to be and moves with your finger from there, so a quick open-and-dismiss feels like one movement instead of a lurch.
NavigationAugust 6, 2026
Tapping Schedule, Invoices, Clients or your own face used to leave the old tab lit until the new page had finished loading — on a slow connection that reads as a missed tap, so you press it again. The tab you pressed now fills in immediately and the page arrives after it, which is how every other app on your phone behaves.
NavigationAugust 6, 2026
The grey placeholder screens had fallen behind the pages they stand in for, so a page would appear and then visibly rearrange itself — the invoice list drew five columns and landed with eight, the phone list forgot it is grouped by month, and your own page was missing a row. They now match, so a page that takes a moment fills in where it was rather than jumping.
InvoicesAugust 6, 2026
Downloading an invoice or a paid receipt as a PDF had stopped working — the button did nothing, wherever you pressed it, and the copy your client could download from their invoice link failed the same way. It works again, on every invoice.
ScheduleAugust 5, 2026
Switching between the hours and the floor left the schedule fighting your thumb: the ruled day would stick partway through a scroll, and the floor list would refuse to move at all. Both scroll normally now, and pulling down to reload still works where it always did.
ScheduleAugust 5, 2026
On a phone, New moved from the top-right corner to a black button at the bottom-right, opposite Today — and the booking form now rises from the bottom of the screen as a sheet you can pull back down, instead of a card floating near the top. The two view buttons above it now show both choices with the one you are in filled in, so it is clear which drawing of the day you are looking at.
NavigationAugust 5, 2026
Tapping search now opens a full-height sheet with the box at the top and Cancel beside it, so results fill the screen instead of a small panel with a Close button buried underneath them. On a computer it is the same panel as before.
StaffAugust 5, 2026
You can now put a phone number in the invite box instead of an email — useful for the engineer whose number is in your phone and whose email you have never asked for. StudioSide does not send the text; it writes the message and hands it to your own Messages app, so it arrives from a number they recognise.
StaffAugust 5, 2026
The invite page now offers Continue with Google above the sign-up form, which matters most on a phone where inventing a password with your thumbs is the slowest part. Email and password still work exactly as before for anyone who prefers it, and a phone invite fills their number in for them.
InvoicesAugust 5, 2026
The tab, the figure under the Invoices title, and the tag on a finished session all used to say "To bill" — the odd one out beside Scheduled, Open, Past due and Paid, which all describe what has happened rather than what you should do. They now say Unbilled, and a finished session that used to read "Ready to bill" on the Schedule and in its detail panel says Unbilled too. Nothing moved and nothing changed about which work lands where; the buttons still carry the verb — Bill all ready, and Review & send invoice on a session.
InvoicesAugust 5, 2026
Opening an invoice you have already sent shows the invoice itself — the same page the client is looking at — with one dark bar above it carrying the number, the status, and the one thing worth doing next: Send reminder when it is late, Record payment while you are waiting, Download PDF once it is paid. The column of cards that used to sit beside it is gone; it repeated the total, the paid date and the method that are already printed on the invoice. What is left underneath is the session it was billed from, one click from the invoice.
InvoicesAugust 5, 2026
The line under an open invoice explaining that your edits save on their own was grey text sitting on the dimmed page behind it, so it was effectively invisible. It now sits on its own dark chip.
NavigationAugust 5, 2026
Search has its own row near the top of the sidebar again — click it or press ⌘K, and results open in a panel beside the sidebar rather than over the middle of the screen, so the page you were on stays in view. The sidebar also gave up three rows: notifications are now the bell beside New session, Studio settings moved into the menu under your name, and Booking requests only appears if your studio uses the client portal. You can fold the Records, Pinned and Recent groups away by clicking their headings, and the app remembers which ones you closed.
InvoicesAugust 5, 2026
Every tab on the Invoices page — To bill, Open, Past due, Paid — now carries a plain sentence underneath explaining exactly what lands in it. To bill is finished sessions you can bill now, with estimated amounts; Open is anything sent and not yet paid, past due invoices included. On a computer you can also hover a tab you are not on to read its description before you click.
NavigationAugust 5, 2026
Every panel that slides up from the bottom of your phone — session details, invoice filters, the ⋯ menus, the pickers for crew and gear — now closes with a downward swipe, not just the ✕. Swipe from the top bar, or from anywhere in the panel while it is scrolled to the top; a short pull is enough, and a quick flick works too. Tapping a session in the Schedule opens it as one of these sheets too, so your day stays visible behind it and you can throw it away with your thumb.
NavigationAugust 5, 2026
The Schedule icon carries today’s date, and the date now has room to breathe — the calendar’s header is a thin strip across the top instead of a thick bar through the middle, so the number sits bigger and clearer at a glance. The red on-air dot also moved off the corner of the icon it used to cut into.
StaffAugust 5, 2026
Notifications now read as plain sentences — “Rhea Kalu in Studio A has no engineer — starts in 45m” — and the ones you can act on, you can finish right there. Put someone on an unstaffed session in one tap when an engineer is free for those exact hours and has run that client before, or slide over to the full list to pick anyone else. A session that ran past its end can be closed at its booked end time, with ten seconds to undo, and a flagged issue can be cleared from the bell instead of walking you to the session first. Buttons that only took you somewhere the row already went are gone.
InvoicesAugust 5, 2026
The draft editor used to be the desktop paper squeezed onto a small screen — tiny inputs everywhere and Send up at the top. It now opens as a sheet with each charge one clean line: tap a line to change its hours or rate, and Send sits at the bottom under your thumb. A new Preview button shows the exact document your client receives before you send it.
