Streamline Your Pottery Studio with Kiln Fire

Put your studio's billing on autopilot. Members love having the ability to reserve a wheel, manage memberships, quickly purchase supplies, submit pieces for firing, sign up for classes, and download receipts. With billing happening automatically, you and your staff have more time for teaching, instruction and doing more of what you love.

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Boost Your Productivity and Profit With Pottery Studio Management Software

You can finally get rid of the clipboards and spreadsheets, and let billing run automatically, without hours of staff time tracking all of the details.

Piece Tracking & Firing Fees

Members can snap a photo of their pottery piece, add the basic measurements, and submit it. With credit cards on file for each member, automatic billing can happen weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly.

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Open Studio Memberships

Offer open studio memberships and allow members to sign up quickly. Billing happens automatically and reminds members fix credit card payments that didn't go through.

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Supply Purchases

Allow members and students to buy clay, tools, or other one-off purchases. After a member's credit card is already saved it only takes a moment and makes everyone's lives easier.

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Class Registrations & Payments

A class purchasing experience designed exclusively for pottery studios. Collect payments, attendee information, and manage your waitlist when classes fill up.

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Wheel Reservations

Allow members to reserve a wheel or workstation in moments from their phone. We make it easy for members to book and simple for staff to manage. No more frustration.

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Kiln Firings

Stop answering the question "when will the kiln be done?" over and over again! Members can view the Kiln's status, see if their pieces are being fired and be notified when they are ready.

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Member Waitlists

Easily collect waitlists for classes or open studio memberships. That way you always know who is next on the list and can keep your class or membership roster full.

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Studio Door Unlocking

Thanks to our integration with Kisi, we can grant members access permissions to unlock studio doors from within the Kiln Fire app when they have an active membership with you.

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In Person Point of Sale

Keep all of your transactions on a single platform. Using our external credit card reader hardware you can quickly collect in person POS payments with the touch of a card.

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Member Agreements

Ensure everyone is on the same page and has agreed to your member terms as soon as they log into the app. Completely customizable to your agreement and terms.

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Studio Updates & News

With our blog-like studio updates area available on every users dashboard, you can communicate important happenings at your studio to keep everyone informed.

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Efficiently manage members and billing with Kiln Fire pottery studio management software.

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Testimonial

We had a lot on our plate starting our pottery studio, but the Kiln Fire app has made it incredibly smooth to deal with the typical admin tasks like collecting firing fees, signing up users for memberships, and selling our classes.

What we love most is that our members enjoy using it too! The convenience of adding their pieces for firing fees online has been a game-changer for everyone, and they like adding glaze notes into the app for their own reference. The screen that shows the status of each kiln firing saves us from getting asked the same question over and over again.

Kiln Fire has brought a sense of organization and efficiency to our studio for our members and students. It's made our lives as studio owners so much easier. We can't recommend it enough!"

- Forma Studio Owners

Pricing

Build a Custom Plan For Your Ceramics Studio

Every studio does things differently, we get that. Customize your plan to only use the core features you plan on using.

These prices do not include credit card processing fees. We use Stripe to process credit cards and you will start and connect your own Stripe account with our app. In the US they typically charge 2.9% + 30 cents per transaction for digital payments. In person payments have a different transaction fee.

F.A.Q.

Frequently Asked Questions

Absolutely nothing! This is a web app, (just a website with fancy functionality really). It works on all devices, including mobile phones and desktop computers. You and your users are welcome to add it to their mobile home screen as an "app", or just bookmark it like your favorite website.

No, we aren't. And there is an important reason why: this app does billing and collects money for you. If it were in mobile app stores like Apple's iOS App store or Google's Play store, it would be force to collect all money through the app store and surrender up to 30% cut to Apple or Google. We didn't think you would want to lose 30% of your profit.
We use Stripe, one of the leading providers of credit card payments online. You will sign up for your own Stripe account that you own and can log into. Use use Stripe Connect, a program that lets us charge credit cards through Stripe and have it go directly into your account there. The beauty of how Stripe works is that it is totally secure. We can never know a full credit card number on our website, as all credit card information goes directly to Stripe's servers, without touching ours. We can then help you charge those stored credit cards on Stripe servers with an access key, which can be revoked at any time.
Yes, our tool is 100% tied into Stripe's functionality and we cannot use any other billing providers.
Yes, we can handle any of the currencies that Stripe allows you to handle through your account. Their support for various currencies depends on the country you are from. We currently only allow you to collect money using a single currency that is configured in your account during set up, though you can charge credit cards of many types and currencies.
Anyone who you choose to allow into the app. There are multiple ways to become a member including sending invite emails, passing out registration links, first firing links, and member sign up links. Once in the app you can manage users and deactivate them when they no longer have any need to log into the app any more.
Yes, you can customize the app visually in a number of different ways. You can upload your logo and choose a primary brand color. This color is used throughout the interface to make it a branded experience. The app features your logo along with all emails that are sent out through the system.
No, you pay for what you use. You can choose how many "core" features you are planning on using and will only be billed for those. In addition, there are some non-core features that can also be turned on and off as you wish. If you want to use them you can, but you don't have to. The app will always consist of Users and Receipts, those are the base features that all other functionality extends from.