Starter
Run the studio.
$149/ month
Booking and the calendar, the live floor, clients, gear, invoices, and getting paid. Unlimited rooms, sessions, and seats.
Run the room, not the paperwork
Booking, live session tracking, and invoicing for recording studios.
Built by an assistant engineer who ran the floor at Sessions Atlanta.
Most studios run on three disconnected systems
Bookings live in text threads
Session notes live on paper
Invoices get written from memory
01Book
Every room, every rate, one calendar
Rates lock forward only. Conflicts warn instead of blocking, because the floor knows things the software does not.
02Run
The floor, at a glance
Tally-light cards show what every room is doing right now. Nine states, one screen, readable from a phone in a dark hallway.
Studio A
LiveAF
Aretha Franklin
Mixing
DP
Devon Pierce
1:00 PM
6:00 PM
Studio B
SoonWH
Whitney Houston
Vocals
MR
Maia Reyes
Starts 3:00 PM · in 15m
Studio C
UpcomingJH
Jimi Hendrix
Tracking
SO
Sam Okafor
Starts 7:00 PM · in 4h 15m
03Invoice
Bill the session while it is still fresh
Hourly, flat, or no-show. Send from the session while the details are still in your head, and take card payments that pay out to your bank.
Two plans. The second one is for studios with staff.
One price per studio, however many rooms you run and however many people you bring in.
Pro
Run the team.
$299/ month
Everything in Starter, plus the staff rota, clock-in and timesheets, a client portal, financials, and the audit log.
We make our money on the software, not on your money.
- Card
- 2.9% + 30¢
- exactly what Stripe charges — we add nothing
- Bank transfer
- 1%
- never more than $100
- Cash, check, Zelle
- Free
- you collected it, so we take nothing
Your client pays the invoice total, exactly as written — we never add a surcharge at checkout. The fee comes out before the money reaches you, and every payment shows what was taken and what you netted.
Questions studio owners actually ask
What happens to my existing bookings
There is no automatic import yet. Most studios enter the next few weeks of sessions by hand and start fresh from there, which usually takes under an hour. Anything further out can stay on your old calendar until it comes up.
When does the money hit my account
You do not need your own Stripe account. StudioSide sets up your payments account inside the app — you add a bank account and the identity details the law requires, and that is the last you see of it. Your first payout lands about a week after your first paid invoice, while the account finishes verifying. After that it is automatic and daily: money from a card payment reaches your bank about two business days later. StudioSide keeps a 5% fee on payments taken through the platform, which covers card processing. If you collect cash, card, or transfer yourself, you record it on the invoice and no fee applies.
What if a session runs long
The session keeps running and records what actually happened, not what was booked. Overtime shows on the invoice against the booked hours, so you can bill it or waive it deliberately. A session left running well past its end gets flagged so it does not quietly run all night.
Do my clients need an account
No. Invoices arrive by email and can be paid from a link with no login. There is a client portal for studios that want clients checking their own sessions and history, but it is optional and off by default.
Can my runner use this on a phone
Yes. The Floor, the day schedule, and clocking in and out are all built for a phone first. A runner or assistant sees the rooms and their own shifts without needing access to billing or client records.