Pilates studio scheduling software for small businesses

The list is shorter than most software companies would like you to believe.

• Scheduling that handles your week. Group classes, privates and duets on one calendar, with instructor availability and equipment capacity built in
• A booking experience clients enjoy. Booking in a few taps on a phone, with waivers and payment in the same step
• Waitlists. Somebody takes the cancelled spot without you sending a message
• Late cancel and no-show fees. Charged automatically, so you never have to raise it with a regular
• Notifications that go out on their own. Class reminders, schedule changes, waitlist spots
• Memberships and class packs. Intro offers, expiry dates, pausing
• Your own mobile app. Your studio's name on the phone your clients book from
• Reporting you will actually read. Which classes fill, which instructors keep people coming back, where the money comes from

Get those right and the studio runs.

Plenty of platforms will sell a small studio things it has no use for yet.

• Marketing sequences and automated campaign builders
• Lead management pipelines
• A full payroll and rota module built for thirty staff
• Cross location reporting, when you have one location
• Franchise and territory tools
• Enterprise onboarding, which usually arrives with a fee and a project plan

None of it helps you fill classes. That money is better spent on equipment.

This is the part that usually gets missed when small studios compare platforms.

Most of the well known names were built for chains and franchises. A single studio is their smallest customer, on their cheapest plan, supported by whoever picks up the ticket. You can feel it in the onboarding and you can feel it in the pricing.

StudioGrowth was built for independent, founder led Pilates studios. Small studios are our whole business, not one segment of it.

Which is why the person running your demo is the person who built the software. And why you will not be sold a franchise module.

• You keep your own Stripe account. Payments land in your account at Stripe's standard rate and we take no percentage of what you collect
• Migration is free. We move your clients, bookings and payment history across by hand
• Support comes from the people who built it. There is no ticket queue and no offshore first line
• Every price is published. You can work out what you would pay without booking a call, which is not true of most of this category

We cover what scheduling software costs across the category, and what actually decides value for money, separately.