ScheduleAugust 5, 2026
The spinner that tells you a reload is happening was hidden behind the page, and on the hour-by-hour day the pull took over the scroll once you reached midnight. It shows properly now, and the gesture belongs to the day feed and the month — the two screens that read like a list. On the hour-by-hour day, tap Today to bring the board up to date; the schedule also reloads itself whenever you come back to it.
NavigationAugust 5, 2026
Rhodey used to be reachable only by opening search and scrolling past every result, so most people never found him. He now sits in the rail next to Settings, opens with ⌘/, and has a row on your own page on a phone. He also knows what you are looking at: stand on a client and ask "when are they next in?" without naming them, and he will answer — and the shortcuts he offers change to suit, so on a client you get their next booking, what they owe, and book them again.
NavigationAugust 5, 2026
Opening Rhodey used to squeeze the whole page over to make room for him, which re-flowed everything you were reading. He now slides in over the page as a panel with a margin around it, and nothing underneath moves.
NavigationAugust 5, 2026
The ⌘K box in the rail said "Quick actions" but was really the fastest way to find any client, session, invoice, room or piece of gear. It is now labelled Search. The two commands it used to carry are gone — New session is the button sitting right beside it, and Settings is at the bottom of the rail.
InvoicesAugust 5, 2026
Swipe a row left to get straight at what you would do next: Remind and Mark paid on anything owed, Review and Bill on work you have not billed yet. Paid invoices do not swipe, because there is nothing left to do to them, and "Don't bill" is not on a swipe either — it waives money, so it stays in the ⋯ menu where it takes a deliberate tap. Anything past due now carries a red line down its left edge, so the invoices actually costing you money are findable while scrolling instead of being one coloured label among several.
NavigationAugust 5, 2026
The five buttons along the bottom of your phone have dropped their labels — the icons say the same thing in half the room, and the one you are on fills in solid black while the rest sit back as thin grey outlines. The bar is plain white now instead of see-through, so it stops picking up the colour of whatever you are scrolling past.
ScheduleAugust 5, 2026
Your phone now has two screens instead of a row of view buttons: a month, and a day. The month writes the bookings into every square rather than shading the busy ones, so you can read a whole month without tapping anything. Tap a day to open it; the arrow at the top left takes you back up. The day itself reads two ways, swapped with the button beside search: as ruled hours, where each session is as tall as it is long and rooms running at the same time sit side by side — the quickest way to see where you still have room — or as the Floor, the running list you already know, with the red now line and the live session’s progress bar. Swipe sideways to move a day or a month, drag the row of dates to change weeks, and tap an empty hour to book it. Today always brings you back to now. Week has been dropped from the phone, because the month now says everything it used to.
InvoicesAugust 5, 2026
Every invoice now lines up down the page: the client leads the row, the amount sits on the right where all the amounts end together, and each row is the same height so the list stops looking jittery as you scroll. The tabs, the filter button and the running "12 items · $28,496" total stay pinned to the top while you scroll, so you can change what you are looking at without scrolling back up. Filtering is one Filters button that opens a panel from the bottom of the screen instead of a row of small chips you had to scroll sideways to reach — and whatever you filtered by shows underneath, so you can see why a list is short. The page also stops looking like a different product on a phone: it uses the same tabs as the desktop, and colour is now saved for what needs your attention, so a past-due invoice stands out instead of competing with a screenful of coloured labels.
ScheduleAugust 4, 2026
Opening the Schedule on a phone used to flash two or three different half-drawn screens before the day appeared — including a desktop calendar grid a phone never shows. Now every page draws one placeholder in the shape of the page you actually asked for, and it holds steady until the real thing arrives. Reports, Requests, Team, the rota and your own page used to just sit on the previous screen with nothing happening; they now respond the moment you click. Pages that load quickly show no placeholder at all, so a fast page no longer blinks at you.
SettingsAugust 4, 2026
Deleting a studio used to mean emailing us and waiting. The owner can now do it in Settings → Studio: type the studio's name and it goes, along with its sessions, clients, invoices, shifts and team — there is no undo. Your subscription is not cancelled by this; it keeps billing until you cancel it in Manage billing, and until then it can start your next studio.
SettingsAugust 4, 2026
Address, country and time zone were asked differently on every screen that asked for them. Now it's one field everywhere — sign-up, opening a second studio, and Settings — with a map of the spot you picked so you can see the pin landed on your building. It shows the time zone it worked out from your address and lets you correct it right there, instead of hiding it on another page.
StaffAugust 4, 2026
If a person clocked in without being on the rota, the hours report listed them under “not scheduled this week” and drew no row — even while the banner at the top said they were on the clock. They now get a row like everyone else, with the day they are working outlined rather than filled, because those hours are still running and there is no total to show yet.
StaffAugust 4, 2026
If your studio records locations, the hours report already told you where a shift was started. It now tells you where it was ended too, and says so only when that was away from the studio — so someone clocking out from home on the drive back is something you can see rather than something you have to guess. Clocking out is never blocked, whatever your setting: nobody should be left on the clock with no way to stop it.
StaffAugust 4, 2026
If you require staff to be at the studio to clock in, the check now allows for how far off the phone says its own reading might be — so a vague fix indoors doesn’t turn away someone standing in the live room. Anyone genuinely down the road is still refused, and the hours report still shows the real distance.
InvoicesAugust 3, 2026
The invoices page used to be several different lists stacked on one screen, each with its own shape. It is now a single table: work you have not billed yet sits alongside what you have sent, what is late and what has been paid, and you can narrow it by client, amount, or when something was created or came due. Choose which columns you want, export what you are looking at, and the total under the table always matches the rows on screen. The amount still waiting to be billed sits under the page title.
