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Attendance lets you track who shows up to each class, session by session, and roll it up into a record over time. You take it right from a class on the calendar, and the totals appear next to each student and on a studio-wide Attendance report — so when a dancer's results slip, you can point to exactly how many classes they missed.

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The attendance report showing students tracked, sessions recorded, and a per-student present, late, excused, and absent breakdown

Building a class roster

Attendance starts from a class roster — the list of dancers who belong to a class. Open a class on the calendar and use 'Manage roster' to tick the students in it. For a recurring class the roster is shared across the whole series, so you set it once and it applies to every session; for a one-off class it applies to that single occurrence. The picker suggests students whose level matches the class to speed this up.

If your studio lets families claim class seats with their plan (set per plan on Tuition plans), claimed dancers join the roster for that single session wearing a Drop-in badge — including on the attendance checklist, where you mark them like anyone else. Plans can bill drop-ins as a weekly free allowance or as a paid per-class price (set per claimable class level on the plan); a paid claim holds the seat with an 'Awaiting payment' badge until the family finishes paying, and attendance can't be marked for it until the payment settles. Manage roster covers the regular roster only, so drop-in dancers arrive unticked there: tick one and save to make them a regular member of the class, or leave them unticked and saving the roster removes that session's claim — the dialog reminds you before you save.

Taking attendance

Open a class for the day and you will see its attendance checklist. Tap each rostered dancer as Present, Late, Excused, or Absent — a running 'present / total' count sits at the top. Marks save instantly and can be changed any time, and each session is recorded on its own, so a recurring class keeps a separate record per date.

Note. Both admins and the instructors assigned to a class can take its attendance. Instructors do not need any financial access to do so.

The attendance report

The Attendance page gives you the studio-wide picture: every student with their total sessions, present / late / excused / absent counts, and an attendance rate. Sort by rate to surface the dancers slipping through the cracks. The same rate also shows in the Students view of the roster, where opening a student reveals their recent sessions.

On the iPhone app

iPhone app

Roll call works the same way on your phone: open the class from the Calendar tab and mark each rostered dancer. The Attendance screen (under More) then shows the studio-wide totals — students tracked, sessions, and absences — wherever you are.