Built by a teacher who’s still teaching.
I taught band for years before stepping away to teach private lessons. From the podium I watched our private staff struggle with the same things every semester — chasing payments, rebuilding schedules around pull-outs, tracking mileage on a napkin — and there was nothing I could do about it from where I stood. Now I’m on their side of it, and I built Shinnpad because every tool I tried was either bloated, overpriced, or clearly made by people who’d never driven 40 minutes between two schools to teach back-to-back lessons.
So I built the thing I actually needed: simple scheduling, painless payments, and the part nobody else does well — a bookkeeping & tax center made for self-employed music teachers. Mileage between campuses, expenses, quarterly taxes, and a year-end Schedule C your CPA can actually use, in plain language: “You taught 18 lessons, drove 143 business miles, bought $62 in sticks, set aside $118 for taxes.”
It’s everything I wanted, at about half the price of the big platforms — because it’s built by one of us, not a software company guessing at what we do.
Built to be trusted with your studio.
Your studio is your livelihood, so Shinnpad is engineered like real software, not a flimsy side project. Your data is isolated and protected at the database level, on managed, backed-up infrastructure, and a dedicated cybersecurity team has scanned the app for vulnerabilities. Here’s how your information stays safe:
It’s built and maintained with real care — and run efficiently enough that I can charge a fraction of what the legacy platforms do, without cutting corners on the things that protect your studio.