SessionsAugust 3, 2026
A session someone started and never ended used to be named something different on every screen — the floor plan called it “Live”, which showed a room as busy when nobody was in it. It now reads “Needs end time” wherever you see it, so a session that is genuinely on air is easy to tell from one that just needs closing out. On a phone that card was also drawing pale text on a pale background; it is readable again.
StaffAugust 3, 2026
The rota already ran Sunday to Saturday, but the Hours page ran Monday to Sunday — so a Sunday night sat in one pay week on the rota and a different one on the payroll. They are the same seven days now, on the rota, on Hours, on your own week, and on the “this week” figure in your money. If you settle hours weekly, check the week either side of this change so nothing gets paid twice or missed.
ScheduleAugust 3, 2026
On a phone, drag the day down from the top of the list and let go — a dial appears, spins while it checks, and the schedule comes back current. Useful when someone else has just booked or moved a session and you want to be sure what you are looking at is the truth.
InvoicesAugust 3, 2026
If a client opened a pay link that had expired or been replaced, they got a bare browser error with your studio nowhere on it. They now get a plain page saying the link is out of date, to ask you for a current one, and that nothing is owed or overdue because of it. Same for an expired session link.
InvoicesAugust 3, 2026
A session that ran past its booked end is written as two charges — the booked time and the overtime — and the invoice was counting those as two separate sessions. A one-session invoice could say “2 sessions”. It now counts the nights you worked, not the lines on the page.
StaffJuly 31, 2026
The rota has a “Copy last week” button that brings the shifts you placed by hand onto the week you’re looking at, same days and same times. It shows you what it will do first, and leaves out anything that would be wrong — a day that has already been, someone who booked that day off, or a shift they are already on — so pressing it twice is safe. Engineers aren’t copied, because their shifts follow their bookings. One click to undo the lot.
StaffJuly 31, 2026
Being offered a session, someone picking up your cover request, and a coworker @mentioning you in a session note all buzz your phone and email you — but Settings → Account only listed five other alerts, so there was no way to know. Nothing changed about what we send; the page now names all eight, and a reminder in your notification history reads as “Session reminder” instead of just “Notification”.
SettingsJuly 31, 2026
Settings → Studio has a new “Export everything” button. One click gives you a zip of spreadsheets — clients, sessions, invoices, payments, hours, gear and the rest — that opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets. No waiting for an email, no asking us first. Owners and managers only, since it holds every client’s details.
InvoicesJuly 31, 2026
If you have set a client to be billed to someone else — their label, their management — that only stuck when you made the invoice from the client dialog. Billing a finished session, which is how most invoices get made, addressed it to the artist instead, so it went out in the wrong name and often to the wrong inbox. Every way of making an invoice now uses the payer you set. Duplicating an invoice keeps the payer of the one you copied.
SettingsJuly 30, 2026
Your avatar menu now has “Create another studio”, so you can open a second place without making a second account — same name, same profile, same hours, and one tap to switch between them. Each studio carries its own plan, so the new one picks up a subscription of its own.
SettingsJuly 30, 2026
Settings → Studio now lets an owner pick anyone on the team and make them the owner. You drop to manager and keep working as normal. Your card carries on paying for the studio until the new owner starts their own subscription.
ScheduleJuly 30, 2026
A booking that began the night before sat at the top of today’s list with nothing but a start time on it, so a 10 PM start read as if it were still to come this evening. It now carries the date it actually began beside the time, says it has been running since yesterday, and its end time names the day it lands on — so a session that runs through the night reads forwards instead of backwards.
PaymentsJuly 30, 2026
Amazon Pay sits on your pay page alongside card, Apple Pay, bank transfer and Cash App, and settles the invoice by itself the same way the others do. It costs you the same as a card. The Paid list shows it as “Amazon Pay” so you can tell at a glance how the money came in, and the line on your invoice about how to pay updates itself.
StaffJuly 30, 2026
If your studio records a location when you clock in, that location now sits under the day on your own page — the same line your manager reads on the hours report, word for word. Studios that don’t record one see nothing there.
ScheduleJuly 30, 2026
A session in progress used to draw a red line with the time on it straight across its card on the phone’s day list. With two rooms live that meant two clocks, both reading the same minute, sitting at different heights down the page. Each live card now carries the same start-to-end bar the Floor and the session page already use, filled to how far in it is — one bar per room, however many are running.
ScheduleJuly 30, 2026
The Schedule button now has the date written inside its calendar, so a glance at the bottom of the screen tells you what day it is. The bar itself sits flat against the bottom edge instead of floating, the icon you are on fills in solid rather than lighting up a coloured bubble, and a live room shows as a red dot on Schedule instead of a number — the board one tap away already names every room that is on.
SessionsJuly 29, 2026
Tagging a teammate in a session note already worked, but the only way to find it was to guess that typing @ did something. There is now an @ button in the note box next to the flag: tap it and your team comes up, pick a name and they get told. Typing @ still works if you would rather.
InvoicesJuly 29, 2026
These three pages sat on a faint grey that was only a shade off the white cards resting on it — close enough that the lists read as washed out instead of as clean rows. They are plain white now, so the ruled tables stand on their own and the things you are looking for in them, like an overdue invoice or a piece of gear that is down, are easier to pick out at a glance. On a client profile the month headings down the history now actually show up; before they were grey on grey.
