Mindbody vs Momence vs Junocal

Junocal. It includes pick-a-spot from $15 Starter, term-based courses, adaptive intake, two-mode waitlists, direct Stripe ownership, no marketplace commission, and branded booking on every plan. Studio and Growth also support multi-location operations on one flat subscription. For a three-instructor pilates studio doing $200,000 a year, Junocal is roughly $350 a year before Stripe; typical Mindbody and Momence configurations run into the thousands once subscription, platform fees, marketplace commission, or bundled processing are included.

Mindbody runs a consumer-facing marketplace app that takes 20% commission, capped at $30 per transaction, on bookings attributed to app-discovered clients. The $30 cap means high-ticket bookings are less exposed than the headline 20% suggests, but on a busy studio's volume of app-attributed bookings the commission still adds up across the year. Momence has a consumer app but publishes no marketplace-commission percentage. Junocal has no marketplace at all, by design — the clients you bring are yours.

Junocal includes hybrid delivery on every plan: separate in-room and online capacity prevents one side from overbooking, and the meeting link flows through booking confirmation and the 24-hour reminder. Studios with a paid recorded library can pair Junocal with a dedicated video platform, keeping the live operation, client data, and Stripe relationship portable. Mindbody sells Virtual separately, while Momence bundles video into its own platform and commercial model.

Junocal. On Mindbody and Momence you build a course by stitching repeating classes together by hand — you schedule each session, attach clients through a course package, and reconcile attendance yourself. On Junocal a course is one thing you set up once: start date, end date, fixed weekly slot, total session count, capacity, one upfront payment, makeup credits, swap cutoff, and a four-mode refund policy (no refund / medical-only / pro-rata / full-minus-fee). When you publish the course, Junocal creates the individual sessions for you, and each student gets one booking record that tracks every session. For UK pilates studios running 8-week beginner blocks as a meaningful revenue stream, or yoga studios with 200-hour teacher training cohorts, you set it up once on Junocal where Mindbody and Momence make you build it by hand every term.

Junocal: one-click CSV export of clients, bookings, payments, intake submissions, free, any time. Momence: data export is available but on-demand video library isn't always retrievable cleanly. Mindbody: a complete-record export at cancellation is a paid Subscriber Data Export at $500, with the standard export covering a subset. The pattern matters operationally: when you cancel a platform, the ease of taking your data with you predicts how much friction the switch will be. Junocal's free-export policy is structural (your data is yours, full stop); Mindbody's exit fee operates as a switching-cost.

Junocal handles multi-location operations natively up to 10 locations from a single account — each with its own branded URL, Stripe Connect, team, and pricing — with cross-location memberships and cross-location reporting built in, plus free CSV export on every plan for owner-level reconciliation. Junocal Studio supports unlimited rooms with per-room pick-a-spot. Only very-large-franchise central-HQ needs are beyond scope today. Get in touch at hello@junocal.com if you're running a chain beyond 10 locations and want to discuss fit and timing.

Yes, and it's a structured 5-business-day flow. Pull standard CSV exports from Mindbody (client list, bookings, memberships, packs, intake, email opt-in status). Junocal handles the field mapping. Dry-run in staging. Sunday-evening cutover. Free in the first 30 days. The harder question is contract timing — Mindbody's 12-month contracts auto-renew and require 30-day notice to exit, so mid-term cancellation typically needs notice or an early-cancellation buyout. Plan the migration around the contract renewal date if possible, or factor the buyout cost into the switching decision. Most Mindbody-to-Junocal migrations we see are timed around annual renewal windows; the operational migration itself is straightforward.

Depends on the operation. For a solo instructor on Momence's free Basic tier with minimal feature needs (accepting the 5%-on-operator + 4%-on-client processing fees), Momence is cheapest at zero subscription. For a typical 1-3 instructor boutique studio: Junocal Starter ($15) or Junocal Studio ($29) is usually meaningfully cheaper than the comparable Mindbody or Momence configuration once you factor in marketplace commission (Mindbody) and processing markup (both). For two-to-ten-location operations: Junocal Growth at $69/month covers up to 10 locations on a flat per-account price — roughly $7/location, structurally cheaper than Mindbody's per-location pricing at this scale. For franchise operations beyond 10 locations with HQ enterprise reporting, Mindbody's per-location architecture is built for that shape. The right question isn't 'which is cheapest' — it's 'which fits the operation at the right total cost' once you factor in commission, processing, contract length, and feature gaps.