A New Zealand alternative to Class Manager
Class Manager's flat licence with unlimited students is a genuinely good pricing model — better than most of its competitors. The difference is what sits around the class list.
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The honest summary
Class Manager publishes a single monthly licence covering its full feature set with unlimited students and teachers. That's a straightforward, defensible model, and if pure cost-per-student is your deciding factor at a large roll, it's hard to beat.
Olune's case is narrower and more specific: it's built for New Zealand studios, it includes your studio website rather than expecting you to run one elsewhere, and it connects to Xero out of the box.
Your website is the part that quietly costs you
Most class management software manages classes and stops there. Your public timetable then lives on a separate website — Squarespace, Wix, WordPress, or a developer you email — and the two are updated independently.
That gap is where studios lose time and credibility. A class moves, the system knows, the website doesn't, and a family turns up on Tuesday for a class that now runs Wednesday. It also means a second subscription and a second thing to learn. Olune includes the studio website, edited in the same place as the class list, so changing a class time changes the public timetable at the same moment.
Built for the New Zealand year
Four school terms, GST-inclusive advertised fees, NZD, and families who expect to pay by term rather than by month. Olune's fee model, GST handling and currency are all built around that rather than adapted to it.
If you're a New Zealand studio, this is the axis on which the comparison actually turns — not feature counts.
Where Class Manager is genuinely ahead
Maturity, and the simplicity of one licence. Class Manager is an established product with a real user base and years of production use behind it; Olune is still in development, with general release due in December. For a studio that can't afford to be an early adopter, that difference is the whole decision.
Class Manager also puts every feature behind a single fee, where Olune's tiers gate capability — so a small studio wanting one Scale-tier module has to move up a plan to get it. On student numbers the two are the same: both are unlimited.
How to decide
Ask what your website situation costs you today — in subscription, in time, and in the number of times a term your public timetable has been wrong. If that number is zero, the case for switching is weaker. If you're paying for a site you dread editing, that's the gap Olune is built to close.
Olune is free to use until general release, so you can put a real term through it before committing either way.
Details about Class Manager on this page were taken from publicly published information and last checked on . Pricing and features change — check their current published terms before deciding. Olune is not affiliated with any product named here.
Common questions
- Does Class Manager include a website?
- Class Manager focuses on class management; a public studio website is generally something you run separately. Olune includes a studio website you edit in the same place as your class list, so your public timetable can't drift out of sync.
- Is Olune a good Class Manager alternative for a New Zealand studio?
- It's built specifically for the NZ context — NZD pricing, GST at studio level, term-based fees and Xero — and includes the studio website. Class Manager's flat licence with unlimited students remains a strong option, particularly at a large roll.
- Can I try Olune before switching?
- Yes. Olune is free to use as much as you like until general release in December, which is long enough to run a full term through it before deciding.
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