One room. One teacher. No front desk.
Booking, payments and paperwork for the studio you run from home.
$49 a month. Set up free, no call needed. Month to month.
What the video shows
- 1.Set your week once. A month of classes in one click.
- 2.Clients book from their phone. No app to download.
- 3.Someone cancels. The next person on the waitlist is offered the spot.
- 4.Packs count themselves down, and members can see what's left.
- 5.Cancel late, and it costs a session, unless someone takes the spot.
- 6.Card and cash in one ledger. Card payments go to your own Stripe account.
- 7.Your settings: booking rules, your week, your classes, plans and prices, the intake form, messages, and your data.
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 — 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 if they don't, it passes to the person after them within about a minute. Overnight, the offer waits for morning, unless the class starts before seven.
Plans, packs and family balances
Session packs, monthly plans and unlimited memberships, with a family able to share one pool of sessions between them. A pack can carry an expiry — from the day it is bought, or from the day it is first used.
A booking page for people who are not members yet
One link, no login. A newcomer picks a class you have opened to them, books your intro offer and pays — online if you take cards, at the studio if not. You get an email, they get the details, and they appear in your list as a lead, marked with the link that brought them — there is one ready for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Google, your website, email and flyers, each with a QR code to print and a count of who it brought in. After their intro class they can pick a plan from their portal, and they are a member the moment they have it.
Brings people back, and shows who came
Four messages that send themselves: a birthday note, a “we’ve missed you” after a month away, a heads-up before a plan runs out, and a nudge to a newcomer after their intro class. They speak once per event, not every morning — and every one shows who booked in the week after it.
Check-in, one-handed
Tap people in as they arrive, close the roster, done. Anyone not tapped in is recorded as a no-show. Optional — leave it off and every booking settles as attended after the class, as before.
Card and cash, one ledger
Members pay by card through Stripe — or, if you like, by Venmo, PayPal or Zelle straight to you from their portal. Either way the money goes to you, not us. Cash, checks 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. You choose when reminders go — the day before at a time you pick, or a set number of hours before — and you can preview every message exactly as it will arrive.
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, on the studio schedule
Bring your personal calendar in, or block time yourself — once, or every week — and the school run, the dentist and the day you are away sit right beside your classes, so you never plan one on top of them.
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 in the studio can be booked past that number, whatever its own limit says. A class you open to non-members is the one exception: it may run in a park or a hall, so it keeps its own number.
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
Plans for particular classes
Not built yetA mat-only pack, or a plan just for reformer classes. Today every plan books every class type.
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
Four 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.
The public booking page
For people who are not members yet: your intro offer and the classes you chose to open, on a link you post wherever you like. Off unless you switch it on.
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.
Pricing
$49 a month. Set up free.
Month to month, and it stays $49 for as long as you're with me.
- Everything on this site, with no limit on clients or classes.
- No cut of what your clients pay you. Card payments go to your own Stripe account.
- 800 texts a month: confirmations, reminders, waitlist offers and login codes. That is enough for about 60 clients with day-before reminders on. Past 800, texts are at cost, currently 3.4¢ each, and a long text counts as two or more.
- Campaign texts at cost, and you see the cost before you send.
- Email included, email campaigns too.
- Set up for you, with your clients, schedule and remaining sessions moved in, free.
- Nothing to pay until your clients are booking in it.
- Leave whenever you like, and your data comes with you.
- For studios in the US.
Outside the US, or several teachers?
MyHomeStudio isn't built for that yet. Leave your email and I'll write once when it is.
Tell me when it's ready →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 first? Email me directly — ron@myhomestudio.club
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I'll set up your classes, plans and intake form, and send you a link to look around. No call needed. If it isn't right for your studio, I'll say so.