Hi Everyone!We use Mindbody for our adult classes (majority are drop in, multi-class passes) and enrollment for kids summer camps. I'm just wondering what everyone else uses for registration, is anyone using Tessitura alone for these sorts of activities? Thanks!
We use Tessitura (and TNew) alone for our theatre & school, and have been for about 5 years now. Classes are about 75% of our revenue, so this was a big investment (of time more than finances) to make the system work well for us, but integration with our box office has been a huge boon. Tess has its perks (like building customizations), but it can definitely be a little clunky in the user experience compared to MindBody, if you have a lot of info to capture (health info, waivers, etc).
There is an advisory committee working with Tessitura to make the education experience more beneficial and they advocate for getting better education features on the roadmap (I was on an education panel last year at TLCC with someone on that committee, it's fairly new). There will likely be some sessions about this topic at TLCC about using Tess and TNew for classes that you could check out. There were quite a few last year, and I think it's steadily getting more and more of a focus by the Tess developers and clients alike.
Here at The Groundlings, we also have a lot of drop-in classes and multi-class sets, and we have prerequisites for the bulk of those, which makes everything a little more complex. If you want to chat about our setup, let me know! The bulk of our registration system is standard to Tess with only a few small modifications.
~Carrie