SessionsJuly 29, 2026
Every automatic line in a session log now carries the name of the person behind it — who started it, who ended it, who added the gear, who claimed the cover. The log also stops coming up empty: even a session nobody typed a note on shows when it was booked, when it really started and when it ended.
SettingsJuly 29, 2026
Typing a house number into your studio address used to bring back postcodes in France, Spain and Malaysia alongside the one street you were actually looking for. The address search now stays in your own country and puts streets near you first, with a country button beside the field for the day you move the studio somewhere else.
PaymentsJuly 29, 2026
Your invoices now take Cash App alongside card, Apple Pay and bank transfer, and a Cash App payment settles the invoice by itself the same way a card does. Because you can also collect Cash App yourself and mark it paid by hand, the Paid list now tells the two apart: one reads “Cash App · online”, the one you banked yourself just reads “Cash App”. The line on your invoice about how to pay is also written from what your pay page actually offers, so it can no longer promise something that isn’t there.
StaffJuly 29, 2026
Everything about your people was in three different places: the roster was buried in Settings, the rota was a view hidden inside the calendar, and the hours report sat on its own. Team is now a section of its own with all three in it — Roster, Rota, Hours — so building next week’s crew and checking who is on it happen in the same place. The calendar goes back to answering one question: what is booked. Old links and bookmarks still work.
ReportsJuly 29, 2026
On a phone these pages were wider than the screen. Reports and Hours slid sideways under your thumb, and Clients and the invoice you are about to send had their right edge cut clean off — the New client button, the invoice total and the Send button were simply unreachable. They all sit inside the screen now. The wide payments table still scrolls sideways, but on its own, without dragging the rest of the page with it.
StaffJuly 29, 2026
The hours report now sits under Team, alongside your roster and the rota, and it is a manager page — the people who run payroll. Everyone else already has their own week on their personal page: what they are booked for, what they clocked, and a note whenever somebody corrected a day. Nothing about the report itself changed, and your own row is still in it.
StaffJuly 29, 2026
An invite link could be used by whoever opened it, so a forwarded email or one pasted into a group chat could put the wrong person on your team — with whatever role you meant for someone else. An invite is now tied to the email address you sent it to, and anyone else who opens it is turned away. If you need to invite someone at a different address, send them a new invite.
ScheduleJuly 29, 2026
The schedule on a phone now works the way a phone calendar should: swipe sideways to go to the next day or the last one, the same step the arrows beside the date make. It also stops sliding around — session cards used to run off the right edge and drag the whole day with them, so a long client name pushed the time you were looking for off the screen. Cards now fit the screen and long names shorten instead.
StaffJuly 29, 2026
Hours only ever measured people against shifts someone typed in by hand, so an engineer who works nothing but sessions read as 0 planned and every punch they made looked unscheduled. The sessions they are booked on now count as what they were down to work, and a clock-in lands on the session it was for. On Sessions Atlanta that took the week from 4 minutes logged against 16 hours planned to 15h 43m against 57h, and three engineers who had no plan at all now have one.
PaymentsJuly 29, 2026
We used to keep a flat 5% of every payment. That is gone. Card payments are now billed at 2.9% + 30¢ — Stripe’s own published rate, passed straight through with nothing added, so a card costs you the same here as anywhere else. Bank transfer is 1% and never more than $100 however large the invoice, which makes it the cheaper rail to point your regulars at. Collect the money yourself and there is still no fee at all. Nothing changes for your clients: they pay the invoice total as written, and we never add a surcharge at checkout.
StaffJuly 29, 2026
When you asked an engineer to cover something, the only way they heard about it was a notification on their phone — and those only arrive if they have added StudioSide to their home screen. So an ask could go out to your whole team and be seen by nobody, while your notifications page said it had been sent. Asks now go by email as well, and the email opens straight to the page where they say yes or pass.
ScheduleJuly 29, 2026
The phone schedule now moves with your thumb — swipe left for the next day, right for the one before, the way every phone calendar works. It follows whichever view you are in, so the same swipe steps a week in Week and a month in Month. Sessions with longer names also used to run off the right edge and let the whole day slide sideways; cards now fit the screen and the day stays where you put it.
StaffJuly 29, 2026
Until now only you could ask someone to take a session, and only one that had nobody on it. Anyone on your team can open their own page, find a session they are booked on and tap Ask for cover — everyone free that day gets asked, and the first to say yes takes it. They stay on the session until someone actually picks it up, so a request nobody answers never quietly leaves the room unstaffed. You are told whenever a session changes hands.
PaymentsJuly 29, 2026
If your studio has no card payments set up and nothing written down about how else to pay you, sending an invoice used to work anyway — your client got a bill with nothing to act on, and you only found out afterwards. Sending now waits while you pick one: turn on card payments without leaving StudioSide, or write down your Zelle, bank or cash details. You only do it once, and there's still a way past it for a session you've already been paid for in cash.
SettingsJuly 29, 2026
A room created during studio setup kept its price in the wrong place, so Settings → Rooms called it "Not bookable yet" even though you had typed a rate — and its first invoice could come out at $0. Those rooms now carry a proper rate from the moment they exist. Setup also asks whether each rate is per hour or a flat rate, so a lockout room is no longer recorded as an hourly one.
SessionsJuly 29, 2026
Studio setup used to hand you an empty board. It now offers to book your first session before you go in, using the same booking form you will use every day after — pick a different room, time or client, or skip it entirely. The last screen also lets you invite your engineers there and then instead of pointing you at Settings.
SessionsJuly 29, 2026
The session panel lists every person on the booking — engineer, assistant, producer, host, runner — instead of only your own engineer, so an outside engineer no longer makes a session look empty. Tap anyone's name to swap them for someone else or take them off, and use the row underneath to fill any seat, not just the engineer's.
