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Eight steps take you from a brand-new account to a studio that mostly runs itself: students on the calendar, attendance creating the charges, and invoices going out each month. By the end, marking attendance is the main thing you still do by hand.

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1. Finish the welcome setup

The first time you sign in, Harness walks you through your basics: your name, your studio, and your timezone. The timezone matters most: every calendar time, for you and your students, follows it rather than your device’s clock, so get it right once here. None of this is permanent; change any of it later under Settings.

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2. Add your first student

Add a student with the step-by-step form, or send a sign-up link and let the family enter their own details.

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3. Set your lesson rates

A lesson’s price is its rate, set on the calendar event. Save the prices you reuse as rate presets so pricing a lesson is one click. A lesson with no rate still works; it just charges nothing until you set one.

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4. Schedule a lesson

Put the lesson on your calendar with Create an event, turn Payment on, and pick the rate. You can set the lesson to repeat weekly, fortnightly, or monthly, and add a location.

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5. Mark attendance

When a lesson happens, open it and mark who attended. Marking attendance creates the charge: that’s the whole billing step. Run a lesson covers attendance and notes; How billing works explains where the charge goes.

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6. Send the first invoice

Bill the account for its charges: pick the account, choose which charges to include, and send the invoice. Harness emails it to the account’s contacts.

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7. Get paid online (optional, Professional)

Connect Stripe so your invoices carry a Pay link and card payments record themselves. Online payments are on the Professional plan; logging cash and checks by hand works everywhere.

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8. Let billing run itself (Professional)

Once you’re set up, Harness collects each account’s charges into one invoice at every billing cycle, drafted for your review or sent outright. Automate your billing walks the setup, and your invoicing defaults set the cycle, automation level, and terms it uses.