What Dance Master Pro Is
Dance Master Pro is a class-management platform built specifically for dance schools: student records, class scheduling, enrolment, attendance, payments, invoicing and staff payroll in one system. Pricing is unusually simple to state and unusually hard to convert: a single Academy Licence at €29 a month or €249 a year, with “all features always included” and no plan ladder to compare, but everything quoted in euros even on the pages aimed at kids dance school software buyers in the UK. This page verifies the euro figures directly against the vendor's own pricing page, gives a clearly labelled sterling conversion at today's rate, and compares the real cost against Class Manager, LoveAdmin and ClassForKids before looking at where Bizzly fits as a broader alternative.
How Dance Master Pro Pricing Works
It is deliberately simple on paper: one licence, billed monthly or annually, with every feature unlocked regardless of school size. There is no per-student or per-staff-member charge, and no separate tier that gates core functionality behind a higher price.
The Academy Licence
€29 a month, or €249 a year if you pay annually, which Dance Master Pro advertises as a 28% saving against paying monthly for twelve months (12 × €29 = €348). At today's EUR/GBP rate of approximately 0.86, that converts to roughly £25 a month or £214 a year, though these are our estimates from the published euro price, not figures shown on the vendor's own pricing page. The licence covers class scheduling, student enrolment, attendance, payments, invoicing and staff compensation for an unlimited number of students and staff.
Optional setup, free support
A one-off €149 (roughly £128) setup service is available if you want Dance Master Pro to import your existing students, teachers and classes rather than doing it yourself. Tech support by email and WhatsApp is included free on every plan, with no separate support tier to pay for.
The currency question
Dance Master Pro's UK-facing page states the platform supports GBP billing, term-based scheduling aligned to the British academic calendar, GDPR-compliant data handling and VAT-aware pricing for UK studios. What it does not do is show a matching sterling price list next to the euro one: the only figures published anywhere are in euros. If sterling billing matters to you specifically, confirm the exact amount and currency at checkout rather than assuming the conversion above is what you will be charged.
Cost at a Glance, With Sterling Conversions
| Item | Estimated Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dance Master Pro Monthly Academy Licence | €29/month (~£25/month) | Every feature included at every tier: there is no ladder of plans. Sterling figure is an approximate conversion at today's EUR/GBP rate, not a published Dance Master Pro price. |
| Dance Master Pro Annual Academy Licence | €249/year (~£214/year) | Advertised as a 28% saving against paying monthly for 12 months (€348). Works out to roughly €20.75 a month. |
| Initial full setup service | €149 one-off (~£128) | Optional paid service where Dance Master Pro imports your students, teachers and classes for you. |
| Tech support | Free | Included by email and WhatsApp on every plan, at no extra charge. |
| Payment processing fees | Not published | Dance Master Pro's own pricing page does not state a card-processing or transaction fee. Confirm this directly before you budget: it is the biggest unknown in an otherwise transparent price list. |
| Class Manager (UK) | £25/month or subscription-free, plus 2.7% + 20p per online payment | A UK-built alternative aimed at dance, swim, tennis and martial arts studios. Some sources show a £25/month licence; Class Manager's own marketing also advertises a subscription-free option funded entirely by the per-transaction fee: check which model applies to your account. |
| LoveAdmin / Thrive4 | Historically from £20 to £35/month, usage-based | LoveAdmin is mid-rebrand to Thrive4 as of September 2026; its own pricing page currently redirects and publishes no plan figures. The figures shown are pre-rebrand, from third-party listings, and should be treated as stale until Thrive4 republishes pricing. |
| ClassForKids UK Standard | From £34.99/month, plus a quoted per-booking fee | Verified as of July 2026 in our ClassForKids pricing guide. The per-booking fee is not published; one UK club reported 3.1% in its own parent FAQ. |
| Bizzly Base | £19/month (£190/year) | 50 bookings, 1 calendar, 10 pages, full drag-and-drop website builder, attendance registers, review collection, Stripe payments. No platform fee on bookings. |
| Bizzly Standard | £29/month (£290/year) | 200 bookings, 3 calendars, WhatsApp AI assistant (500 messages), waitlists, free trial sessions, custom profile fields, SMS reminders (50), Google Business Profile integration, Google Analytics. |
| Bizzly Pro | £49/month (£490/year) | Unlimited bookings and calendars, custom domain, branded email domain, merch store, per-venue pricing, WhatsApp 2,000 messages, 200 SMS/month. 14-day free trial, no card required. |
Every sterling figure against a Dance Master Pro line is our conversion, labelled as such, from the published euro price at today's exchange rate: never a number the vendor itself displays. The LoveAdmin row carries its own caveat: the brand is mid-rebrand to Thrive4 as of September 2026 and its own pricing page is currently unpublished, so those figures are pre-rebrand and from third-party listings rather than a live vendor source.