ScheduleJuly 29, 2026
A session where the client brings their own engineer used to show that engineer's name in your staffing slot, as if the room were half-covered. It is not — an outside engineer works for the artist, not for you. Those sessions now show an open chair like any other, and the calendar names what you actually need to go find: "Needs assistant" when the client has an engineer, "Needs engineer" when nobody is on it. A session with one of your assistants but no engineer at all now says "No engineer" too.
StaffJuly 29, 2026
Getting someone onto the team used to mean emailing them a link and hoping they found it. Your Team page now shows a short code — you tell a new engineer to go to the join page and type it, and they are on. Anyone who uses it joins as a member; a manager seat still needs a proper invite. Reset the code any time and the old one stops working.
SessionsJuly 29, 2026
Any session that actually ran now has a Download report button on it, and what comes out is built from what the app already recorded — room, artist, song, writers, drive, crew, gear, booked time against real time. It also carries the part that used to get typed up from memory the next morning: who clocked in and out, to the minute. Nothing is a form you fill in, so nothing carries last session's answer forward. There is no money on it — the invoice is still the document for that.
StaffJuly 29, 2026
Hours used to show everyone at equal weight, so the days that actually needed you looked the same as the days that were fine. It now opens with the only question it cannot answer on its own: somebody was down to work, the shift is over, and nobody clocked in — did they work it or not come in? Answer each one and the page tells you the week is agreed. Everyone whose week already adds up folds into a Settled list, still with their seven days at a glance, and time worked with no shift behind it is called out instead of hiding.
StaffJuly 29, 2026
When somebody worked a shift and never punched, there was nothing you could do about it — the hours were simply missing and stayed missing. You can now add them yourself from Hours, prefilled with the times the shift was down for, and the entry records that you were the one who put it in rather than pretending they clocked in themselves. If they genuinely did not come in, you mark the day instead, which is kept as a fact about that week and does not touch the rota.
InvoicesJuly 29, 2026
The Invoices item in the sidebar used to shout in red about one overdue invoice while saying nothing about the other unpaid ones. It now shows a quiet count of every invoice still open — sent and not paid yet, late or not — and the Open tab on the Invoices page shows that same number. Which of them are late is still spelled out on the row itself.
SettingsJuly 28, 2026
Settings → Hours has a new Clocking in panel. Stand in your studio, tap "Use my location" to set the point, pick how close counts as being there, and choose whether the app records a location on each clock-in or requires one. Recording is the safe setting: a punch from outside the radius is marked for you to review, never blocked, and a phone that cannot get a fix does not make anyone look guilty. Requiring it does turn people away, so it says so before you switch it on. Staff are told what is being recorded before their phone asks, and they can clock in without it on the recording setting.
StaffJuly 28, 2026
When a manager fixes a punch — a forgotten clock-out, a wrong start — the shift now carries a line saying who changed it and what it used to say, wherever it is read, including on the staff member’s own page. A manager correcting their own shift is marked as exactly that. The roster also lists every active member now, not just the people with hours that week, so someone who was rostered and never turned up is on the page instead of missing from it.
StaffJuly 28, 2026
Open "My week" from your photo at the bottom of the sidebar and the first thing you read is the answer: "Tomorrow, 4:00 PM – 10:00 PM", or "In 3 days", or that you are on right now until half ten. Every day of the week now says the same thing — whether you are on, and from when. Your own hours sit under each day too: what you clocked, and a plain line saying so when a manager has corrected one of your days. The studio-wide hours report is a separate, manager page under Team.
StaffJuly 28, 2026
Hours was calling any shift without a clock-in a no-show, including shifts still to come — so on a Tuesday, someone rostered for Thursday read as having already missed it. Shifts ahead of you now show as planned, drawn as an outline rather than a filled bar, and only count once their window has passed.
ReportsJuly 28, 2026
A fourth view, answering the things a single month can't. Who's carrying the studio: the share of the last twelve months riding on your biggest client, and on your top five — if one client is more than a third of your year, it says so. Who's gone quiet: clients who paid you this year but haven't been in for two months, ranked by what they paid, so the call worth making is at the top. And whether the people you invoiced this month came back or came in for the first time.
ReportsJuly 28, 2026
Reports now has three views. Money is the one you already had — what came in, who owes you, where it came from. Work answers how much actually ran: sessions booked with their hours, and a plain tally of what ran clean, what nobody turned up for, and what was never marked. Rooms shows how much of your open time sold, room by room, with the money each room took in beside it — something the old Performance page could never do. Performance itself is gone; those numbers live here now, next to the money they earned. You can also set up costs that repeat: add rent or power once and every month Reports asks you to confirm it rather than logging it for you, so your profit only ever counts money you said went out.
SessionsJuly 28, 2026
A note on a session used to sit there hoping the right person opened it. Type @ in the note box and pick someone from your team — they get an email, a notification on their phone if they have them turned on, and it shows up in their bell. Good for the things that used to end up in a group text: check the patchbay before tomorrow, the mic in B needs looking at.
ScheduleJuly 28, 2026
The little crew circle used to disappear once a session finished, so a done day told you nothing about who was on it. It now sits on every session in every state — initials when one of your team had it, an open circle when nobody did.
InvoicesJuly 28, 2026
On Financials, the Net deposited figure was subtracting the card processing fee a second time, so it showed roughly 3% less than what actually reached your bank. Your money was never affected — only the number on the page. It now matches your deposit: the invoice total minus the 5% StudioSide fee, and nothing else.
