Parents/students have control and clarity over lesson schedules, payments and communication.
And equally important, Educators are paid at the end of the week for all lessons conducted during that week.
Including late cancellations (48 hours) and no shows.
Fact: 22.4% of music educators are owed fees for lessons provided
And Because musicians are typically, right side thinkers – creative. Administration tends to be "left" aside or managed poorly)
SAMii Solves!
when enrolling,
Pay per lesson ( Direct debit 48 hours prior to the scheduled lesson), plus 2 in advance, Just in case there is an issue charging the card.
SAMii-lite.com Login
You can see what upcoming lessons have payments associated with them
48 hours.
The current version of SAMii has a 48 hours notice policy. ( variants coming soon)
In some cases, educators might have a zero cancellation policy. ( this is up to each Educators policy.
Login into SAMii . On the students dashboard, they can cancel a lesson that is with a 3 month time period. lesson can be uncanceled of circumstances change.
The Educator will cancel lessons from their SAMii dashboard. Notification of canceled lessons will be sent to all involved. No charge for any lesson that the educator has cancelled. If the educator cancels within 48 hours to the scheduled lesson, as your DD has already processed. That lesson charge will be applied to a future unpaid lesson. There will always be 2 lessons in advance. Educators can pause lessons and their associated Debits for any length of time. Fees associated with future upcoming lessons will sit dormant until the lesson occurs.
All good things must come to an end. The Educator can “end lessons” from their dashboard. Any unused lesson fees will be returned to the payer’s Credit Card.
SAMii will try to debit the card every 2 days until the lesson payment is successful. This is why SAMii charges an additional 2 lessons in advance. So there is some time to get things sorted and lessons can continue in the meantime without interruption.
SAMii will send email notifications during this process to inform that in advance lessons are being used. You may need to update your payment method via SAMii. If in the event that SAMii can not get the in advanced lessons back up, the student will become inactive and the scheduled time will be made available to other students. The payer and educator will receive an email informing them of this. There is a link in that final email that can re-enrol the student back into the schedule to carry on under the previous arrangements.
With every successful Direct Debit, a paid receipt is emailed to the parent. SAMii’s admin humans have access to all transactions and can send reports on request. ( Future version of SAMii will include a suit of reporting options.
When the Educator sets up a lesson time, they choose to either on charge or Absorb the SAMii fee. a percentage of the lesson. This covers EFT Credit Card transaction fees and SAMii admin fee. the fee is either added on to the raw lesson fee, payable by the parent or absorbed by the educator.
Absolutely. At the end of every week (Sunday evening) educators receive Tax invoice/Paid receipts.
The Educator creates a lesson then shares an invite link to the student or students that need to be allocated to that lesson. The parent or student will create their profile on SAMii, Choose their payment option then enter their payment method.
Students are scheduled in the educator’s schedule once payment is made.
