What's the cheapest yoga studio software in the UK that's actually built for studios?

By published standard tier price, Junocal Starter at £29/month is the cheapest tier sized for a studio shape (1 location, up to 2 rooms, 2 staff seats) with all the operational primitives a UK yoga studio needs included: capacity booking, term-based teacher training cohorts, hybrid in-person + online classes, intake forms with conditional logic, Stripe Connect Standard direct, Bacs Direct Debit for memberships, automated client emails, and free CSV export. OfferingTree's Individual tier at around £35/month is cheaper-feeling on perceived value (yoga-first heritage) but is sized for a solo practitioner. Bookamat at £29-£79/month is mat-class-strong and a credible fit for mat-only yoga operations under 200 clients.

Which platforms support Bacs Direct Debit for membership billing?

Any platform routing payments through Stripe Connect Standard inherits Stripe's Bacs Direct Debit support for UK studios — that includes Junocal, Walla, and Mariana Tek as of May 2026. Mindbody routes payments through its bundled Mindbody Payments merchant arrangement, which does support Bacs in the UK but typically at a higher all-in rate than Stripe direct. Glofox's UK direct-debit support runs through its bundled processing partner. OfferingTree's UK support depends on which processor is selected at signup; the standard Stripe Connect routing supports Bacs at Stripe's standard rate. For a UK yoga studio with a meaningful share of recurring memberships, Bacs Direct Debit through Stripe Connect Standard is structurally the cheapest unit economics on the membership line.

Can I run a yoga teacher training cohort cleanly on any of these platforms?

Yes, with different shapes. Junocal treats term-based course cohorts as a first-class scheduling entity — a teacher training cohort gets its own enrollment surface, a single payment per cohort, swap allowance between sessions if a student misses one, and refund-with-medical-doc rules baked in. OfferingTree handles teacher training cohorts natively with yoga-specific features (Yoga Alliance hour tracking, certification surface). Walla supports cohorts through its course primitive on the higher tiers. Momence supports cohorts. Mindbody supports teacher training through its enrollment module on Accelerate and above. The shape that matters: if your TT cohort is the revenue line that funds the studio, the platform's specific TT surface matters more than the headline subscription price.

Which platforms support hybrid in-person + online yoga classes?

Junocal ships per-class Zoom link generation on every tier with shared waitlist between in-person and online seats; clients pick their mode at booking. OfferingTree supports hybrid through its Zoom integration and has stronger on-demand video infrastructure on top — Junocal does hybrid live but doesn't host on-demand video natively. Momence ships hybrid live and on-demand video as core product. Walla supports hybrid through Zoom integration. Mindbody supports hybrid through Mindbody TV and Zoom integration. For a UK yoga studio where hybrid live is core but on-demand is complementary (you pair with Vimeo or YouTube unlisted), Junocal covers that shape on Starter. For a UK yoga studio where on-demand video is 20%+ of revenue, Momence or OfferingTree are stronger fits.

Is OfferingTree owned by private equity like Mindbody and Glofox?

No. OfferingTree is independently held by its founders, who are practitioners themselves. The product has stayed close to its founding posture — no annual contract, transparent published pricing on [offeringtree.com/pricing](https://www.offeringtree.com/pricing/), no marketplace commission, 0% transaction fees on the Pro and higher tiers — for almost a decade. Junocal is also independently held. Walla is venture-backed (Industry Ventures led a $13M round in July 2022) rather than PE-backed. The PE-owned platforms relevant to UK yoga studios are Mindbody (Vista Equity), Mariana Tek (Xplor / Advent), Momence (Xplor), Glofox (ABC Fitness Solutions, owned by Thoma Bravo), and WellnessLiving (Roper Technologies). The structural difference shows up in contract terms and pricing trajectory more than in current feature lists.

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Best yoga studio software UK 2026

By Sharon Onyinye27 May 202617 min read

Short answer

For a UK yoga studio in 2026, the right software depends on three things: contract structure, whether on-demand video is meaningful revenue, and whether teacher training cohorts are a primary product. The honest defaults: Junocal (£29 Starter / £79 Studio / £159 Growth) for class-based studios that want pick-a-spot, term-based TT cohorts, Bacs Direct Debit through Stripe Connect Standard direct, and month-to-month contracts. OfferingTree (around £35/month Individual, £80/month Studio) for solo teachers and very small operations whose on-demand video matters. Momence for hybrid studios where on-demand video is 20%+ of revenue. Walla (around £180+/month Starter) for premium-positioned boutique yoga where polish supports the brand. Mindbody and Glofox remain the marketplace-heavy options but on twelve-to-twenty-four-month contracts. The decision turns on the framework below rather than on the headline price.