PaymentsJuly 28, 2026
There was a setting to pass card processing costs on to your clients, from back when you were the one paying them. You are not: StudioSide handles the payment and covers processing out of its 5%, so a client paying by card and a client paying by bank transfer both cost you exactly the same. The setting has been removed and your pay page shows one price again.
ReportsJuly 27, 2026
The money page only ever showed one month, quarter or year, so “are we growing?” was a question it could not answer — and it asked you to read nine boxes of accountant language to find out anything else. It now answers three plain questions in order. Are you making money: one big figure, the last thirteen months as a chart you can step through or click into, and what you kept after costs. Who owes you: what is late, aged from not yet due through 61 days and over, with a link straight to those invoices. Where did it come from: your money cut by kind of work, client or room. What it costs to run and the bookkeeping half — cash versus accrual, every payment, the CSV exports — now sit in two sections that stay shut until you want them. Expenses moved in there too, with a chart of what you spend month to month and a breakdown of what it goes on.
StaffJuly 27, 2026
Anyone on the team can now say they are unavailable from their own page — a day, or a window inside a day. When you go to assign someone, their time off shows up next to the usual double-booking warning, and seating them anyway takes a second tap so it is never an accident. Cover requests skip anyone who has blocked that window.
ScheduleJuly 27, 2026
Switching the week between Rooms and Crew used to feel like leaving the app — different headers, different rows, flat grey blocks. Both now draw the same seven days the same way, and a session shows the same colour and money spine in Crew that it already had in Rooms.
SessionsJuly 27, 2026
The requests page now fills the screen instead of floating in a card, and tells you in a sentence whether the room is free before you decide. You can work the whole queue from the keyboard: J and K to move, B to book, C to change, D to decline.
StaffJuly 27, 2026
Time off was invisible on the schedule, so an empty Thursday looked free whether it was free or booked off weeks ago. Days someone has taken off are now struck out on the Week Crew lens and say "Off" — or "Off 9 AM–5 PM" for part of a day — and the week counts them alongside your shifts and open slots. It is still only a warning: you can put someone on an off day, and if they are already booked into one you will see both.
StaffJuly 27, 2026
On the Week Crew lens a shift you had placed by hand was a soft grey box, near-identical to a session that had already finished. Placed shifts are now drawn as an outline instead of a filled card, so at a glance a filled block is always a booking and its colour always means that booking’s status.
ScheduleJuly 27, 2026
Looking back at a past day on the Day board, every session was drawn as a clean white card — the same card a booking still ahead of you gets — so a no-show from last week looked like something you could still start or still bill. Sessions that never ran now sit under their own "Never ran" heading and are tinted red, finished work fades out, and the purple edge that means "not billed yet" everywhere else on the calendar now shows on the board too.
ScheduleJuly 27, 2026
The Day view used to open at 8 AM no matter what, so an evening studio landed on an empty morning and had to scroll to find its own bookings. It now opens framed on whatever is actually on that day, so you can see all of it at once. Drag the time column to zoom as before — it now tells you how many hours you are looking at while you drag, and a Fit button brings the whole day back.
ScheduleJuly 27, 2026
Who is on the floor has moved out of its own column and into a band across the top of the Day view, which now compares your floor cover against the day’s bookings and names the gap — "No cover after 7p" — instead of leaving you to spot the hole. Floor staff no longer appear on the Week rooms board either; the Week Crew lens is where people live.
ScheduleJuly 27, 2026
Filtering the calendar by session status is gone. Because a status changes with the clock, a filter you set last week could quietly hide a session that had simply gone live since. What is left is what you actually reach for: rooms, engineers, and a single switch for showing cancelled sessions.
InvoicesJuly 27, 2026
Billing a finished session from the Schedule used to jump straight to the send confirmation, so the only way to change an amount was to go find the invoice under Invoices. That button now says "Review & send" and opens the real invoice editor over the session — nudge the hours, change the rate, add a discount or an extra charge, write a message, preview it, then send.
ClientsJuly 25, 2026
The coloured circle next to a client’s name was a pale wash, so a list of clients read as a row of near-identical grey discs. It is now a solid colour with white initials, everywhere the client appears — the schedule, the floor, invoices and PDFs. The invoice ledger keeps its quieter version on purpose, so a page of money does not turn into a page of colour.
PaymentsJuly 25, 2026
Recording a payment used to be open to anyone on your team. That meant a runner or an assistant could mark an invoice settled, which takes it off your chase list and stops you asking for money you were never sent. It is now limited to owners and admins, in the app and in the database itself. Payments that come in through Stripe are unaffected.
ScheduleJuly 25, 2026
Tapping a day in Month now shows that day’s sessions underneath the grid instead of just moving a highlight, so you can compare days without leaving the month. Today is marked with a red ring that stays put wherever you tap. A session also looks the same everywhere you meet it now — the black “on air” card in the day view is the same black card in the week list — and the times down the left edge line up properly with their sessions.
SettingsJuly 25, 2026
Settings → Team now shows a "Can see" column on every person, so you can tell who has money access and who has client access without opening a menu — and the owner grants or revokes either one in a single click. Managers read "By role", because they always see both. Underneath, the database itself now enforces it: anyone without money access is refused your invoices, payments and rates outright, not just steered away from the pages that show them.
StaffJuly 25, 2026
There is now a Time off card on the Me page. Anyone blocks a day, a run of days, or a few hours, and it saves straight away — nothing to approve. When you go to assign that session their name still appears, with a quiet line saying they are off, and picking them anyway takes a second tap so it is never an accident. Nobody who has blocked the time gets pinged when you ask everyone to cover. If someone blocks time on a session they are already on, that lands in your notifications so you can fill the hole.
