Migrate from Walla in five business days
Walla and Junocal work the same way — pick-a-spot, four-mode policies, the same waitlist behaviour. Migration is mostly a translation. Customer-facing URL stays the same (if you bring your domain) and favourite-spot data carries through cleanly.
Why studios move
Walla Core at $320/month plus its $149 Branded Studio App and $199 Website & SEO Services is $668/month, or $8,016/year before onboarding and processing. Junocal Studio covers the daily class-first operating core and branded booking at $29/month, or $348/year.
Annual recurring cost difference: $7,668. For a studio doing $200,000/year in bookings, that's 3.6 percentage points of net margin recovered.
What the migration actually involves
- 01
Pull the Walla exports
Walla supports standard data exports through the operator dashboard — client list, booking history, memberships, packs, intake forms, pick-a-spot assignments. We provide exact menu paths.
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Send the exports to Junocal
Secure upload to a migration portal. A person reviews before importing.
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Dry-run review in staging
We import into a sandbox version of your studio. You log in, verify, sign off. Spot-check favourite-spot data and email opt-in status.
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Set up the new visual design
Junocal ships six storefront themes plus your logo, colours, photos. Visual design changes; the customer-facing URL doesn't if you bring your domain. We run a parallel preview on a staging subdomain so you review the design before live.
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Pick a Sunday and cut over
Sunday evening DNS handover and final data sync. Junocal goes live on the same URL clients are used to. Visual design refresh visible from cutover.
- 06
Cancel Walla
End of the current Walla billing period. Inside an annual term, time cutover to contract end via parallel-run or invoke the buyout.
Questions
Why migrate from Walla to Junocal?
Walla's main page lists Core at $320/month. Add its $149 Branded Studio App and $199 Website & SEO Services and the scenario totals $668/month, or $8,016/year before onboarding and processing. Junocal Studio is $29/month, or $348/year, with branded booking included: a $7,668 recurring annual difference. Junocal also includes migration and month-to-month terms.
Will my booking-page URL stay the same?
The booking URL will change. Walla's branded-booking add-on lets studios host the booking page on their own domain; Junocal hosts every storefront at junocal.com/yourstudio. Most studios handle the transition by setting up a redirect from their old Walla-domain booking URL to the new Junocal URL — existing bookmarks still resolve. We run a parallel preview on a staging URL so you review the new design before going live, then coordinate the cutover.
Which booking features transfer?
All of them — Walla and Junocal work the same way. Pick-a-spot floor plan, four-mode cancellation policies, a waitlist that alerts everyone when a spot opens (first to tap gets it), term-based courses. Favourite-spot data carries across so clients see the same default reformer on day one. Pick-a-spot assignments, per-service cancellation rules, and intake forms that adapt all migrate cleanly.
What about Walla's AI-powered analytics?
Junocal's reporting covers the operational dashboard a studio runs on day to day — revenue, attendance, retention, no-show rate, instructor utilisation, class-fill rate. Walla has invested in AI-flagged churn-risk scoring and retention cohort analysis recently; Junocal focuses on the operational reporting studios run on day to day. The standard reports carry across cleanly at migration; the AI-flagged signals don't.
What about Walla's customer-facing polish?
Walla has had a decade to iterate on the customer-facing experience, and that depth shows in places like the per-class detail page and the membership-pause flow. Junocal ships the same core surfaces with a tighter, more current visual system — six themes, your brand throughout, no “Powered by Junocal” anywhere clients can see. The migration is straightforward and most studios feel the upgrade in cost and contract terms within the first month.
Will my contract terms allow it?
Depends on what you signed. Walla's standard pricing is annual at the base tier; some configurations are month-to-month by negotiation. The branded-booking add-on typically follows the base contract. Inside an annual term, parallel-run during the Junocal trial and cancel at term end. Month-to-month, move any time.
Looking at alternatives?
14 days free. The same features on both sides make for a clean migration. Customer-facing URL stays the same if you bring your domain. Walla has more years of customer-facing polish; for studios where the cost difference is meaningful, the move pays back fast.