Term-based courses, built in

A multi-class block sold as a single product with fixed cohort, fixed schedule, and single payment. Examples: an eight-week beginner pilates block at £180/student, a 200-hour yoga teacher training over six months at £2,800/student, a six-week mum-and-baby pilates cohort. Clients buy the whole block at signup, attend a fixed group of sessions, and have specific swap and refund rules that differ from drop-in classes.

You can, but a few things studios care about break. A beginner who misses week 3 of an 8-week block should be able to swap into another week of the same course — not book some other class. A student who reports an injury in week 6 should get a refund for the weeks they'll miss, with a doctor's note. A teacher-training group needs its own sign-up form. If a term is just a class on repeat, you set all of that up by hand, every term. Junocal builds it in.

Junocal, Mariana Tek, and Walla have them built in. Mindbody can be set up to do it, but only by stitching together repeating classes — most operators hit a string of setup headaches within six months. Momence supports terms, but less smoothly than the tools built for operators. For studios where a quarter or more of revenue comes from courses, how well the tool handles them matters day to day.

Each course has a configurable swap allowance (typically two per eight-week block). Clients swap to a different week of the same course up to the allowance limit. Swaps respect course capacity — if the target week is full, the client joins the waitlist or stays put. Additional swaps require operator approval or a small fee, configurable per studio.

Three modes, configurable per course. Pro-rata refund — refund for remaining weeks at the per-class rate, most flexible. Refund-with-medical-doc — refund only with a doctor's letter, common in the UK. No refund — non-refundable once started, common for premium courses and intensives. Most studios mix modes per course type.

By default, no. Once the course starts, it's visible only to enrolled students. Public schedule visitors see the course as an enrolment opportunity until the start date, then it disappears. Enrolled students see it in their personal schedule and can book swaps. Public schedule stays clean; course schedule stays private to the cohort.

Yes — a 'rolling cohort' configuration runs indefinitely with students joining at any week and counting attendance toward an eight-week completion. Common for ongoing pilates progressions. Similar to a fixed cohort but with no end date and no shared completion event. Less common than fixed cohorts but supported.