Are you still organising your choir with another app, with club software, or with WhatsApp and Excel? This guide shows how to move over to cori within a few weeks, without a single rehearsal falling flat.
The plan
A move works best in small steps, while the old app keeps running for a few more weeks.
- Create your choir in cori
Create your choir and set up your voices. The 30 trial days start straight away, with no credit card. You'll find out how under Creating a choir.
- Add your rehearsal and your first pieces
Create your weekly rehearsal as a series and upload the pieces you are rehearsing right now. With our moving help, we take care of that for you.
- Bring everyone on board at a rehearsal
Show your choir's QR code at the next rehearsal or lay out the printable invitation. Everyone scans the code, picks their voice and they're in. Anyone who misses that rehearsal gets the invitation link in your existing choir group. Read more under Inviting members.
- Two or three weeks in parallel
From now on, only add new appointments, sheet music and messages in cori. The old app stays readable until everyone has arrived.
- Cancel the old app
Export whatever you want to keep beforehand, for example old attendance lists. Keep an eye on your previous provider's notice period so the contract doesn't renew automatically.
What you take with you
Member list: Many apps offer an export as an Excel or CSV file in their member management. In cori, each person joins by themselves and picks their voice while doing so. So you don't have to retype the list: sharing the invitation link is enough. If you want everyone in the member list beforehand, copy the columns with names and email addresses straight into cori, one person per line. Anyone with an address can get their own invitation by email if you like. Here's how: Adding members without the app. With our moving help, you send us the list and we invite everyone by email.
Sheet music and recordings: Download your PDFs, MusicXML, MuseScore or MIDI files and the recordings for each voice from the old app. In cori they turn into a song with practice tracks for every voice, see Recording a song with the audio editor and Creating a song from existing recordings. Everything else, such as rehearsal plans or concert flyers, goes into the Drive.
Appointments: Recurring rehearsals are created once as a series. Concerts and one-off dates are entered individually. For your concert programmes there are setlists.
Chat: Announce the move in your existing group and write only in cori from moving day onwards. That way nothing ends up in two places. For how groups work in cori, see Group chats.
Attendance and statistics: This data usually can't be transferred. Export it as a file before you cancel, in case you need it for your committee or for grant applications. In cori, attendance starts with your first appointment.
And the other way round: should you ever want to leave cori again, you take everything with you. In the choir settings, the choir leadership and admins can download a ZIP file at any time under Export data: songs with their voices, sheet music and lyrics, the Drive, appointments, setlists and the member list. See Exporting your choir's data.
A ready-made announcement for your choir
You can copy this text and send it to your existing choir group. Replace the parts in square brackets.
Hi everyone, we're moving our choir over to cori. From now on you'll find our dates, the sheet music and the practice tracks for your voice there. Please join via this link and pick your voice: [invitation link]. Everything keeps running in parallel here until [date], after that we'll only be in cori.
What's next?
- Conditions and request: Switch to cori
- How the trial works: The free trial
- First-time setup step by step: Checklist: setting up your choir