What the Licence Does Not Cover
Beyond the currency and processing-fee questions above, two further things sit outside the headline price.
- A public marketing website. Dance Master Pro is class-management software for an existing school's back office (scheduling, enrolment, payments and payroll), not a website builder. Studios that want a proper marketing site with their own pages, branding and SEO run one separately.
- Independent review evidence. As of September 2026, Dance Master Pro's Capterra listing shows a single review. That is not a red flag on its own, but it means you are relying far more on the trial and a direct demo than on third-party social proof, unlike the more heavily reviewed Class Manager or ClassForKids.
Total Cost: A Worked Example
Take a typical small UK dance school: around 90 students across weekly term-time classes, one site, collecting roughly £3,000 a month in tuition and instalment payments.
| Item | Estimated Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Licence fee | Dance Master Pro ~£25 (monthly) · Bizzly Standard £29 | Dance Master Pro's single licence covers unlimited students and staff regardless of school size, so a 90-student academy pays the same as a 20-student one. |
| Annual licence saving | Dance Master Pro ~£214/year vs ~£299/year paying monthly | Paying annually saves roughly £85 a year at today's conversion rate: the 28% discount the vendor advertises in euros. |
| Payment processing on £3,000 of monthly tuition | Dance Master Pro: not published · Bizzly: ~£65 (Stripe standard UK rate) | This is the genuine unknown on the Dance Master Pro side. Bizzly's cost is Stripe's standard UK card rate with no platform mark-up. |
| Website | Dance Master Pro: not part of the licence · Bizzly: £0 | Dance Master Pro's pricing page covers school management software, not a marketing website; Bizzly includes the full site builder in every plan. |
| One-off setup | Dance Master Pro €149 (~£128) · Bizzly £0 | Optional on Dance Master Pro if you want them to migrate your data. Bizzly onboarding is self-serve at no charge. |
On the licence line alone, Dance Master Pro at roughly £25 a month (monthly billing) undercuts Bizzly Standard at £29. Paying annually narrows Dance Master Pro to roughly £214 a year against Bizzly Standard's £290 a year. What the comparison cannot currently settle is payment processing: Bizzly's cost is transparent, Stripe's standard UK rate with nothing added. Dance Master Pro discloses no equivalent figure at all. Depending on what that turns out to be, the two platforms could land within a few pounds of each other, or Dance Master Pro could end up costing meaningfully more once a real fee is applied to £3,000 of monthly tuition. Get that number in writing before you compare further.
How it scales
Dance Master Pro's single flat licence is genuinely size-independent: a 200-student academy pays exactly the same €29 a month as a 20-student one, which is a real advantage for a growing school with no software-cost penalty for adding students. Bizzly's cost changes with booking volume instead: Base caps at 50 bookings a month and Standard at 200, so a 90-student school running weekly classes across the year needs Pro at £49 a month to stay uncapped, at which point Dance Master Pro's licence-only saving looks smaller once a website is added to the Bizzly side of the ledger as already included, and to the Dance Master Pro side as a cost still to find.
Dance Master Pro vs Class Manager vs LoveAdmin
Three genuinely different pricing philosophies sit in this small UK dance-software market. Class Manager markets itself as subscription-fee free, earning its revenue instead from a published 2.7% + 20p fee on online payments (though some directory listings also show a flat £25-a-month licence option, so confirm which applies to your account): the inverse of Dance Master Pro's flat-licence, undisclosed-fee model. LoveAdmin is the hardest of the three to price right now: it is mid-rebrand to Thrive4 as of September 2026, its pricing page currently redirects with no plan figures published, and the only numbers available are pre-rebrand third-party listings (historically £20 to £35 a month, usage-based). Dance Master Pro is the simplest to state and the hardest to fully cost: one clear licence figure, one undisclosed variable.
ClassForKids, though built for the wider kids-activity market rather than dance specifically, is the other common reference point: £34.99 a month plus a per-booking fee quoted per club rather than published, one UK club having reported 3.1%. Against all three, Dance Master Pro's transparency on the licence line and opacity on the processing line is a genuinely mixed picture: better than ClassForKids on the headline number, less complete than Class Manager's published percentage.
Where Bizzly Fits
Bizzly is a broader service-business platform that covers kids dance school software buyers rather than a dance-specialist back office. Plans are £19, £29 and £49 a month, payments run through your own Stripe account with no platform fee on bookings, and it is a global, multi-currency product rather than one priced natively in a single currency with a conversion applied for other markets.
