Sonorum is new and lean. alinaflow arrives with eight years of running real schools and takes on the front desk, the chasing and retention.
Sonorum is the new entrant in Brazilian music school software. The interface is clean and the proposition is simple, which appeals if you are just starting. It is worth looking carefully at what is ready and what is not.
The Sonorum facts come from its own public plans page in September 2026. It is a young product and moving, so check the current page before deciding.
Sonorum offers the music school without spreadsheets: scheduling, tuition control, a student portal, performance reports and a teaching library. There is a free plan for up to 5 students, which works well for the private teacher who is not a business yet.
It is a 2026 product, and its own plans page marks automatic recurring billing as something still to come. For the system that holds your enrolments and your cash, that weighs on the decision.
alinaflow comes at it from the other direction: there are eight years of running real schools behind it, and the finance side is the part of the product with the most mileage.
In Brazil the family asks on WhatsApp. They ask the lesson time, the monthly fee, whether there is space in Saturday guitar, and they write to say their son is ill. They ask at ten at night and on Sunday morning.
In most schools those messages land on the director's personal phone, and answering them becomes the job that never ends. alinaflow's AI front desk answers instead, 24 hours a day, over WhatsApp, SMS and email.
And it answers from the school's own data. When a parent asks whether there is space in Saturday morning guitar, the answer comes from the real schedule, with the slot that actually exists. When they ask the price, it comes from that student's enrolment plan. It is not a menu of canned replies, it is the system speaking for the school.
Everything lands in one inbox with one thread per family. Whoever opens the system on Monday morning sees the whole history, whichever channel the family used.
Tuition that drifts late, and the student who quietly stops coming. Neither shows up in a report on the day it happens, and both cost more over a year than any subscription.
Late tuition becomes work nobody schedules. Someone has to remember, ask, and ask again, and it always slides to the end of the month. alinaflow chases it on its own, on time and with the same courtesy every time, over WhatsApp where the family actually reads.
Dropout is worse because it is silent. A student misses once, then twice, reschedules, disappears. By the time the enrolment is cancelled the decision was made weeks earlier. alinaflow reads the attendance pattern and flags the student at risk while there is still time to call, offer a make-up lesson or move the slot.
Enrolments, tuition, discounts, refunds and teacher pay live in the same place. Invoices, payment reconciliation, credit notes and refunds are part of the product, not a spreadsheet somebody maintains separately and updates when they remember.
Teacher pay covers seven remuneration models: a fixed amount per lesson, a per-lesson amount per student, a fixed hourly rate, monthly per enrolled student, monthly per class, a fixed monthly salary, and a percentage of collected tuition. The school picks the model per teacher and the calculation comes out ready at month end.
| Capability | Sonorum | alinaflow |
|---|---|---|
| AI front desk answering families | No | Yes, 24 hours a day |
| One inbox per family | No | Yes |
| Late tuition follow-up | Manual | Automated |
| At-risk dropout alert | No | Yes |
| Automatic recurring billing | Marked coming soon | Available |
| Teacher remuneration models | Not stated | Seven |
| Free plan | Yes, up to 5 students | Yes, up to 25 students |
| Data migration included | Not stated | Yes, on every plan |
For the music school that has outgrown running everything from a personal WhatsApp and a spreadsheet. If family messages are eating your evenings, if late payment only surfaces once it is already large, and if you find out a student left after they have already left, that is the problem alinaflow solves.
alinaflow has a free plan for up to 25 students, with no time limit and no credit card, and migration of your data is included on every plan including the free one. Getting the school off a spreadsheet is not a project you have to run alone.
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