InvoicesJuly 25, 2026
Every row on the phone Open tab now gives the amount a line of its own, so the figure is large enough to read at a glance and Bill is a proper thumb-sized button. Tap any row waiting to be billed and you get a quick look at what is on it — every session and what each one comes to — with Bill right there, or Full editor if you need to change something. Tapping an invoice you have already sent opens its record, which the phone had no way to reach before.
SettingsJuly 25, 2026
The switch that blanks every amount across the app used to live only in the sidebar menu, which a phone never shows — so on a phone there was no way to turn it on. It is now under Account on your Me page, with a shortcut at the top of Invoices for when you need to turn the screen toward someone. Names, dates and buttons stay readable while it is on, so you can still work.
StaffJuly 25, 2026
The Crew lens on the week — the people-by-days grid — could only be looked at. You can now build on it: click any empty day next to someone’s name to put them on for a shift, hover a shift you placed to take it off, and click a booking in the "Open shifts" row to pick an engineer for it. The picker ranks who has run that room before and marks anyone already busy at that hour. It also opens straight away now instead of pausing to load.
InvoicesJuly 25, 2026
The Paid tab on a phone was the desktop table squeezed onto a small screen: two rows of coloured method chips and a wrapped toolbar sat between you and the first payment. It is now a list grouped by day, with each day showing what you took that day, and one line per payment. The magnifying glass at the top used to do nothing — it is now a real search box on both tabs, and it covers clients, invoice numbers and how someone paid. Type "zelle" to see just the Zelle payments, or a client's name to see everything of theirs at once: what is still to bill, what they owe, and what they have already paid. Exporting a CSV now exports whatever you searched for.
SessionsJuly 25, 2026
Editing the time on a session that had already ended reopened the "End session" box, which quietly rewrote the hours you bill — even on an invoice you had already sent or been paid for. It now opens "Fix end time" instead: it keeps the start and end in order, records the old and new time on the session, and refuses once the invoice has gone out. If the session sits on a draft you have not sent, the draft’s hours update with it. And editing what was booked no longer changes what was actually worked.
ScheduleJuly 24, 2026
The phone used to give you three ways to move through time — a row of arrows, a strip of seven days, and a Board/Grid switch — before you could see a single session. Now there is one: Day, Week or Month, and one row underneath with a back arrow, where you are, and a forward arrow. Day is the feed with the red NOW line, Week is your seven days as a list, Month is the busy-day grid. There is also a search button next to New, so you can find a client, session or invoice from your phone the way ⌘K does on a computer.
ScheduleJuly 24, 2026
Sessions on the schedule carry a small circle with the initials of whoever is running them — engineer or assistant, whichever of your team is on it. When nobody is, the circle is empty, so an open session is obvious next to a covered one instead of needing a key to read. An outside engineer shows as a dashed circle with their initials, because a guest is not your coverage. Same circle on the day grid, the week board, the agenda, the Floor and your phone. Yellow now means one thing only: late to start.
ScheduleJuly 24, 2026
The "New" button moved out of the schedule toolbar and into the sidebar, just above Search, so you can start a booking from any page instead of going to the calendar first. On the schedule it still opens on the day you are looking at, and ⌘K now opens the same form under "New session".
ScheduleJuly 24, 2026
Week used to offer two drawings of the same seven days — a column per day, or your rooms down the side. They showed the same bookings, so the day-column one is gone and the room board is now simply Week. It keeps everything the other had: the “On the floor” lane across the top, the word on a session that’s late or missed, and the blue dot on anything that changed since you last looked. Click any empty square to book that room on that day. A session whose room was deleted now shows in an “Unassigned” row at the bottom instead of quietly vanishing off the week.
ScheduleJuly 24, 2026
A booking request now draws the time the client asked for against that room’s real day, on an hour scale you can actually read — so you can see at a glance that six to ten is free, or exactly who already has the room and until when. The whole review board also uses the full width of your screen now, and reads the same on your phone as it does on your computer.
StaffJuly 24, 2026
Rhodey can now schedule a staff shift for you — “put Noa on a host shift Monday 11 to 7” — and hands you a Confirm button like every other change it makes. Being the engineer on a session has never stopped someone from also working a host shift over the same hours, and Rhodey now schedules that without argument. It used to refuse and blame a clash that was never real.
ScheduleJuly 24, 2026
Every session across the schedule — Day, Week, Month and the board, on your computer and your phone — now takes its colour from the client, so you can pick out one artist’s bookings without reading a single name. A live room goes dark, a finished session fades to grey, and one that ran long gets a red outline, so what’s happening now stands apart from what’s done. And a small blue dot marks any session that changed since you last opened it — a new booking, a moved time — so nothing slips past quietly. Opening the session clears its dot.
ScheduleJuly 24, 2026
On the Day and Week calendar, the “On the floor” lane now has a little arrow on its own header — click it to fold the lane down to a thin strip and hand that space to your rooms, click the strip to bring it back. Folded, it still shows how many people are on the floor, so nothing quietly disappears. It stays how you leave it, and it’s no longer buried in the Filters menu.
ScheduleJuly 24, 2026
The Schedule item in the left sidebar already lit up red with a live count when rooms were recording. Now, when nothing’s live, it shows a quiet “N today” instead — how many sessions are still ahead on the day — so a glance at the rail tells you what’s left without opening the schedule. It winds down as the day does.
