Get paid: from timetable to first collected payment
Connect your bank account through GoCardless, send your first invoice, and follow the payment until the money reaches your bank.
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Why lessons must stay affordable
How the cost of lessons affects families and teachers alike, and how that shapes the way Soniq Studio prices itself and collects payments.
How the billing model works, and why
Why Soniq Studio builds invoices from your lessons, waits for you before it sends anything, and collects payments by bank instead of by card.
Payment and mandate statuses
Every status Soniq Studio shows for a payment, a Direct Debit mandate and your GoCardless account, with what each one means.
Why chasing money shouldn't cost you the relationship
The thinking behind how Soniq Studio follows up late and failed payments, and why it starts kind and hands the hard conversations back to you.
How to send an invoice
Create invoices from your lessons, send them to the people who pay, and follow each invoice until it is paid.
How to create and share a pay link
Copy the link to an invoice's payment page and send it to a student or parent yourself.
How to handle a failed or missed payment
What to do when an invoice goes unpaid, a Direct Debit payment fails, or a student's Direct Debit stops working.
How to issue a refund, credit note, or lesson credit
Give money back with a refund and credit note, or owe a family a lesson with a lesson credit, and give that lesson as a makeup.
How to end lessons with a student cleanly
Settle past lessons, stop future lessons, close off invoices and lesson credits, and remove portal access when a student stops lessons.
Changelog August 2026
A big reduction in our costs, we've passed it on to you
Changelog July 2026
Refunds available to founding members and a simplified pay screen