Best pilates studio software in the UK

Junocal leads for UK Pilates studios from solo instructors through ten-location groups. Starter is £15, Studio £29 and Growth £69; pick-a-spot, terms, branded booking, Bacs through the studio's own Stripe account and month-to-month terms are built in. Growth covers up to ten locations with cross-location memberships and reporting. Larger groups can contact Junocal for the current rollout plan and enterprise controls.

Junocal publishes £15 Starter, £29 Studio and £69 Growth. Arketa publishes $49/month billed annually for its Individual plan plus a 3% platform fee; Walla publishes Core at $320/month. Mindbody publishes Starter from $99 per location, while its higher tiers and all Mariana Tek tiers are quote-led. Compare each dated annual proposal with Junocal Studio at £29 × 12 = £348/year before standard Stripe processing.

If you run reformer pilates with 6+ reformers, yes — pick-a-spot is essential. Clients want to pick which reformer they're on; you want capacity tied to the floor plan so overbooking is structurally impossible; the day-of staff view depends on the floor plan. If you run mat-only classes, you can just track how many spots are left without pick-a-spot. Most pilates studios serving both reformer and mat configure pick-a-spot per service type. Junocal includes pick-a-spot on every plan from £15/month; most competitors gate it behind a premium tier at £200+/month.

For multi-location operations that genuinely use the franchise tooling, ecosystem depth, and marketplace as a primary new-client channel, yes. For one-to-five-instructor single-location studios that aren't using those features, usually no — the operator-friendly alternatives (Junocal, OfferingTree, Arketa) cover the operational shape at materially lower cost. The honest test: look at your last year's bookings and ask how many new clients were genuinely discovered through the Mindbody marketplace versus attributed to it because the client happened to book through the Mindbody app after finding the studio elsewhere. For UK studios, the real-discovery share is typically much smaller than the platform's commission is collecting on.

Most studios go from CSV export to live on the new platform in five business days. The work: export client list, booking history, memberships, packs, and intake forms from Reports; dry-run import into the new platform's staging environment; sign off on the data mapping; pick a Sunday evening for cutover; coordinate the final sync; cancel the old subscription at the end of the billing period. Email opt-in status is the field most often lost — verify in the dry-run that it carries across. See How to switch from Mindbody to a new studio software in 2026 for the step-by-step playbook.

Operator-friendly platforms (Junocal, OfferingTree, Arketa) are independently owned or venture-backed without PE roll-up pressure. They ship month-to-month pricing, transparent rates, no marketplace commission, Stripe Connect Standard direct to the studio's account, free CSV export at any time. PE-backed platforms (Mindbody/Vista, Mariana Tek/Advent-Xplor, Momence/Clubessential, Glofox/Thoma Bravo) are optimised for multi-year ARR predictability. They typically have annual contracts, opaque pricing with renewal-time increases, marketplace commission and processing markup as secondary revenue streams, sometimes data-export fees at cancellation. The structural difference matters most at renewal time and at migration time.

If you're moving between platforms that both use Stripe Connect Standard (Junocal, Walla, OfferingTree, Arketa, post-2024 Mariana Tek), yes — you disconnect from the old platform and OAuth into the new one. Same Stripe account, same history, same dispute records, same payout schedule. If you're moving from a platform that uses bundled processing (Mindbody, Momence) to a Stripe Connect Standard platform, you create or activate your own Stripe account during onboarding. Your new Stripe history starts fresh from the cutover date.