Booking software for yoga and pilates studios

Yoga and pilates studios sell time in more shapes than almost any other business: drop-ins, class packs, terms, workshops and retreats — usually alongside mats, blocks and apparel.

What usually goes wrong

Most studios run a booking app for classes and a separate store for retail, so a regular who buys a mat and a ten-class pack is two customers in two systems. Packs get tracked in a spreadsheet, and nobody can say what a member is worth.

What changes when booking lives in the checkout

Classes, packs and products sit in one cart and one customer record. A ten-class pack is a product with a balance; a term is a booking group that stays one order.

• One payment rail. Deposits and full payments settle through the provider you already use. No second checkout, no month-end reconciliation between two systems.
• One customer record. The person who has booked nine times stops looking like a stranger, so you can reward them, segment them and follow up.
• Deposits that actually reduce no-shows. A deposit is just a price, so it works like any other line item.
• Abandoned-booking recovery. A half-finished booking is an abandoned cart, and Shopify already knows how to chase those.
• Products and time in one basket. Someone books a class and adds a mat in the same checkout.

What it takes

Three to five working days on an existing Shopify store. Two to three weeks if the store gets built at the same time. The slow part is almost never the software — it is deciding exactly what you sell, at what price, in what length of session.

Fun Life Media builds Shopify stores with booking built into the checkout. Installs from R4,500 once-off plus R850 a month. Book a free fifteen-minute audit.