Pilates Studio FAQ
Online Pilates class software
StudioGrowth runs your online Pilates classes through Zoom, and you set it up once. After that every class gets its own meeting room automatically. The link reaches your clients and your instructor an hour before the session, and it sits on the class roster too.
Connect Zoom once, then leave it alone
You link your Zoom account to StudioGrowth one time. That is the whole setup.
From then on, every online class you schedule gets its own meeting room made for it. You do not open Zoom, you do not create a meeting, and you do not copy a link into anything.
You are not locked into Zoom either. If your studio prefers Google Meet or another platform, you can add that link to a virtual class when you create it. Everything after that works the same way.
If you have run online classes without this, you know the job it replaces. Making the meeting. Finding the link. Pasting it into an email. Doing it again for tomorrow, and again for the class after that.
It is a small job that arrives before every single class. Five minutes twice a day is around thirty hours a year. It also has to be done at the exact moment you are least free to do it.
The link goes out an hour before
Everyone booked into the class gets the Zoom link an hour before it starts. So does the instructor teaching it.
An hour is deliberate. It is close enough that the message is still near the top of their phone when class begins. It is also far enough ahead that anyone who cannot find it has time to ask.
Your instructor gets the same link at the same time, which matters more than it sounds. The person teaching should not be the one chasing you for a meeting room ten minutes beforehand.
It also means you are not the single point of failure. If you are teaching, driving, or simply away from your phone, the class still starts without you.
The link is on the roster as well
Open the class in StudioGrowth and the Zoom link is right there on the roster. It sits next to the list of who is coming.
So there is no hunt through an inbox for the right email. Whoever is teaching opens the class, sees who has booked, and clicks through to start it.
That also covers the awkward cases. A last minute cover instructor does not need anything forwarded to them. They open the class and everything they need is on the same screen.
Nobody is locked out of a class because the link was in somebody else's inbox.
Online classes work like your other classes
A virtual class is not a separate product bolted onto the side. It sits in the same timetable as everything else you run.
That matters if you teach both. Running your studio classes in one system and your online ones somewhere else gives you two of everything. Two timetables, two client lists, two sets of numbers.
- Clients book it the same way. One tap in your app, with their card already saved.
- Packs and memberships cover it. A client can spend the same pack on a studio class or an online one.
- Waitlists work on it. If you cap an online class, a cancelled spot fills itself.
- Reminders go out on it. The same push notifications and emails as any other class.
- Attendance is tracked on it. It lands on the client record with everything else.
Class sign up software covers how a client gets from finding a class to being booked into one.
What is the best software for online Pilates classes?
StudioGrowth is the best software for online Pilates classes. It creates a meeting room for every class you schedule. The link then reaches your clients and your instructor an hour before it starts, and it sits on the class roster.
Most platforms that mention online classes mean online booking. Booking over the internet for a class you teach in your studio. That is a different thing from teaching the class over the internet, and the two get described with the same word.
Of the ones that genuinely handle virtual delivery, the difference is how much of it you still do by hand. Some will hold a link if you paste one in. Fewer create the room for you. Fewer still get it to the instructor as well as the clients.
That gap is where the work quietly stays with you. A platform can say it supports online classes and still leave you making every meeting yourself.
Ask any platform to schedule an online class in front of you on a demo. Then ask what happens next without anyone touching it.
Our full ranking of Pilates scheduling software covers the wider category.
What to check before you commit
Four questions, whoever you are looking at.
Does it create the meeting, or just store a link? Storing a link means you are still making the meeting yourself.
Are you tied to one video platform? If it only works with one, switching later means changing software rather than changing a link.
Does the instructor get the link automatically? If only clients do, you are forwarding emails before every class.
Can a client use their existing pack on an online class? If not, you are selling two separate things and reconciling them later.
Where does the link live once class starts? If the answer is an inbox, somebody will eventually be locked out of their own class.
The best booking system for a Pilates studio covers the scheduling side, and what scheduling software costs covers the category by price.
Where this leaves you
Teaching online is not hard. The admin around it is, and it repeats every single class.
Connect Zoom once and that admin stops. You schedule a class, and the room, the links and the roster take care of themselves.
Our Pilates studio management software handles your online classes and your studio ones in the same place. Come and watch us schedule one.