Whip Your Communication Into Shape
Send messages and keep your members up to date with your program.
Announcements
Get your messages delivered quickly and effectively via our Magic Link system. No more wondering if your members received them either - our deliverability dashboard keeps you informed.
Events
Create one-off and multi-series events for your program. Enable your members to subscribe one-time to synchronize with their personal calendars. Publish for wider visibility to Public and District calendars.
Volunteer Opportunities
Create volunteer opportunities that your students and guardians can view, see who else is helping and sign up with ease. Volunteering reminders are automatically sent 24 hours prior to the event.
Experience pure communication magic that transforms your inbox.
In less than three minutes our CutTime expert will delight you with their communication advice for taming the admin chaos around sending announcements and event notifications.
The Magic Link!!!!!!!! Thank you!! It's brilliant! Works great and is super easy to set up. Thanks to CutTime, I spend at least 50 % less time managing our group.
Madeline Poe Choir Director in Florida, USACommunicate with Even More Visual Impact
Spending lots of time formatting your Announcement content? Add some visual pop with these 5 Awesome Markdown tricks the next time you've got a lot to share with your Members!
Learn how to format with Headers, Dividers, Text Links, Block Quotes, and Other Emphasis Elements as you compose your Announcements in CutTime.
CutTime Communication Features
Create and Send Announcements
Use our editor to compose a message with subject line and format details for short updates and longer form newsletters. View and edit all of your previous announcements and see the delivery status of each one to individual members via a dashboard.
Create and Send Events
Use our editor to compose a message with event name, date and details for important meetings, auditions, rehearsals, performances, upcoming trips and more. Create single as well as event series. View and edit all of your current and previous events via a dashboard in both 'list' and 'grid' calendar formats. Syndicate specific events to a Public and/or District calendar widget which can be shared to bring more visibility to your performances in the community.
Create Volunteer Opportunities
Use our editor to construct a volunteer opportunity posting within your events. Posting includes name, date, time, description, number of slots and program credit value. View who signs up and enable your students and guardians to see who else is lending a helping hand and which opportunities need volunteers. An automatic reminder is sent to volunteers 24 hours before the scheduled time of your event.
Transmit Notifications via Magic Link Notifications
Send announcements, events, payment, payment, inventory assignment, and rental agreement notifications via Magic Link notifications directly to your members’ mobile phones or email inboxes. Announcements trigger a ‘deeper Magic Link’ notification which enables the receiver to go directly to the full message content. Send Magic Link' notifications using email and/or SMS text and track the deliverability of your announcements via a dashboard.
Communication has improved dramatically for our program thanks to the Announcements feature, and it's easy for me to sort students into groups.
Lisa Bassett Music Educator in Georgia, USABenefits of CutTime’s Communication
Excessive messages blowing up your phone? Take a beat, we would be happy to help you navigate around those email and text gremlins. You’ve got better things to do.
Frequently Asked Questions
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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.
Life is Better with CutTime
Streamline your communication. Focus more on your students.
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