SettingsJuly 24, 2026
Money stays hidden from engineers and floor staff by default, as before. Now, in Settings → Team, the owner can switch on “Can see financials” for a specific person — so a lead engineer you trust can see rates, invoice totals and client balances without being made a manager. It’s the owner’s call alone, off unless you turn it on, and it grants seeing money only, not any management powers.
ScheduleJuly 24, 2026
Open the date picker at the top of the Schedule and each day is now shaded by how booked it is — the busier the day, the deeper the blue. The whole month’s rhythm reads at a glance, so you can spot a quiet Tuesday or a slammed weekend before you even pick a day. The exact count still shows on the day you’ve got selected. The month calendar on your phone reads the same way.
SessionsJuly 24, 2026
“Message client” now offers messages that fit where the session actually is — a “still holding the room?” when someone’s running late, an offer to extend near the end of a live session, a rebook after a no-show, a payment nudge with the amount once an invoice is out, a thank-you after. Each one comes prefilled with the real name, room and time, and you can now message a client after the session too, not just before. When you’ve got their number on file, Text is the main button — it opens your phone’s Messages app with it ready to send.
ClientsJuly 24, 2026
Client profiles now have a simple opt-in for booking-update texts, so you can start gathering permission ahead of texting going live. Nothing is sent yet — this just builds the list of who’s said yes.
ScheduleJuly 24, 2026
In the month list, every finished session now says where its money got to — a blue "To bill" while it's waiting, then a quiet "Invoiced" or "Waived" once it's handled — so a day that reads "2 to bill" up top actually has two billable rows, not five look-alikes. Days you've fully settled fold to a single line, and on a busy day the already-billed work tucks behind a "3 settled" line so what needs you stays on top. The old By day / Needs you toggle is gone; it's one list that just hides what's done.
ScheduleJuly 24, 2026
When a client asks for studio time, the review page now shows everything the yes-or-no needs in one place — who they are and whether they owe you, and their requested time drawn right on that room’s day, so a clash is obvious before you book. If the slot’s taken you can slide it to a free window the page suggests, or turn it down with a quick reason; once it’s booked, the handled list links straight to the session.
InvoicesJuly 23, 2026
Every charge on a draft invoice now has a grip on the left — drag it to put the lines in whatever order tells the story best, instead of being stuck with oldest-session-first. The order you set is the order the client sees on the invoice and the PDF, and it sticks once you send.
SettingsJuly 23, 2026
Payments is now only about how money reaches you — Stripe, the card fee, and your own payment details — with a line at the top telling you plainly whether a client can pay you at all. Everything about the paper moved to a new Invoice tab, where the preview is full size instead of a thumbnail. Hours picks up two settings that were missing: how long a new session starts out, and how long the engineer stays after.
InvoicesJuly 23, 2026
If you send an invoice without Stripe connected and without payment instructions saved, the client gets a bill with nothing to act on. StudioSide now says so when you send, instead of a green checkmark that implies the money is on its way.
SettingsJuly 23, 2026
The studio address search was limited to the country you were already in, so a US studio could never switch. It now searches worldwide, and your country follows whichever address you pick. The address suggestions no longer get cut off at the edge of the card, either.
ScheduleJuly 23, 2026
The session name at the top of the booking window is now typeable — tap one of the usual five (Recording, Mixing…) or write your own, like “Overdubs” or “Vocal comp”. A session booked without a client now goes by that name everywhere on the schedule instead of reading “Untitled”.
ClientsJuly 22, 2026
Invite a client to a private portal from their profile, where they can request studio time — and see right away whether it fits your hours and the room is free. Requests land in a new Requests inbox for you to approve into a real booking or decline; nothing is auto-confirmed, and clients never see your schedule, gear, or other clients.
InvoicesJuly 22, 2026
Settings → Payments now has a “Your invoice” section where you pick your invoice style — Aria, a quiet whitespace-led look, or Ledger, a classic ruled grid — plus an optional accent color, with a live preview as you choose. Your pick carries everywhere the client sees it: the PDF, the pay page, and the preview before you send. Session charges also read cleaner now — a line just says “Recording session” instead of repeating the room name that already shows underneath.
SettingsJuly 22, 2026
Settings is now split into a Studio side and a personal You side, so it’s clearer what belongs where. The old Rooms tab is now Pricing — your rooms, the services you sell, and your fallback rate all in one place. Where gear is stored moved to the Gear page (a “Storage” button up top), and the alerts that ping your team now live on the Team page instead of their own tab.
InvoicesJuly 22, 2026
Invoices now reads like an inbox: a blue dot marks work that has shown up since you last looked — a session that just became ready to bill, an invoice sent, a payment that landed — and the Paid tab shows a count when money comes in. A dot clears once you open or act on that row, and you can mark a row unread or clear a whole section at once.
InvoicesJuly 22, 2026
The downloadable invoice is now a proper printable document — a clean layout with payment terms and where to send a check — and a paid one downloads as a genuine receipt. You can add a standing footer note (like a cancellation policy) in Settings → Payments, and a part-paid invoice now shows the deposit applied and the remaining balance.
FloorJuly 15, 2026
Studio identity, a rooms-on-the-floor row you can tap to peek, and the live session shown as a hero with its team and setup inline — so a glance tells you what every room is doing right now.
SettingsJuly 10, 2026
Everything you set up once now lives on one page, grouped by job — studio, rooms, hours, payments, team, notifications — instead of a maze of tabs and sub-sections.
IntegrationsJuly 5, 2026
Renamed and archived sessions now push through correctly, so your Google Calendar always matches what is really on the books.
StaffJuly 1, 2026
When shifts move around, everyone affected gets one batched email instead of a notification for every little change — no more spam when you re-plan a night.
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