One application does it all for your art center

Centralize your data to save time, reduce errors, and refocus on your mission. Gain a 360-degree view, boost patron engagement, and retain members.

All the features you need, all in one place

Class Management & Scheduling

Manage class registration, scheduling, and private lessons:

  • Set age restrictions for classes.
  • Automate email confirmations and reminders.
  • Offer bundles, packages, and workshops.
  • Use a Registration Dashboard and Teacher Portal for rosters, enrollment, and attendance.
  • Scale operations with semester-based scheduling, prorated terms, drop-ins, discounts, and flexible payment options.

Scholarship Applications

Streamline the scholarship application process:

  • Enable online submission and management of applications, including forms, attachments, references, and payments.
  • Save time with automation that moves applications through stages, assigns reviewers, and more.
  • Automatically send, schedule, and manage emails with built-in templates or custom designs.

Memberships

Offer flexible and manageable memberships:

  • Include memberships with set donation levels.
  • Define membership levels with discounts for classes, camps, and events.
  • Automatically collect and process higher-level membership dues.
  • Provide automated member discounts and generate membership cards.

Events & Ticketing

Manage all your events and ticketing needs in one place:

  • Sell general admission tickets with up to five price levels, including complementary tickets.
  • Track events for fundraising or exhibitions.
  • Schedule multiple dates and group events into multi-event packages.

Donor Management & Fundraising

Optimize your fundraising efforts:

  • Process donations and pledges with flexible scheduling, including recurring and irregular payments.
  • Handle online, automatic, cash, and in-kind donations.
  • Manage matching donations with soft credits and track donations with a comprehensive dashboard.
  • Create custom donor groups and add notes to accounts.

Exhibition Management

Organize every aspect of your art exhibitions:

  • Manage open or juried exhibitions elegantly.
  • Allow artists to submit and upload entries online.
  • Enable jurors to review and accept entries online.
  • Print entry lists, receipts, show catalogs, and exhibit labels.
  • Track artwork sales and commissions.

 

Online Store

Elevate your online store:

  • Showcase products with high-quality displays.
  • Allow visitors to browse, cart, and check out effortlessly.
  • Automatically generate product listings and individual pages with SEO optimization.

Point of Sale

Streamline sales transactions:

  • Use one shopping cart for class registrations, tickets, and product sales.
  • Connect barcode scanners, credit card readers, and cash drawers.
  • Post fees to accounts or process payments on the spot.
  • Track and update inventory electronically and manage consigned artwork with detailed reports.

Facility Management & Rentals

Simplify facility management:

  • Track space inventory, layouts, and occupancy.
  • Replace outdated software and spreadsheets with a modern system.
  • Access detailed pages for renter info, timeslots, insurance, and payments.
  • Make adjustments easily and receive automatic notifications for reservation changes.

Reporting & Analytics

Gain insights with comprehensive reporting:

  • Customize reports to view organizational data and make real-time decisions.
  • Collect and display data from all operations for a live snapshot.
  • Use interactive reports for filtering, sorting, and data navigation.

Marketing Automation

Automate your marketing efforts:

  • Manage email marketing, social media posts, and lead generation effortlessly.
  • Create automated workflows: trigger welcome emails, class/event announcements, and sales notifications with no manual intervention.

Customer Relationship Management

Track and manage community interests efficiently:

  • Handle multiple accounts, deactivate empty ones, and merge transactions.
  • Send custom group emails and automated communications for confirmations, receipts, thank-yous, and more.
  • Analyze trends with reports on class participation and use List Builder and Notes Explorer to create custom groups for outreach.

Contract Management

Streamline contract handling:

  • Draft and customize contracts effortlessly.
  • Monitor contract status and deadlines in one place.
  • Securely eSign contracts online.
  • Keep all your contracts organized and accessible.

Form Builder

Create and customize forms quickly:

  • Build forms in minutes with easy-to-use tools.
  • Style forms with your logo, fonts, and colors.
  • Integrate forms and automatically save submissions.

QuickBooks Integration

Enhance financial management:

  • Automatically sync Canvas transactions with QuickBooks, eliminating manual data entry.
  • Review all financial data in one place.

All-in-one price, for any number of members

Art Center Canvas provides all-in-one management for your organization at a single monthly price. As your dedicated partner, we offer modern, innovative solutions and ongoing support to ensure your success.

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