Opus1 runs the front office: tuition billing, family messages, and self-booking. Set the Tune builds the season schedule your teachers actually drive. Different jobs, and they fit together. Here is the honest split.
| Capability | Set the Tune | Opus1 |
|---|---|---|
| One-click schedule optimization (whole roster) | ♩ Yes | Family self-booking |
| Drive-time-aware scheduling for traveling teachers (real traffic data) | ♩ Yes | - |
| Teacher workday rules - 8-hour cap, meal-break compliance | ♩ Yes | - |
| A/B (alternating) week balancing | ♩ Yes | - |
| Messy-file roster import (CSV, Excel, Word) with automatic cleanup | ♩ Yes | Free migration support |
| Waitlist placement | ♩ Yes | Smart waitlists & auto-fill |
| Teachers set their own availability | Private link, no login | Instructors manage their own hours |
| Tuition invoicing, autopay & family billing | - | ♩ Yes |
| Family self-booking portal | - | ♩ Yes |
| Email, SMS & voice messaging to families | Calendar email only | ♩ Yes |
| CRM & prospect tracking | - | ♩ Yes |
Based on each product's published feature list and pricing page, November 2026. Spot something out of date? Tell us.
Yes, and that is the point. Keep Opus1 for billing, family messages, and bookings. Use Set the Tune to build the season: import the roster, let the optimizer place every lesson around availability, drive time, and teacher workdays, then export it as a CSV or teacher PDFs. There is no direct connection between the two, so the export is the hand-off.
If families already pay tuition through Opus1 and hear from you by text or email there, keep it that way. Set the Tune does not invoice, take payments, or text families. Moving those jobs would be more work for you, not less.
What Set the Tune adds is the step before all of that: building the season. It holds the roster, every availability window, and each teacher's limits while the schedule comes together. When it settles, export it as a CSV or per-teacher PDFs and carry the finished times into the tool your families already use.
Self-booking works well once a calendar has open slots and a family picks one. The hard week is before that, when a couple hundred families need new times at once, siblings should land on the same afternoon, and teachers drive between homes.
Set the Tune places the whole roster in one pass. It checks availability windows, instrument match, exact lesson length, siblings, A/B weeks, meal breaks, and the real drive between one home and the next at lesson-hour traffic. Anything it cannot place is listed with the reason, so you fix a short list instead of building from a blank page.
No. Set the Tune does not do tuition billing, family self-booking, or SMS and voice messages, and those are core Opus1 jobs. Set the Tune builds the schedule. Billing and family messages stay in Opus1.
Not directly. There is no integration between the two today. You export the finished schedule from Set the Tune as a CSV or per-teacher PDFs and use it from there.
As of November 2026, Opus1 lists packages starting at $98 per month on its pricing page ($99 in its FAQ), with Starter covering up to 200 active students and SMS as a paid add-on. Set the Tune is $79, $129, or $199 per month per school, sized by the students you actually schedule, with unlimited teachers. Add the two for your own school to see the real total.
Yes. Sign up with no card, import your real roster, and watch the optimizer build your schedule. Exports sit behind a paid plan, so you judge the schedule on your own data before you decide.