Main Street Sites

RATING:

4.5

(15)

About Main Street Sites

Main Street Sites is a cloud-based dance studio management solution that helps businesses provide group or private lessons for dance and yoga studios, music and language schools and theater programs. It manages business operations such as online registrations and payments, class management, web hosting and more. Main Street Sites offers users a back-office module that helps them set their class schedule, pricing, offer coupons and discounts and manage multiple locations and semesters. The solution provides users with several built-in design templates for their websites and an option to modify the HTML code. Users can modify their websites, set global fonts, manage color options and add text and pictures using CSS. Main Street Sites supports integration with Gr...

Main Street Sites Pricing

Back Office (works with any website) $45 USD/month Website & Back Office Bundle $60 USD/month Website Only $35 USD/month No start-up costs. No commitments. Cancel at any time.

Starting price: 

$35.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

Main Street Sites Fees

Main Street Sites Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Main Street Sites

1 - 5 of 15 Reviews

Michelle

Music, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2023

Main Street Sites is the workhorse and backbone of my small business

Main Street Sites makes it possible and easy for me, a computer newbie, to run my business smoothly. My website looks great thanks to their many options. If I have a question, I get an answer on the same day from customer service, and they always find a way to help me out or fulfill my needs. Main Street Sites is fantastic!

PROS

Main Street Sites provides a fully-customizable website and back office for my small business. They are constantly updating and improving their offerings to optimize ease of use, and their customer service is outstanding.

CONS

I can't think of anything I don't like about Main Street Sites.

Reason for choosing Main Street Sites

Main Street Sites was recommended by a colleague, who also uses their product. Many of my colleagues use Main Street Sites and are happy with it.

Louise

Music, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2017

Best Decision I Made for My Business!

I have owned and operated a music studio for 12 years now. My studio has grown over the years and by needs have also grown. I switched to MainStreetSites about a year ago, and it has been the best decision for my business. Their customer service is exceptional, the features are always being updated and the team is very responsive to meeting the needs of their clients. The learning curve for adapting to the new system was intense, but they were there every step of the way and are always available to new questions my email or phone. Exceptional and I highly recommend!

PROS

Definitely the batch payment process, the tax receipts being emailed to each account individually by year, the email messaging system... lots!

CONS

I struggle a bit with the vast abilities of the system, but any time I need help the customer service is exceptional.

Elena

Used free trial

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

2

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

Reviewed May 2015

wasn't good fit for us

Trying to find a software which fits our needs, we evaluated few systems. This system didn't work for us. You need to create different classes for each time, each session. Class which runs on Tuesday and Thursday (but once-a-week enrollment) will require to create two different classes. In out case it means hundreds of classes instead of 20 classes with many scheduled. Drop-in classes don't really supported (only as events). We allow drop-ins on most of our classes. While software has many great features, this was a deal killer for us.

Vendor Response

Following up on this -- we have since added extensive support for paid drop-ins (including reminders by email and text, coupons and flexible pricing rules).

Replied June 2020

Linda

Used free trial

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

Reviewed March 2015

Overall, it is a good program for businesses who want to manage their own website and database.

I like that I can 1) design my webpage, 2) develop class schedules, 3) offer online registration/payment, 4) receive inquiries through the website, 3) feature an online store, 4) create customizable fields to obtain data from customers that are unique to my business. The Customer Service representatives are courteous, helpful, and listen to suggestions. These are my suggestions: 1) Provide ways for drop-in students to register for single classes, 2) show attendance and makeups for individual students under their account, 3) provide a drop down menu to choose from multiple enrollment confirmation templates, 4) link financials directly to Quickbooks, 5) resize photos easier, 6) provide tracking options for recital, i.e., participation, measurements, costumes, songs, etc 7) provide better training/help on how to create html emails, or maybe even have a newsletter template in which we "fill in the blanks" with text and pictures. I'd like to upload pictures/files directly from my computer to a newsletter rather than uploading them to the image vault. It would be helpful if you emailed descriptions of upcoming revisions, and periodically check in with us to see if we need anything. Or perhaps, a monthly newsletter with tips, pointers, reminders, etc., to help us utilize all of the functions of the program. I am not a programmer, but I often have valuable insight and visioning skills regarding the design and functionality of data processing needs.

Vendor Response

We have since added support for drag/drop upload of images into the page editor, paid drop-in classes and recital management. Release notes for each update are posted on the back-end landing page to help users learn about new features.

Replied June 2020

Matt

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed May 2018

Great software solution with even better customer support!

PROS

Very easy to integrate into our business website, easy for customers to use, easy to update and roll forward classes. The customer service team is AWESOME and very responsive. They even help set up your MainStreet Sites account to match your website!

CONS

I would love to see a way to track student skills built into the software somehow, but overall this is the best software that we've used for managing our swim school and we tried numerous options prior purchasing MainStreet Sites.