If you're choosing yoga studio software in the UK in 2026, the field is dominated by a handful of platforms with very different commercial shapes. This post is the honest review, written by the person building Junocal, with worked pricing for a typical UK yoga studio and a five-question decision framework that settles most choices in under fifteen minutes.

The short version is in the Short answer callout at the top of this page. The platform-by-platform review and the framework are below.

The platforms, honestly

Junocal — £29 / £79 / £159 per month

What it's good at. Capacity booking for mat classes, pick-a-spot for reformer or prop-mapped layouts (toggle per class type), term-based teacher training cohorts as a first-class entity, hybrid in-person + online with Zoom on every tier, conditional-logic intake (postnatal, injury history), Stripe Connect Standard with Bacs Direct Debit at Stripe rates, month-to-month contracts, no marketplace commission, free CSV export. Branded booking included from the £29 entry tier (six themes, your logo, your colours, your URL at junocal.com/yourstudio).

What it's not. Native on-demand video hosting (pair with Vimeo or YouTube unlisted for the on-demand library). Yoga Alliance hour tracking inside the platform.

Who it fits. UK yoga studios with one to ten instructors at one location running mat-class capacity booking, hybrid live, term-based TT cohorts, and memberships through Bacs. UK multi-location yoga operations up to five sites on Growth.

Annual cost for a UK yoga studio doing £150k/year in bookings, Studio tier: £948 subscription + Stripe Connect Standard at standard rates (1.5% + 20p UK online card, 1% Bacs Direct Debit capped at £2). Total: roughly £1,100-£1,400/year all-in.

OfferingTree — around £35/month Individual, around £80/month Studio

What it's good at. Yoga-first heritage. Native on-demand video library on Studio and above. Teacher training cohort surface with yoga-specific features. Retreat management with multi-day pricing and lodging. Transparent published pricing. No annual contract. 0% transaction fees on Pro and higher tiers per offeringtree.com/pricing.

What it's not. Reformer pick-a-spot at the depth Junocal ships. UK-specific Bacs Direct Debit at the same Stripe-direct rates depends on the processor selected at signup. Multi-location operations are not the product's strength.

Who it fits. Solo yoga teachers in the UK running mat classes, packs, memberships, and an on-demand video library. Very small yoga studios under fifty active clients where the founder is also the lead teacher.

Annual cost for a solo UK teacher doing £40k/year in bookings: £420 subscription + Stripe at standard rates. Total: roughly £1,000/year all-in.

Walla — around £180+/month Starter, around £260+/month Core, around £480+/month Pro

What it's good at. Polished customer-facing booking page. Multi-instructor scheduling. Pick-a-spot booking. Recent investment in AI-flagged churn-risk and retention cohort analysis. Stripe Connect Standard direct (no operator-side processing markup).

What it's not. Cheap. Branded booking is a roughly £240/month add-on on top of the base plan if you want the customer-facing page to run on your own domain rather than the Walla-branded subdomain. Premium-positioned in commercial shape.

Who it fits. UK yoga studios with five-plus instructors where the brand experience justifies the all-in cost. Studios moving from Mindbody to a more polished operator surface and willing to pay for it.

Annual cost for a UK yoga studio doing £150k/year in bookings, Core tier with branded booking: roughly £6,000+/year all-in.

Momence — around £45/month Basic + 5% operator + 4% client fees, £50/month Pro + 2.5% operator fee, around £165/month Custom + 0% fees

What it's good at. Hybrid live + on-demand video as core product. Multi-vertical (yoga, pilates, fitness, wellness) flexibility. Marketplace exposure through the Momence consumer app for app-discovered bookings.

What it's not. Marketplace-free. The free Basic tier has 5% operator + 4% client per-transaction fees per momence.com/pricing that compound with revenue. The Pro tier at £50/month is the operationally cheap tier for most yoga studios; Custom at £165/month removes the processing fee but at a higher subscription.

Who it fits. UK yoga studios where on-demand video is 20%+ of revenue and the operator wants the marketplace channel as a discovery surface. Hybrid studios where the line between live and on-demand is fluid.

Annual cost for a UK yoga studio doing £150k/year in bookings, Pro tier: roughly £600 subscription + 2.5% × £150k = £3,750 in operator-side processing. Total: roughly £4,350/year.

