Stop chasing payments.
Start teaching more.
LessonLoop is UK music teacher software: your diary, registers, lesson notes, automatic invoicing and parent messaging in one place. Parents pay by card or Direct Debit into your own Stripe account — LessonLoop adds nothing on top of standard Stripe rates. £15 a month, unlimited pupils. 30-day free trial, no card.
The diary, the register and the notes — one place.
Teaching on your own means being the teacher, the receptionist, the bookkeeper and the credit controller. Three of those four jobs are software problems.
Every pupil, wherever you teach them.
Home, a studio, two schools and an online lesson at eight — one diary that knows where you are meant to be and refuses to double-book you.
- ✓ Recurring lessons that follow UK term dates, half terms and your own closures
- ✓ Locations on every lesson, so travel is visible before you say yes to a Tuesday
- ✓ Group lessons and ensembles beside one-to-one teaching, billed per pupil
- ✓ Online lessons carry their own link; the clash check covers pupil and teacher
- ✓ Parents book and cancel into slots you have actually opened, under your own notice policy
Two taps between pupils.
Mark the register on your phone while the next child is unpacking. That single mark is what the invoice, the make-up credit and your own records are all built from — so nothing is entered twice.
- ✓ Present, absent, late or cancelled, saving as you tap — no separate save step
- ✓ Your own make-up policy enforced: which absences earn a credit, whether the slot is released, and how long a credit lasts
- ✓ Lesson notes and repertoire on the pupil’s own page, so “what did we do last week” has an answer
- ✓ A native iPhone app on the App Store, not a website in a shortcut
Not written your policy yet? The free make-up policy builder drafts one you can paste straight into your terms.
The invoices send themselves. The chase is already written.
Fees come from the lessons you actually taught and marked. What used to be a Sunday evening with a spreadsheet and an apologetic text message is now a preview screen and one button.
Bill a term without opening a spreadsheet.
Set a rate card once — per instrument, per lesson length, per pupil if you like — and a billing run turns a term of completed lessons into invoices you can see before they exist.
- ✓ Termly, half-termly, monthly or per lesson, whichever your parents already understand
- ✓ Sent from your own email address on your own domain, not from a supplier’s
- ✓ Payment plans and instalments across a term, collected as each date falls due
- ✓ Automatic late fees with a grace period and a cap, so you never have to be the one who brings it up
- ✓ VAT-aware invoicing for the day you cross the threshold, and one-way sync into Xero
Nothing on top of standard Stripe rates.
Parents pay by card or Bacs Direct Debit straight into your own Stripe account. The money is yours as soon as it settles, and LessonLoop takes no percentage of it — not a platform fee, not an application fee, not a cut of a Direct Debit.
- ✓ Stripe bills you its own published rate directly, exactly as it would if you had connected it yourself
- ✓ Bacs Direct Debit for termly fees, with the mandate set up by the parent in the portal — it is their authority to give, not yours to create
- ✓ A reminder ladder that leaves a family alone while a bank debit is in flight, because a debit takes up to four working days to confirm
- ✓ Prepaid balances, part payments, refunds and credit notes, all on one family statement
The mechanics, timings and failure handling are in Direct Debit for music lesson fees.
The end of the 9pm text message.
Almost every out-of-hours message a private teacher gets is one of three questions. Put the answers where a parent can reach them at 9pm and they stop arriving on your phone.
- ✓ This term’s schedule, every invoice with a pay button, and your message thread — one login, your own domain, your name on it
- ✓ Practice streaks, a weekly goal and badges that give the child a reason to open it between lessons
- ✓ Automatic lesson reminders, with consent and delivery status recorded per family
- ✓ WhatsApp reminders as an optional prepaid pack, currently in early access. There is no SMS channel
- ✓ Sheet music, backing tracks and handouts shared to the pupils who need them
Your teaching year and your tax year, both in the right shape.
You are running a UK business on a UK school calendar. Software built for a US semester and a US tax return makes you do the translation, every term and every January.
UK terms, not semesters
Terms, half terms, INSET days and your own closures are first-class. Bill 32 to 36 teaching weeks rather than pretending a year has twelve identical months, and roll a whole term forward in one pass.
Expenses and mileage at HMRC rates
Log a drive to a school or a set of strings against the lesson it belongs to. Both run on the UK tax year at HMRC’s own mileage rates, and both export as CSV in the shape an accountant asks for.
