Card machine guide · Personal services
For dance studios the Clover Station Duo is the usual starting point: recital fees, tuition and merch. The sections below cover sizing, the usual traps and what installation looks like.
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At Merchant Fund Express, we set up Clover for which credit card machine is best for a dance studio: the right devices, the features that matter in your workflow and on-site training for your staff.
For most dance studios we start with the Clover Station Duo. The Station Duo pairs a 14-inch staff screen with an 8-inch customer-facing screen and a built-in printer, and it accepts contactless tap, chip and swipe.
Dance studios bill tuition each month, collect recital fees once a year and sell costumes and shoes in between.
Tuition by class or by family, recital fees, costumes and merchandise, often with sibling discounts.
Cards on file for tuition with occasional cash and a heavy peak around enrollment and recital season.
Front desk staff handle parents and instructors need attendance and payment reports.
A Station Duo at the front desk, a Mini for the costume closet and a Flex at the recital box office.
Installation is on site: hardware set up and tested, your items and modifiers programmed, printers and drawers connected and your staff walked through a practice rush.
| Role | Device | Why it earns its place |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Station Duo | Front desk |
| Add-on | Mini | Costume closet |
| Add-on | Flex | Recital box office |
Taking tuition by check and cash and entering it later makes it impossible to see who is behind.
front desk handles enrollment for the term.
classes check in and parents pay tuition.
costumes and tickets are sold.
tuition status is reviewed.
Front desk and instructors. Parents pay at the desk or by link.
Tuition by class and family, with sibling discounts. Costumes and recital fees are separate items.
A dance studio runs on a school-year rhythm: enrollment in late summer, tuition each month, a recital in spring. Tuition status is the number to read weekly, recital and costume fees are best collected at set dates by link and a sibling discount applied automatically keeps the front desk from doing arithmetic.
With Merchant Fund Express you deal with the people who set the system up. We come on site, train your team and stay reachable by phone, and our funding side is there if you later need capital or equipment financing.
At Merchant Fund Express, recurring billing tools can support monthly tuition; we confirm the right setup for your classes.
Fees can be sold as items and paid at the desk or by invoice.
Yes. Deposits can be recorded as partial payments and applied at the appointment.
Once your account is approved the hardware is configured and scheduled for on-site installation. We give you a real date when you call, and we stay with you through the first service.
Tell us the term and the equipment arrangement. We will explain what switching would involve and tell you honestly if waiting makes more sense.
Discounts can be applied to tuition so a second or third family member is priced automatically, which keeps the front desk from doing arithmetic with a line of parents waiting.
Invoices include a payment link, so a parent can pay tuition or recital fees from their phone without a trip to the desk, which helps in the weeks around recital deadlines.
Call Merchant Fund Express. We install it, train your staff and stay on the line after launch. Ask for a free rate review while you are at it.