Mindbody — around £89-£259/month per location plus add-ons

What it's good at. Comprehensive studio management for multi-instructor multi-location operations. Marketplace exposure through the Mindbody consumer app and ClassPass. Mature reporting and franchise features. Mindbody TV on-demand video on Accelerate and above.

What it's not. Cheap. Marketplace-fee-free (20% commission capped at $30 on app-attributed bookings on top of standard processing). Annual contracts (typically twelve to twenty-four months). The Starter tier excludes pick-a-spot, which sits on Accelerate at £259+/month per location.

Who it fits. Multi-location UK yoga chains where marketplace exposure drives meaningful first-time-client discovery and the operator is comfortable with the contract structure and the per-location pricing multiplier.

Annual cost for a one-location UK yoga studio doing £150k/year in bookings, Accelerate tier: roughly £3,100 subscription + processing markup over Stripe direct (~£400-£900/year on £150k of card volume) + marketplace commission on app-attributed bookings + £500 Subscriber Data Export fee at cancellation. Total: roughly £3,800-£5,500/year depending on app attribution.

Glofox — operator-reported around £85/month Base, around £160/month Plus

What it's good at. Multi-instructor scheduling. UK presence. Branded mobile app on the higher tiers. Capacity booking and basic memberships.

What it's not. Transparent pricing — Glofox does not publish prices on its plans page. Twelve-to-twenty-four-month contracts are typical. Acquired by ABC Fitness Solutions in August 2022 per their acquisition announcement; the parent has since been acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2024.

Who it fits. UK yoga studios already on Glofox who are content with the contract structure. New buyers most often pick a published-pricing alternative.

Annual cost for a one-location UK yoga studio doing £150k/year in bookings, mid-tier: roughly £2,400 subscription + bundled-processing markup over Stripe direct (~£400-£900/year). Total: roughly £2,800-£3,300/year.

Bookamat — £29-£79/month

What it's good at. Mat-class-strong yoga operations. South-African-founded with UK studio adoption. Online booking, packs, memberships, basic intake. Lower-friction signup.

What it's not. Reformer pick-a-spot. Conditional-logic intake. Hybrid in-person + online with Zoom on every tier.

Who it fits. UK yoga studios running mat-only group classes with simple class formats and 50-200 active clients. Operations that don't need term-based TT cohort surfaces.

Annual cost for a UK yoga studio doing £150k/year in bookings, mid-tier: roughly £600/year subscription + Stripe at standard rates. Total: roughly £1,000-£1,400/year.

WellnessLiving — £55-£280/month standard tiers

What it's good at. All-in-one platform with broad feature surface. Member app, scheduling, payments. Currently advertising an 80%-off promotional rate that returns to standard pricing after two months per wellnessliving.com/pricing.

What it's not. Marketplace-fee-free at the lower tiers. UK operator reports describe Paragon-routed payment processing in some configurations rather than Stripe direct.

Who it fits. UK yoga studios prioritising a single-vendor solution who are comfortable with the contract structure and the bundled-processing model. Operations that benefit from the promotional pricing window.

The structural picture for UK yoga in 2026

A few patterns are worth naming directly.

The published-pricing platforms are independent. Junocal, OfferingTree, Walla, Bookamat all publish pricing on their websites. The platforms that route to demo or sales for pricing (Mindbody, Glofox, WellnessLiving's enterprise tier, Mariana Tek) are the ones with the contract-driven commercial shapes operators have complained about in the cross-platform annual contract trap research.

Stripe Connect Standard direct is the cheapest unit economics on the membership line. Any platform that routes through the studio's own Stripe account inherits Stripe's UK Bacs Direct Debit at 1% capped at £2 — the cheapest recurring-charge processing in the UK consumer payments space. Mindbody Payments, Momence's processing, Glofox's bundled processing, and WellnessLiving's Paragon arrangement all carry a markup over that rate. For a UK yoga studio with £100k/year in membership revenue, the Bacs-versus-bundled-card differential alone is typically £500-£1,500/year.

Term-based teacher training cohorts are a meaningful product surface. Yoga teacher training is high-margin revenue for many UK studios. The platforms that ship cohort-aware enrollment, single-payment-per-cohort, and refund-with-medical-doc primitives natively (Junocal, OfferingTree, Walla on higher tiers) handle this load-bearing revenue line more cleanly than the platforms where TT is configured over recurring classes (lower-tier configurations on most multi-vertical platforms).

