One room. One teacher. No front desk.
Booking, payments and paperwork for the studio you run from home.
The problem
You are the instructor, the front desk and the bookkeeper.
Between classes you are answering messages, checking who has sessions left, and remembering who still owes for last month. None of it is teaching, and all of it is on you.
The spreadsheet
One tab per member, a column per month, and a running total you recalculate by hand every time somebody buys a pack or misses a class.
The WhatsApp thread
Bookings, cancellations and questions arrive in the same place as everything else, and a message that scrolls past is a booking that never happened.
The payment you forgot to chase
Somebody's plan ran out three weeks ago. They are still coming. Nobody enjoys that conversation, so it keeps not happening.
The product
What it does
Everything on this page is built and running. There is no waiting list and no beta.
A schedule that fills itself
Set the weekly timetable once — which days, which times, which class types — and generate a month of sessions from it in one go.
Regulars keep their slot
A member who always comes Tuesday at nine is booked into Tuesday at nine. If you change the timetable and their slot no longer exists, you are told, and they are notified from a message you can edit.
Waitlists that actually move
When a class is full, members join the waitlist. When somebody cancels, the next person is offered the seat with a countdown to claim it, and it passes on if they do not.
Plans, packs and family balances
Session packs, monthly plans and unlimited memberships, with a family able to share one pool of sessions between them.
Card and cash, one ledger
Members pay by card through Stripe and the money goes to your account, not ours. Cash and bank transfers are recorded the same way, so the totals are the real totals.
The waiver, signed and filed
New members complete your intake form and sign it before their first class. The signed copy is stored as a PDF you can produce years later.
Reminders that arrive
Booking confirmations, class reminders and renewal notices by email and text, with unsubscribe handled properly so your mail keeps reaching inboxes.
Why this one
Built for a studio in someone's house
Every other app in this category assumes a storefront and staff. Some of what follows is built. Some of it is why we are building. Each card says which.
Working today
Your own calendar blocks studio time
Subscribe your personal calendar and the school run, the dentist and the day you are away stop being times somebody can book.
Cash is a first-class payment
Half the money in a home studio arrives as cash or a bank transfer. Recording it is one click, not a workaround.
Capacity per class type
A mat class and an equipment class do not hold the same number of people in the same room. Each class type carries its own limit.
Your equipment is the ceiling
Say how many reformers you have — or beds, or bikes, or just spots; you name them. No class can be booked past that number, whatever its own limit says, so you set it once rather than into every class type.
Strangers do not see how full you are
You decide whether the number of free spots is visible. Members can see it; the internet does not have to.
Coming next
More than one kind of equipment
Not built yetThe equipment count is one number for the whole studio today, so two reformers also caps your mat classes at two. Separate counts, and class types that know which equipment they need.
A place to manage your instructors
Not built yetA session can already name who is teaching it. What is missing is the rest of it — a screen to add, edit and retire instructors, and a sign-in of their own so a second teacher can see their own schedule without seeing everybody's payment history.
Absence mode
Not built yetYou are ill, or away for a week. One switch that cancels the right classes, tells the right people and does not lose anybody's sessions.
How it is used
Three ways in
Your admin
The schedule, members, plans, payments, messaging and reports. This is where you spend the ten minutes a day the whole thing should cost you.
The member portal
Your members book, cancel, see what is left on their plan and pay, from a page that installs onto a phone home screen like an app. No app store, nothing to download.
Support that can see the problem
When something is wrong, it can be looked at and fixed rather than described over email.
Moving over
Don't re-type a thing.
Switching systems is the hardest part of this, and it is the reason most owners stay with a spreadsheet they have outgrown.
Send me what you have — an Excel file, a Google Sheet, a WhatsApp list, photographs of the notebook. I will put your class schedule, your members, their remaining sessions and their contact details into the system for you, and check it with you before anyone else sees it.
Done by me, by hand. Not an import wizard you have to feed.
Who is behind it
MyHomeStudio is built and supported by Ron, in Charlotte, North Carolina, working directly with the people teaching Pilates, yoga and fitness out of their homes. That is why a feature request can turn into a live update the same week, and why anything that actually matters — your data, your schedule, a bug — reaches the person who wrote the software rather than a support queue.
Questions before you book? Email me directly — ron@myhomestudio.club
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Show me how you run your studio today and I will tell you honestly whether this helps. If it does not, I will say so.