Welcome to Your Educators Toolbox

CutTime takes a workflow driven approach to empowering fine arts educators and leaders like you with data that provides actionable insights. We see the lifecycle of each task and design ‘assistant like’ features around them. With the growing demands of your programs, you can count on a more comprehensive and modernized toolset to collectively manage inventory, financials, communication and member participation. You will also find more continuous releases of new features and enhancements to improve your seasonal workflow. We focus on responsive web, rather than native apps, to deliver a premium user experience with all of the navigation and push communication bells and whistles without the extra software installation and update hassle.

You have the flexibility to choose the delivery method that you deem best for your program (email, SMS text, or both). 58% of people say that texting is the most effective way for businesses and organizations to reach them. 74% of people respond to text messages from a business within an hour. In our CutTime community, we see a 95% open and read rate for text messages within 24 hours vs. only a 25% open only rate for email in the same time period. Email can be difficult for busy parents and guardians to keep up and respond. Isn’t everyone’s inbox overflowing these days?

That’s why we came up with a more modern solution that enables you to leverage the benefits of SMS text messaging. We use SMS text as a web-based push notification to get your messages center stage on your members’ devices. Now instead of having to send a personal text message reminding a member to read your emails - they can just tap and go directly to your message! A huge time saver and life saver when you have an urgent item to communicate. A good example of this is when you are coming back from an away game or performance and run into unexpected traffic delays. Being able to send a quick announcement to guardians alerting them that the pick up time will be thirty minutes later is priceless. For your guardians, getting time sensitive notification on their phone where they are more likely to see and ACT on it is pure gold. Best of all, we enable you to see the ‘deliverability’ of your messages and alert you to issues where someone has changed their mobile phone number or accidentally ‘opted out’ from texts. Trust us, you and your members will love the convenience of our SMS text approach.

If your students or guardians do not wish to receive text messages from CutTime, they can reply ‘STOP’ anytime to opt out and 'UNSTOP' to opt back in. View our SMS Terms of Service here.

CutTime is mobile first! We focus CutTime’s interface design and functionality primarily on responsive web, rather than native apps. Today’s responsive web technology delivers a premium user experience with all of the navigation and push communication bells and whistles without the extra software installation and update hassle. This approach enables us to optimize our product design, development and support resources on advancing one single platform versus three different platforms that have to keep up with Apple and Google constantly evolving native app standards. Bottom line, CutTime is tailor made to go where you need to go!

First, you will need to request access by submitting this form here. Our support team will review and then connect your CutTime account credentials with Simple Raise. Sign into your CutTime account and then look for the ‘Fundraising’ link, which is located in the main side navigation. Click on ‘Fundraising’ and it will instantly recognize your account credentials and take you to a Simple Raise Explainer Landing Page, where you can learn more and continue your connection over to the Simple Raise application.

Yes, currently there is a modest platform fee of 10% for using Simple Raise, which is paid at the conclusion of each fundraiser, based on the actual amount raised. There is no up front cost to set up or maintain your Simple Raise account connection with CutTime and you can create and run as many fundraisers as you want. Donors can also choose to pay a 3.5% convenience fee to offset costs for the organization.