On-demand video splits the field. Studios where on-demand is 20%+ of revenue benefit from a platform with native video hosting (Momence, OfferingTree, Mindbody Accelerate, Walla Pro). Studios where on-demand is complementary or marketing pair the booking platform with Vimeo or YouTube unlisted and don't pay for the bundled video infrastructure. Junocal sits in the second camp; the trade-off is honest and operationally manageable for studios that don't need on-demand as a primary product.

The five-question decision framework

Most UK yoga studios can settle the software decision in fifteen minutes with these five questions.

Question 1: How many teachers? One teacher = OfferingTree Individual or Junocal Starter. Two to ten teachers at one location = Junocal Studio, OfferingTree Studio, Walla Core, or Momence Pro. Multi-location (two to five sites) = Junocal Growth. Multi-location enterprise (five-plus sites with central reporting) = Mindbody Accelerate or Mariana Tek.

Question 2: Is on-demand video 20%+ of revenue? If yes, pick a platform with native video hosting (Momence, OfferingTree Studio, Mindbody Accelerate, Walla Pro). If no, any platform works; pair Junocal or Bookamat with Vimeo or YouTube unlisted for the on-demand layer.

Question 3: Is yoga teacher training a meaningful revenue line? If yes, pick a platform with term-cohort-as-first-class-entity (Junocal, OfferingTree, Walla higher tiers). If TT is occasional or you're running it manually, any platform works.

Question 4: What contract structure works for you? Month-to-month with no commitment: Junocal, OfferingTree, Walla, Bookamat, Momence Pro. Twelve-to-twenty-four-month contracts: Mindbody, Glofox, Mariana Tek, WellnessLiving (varies). The longer-contract platforms typically discount more aggressively against the headline tier in exchange for the lock-in; whether that trade is worth it depends on how confident you are in twenty-four months of the same platform working for you.

Question 5: Does marketplace exposure (Mindbody consumer app, ClassPass) drive meaningful new-client discovery in your market? In dense UK metros (London Zone 1-2, central Manchester, central Edinburgh) the answer is sometimes yes. In most other UK markets the marketplace channel is structurally small relative to local SEO, Instagram, and direct referral. If marketplace is meaningful, Mindbody is structurally aligned. If not, the marketplace commission is a tax you don't need; pick a no-commission platform.

Worked example: a UK yoga studio doing £150k/year

A representative UK yoga studio with three instructors at one location, mat-class group format, hybrid live with complementary on-demand (paired with Vimeo), one teacher training cohort per year (£25k revenue), £150k total annual bookings.

Junocal Studio at £79/month: £948 subscription + £1,300 Stripe processing (1.5% × £150k card + 1% × £20k Bacs). Total: ~£2,250/year all-in.
OfferingTree Studio at around £80/month: £960 subscription + £1,300 Stripe processing. Total: ~£2,260/year all-in. Native video hosting included.
Walla Core at around £260/month + branded booking add-on at £240/month: £6,000 subscription + £1,300 Stripe processing. Total: ~£7,300/year all-in.
Momence Pro at £50/month + 2.5% operator processing: £600 subscription + £3,750 Momence processing. Total: ~£4,350/year all-in. Native video hosting included.
Mindbody Accelerate at £259/month + Mindbody Payments markup + marketplace commission: £3,108 subscription + £1,800 processing + £1,000-£3,000 marketplace commission depending on app attribution + £500 data export fee at cancellation. Total: ~£6,400-£8,400/year all-in.
Glofox mid-tier at around £160/month + bundled processing markup: £1,920 subscription + £400-£900 processing markup. Total: ~£2,800-£3,300/year all-in.

The headline picture: for a UK yoga studio with mat-class group format, hybrid live, complementary on-demand, and a teacher training cohort, the operationally cheap tier in 2026 is Junocal Studio or OfferingTree Studio at roughly £2,250/year all-in. Adding on-demand video natively pushes the calculus toward OfferingTree (native video) or Momence Pro (native video but with the per-transaction processing fee). Premium and enterprise tiers — Walla, Mindbody — sit two-to-four times higher all-in.

Where the choice usually lands

A UK yoga studio with mat-class group format, hybrid live with complementary on-demand, term-based teacher training, and Bacs-direct-debit memberships will most often pick Junocal Studio. The structural fit matches the operational shape; the all-in cost is at the bottom of the UK studio software band; the contract is monthly with no commitment.

A solo UK yoga teacher with an on-demand video library that's a meaningful share of revenue will most often pick OfferingTree Individual. Yoga-first heritage, native video, transparent pricing.

A premium-positioned UK yoga studio where the brand experience justifies the cost will most often pick Walla. Polish, AI-flagged operator analytics, premium operator surface.

