Private schools, tutoring, music and dance schools

Accounting software for private schools, tutoring centres and music schools

Bill tuition per family with sibling discounts and financial aid, send term fees to every family at once, take registration deposits, and recognise a year's prepaid tuition month by month.

For small private schools, tutoring centres, and music, dance and art schools in the US and Canada, $399.99 once.

No card, no account. Windows 10 and 11. United States and Canada.

A music school director in the doorway of a lesson room

What it means

In practice

Tuition per family

The Tuition Billing screen creates a family's invoice with the base tuition, a sibling discount percentage and any aid or subsidy, each shown as its own line.

Term fees in one go

Batch invoicing bills the same fees to every family in a group at once, one invoice each. Monthly lesson fees can repeat on their own as recurring invoices.

Prepaid tuition spread out

When a family pays the year up front, the Revenue Recognition schedule moves it from deferred revenue into income month by month over the school year.

A tuition invoice in AcboBooks

Tuition, sibling discount and aid on one invoice.

Who has paid for this term, and who still owes?

Families are customers. Term invoices go out together, payments are applied as they come in, card payments can use a Stripe link on the invoice, and the A/R aging shows who is behind.

Each program (piano, dance, after-school tutoring) is a class, so the P&L by class shows which ones cover their teachers.

What is in the licence

The whole job, in one price

Tuition

Tuition Billing with sibling discount
Financial aid or subsidy lines
Batch invoices for term fees
Recurring monthly lesson invoices

Payments

Registration deposits
Card payments via Stripe
Statements to families
Late fees as finance charges

Programs

Classes per program or location
P&L by class
Prepaid tuition recognised monthly
Budgets vs actuals

Teachers

Payroll for staff teachers
Contract instructors on 1099-NEC or T4A
Time tracking by employee
Vacation and sick time
The AcboBooks home screen

What families owe, at a glance.

What it does not do

· No student information system: no attendance, scheduling, grades or parent portal.

· Windows 10 and 11 for now (a Mac version is coming soon); no phone app.

· It imports your bank's statement file rather than connecting live to the bank.

Questions people ask

Before you download

Can I give sibling discounts?

Yes. On the Tuition Billing screen, enter the sibling discount percentage and it appears as its own line on the family's invoice.

Can I bill every family at the start of term?

Yes. Batch invoicing sends the same fee lines to all the families you pick, one invoice each, numbered in order.

How do I handle tuition paid for the whole year?

Set up a revenue schedule; the payment sits in deferred revenue and moves into income each month as the year is taught.

Coming from something else?

How it compares to what you use now

Get started

Tuition billed and collected, term after term.

Bill a family's tuition with a sibling discount in the trial.

No card. No account. Nothing to cancel.