Early access · for competitive dance studios
Every competition fee. One balance per family. On autopay.
Costumes, choreography, entry fees per routine, conventions, travel: each with its own due date and payment plan, rolled into one balance parents actually understand. Keep your class software for classes. Let Dance Dues handle the team money.
- Flat pricing, never per student
- Works alongside Jackrabbit, DanceStudio-Pro and the rest
- Built on Fee-Lion invoicing and payments
- Costumes (jazz, lyrical)Plan 2 of 3 · Nov 15 $95.00
- Regionals entry · 4 routinesDue Dec 1 $260.00
- Choreography: soloPaid Oct 1 $350.00
- Convention: Jan weekendPlan 1 of 2 · Nov 15 $119.00
- Nationals travel depositDue Feb 1 $200.00
The season, in fees
Tuition is one bill. A competition season is twenty.
Every one of these has its own amount, its own deadline and, often, its own payment plan. Multiply by every dancer and every routine.
Costumes
One per routine, often on a 2–3 payment plan before the order deadline.
Choreography
Solos, duets and group pieces, priced per dancer per routine.
Competition entry
Per routine, per event, with the event’s own registration deadline.
Conventions
Workshop weekends billed per dancer, sometimes with a parent observer fee.
Travel
Hotel blocks, nationals deposits and the balance due months later.
Recital
Recital fees, tickets and the costume that goes with it.
Photos & video
Picture day, competition video packages, optional add-ons.
Team dues
Monthly or one-time team fees on top of tuition.
Where it hurts today
The money side of a comp team runs on spreadsheets and goodwill
For the studio
Fees live in a spreadsheet, payments arrive by Venmo, check and cash, and somebody spends Sunday night working out who still owes for costumes.
For parents
A $600 bill shows up two weeks before regionals. Nobody said it was coming, and two kids on the team means two sets of fees to keep straight.
For your software
Class software is built for monthly tuition. Per-routine entry fees, convention weekends and travel deposits don’t fit, so they end up off the books.
How it’s meant to work
Set up the season once. Families see it all from day one.
This is what we’re building for early access. The studios on the waitlist decide what comes first.
- 1
Add your season’s fees
Costume, choreography, each competition and convention, travel: an amount, a due date, and an optional payment plan for each.
- 2
Assign them to teams and routines in one go
Give the whole Junior Elite jazz routine its costume fee at once instead of typing it twenty times.
- 3
Each family gets one balance
Split by dancer and listed by due date, so parents see what’s coming months ahead. Siblings share one family balance.
- 4
Autopay and reminders do the chasing
Parents save a card or bank account once. Installments run on schedule, and reminders go out before anything is due.
For team parents
No more surprise bills before regionals
One balance for your family, broken down by dancer. Every fee shows when it’s due and what’s left on the plan, from the first week of the season.
- See the whole season’s costs up front, not two weeks before the deadline
- Spread big fees into installments the studio sets up
- Two or three dancers on the team? Still one balance
- Pay from your phone with a card or bank account
Is your studio still on spreadsheets and Venmo? Join as a parent and tell us the studio. We’ll reach out to them.
Keep your class software
Dance Dues isn’t trying to replace your studio management system. It handles the competition and event money next to it.
- Jackrabbit
- DanceStudio-Pro
- Akada
- Studio Director
- Mindbody
- Spreadsheets
No integrations today. A roster import from your software’s spreadsheet export is planned first.
Pricing
Flat pricing. No per-student fees.
A 40-dancer team and a 140-dancer team shouldn’t pay different software bills for the same tool.
Fee-Lion plans today are $9 / month (Solo) and $29 / month (Studio). Online payments carry Stripe’s processing fee plus a small platform fee: 2% on Solo, 1% on Studio, with bank payments capped at $10 and $5.
The dance edition’s price comes out before launch, flat like the rest of Fee-Lion. The waitlist hears it first.
See Fee-Lion pricing →Questions
Is this live?
Not yet. Dance Dues is in early access. It's built on Fee-Lion, which already handles invoices, payment plans and online card and bank payments for small businesses. The dance-specific parts (family balances, team rosters, assigning a fee to a whole routine at once) are what we're building now, with input from the studios on the waitlist.
Do we have to leave Jackrabbit or DanceStudio-Pro?
No. Keep your class software for classes, attendance and tuition. The plan is for this to handle the competition and event money that class software handles badly. There’s no live integration today; we plan to start with a roster import from a spreadsheet export.
How will it be priced?
Flat monthly pricing, never per student or per dancer. Today Fee-Lion’s plans are $9 and $29 a month, plus payment processing and a small platform fee on online payments. We’ll publish the edition’s price before it opens, and tell the waitlist first.
How do parents pay?
Fee-Lion takes card and bank (ACH) payments online through Stripe, including payment plans. The dance edition adds one balance per family, so a parent with two dancers on the team sees one number and one schedule.
Who’s behind it?
Media Lion LLC, the small team that makes Fee-Lion. We’re talking to studio owners and team parents before we build, so the waitlist form asks a few questions. Answering them shapes what ships first.
Early access
Join the waitlist
We’re opening to a small group of studios first. Tell us a little about yours and we’ll be in touch, usually for a 20-minute call about how you handle fees today.