Priced and billed in pounds
£15 a month in GBP, VAT-aware invoicing for the day you cross the threshold, and UK GDPR with the data held in the UK and Europe. No currency risk on your own subscription.
Working out what to charge is its own problem: the hourly rate calculator does the arithmetic on your real teaching year, music lesson prices in the UK gives the going rates by instrument and region, and Self Assessment for music teachers covers the deadlines and the allowable expenses.
The only AI that does the admin.
Ask in plain English. It proposes the change — the invoice drafted, the lesson moved, the awkward chasing message written — and nothing happens until you confirm it.
It writes the message you keep putting off
“Chase the Okafors about last term” produces the message, with the amount, the invoice number and the right tone, ready for you to send or edit. The Morning Brief tells you which families are worth chasing before you ask.
And it never acts on its own
Every action is shown as the change it will make, and waits. LoopAssist is on both plans with no separate AI tier to buy. The MCP connector answers questions about your own studio inside ChatGPT or Claude — read-only today.
£15 a month, and it stays £15.
Published list prices, read from each vendor’s own pricing page. Solo teaching is column one — the gap opens the moment you take on help.
| Team size | MyMusicStaff | MakeMusic Studio | My Music Lessons | LessonLoop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 teacher | ~£13 | ~£16 | £9.95 | £15 Solo |
| 5 teachers | ~£29 | ~£31 | £21.75 | £39 |
| 8 teachers | ~£40 | ~£43 | £30.60 | £39 |
| 15 teachers | ~£67 | ~£70 | £51.25 | £39 |
| 30 teachers | ~£125 | ~£128 | £95.50 | £39 |
Every price above was read from that vendor’s own pricing page on 4 September 2026. US list prices converted at approximately $1 = £0.78 for comparison only — the rate moves, and what a UK card is charged depends on the vendor’s own checkout. GBP prices are as published. LessonLoop is £15 a month Solo — one teacher, unlimited pupils — and £39 a month School, with unlimited teacher accounts and unlimited pupils. The School price is the same at three teachers or thirty. Run it on your own numbers, or read the full comparison tables.
Bring your pupils across. We will do it for you.
Guided migration is free on every plan, including Solo, and nothing is emailed to a single family while an import is running.
Send what you have
A spreadsheet, an export from another tool, or the notes app you keep the timetable in. Whatever shape it is in.
We load it
We map and import your pupils, guardians and lessons, free, then check it with you before anything goes live.
You invite the parents
You pick the moment. Most teachers do it on the first day of a term, when the timetable is already right.
Everything on this page is checkable.
No stock photography, no invented testimonials and no numbers without a source — including the ones about other people’s products.
LessonLoop was built inside a working music school with a 23-year teaching history, and that school runs on it every teaching day. Every release lands there before it lands anywhere else.
Read the story behind it → See it before you sign up A live demo, with no signupA seeded school you can click through right now — a term of lessons, real invoices, a parent portal. No email address, no card, no sales call, no calendar link.
Open the live demo → Real screens Every screenshot is the productEach image on this site is captured from the September build of the app, at the size it renders. Nothing here is an illustration, a mock-up or a concept.
Walk the product, screen by screen → Competitor claims Dated tables, sourced to the vendorEvery price we quote for another product was read from that vendor’s own live pricing page, carries the date it was read, and invites a correction if it has moved.
Read the comparison tables →Support is UK-based and answers within one UK working day. Migration is guided and free on every plan, there is no lock-in and no exit fee, and your data exports in full whenever you ask for it — the pricing page spells out exactly what each plan includes.
Before you click away.
I already track everything in a spreadsheet. Why switch?
How do payments work, and do you take a cut?
Is £15 a month really everything?
What if I teach in schools as well as at home?
Does it handle the UK tax year?
Will my pupils’ parents actually use the portal?
What happens when I grow and take on another teacher?
Can I leave, and do I get my data?
The neighbouring pages.
Music school software
The £39 version of this page: a whole staff on one timetable, teacher pay rates, payroll and termly billing runs.
Read it →Work out your hourly rate
A free calculator, no email gate: what you must charge per lesson to reach the income you want, on your real teaching year.
Read it →Self Assessment for music teachers
Expenses, deadlines and Making Tax Digital for a UK private teacher, with the HMRC figures and the date they were checked.
Read it →Every audience page sits under who LessonLoop is for. The numbers are on pricing, the depth is on the product tour, and the dated competitor tables are on compare.
Try a month without the admin.
30-day free trial. No card. Send us your pupils and your timetable — we import them for you, free.