The website is the difference, not the class register
Dance Master Pro manages your existing school's back office well. It does not build the website that gets a family to find you in the first place. Every Bizzly plan, including the £19 Base tier, includes a fully flexible drag-and-drop website editor: home page, class pages, venue pages and policy pages, all editable, with 26 drop-in components including the booking calendar, timetable, plans, a store and cart, testimonials and the customer portal. Per-page SEO with a search-result preview, version snapshots, a media library and AI page creation are included on every tier, so the marketing site, class listings and checkout become one system on one bill instead of a management tool paired with a separately hosted site.
Subscriptions, term packs and season billing, side by side
Bizzly runs monthly plans with booking quotas, session credit packs with expiry dates, one-off term and holiday-camp packs with mid-block pro-rating for late joiners, and season subscriptions that auto-roll members into the next season with a configurable cancellation policy, all simultaneously. Dance Master Pro supports recurring subscriptions and instalment-based tuition well, which suits a school billing termly fees across the year, but does not publish equivalent mid-term pro-rating or season-roll mechanics for a growing multi-term academy. Booking on Bizzly is payment-gated too, so lapsed billing removes booking access automatically rather than relying on a manual reconciliation.
What Bizzly genuinely does not do
Be honest about the gaps for a dance school specifically. Bizzly has no built-in teacher or staff payroll calculation, which Dance Master Pro offers as a named feature for UK studios. There is no scheduling model locked to a specific academic calendar the way Dance Master Pro's term-based structure is: Bizzly's season and term packs are configurable rather than pre-aligned to Autumn, Spring and Summer terms out of the box. There is no dedicated instalment-tuition wizard beyond the general subscription and pack billing tools, no native mobile app, and self-serve rather than paid-migration onboarding.
Bizzly vs Dance Master Pro: Feature Comparison
| Feature | Bizzly | Dance Master Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Class scheduling and enrolment | ||
| Attendance tracking | ||
| Term-based scheduling aligned to the British academic calendar | Season and term packs, not calendar-locked | |
| Recurring subscriptions and instalment-based tuition | ||
| Term and camp packs with mid-term pro-rating for late joiners | Not published | |
| Season subscriptions that auto-roll, with configurable cancellation policies | ||
| Waiting lists with automatic claim offers | Standard plan+ | Not published |
| Free trial sessions as bookable services | Standard plan+ | Not published |
| Fully flexible drag-and-drop website builder | ||
| WhatsApp AI assistant answering parent enquiries | Standard plan+ | |
| GDPR-compliant data handling | ||
| VAT-aware pricing | Optional Stripe Tax | |
| Teacher/staff payroll calculations | ||
| Multi-tier pricing ladder | Base / Standard / Pro | |
| Published payment-processing fees | Stripe standard rate, published | Not published |
| Discount codes | Via Stripe promotion codes | Not published |
| Platform fee charged on every booking | None from Bizzly | Not published |
| Setup/migration service | Self-serve setup | One-off paid service |
| Free trial | 14 days, no card | 30 days, claimed on UK landing page |
| Currency | Multi-currency, global | Priced in euros; GBP billing claimed for UK |
When Each Is Worth the Money
Dance Master Pro earns its price if:
- You already have a website you like and only need class scheduling, attendance and payments behind the scenes
- Teacher payroll calculation as a built-in feature genuinely saves you a spreadsheet or a separate payroll tool
- Your school runs on the British academic term structure and wants scheduling pre-aligned to it
- A single flat licence regardless of student count matters more to you than a booking-volume cap
Bizzly is the better fit if:
- You want your website and your booking system to be one product on one bill, with the whole site editable page by page
- You want a published, predictable processing fee rather than one you have to ask about
- You need term and season packs with mid-term pro-rating for late joiners, alongside monthly subscriptions
- You want booking access tied automatically to payment status, so lapsed families cannot keep booking
- You want to price and be billed in one consistent currency without converting from euros
Verdict
Dance Master Pro is refreshingly simple on the number that is easiest to compare: one licence, everything included, no tier ladder. That simplicity is a genuine selling point against platforms that gate features behind higher plans. The two real question marks are the currency (published in euros, GBP billing claimed but not shown as a price) and the undisclosed payment-processing fee, which for a school taking regular tuition payments is not a minor detail. Its thin review base (one review on Capterra as of September 2026) means you are leaning on the 30-day trial claimed on its UK page rather than social proof.
Bizzly is the stronger fit when the website and the booking system need to be one product, when a published processing fee with no surprises matters, and when term-pack billing with mid-term pro-rating and auto-rolling seasons is part of how your school actually runs. It is the wrong choice if built-in teacher payroll or a term structure pre-aligned to the British academic year is what you are optimising for. Get the currency and the processing fee confirmed in writing before you sign up for Dance Master Pro, then compare against how a dance school works as a subscription business or see current plans on the Bizzly pricing page.