Features
Customer Relationship Management
Make it easy to track your community's interests
Multiple Accounts
Easily make empty accounts inactive and merge accounts with various transactions into one account
Communication
You can send custom group emails, as well as automated emails for class confirmations and reminders. Keeping in touch is easy with email templates for receipt of purchases, thank you notes, cancellations and more
Analysis
Reports that track class participation trends by semester, media or instructor. List Builder and Notes Explorer allows you to build and create custom groups for letters and emails for new classes, new events, and upcoming date nights
Class Application, Registration & Private Lessons
Class registrations made easy with fully customizable scheduling and setup:
Adult and child age registration restrictions
Automated email confirmation and reminders
Offer class bundles, special class packages or workshops
Robust Registration Dashboard and separate Teacher Portal for class rosters, student enrollment and attendance forms
Scale your music center with ease:
Schedule per semester and prorate for a shorter period of time
Easy drop-in and rescheduling for make-up lessons
Offer and apply discounts for membership and scholarships
Accept deposits, set up automatic recurring payments or pay-as-you-go payment plans
Exhibition Management
Organize Artwork Intake, Acceptance and Show
Elegantly manage every aspect of your art exhibitions, either open or juried. Use forms for staff or online forms for artists to enter their artwork
Allow Artists to enter and upload entries online for Exhibits
Allow Jurors to view and accept entries online to juried Exhibits
Print Entry Lists for artwork intake and Receipts for returns
Print Show Catalog and Exhibit labels
Track artwork sales and commissions paid
Scholarship Applications
Empowers applicants to submit and manage applications online. Makes it easy to complete forms, upload attachments, request references, and process payments
Saves hours of time with powerful automations to move applications between stages, assign applications to reviewers, and more
Sends, schedules and automates emails to applicants and reviewers using our templates or creating your own
Online Store
Online stores that stand out
Showcase your products at their absolute best. Allow your visitors to browse your merchandise, add items to their cart, check out simply and efficiently
Automatically generate a product listings page for your store, as well as pages for each product, and SEO tools to optimize them for search engines
Memberships
Easy and flexible memberships you control:
Membership included with set donation levels
Membership levels defined with set discounts for classes, camps and events
Membership dues (usually at higher levels) can be pledged and the pledge payments can be automatically collected and processed
Automated member discounts for events and classes
Creates membership cards
Facility Management & Rentals
Track space inventory, space layouts, workplace occupancy and vacancy
No more using outdated software, juggling spreadsheets or using old-fashioned pen-and-paper
Detail pages show everything including renter details, timeslots, insurance documents, payment history, and all communications
Easy-to-make adjustments are a click away and users are automatically notified of changes in reservation status
Events & Ticketing
No separate vendor software needed! Art Center Canvas can manage and sell general admission tickets for events with or without an admission fee. Each event can have four ticket price levels plus (+1) complementary level
Ticketed events can be tracked for Fundraising Campaigns or Exhibitions
Ticketed events can have more than one date scheduled, such as multiple performances of a single production
Ticketed events can be grouped together as part of a multi-event offering
Point of Sale
One shopping cart for class registration, tickets and product sales from your gallery or gift shop. For the sales items, we provide the tools for inventory control
Connect bar code scanners, credit card readers, and cash drawers
Post fees to an individual account or take payment on the spot
Track of sales inventory and upload new inventory via electronic files
Sell consigned artwork with full reporting of sales and compensation for each artist
Reporting & Analytics
Reporting tools that enable you to report the way you wish allowing you to see what’s happening at your organization and make real-time decisions
Data is collected from all aspects of your organization to give you a live snapshot of your operations
Interactive reports that can facilitate navigation filtering, sorting, & viewing of data
Marketing Automation
Automating marketing tasks such as email marketing, social media posts, and lead generation
Automated workflow: For example, when a new customer creates an account on your website, it triggers a welcome email. Once that welcome email is triggered, class/events announcement emails are sent, then sale announcement emails, and so on. Each step in the workflow is prompted automatically by a previous step, and no manual work is needed
Donor Management & Fundraising
Robust Fundraising Tools:
Donations and pledges can be processed with a variety of scheduling and payment options. Pledge payments can be on a recurring schedule or irregular payments
Online Donations and Automatic Recurring Donations
Cash and In-Kind Donations
Matching Donations with Soft Credits
Add Notes to Donor Accounts or Donors to Custom Groups
Dashboard for tracking donations from individuals and corporations
Contract Management
Create, track, eSign and store all your contracts in one place
QuickBooks Integration
Eliminate tedious, manual data entry by integrating Canvas’ transactions automatically into your QuickBooks
Review everything in one place
Form Builder
Build the form you need in minutes
Style your forms with your own logo, fonts, and colors
Integrate your form and automatically save form submissions
Experience the power of Canvas 2.0