Migration timeline from Mariana Tek to Junocal (real numbers)

The renewal letter is usually what starts it. You've been on Mariana Tek for a couple of years, the auto-renewal is coming, and you want to know one practical thing before you decide anything: if you switch, how long does it take and what breaks. This is the real-numbers answer for moving a reformer studio from Mariana Tek to Junocal — timeline, steps, and the contract question that decides when you move. It's written by the person building Junocal, so treat it as the honest case, not a neutral survey.

The short version: five business days, spread over two weeks

The work itself is about five business days for a single-location reformer studio. The calendar time is usually closer to two weeks, because you want a review pause between the staging import and going live — not because anything is slow.

The reason it's fast is structural: Mariana Tek and Junocal share the same operational model. Both run pick-a-spot reformer booking, four-mode cancellation policies, first-to-claim waitlists and term-based courses. So the migration is mostly a translation between two systems that already think the same way, rather than a remapping into a different shape. That's the single biggest factor in the timeline, and it's why this move is cleaner than, say, coming off a generic appointment tool.

The six steps, in order

This mirrors the Mariana Tek migration playbook; here it's framed as a timeline.

Step 1 — Pull the Mariana Tek exports (half a day)

Export your client list, booking history, memberships, class packs, intake forms and pick-a-spot assignments from the Mariana Tek dashboard. We provide the exact menu paths. This is your time, not ours, and it's the only step that lives entirely on the Mariana Tek side.

Step 2 — Send the exports to Junocal (an hour)

Secure upload to a migration portal. A real person — not a script alone — reviews the files before anything is imported, so format quirks get caught up front rather than after cutover.

Step 3 — Dry-run review in staging (one day, then a pause)

We import everything into a staging copy of your studio. You log in, verify, and sign off. This is where you spot-check the things that matter: favourite-spot assignments, membership balances, pack credits, and email/SMS opt-in status. The pause after this step is deliberate — sit with it for a few days, click around, make sure it's right.

Step 4 — Configure pick-a-spot and policies (one to two evenings)

The longest hands-on step. Set up the floor plan, the four cancellation modes, term-based courses if you run beginner blocks or teacher trainings, and your storefront theme. Because the concepts map directly from Mariana Tek, this is configuration rather than re-learning — but it's where most of the five days actually goes.

Step 5 — Pick a Sunday and cut over (one evening)

Sunday evening is the quiet window. Final data sync, switch the live booking flow to Junocal, and you're live for Monday morning. We're online during the handover.

Step 6 — Cancel Mariana Tek (when the contract allows)

Here's where the timeline forks on your contract — covered next.

The contract question that decides when you move

Mariana Tek's standard contracts run 12–24 months with auto-renewal, and the cancellation window is typically 30–60 days before term end. That doesn't stop you migrating now; it changes the last step.

If you're inside your term: parallel-run. Cut over to Junocal for all new bookings, keep Mariana Tek open for the residual bookings already on its calendar, and cancel at term end. You run two systems briefly, but you only ever take new business on Junocal, so there's no double data entry on the part that's growing. This avoids paying an early-termination buyout.

If you're month-to-month or near term end: cancel at the end of the current period and you're done.

Either way, the migration itself happens now — the contract only dictates the date you stop paying Mariana Tek, not the date you start running on Junocal. This is the whole reason month-to-month matters: on Junocal there's no annual contract to time your next exit around.

The real numbers

• Elapsed work: ~5 business days, single location.
• Calendar time: ~2 weeks with review pauses.
• Cost of migration: free in your first 30 days.
• Recurring saving: a single-location studio at ~$400/month on Mariana Tek spends ~$4,800/year; Junocal Studio is ~$350/year — about $4,400/year difference. For multi-location, the gap is larger because Mariana Tek prices per location while Junocal Growth is flat to ten locations.

Put your own figures in the Mariana Tek vs Junocal cost calculator — set your location count and per-location quote, and it returns the annual gap.

What doesn't carry across

In the interest of not overselling: anything tied to Mariana Tek's enterprise-franchise layer — central-HQ reporting structures built for 11-plus-location brands — doesn't map onto Junocal, because Junocal is built for solo to ten-location studios rather than franchise HQs. Single and small multi-location studios almost never use that layer, which is exactly why they're overpaying for it. But if you do run franchise-tier reporting across dozens of sites, that's a real reason Mariana Tek fits your shape better, and you should weigh it honestly.

Where to go next

If you're weighing the switch, the Mariana Tek alternative page has the full feature-and-pricing comparison, the migration playbook has the per-step detail, and the cost calculator gives you the annual number in two minutes. To talk through your specific contract timing, hello@junocal.com gets a real reply from a real person.