Studio management, shaped around you
Everything you need to manage your ceramics or art studio in one place.
A bespoke operating system for your members, waitlist, classes, team, and studio data—set up with you and supported by someone who actually runs a ceramics studio.
Tested every day at MUD Ceramics in Bellingham, Washington.
Not off-the-shelf software
“Your studio has its own rhythm. Your tools should, too.”
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Austin Danson20 years ceramic studio experience
A calmer way to run the studio
See what matters when you open the door.
This is a real click-through product preview. Open each tab to see how the core studio workflows fit together.
Interactive product preview
Your studio at a glance.
Start with today: membership, waitlist, and class activity in one calm view.
Click through the tabs
Membership
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ABAvery BrooksStudio membershipActive
JRJordan ReyesStudio membershipActive
SKSamira KhanStudio membershipStarts Sep 1
Next 7 days
Studio rhythm
WEDWheel II · 6:00 PM8 / 8
THUOpen studio · 10:00 AM14 booked
SATHandbuilding · 1:00 PM6 / 10
1 of 5Explore the operating core, then tell us what your studio needs.
Built inside a working ceramics studio
Made around the realities of clay, classes, and community.
MUD Manage is tested in the same rooms where we teach, throw, fire work, and support members every day.
The useful parts, without the bloat
Your daily studio work, connected.
MUD Manage starts with the operating core. We configure the details around your policies, language, membership model, and class schedule.
Members + waitlist
See active members, upcoming starts, pauses, cancellations, and your waitlist in one clean view.
Classes
Add and run your class calendar, enrollment, teachers, pay, discounts, and reusable student emails.
Studio data
Understand who is joining and leaving, membership movement, class health, and revenue trends.
Stripe payments
Your studio owns its Stripe account. We configure monthly membership billing and class checkout around you.
Clear communication
Approved templates keep recurring member, student, and teacher communication consistent.
Team time
Simple time tracking gives staff an easy clock-in view and gives owners a dependable record.
How it works
Not a login and a luck wish.
You get a working partner through the setup—and after launch.
- 01
Map the way you run
We learn your member journey, class operation, team roles, policies, current tools, and the things held together by spreadsheets.
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Shape your system
We configure your console, payment flow, class site, studio language, templates, and any safe data migration in scope.
- 03
Test it together
Your real workflows run through a private preview. We train the people who will use it and fix what does not fit.
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Launch with support
Most studios can launch in 2–4 weeks. We stay involved for maintenance, improvements, and the inevitable edge cases.
Founding studio pricing
One clear monthly price.
A smaller implementation fee gets your tailored system live. Then one predictable monthly price covers the platform and ongoing support.
Discovery, configuration, Stripe setup, class website, data migration planning, testing, and team training.
For single-location studios with up to 200 active members. Custom pricing is available for larger studios.
No MUD Manage transaction fee. Your studio pays Stripe's standard payment-processing fees directly. Complex migrations, additional locations, growth services, and out-of-scope custom work are quoted separately.
“I built the first version because I needed it to run MUD. I've spent about 20 years in ceramics studios, so we'll start with how your studio actually works—not a software sales script.”
Austin DansonFounder · 20 years ceramic studio experience
20years ceramic studio experience
Dailyuse at MUD Ceramics, Bellingham
1:1setup with a real studio operator
Tell us about your studio
Could MUD Manage fit?
Share a little about where you are now and when you would like to launch. Austin will review it and reply personally.
Prefer email?office@mudceramics.org