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Encore vs Opus1
Moving from Opus1 to Encore
Encore runs the business side of a music studio: booking, billing, agreements and a portal for every family. Here's how it works, what we could verify against Opus1's own pages, and exactly what a move involves.
30 days free · $297 done-for-you migration from Opus1
How it works
How Encore runs your studio
Opus1 also offers a family portal, messaging, room scheduling, online card payments and terms families sign when they book; the table below lists what we could verify.
Sources: opus1.io/capabilities/student-and-family-management, opus1.io/capabilities/unified-communication-tools, opus1.io/capabilities/resource-optimization, opus1.io/capabilities/automated-billing-and-payments, opus1.io/capabilities/scheduling-and-self-booking, September 18, 2026
Migration
We move your studio off Opus1 for you
Send us your Opus1 exports and we bring your families, students, enrollments and recurring charges across, build your timetable, check it against what you had, and agree a cutover date with you.
It's one fixed price: $297, one time, offered when you set up your studio. It isn't a subscription and you don't have to buy it. The spreadsheet import that comes with every plan is free.
$297 · one time
Payments
Tuition goes into your own Stripe account
If your studio has its own Stripe account, connect it; otherwise create a new one. Families pay online by card, and tuition goes straight to that account, in your studio's name. Encore never holds it.
Encore takes 0% of tuition. Stripe's processing fee is the only deduction, and you pay it to Stripe.
0% of tuition to Encore
Families
Every family gets a portal of their own
Families log in to your branded portal to see upcoming lessons, pay invoices, e-sign agreements and message the studio.
Messages reach every family on every plan, with nothing to set up. Anyone who isn't in the portal gets an email.
Already text families from a business number? Connect that Twilio account and Encore texts through it. No add-on fee: you pay Twilio directly for what you send.
Messaging on every plan
In-home lessons
Built for teachers who drive to their students
Set a buffer between each teacher's lessons, so the schedule leaves time to get across town.
On the Plus and Pro plans, Routing plans each teacher's day around students' addresses and travel time.
Teaching from a building instead? Rooms come with every plan, and a room can't be booked for two lessons at once.
Routing on the Plus and Pro plans
Checked against Opus1
Encore and Opus1, on the record
What we could check against Opus1's own public pages, with where we read each one and when.
Students
- Encore
- No student limit on any plan
- Opus1
- Starter up to 200 and Growth up to 500 active students; Ultimate removes the limitSource: opus1.io/pricing (plan cards, and the FAQ entry dated June 29, 2026), September 18, 2026
Comparison based on publicly available information as of September 18, 2026. Opus1 is a trademark of its owner; Encore Studio is not affiliated with Opus1.
On the roadmap
iOS and Android apps — coming December 2026
Making the switch
What moving off Opus1 takes
You pull the exports, and we do the rest with you, on a date you agree to.
Before you switch
Past lesson and attendance history stays in Opus1.
Export from Opus1
Opus1 exports your subscriptions, attendance, staff and transactions as CSV files. Those files are what we work from.
From our own migrations, not an Opus1 statement
Send them privately
You upload the files through a private link, never by email, along with a short worksheet listing your teachers.
We rebuild it in Encore
Opus1 keeps its billing schedule on its own side, so recurring charges don't move by themselves. We rebuild each one from your subscriptions export, and build your timetable from the lessons already booked in Opus1.
From our own migrations, not an Opus1 statement
Check it, then cut over
We verify the result against what you had and agree a cutover date with you.
Rengie Mendoza
Founder, RenzaGroup
Who's behind Encore
A real person is behind Encore
Rengie Mendoza is the founder of RenzaGroup, with 24 years in application design and development and more than 150 private apps built for enterprise clients and local businesses.
Rengie is known for turning complicated workflows into simple tools.
Someone passionate about building tools for local businesses, who wants studio owners spending less time on admin and more time teaching.
See it with your own studio
Try it free for 30 days, or look around the demo studio first.