In detail
Reformer and mat: a pilates studio booked from one link.
In a pilates studio the equipment decides the spots: with six reformers, person number seven has nowhere to lie down. Small group classes need to fill properly, and a last-minute dropout leaves a machine idle for an hour. Here is how you keep mat, reformer and private sessions in balance.
Your machines are your spots
From the room’s card you create your classes: mat, reformer, postural pilates, cadillac, each with its own length. On reformer the spots are the beds you own, on mat the mats that fit without elbowing, up to 50. Whoever opens your link sees how many are left and can’t book past that. If the reformers sit in one space and mat work happens in another, set up two rooms, each with its own calendar, up to 12; at any given time each one hosts a single class.
Set times and private sessions
Pilates classes nearly always run on fixed days and hours. You give each class its own times, weekday by weekday: intermediate reformer on Tuesday and Thursday at 6:30 pm, gentle mat on Wednesday morning. Outside those times that class doesn’t show up. A private session is simply a class with one spot: whoever wants one-to-one work books it like everyone else, and for that hour the room works only for them. Clients who call the front desk you add yourself, even by dictating out loud while you adjust the springs.
When someone drops out
A reformer left empty at the last minute is an hour nobody pays back. That’s why, by default, phone cancellations close two hours before class: up to then the spot reopens and goes to the waiting list, where people with notifications on get an alert right away. You can change that limit. The day before and two hours before, a reminder goes out to clients with notifications enabled; for the others there’s WhatsApp, text already written, one tap, from the studio’s number. No-shows you mark, and next time their booking waits for your confirmation.
A small studio, an app with your name
Your clients book from the link without signing up or downloading anything; weekly regulars put the studio’s app on their phone, with your logo. Online each person holds at most two active bookings, and you add any others. If you work with other instructors, invite them as collaborators and decide what they can do. With the loyalty card you reward consistency, after as many classes as you like. SeeYouNext doesn’t sell class packs and doesn’t take payments: those stay exactly as they are now.