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One overwrites the other. Hours of work lost. Nobody notices for a week.","New member joins at the picnic in August. Added to roster that night. Two weeks later, has never received any communication from the band. Stops coming.","Grant deadline in November. Treasurer assembles last year's audience numbers from a paper sign-in sheet, a Google Form, a Venmo donation list, and somebody's memory. The number is a guess. Funding decision is based on it.","Librarian retires after 9 years. Hands the binder + spreadsheet + email archive to the new volunteer. New volunteer doesn't know what column COMP means. 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Section leaders take rehearsal attendance with one tap per member. The grant report pulls your concerts and audience counts onto one page."},{title:"Every member reached, app optional",body:"Members get the weekly email, one-tap links to say they can't make it, and the schedule in their own phone calendar, with no login needed. Those who want the app add it to their home screen from the browser — no app store."},{title:"Audit log for accountability",body:"Every change to member records, performances, setlists, and rehearsals is logged with who, when, and what. Defends the band in disputes; supports the board in oversight."}].map((t,s)=>e.jsxs("li",{className:"flex items-start gap-3 bg-white rounded-xl p-5 border border-gray-200 shadow-sm",children:[e.jsx("svg",{className:"w-5 h-5 text-emerald-500 mt-0.5 shrink-0",fill:"none",stroke:"currentColor",viewBox:"0 0 24 24",children:e.jsx("path",{strokeLinecap:"round",strokeLinejoin:"round",strokeWidth:2.5,d:"M5 13l4 4L19 7"})}),e.jsxs("div",{children:[e.jsx("p",{className:"font-semibold text-primary text-base",dangerouslySetInnerHTML:{__html:t.title}}

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Choose a plan whenever you're ready (Essentials for single ensembles, Complete for multi-ensemble orgs)."},{step:3,title:"Run Smart Import",body:"Upload your roster CSV first. Smart Import reads the columns, figures out what they mean (even with weird names like COMP and GRD), catches duplicates, flags anything uncertain. You review, confirm, save."},{step:4,title:"Import the music library",body:"Upload your music catalog. Same process. Smart Import also reads PDF and DOCX, so the 1998 paper catalog scanned to PDF works too. Catalog lookup fills in details for pieces it recognizes."},{step:5,title:"Import performance history (optional)",body:"If you want grant-report continuity, import your past performance list. Year, date, venue, audience count if you have it. Smart Import handles partial data gracefully."},{step:6,title:"Set up roles",body:"Tag your existing members with their org roles — president, music director, librarian, treasurer, section leaders. The platform's 14 distinct roles map cleanly to community-band governance."},{step:7,title:"Configure communications",body:"Set up your weekly email: the day it goes out and who approves it. Turn on text reminders if you're on Complete. Toggle which notification events fire."},{step:8,title:"Press Go Live",body:"Until you press Go Live, nothing goes to members — you're building in private. When you flip the switch, every account you created during setup gets their welcome email. 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Anything it's unsure about is flagged for your review before commit — nothing gets silently dropped or transformed. If you have years of historical data, all of it can come over."},{q:"What if my spreadsheet has columns Smart Import doesn't recognize?",a:"It maps what it can and shows you the leftovers. You either map them to existing platform fields, choose to skip them, or fix the source and re-upload."},{q:"My catalog is in a Word document with embedded tables. Will that work?",a:"Yes. Smart Import reads DOCX directly, extracts the tables, and maps the columns. Old program-book PDFs work the same way."},{q:"What about a paper roster I have to scan?",a:"Scan it with your phone (any normal scanning app produces a PDF that works) or take photos of each page. Smart Import accepts photos and runs OCR. Image quality matters — clear, well-lit photos work best."},{q:"Can I import from multiple spreadsheets at once?",a:"You import one file at a time, but you can chain imports. 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