A UK yoga studio where on-demand video is the core product rather than complementary will most often pick Momence Pro or Custom. Native hybrid + on-demand; the marketplace channel as discovery; per-transaction processing layered on top.

A multi-location UK yoga chain operating five or more sites with central reporting will most often pick Mindbody Accelerate or Mariana Tek and accept the contract structure as the cost of the enterprise feature surface.

For most one-to-five-teacher UK yoga studios in 2026, the honest match is Junocal Studio at £79/month or OfferingTree Studio at around £80/month. The decision between those two turns on Question 2 (on-demand video) and Question 3 (TT cohorts as a primary revenue line) more than on price.

a few questions

FAQ

What's the cheapest yoga studio software in the UK that's actually built for studios?: By published standard tier price, Junocal Starter at £29/month is the cheapest tier sized for a studio shape (1 location, up to 2 rooms, 2 staff seats) with all the operational primitives a UK yoga studio needs included: capacity booking, term-based teacher training cohorts, hybrid in-person + online classes, intake forms with conditional logic, Stripe Connect Standard direct, Bacs Direct Debit for memberships, automated client emails, and free CSV export. OfferingTree's Individual tier at around £35/month is cheaper-feeling on perceived value (yoga-first heritage) but is sized for a solo practitioner. Bookamat at £29-£79/month is mat-class-strong and a credible fit for mat-only yoga operations under 200 clients.
Which platforms support Bacs Direct Debit for membership billing?: Any platform routing payments through Stripe Connect Standard inherits Stripe's Bacs Direct Debit support for UK studios — that includes Junocal, Walla, and Mariana Tek as of May 2026. Mindbody routes payments through its bundled Mindbody Payments merchant arrangement, which does support Bacs in the UK but typically at a higher all-in rate than Stripe direct. Glofox's UK direct-debit support runs through its bundled processing partner. OfferingTree's UK support depends on which processor is selected at signup; the standard Stripe Connect routing supports Bacs at Stripe's standard rate. For a UK yoga studio with a meaningful share of recurring memberships, Bacs Direct Debit through Stripe Connect Standard is structurally the cheapest unit economics on the membership line.
Can I run a yoga teacher training cohort cleanly on any of these platforms?: Yes, with different shapes. Junocal treats term-based course cohorts as a first-class scheduling entity — a teacher training cohort gets its own enrollment surface, a single payment per cohort, swap allowance between sessions if a student misses one, and refund-with-medical-doc rules baked in. OfferingTree handles teacher training cohorts natively with yoga-specific features (Yoga Alliance hour tracking, certification surface). Walla supports cohorts through its course primitive on the higher tiers. Momence supports cohorts. Mindbody supports teacher training through its enrollment module on Accelerate and above. The shape that matters: if your TT cohort is the revenue line that funds the studio, the platform's specific TT surface matters more than the headline subscription price.
Which platforms support hybrid in-person + online yoga classes?: Junocal ships per-class Zoom link generation on every tier with shared waitlist between in-person and online seats; clients pick their mode at booking. OfferingTree supports hybrid through its Zoom integration and has stronger on-demand video infrastructure on top — Junocal does hybrid live but doesn't host on-demand video natively. Momence ships hybrid live and on-demand video as core product. Walla supports hybrid through Zoom integration. Mindbody supports hybrid through Mindbody TV and Zoom integration. For a UK yoga studio where hybrid live is core but on-demand is complementary (you pair with Vimeo or YouTube unlisted), Junocal covers that shape on Starter. For a UK yoga studio where on-demand video is 20%+ of revenue, Momence or OfferingTree are stronger fits.
Is OfferingTree owned by private equity like Mindbody and Glofox?: No. OfferingTree is independently held by its founders, who are practitioners themselves. The product has stayed close to its founding posture — no annual contract, transparent published pricing on [offeringtree.com/pricing](https://www.offeringtree.com/pricing/), no marketplace commission, 0% transaction fees on the Pro and higher tiers — for almost a decade. Junocal is also independently held. Walla is venture-backed (Industry Ventures led a $13M round in July 2022) rather than PE-backed. The PE-owned platforms relevant to UK yoga studios are Mindbody (Vista Equity), Mariana Tek (Xplor / Advent), Momence (Xplor), Glofox (ABC Fitness Solutions, owned by Thoma Bravo), and WellnessLiving (Roper Technologies). The structural difference shows up in contract terms and pricing trajectory more than in current feature lists.

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