Acuity Scheduling alternatives for solo Pilates instructors
Acuity Starter is $20. Acuity Standard is $34. Acuity Premium is $61. The honest question: are you actually using Acuity, or fighting it? If your intake form can't capture reformer-specific injuries and your packs sit on a tier you don't want to pay for, the answer is the second one.
Why Pilates teachers leave Acuity
Acuity is a general-purpose scheduling tool. For a solo Pilates instructor it bumps into three walls. The intake form has no conditional logic, so you can't surface follow-up questions when a client reports a knee injury. Packs and memberships are gated to the Standard tier at $34/month. A branded scheduling page is gated to Premium at $61/month. The product is fine for a hairdresser who books 30-minute appointments; for a Pilates teacher running 1:1 reformer privates with intake that matters, you outgrow it within a quarter.
Junocal vs Acuity Scheduling
The features that matter to a solo Pilates instructor, on the tiers you'd actually consider.
| Feature | Junocal Starter ($39/mo) | Acuity Standard ($34/mo) | Acuity Premium ($61/mo) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packs (multi-session purchases) | Included | Included | Included |
| Memberships (recurring subscriptions) | Included | Included | Included |
| Conditional-logic intake forms | Yes — R/L body capture, pregnancy and surgery follow-ups | No — flat fields only | No — flat fields only |
| Equipment requirements per service | Yes — reformer / Cadillac / chair / mat per service | No | No |
| Branded scheduling page | Yes — junocal.com/yourstudio | No (Acuity branding) | Yes |
| Automatic late-cancel and no-show fees | Yes — per-service policy, charged on the saved card | Partial — deposits charged, no automatic post-hoc fees | Partial — deposits charged, no automatic post-hoc fees |
| Stripe Connect Standard (your merchant account) | Yes — direct, no markup | Stripe / Square / PayPal — your account, but Acuity-managed | Stripe / Square / PayPal — your account, but Acuity-managed |
| HIPAA-compliant tier | No (cash-pay wellness, not clinical) | No | Yes (BAA available) |
Pricing as of 2026. Acuity tiers verified against acuityscheduling.com; Junocal Starter $39/month on the published /pricing page.
Why Junocal earns the $39
Conditional-logic intake your insurer expects. Automatic late-cancel and no-show fee charging that recovers the revenue you'd otherwise eat one session at a time. A branded booking page at your own URL (junocal.com/yourstudio) from day one. Stripe Connect Standard direct, no payment markup. Per-service deposit policies so a 60-minute reformer duet and a 30-minute mat private have different deposit amounts without a workaround. The features that compound across a year of solo Pilates practice.
Questions
Can I import my Acuity clients?
Yes. Export your Acuity client list to CSV (Acuity supports this from the Clients tab). Import the CSV into Junocal from /app/clients/import. Names, emails, phone numbers, and notes carry across in one step. Booking history and intake responses don't export from Acuity cleanly, so those don't carry across; for a solo teacher, the client list is the asset that matters.
What about my Acuity intake form responses?
Acuity does not currently support exporting intake form responses cleanly. You can export per-client, but only as PDFs of completed forms (no CSV). Most teachers treat existing Acuity intake as historical reference and have clients re-attest the new conditional-logic intake on their next visit. The re-attestation prompt is built in and clients complete it in 2 minutes.
Will my existing clients have to re-onboard?
Re-attestation, not re-onboarding. Their account exists in Junocal from the CSV import (name, email, phone, any notes). On their next booking, they get a magic-link login prompt and a request to complete the current intake form. They keep all their booking history visible going forward; the past Acuity history sits as historical reference.
How long does the switch take?
Most solo teachers are live on Junocal within a week. The bottleneck is rebuilding your intake form (an hour or two, depending on how detailed it is) and configuring your services with the right deposits and policies (another hour). Importing clients is a five-minute job once the CSV is exported.
Can I run Acuity and Junocal in parallel during testing?
Yes. Most teachers run them in parallel for 2 to 4 weeks: existing clients continue booking on Acuity, new clients book on Junocal. Once you have validated the Junocal flow with a handful of new clients and have your intake form dialled in, point all clients at Junocal and cancel Acuity at month-end. Junocal's 14-day free trial covers the parallel-run period without overlap cost.
Is Junocal HIPAA compliant?
Junocal is built for the cash-pay solo Pilates practice — wellness-coded, not clinical. The product scope is intentionally outside HIPAA. If your work involves insurance billing or HIPAA-scoped protected health information, the right answer is a HIPAA-compliant tool for that segment; you can still run Junocal for the cash-pay portion of your practice without conflict.
Why is Junocal $39 when Acuity Starter is $20?
Acuity Starter doesn't include packs, memberships, a branded storefront, or conditional intake. To get those in Acuity, you need Standard at $34 or Powerhouse at $61. The honest tier-to-tier comparison is Junocal Starter $39 against Acuity Powerhouse $61 — Junocal includes conditional-logic intake, automatic late-cancel fee charging, and Stripe Connect Standard with no payment markup at the same tier, which Acuity does not. The $18 difference at the comparable tier is the price of the features Pilates teachers actually use every week.
Try Junocal on the work you actually do
14 days free, no card. Import your client list from Acuity Scheduling on day one. If it doesn't fit, your data exports in one click and we never charge you.
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