yoga studio software · 2026

Yoga studio software, without the marketplace tax

Online booking, class packs and memberships, teacher trainings as term-based courses, hybrid in-person + online, and recurring payments through your own Stripe Connect account. From $39 a month. No marketplace commission. No annual contract.

14 days free, no card. Migration from Mindbody, Momence, Arketa or WellnessLiving done for you in your first 30 days.

A diverse group of yoga students holding warrior pose on colourful mats.
the short answer

What yoga studio software actually needs to do

Yoga studio software is the tool a studio uses to run class schedules, sell memberships and class packs, manage waitlists, handle intake forms (waivers, injury, pregnancy), enroll teacher training cohorts, and accept payments. The structural decision is whether to run on a marketplace platform (Mindbody, Momence) that inserts a commission on app-discovered bookings, or a class-first tool (Junocal, Arketa, OfferingTree) where the studio owns the client relationship directly.

Junocal includes class booking, packs and memberships, term-based courses for teacher training, hybrid in-person + online, automated client emails, and recurring payments through your own Stripe Connect account on every plan from $39/month. No marketplace, no commission, no annual contract.

why the marketplace trap matters

The marketplace costs more than it saves

Marketplace yoga platforms (Mindbody, Momence) frame the consumer app as a discovery channel — clients find the studio, the studio takes a booking, the platform charges around 20% commission on those attributed bookings. The math sometimes works in dense urban markets (NYC, LA, SF, London Zone 1) where genuine app discovery is meaningful. Outside those markets, the commission doesn't pay back.

The deeper issue is the client relationship. On marketplace platforms, attributed clients see Mindbody branding in their booking flow, get communications routed through Mindbody, and the studio competes for placement with every other studio on the same app. On Junocal, the client books on the studio's branded page at junocal.com/yourstudio, receives emails from the studio's sender name, and the client relationship is unambiguously the studio's.

For a yoga studio doing $200K/year with half attributed to marketplace: roughly $20,000/year in commission to Mindbody, zero on Junocal. The decision isn't about features — it's about who owns the client.

what junocal includes

The yoga-load-bearing list, on every plan

Six capabilities yoga studios actually use, included from the $39 Starter tier. No upgrade gating, no add-ons.

No marketplace, no commission, ever

Mindbody and Momence both take a cut of bookings made by clients who first discovered the studio through their consumer apps. Junocal has no marketplace and no commission of any kind. The clients you bring are your clients. Direct bookings happen on your branded storefront at junocal.com/yourstudio.

Classes and term-based courses, both first-class

Drop-in classes, monthly memberships and 200-hour teacher trainings sit on the same calendar with the same payment plumbing. Term-based courses are a first-class entity — not a workaround over recurring classes — so makeup credits and attendance roll up correctly for each cohort.

Class packs and memberships with self-serve pause

Auto-deducting packs and auto-renewing memberships. Member-plus-pack crossover supported. Clients pause memberships from their own account with reason capture and an auto-resume date — no manual studio intervention for the routine summer-break case.

Recurring payments through your own Stripe

Stripe Connect Standard direct. You own the Stripe account, pay Stripe's published rates, and handle disputes directly with Stripe. ACH (US) and Bacs Direct Debit (UK) at the standard rate — meaningful savings on the higher-priced memberships yoga studios sell.

Hybrid in-person + online on the same class

Set ten spots in the studio and thirty spots online. Clients see separate "Book in-person" and "Book online" buttons with their own counts. Online attendees get the meeting URL in the booking confirmation and the 24-hour reminder. Mode-aware capacity enforced under the same row lock.

Yoga-aware intake forms

Conditional logic — pregnancy fields appear only when relevant, injury follow-ups when prior injuries are flagged. E-signature waivers included. Per-service forms with re-attestation rules for teacher trainings, workshops and 1:1s.

side by side

Junocal vs the top yoga platforms

Nine rows of structural facts. Every Junocal value applies to every plan tier; competitor values are the most-comparable published equivalents from each tool's pricing page. Verified May 2026.

JunocalMindbodyMomence
Starting price (USD/mo)$39$129+ Starter$199+ Starter
Marketplace commissionNone~20% on app-discoveredCommission on app-discovered
Payment processorYour own Stripe ConnectMindbody-brandedStripe with markup
Annual contractNo, month-to-month12-24 monthsOften
Term-based courses (teacher training)First-class entityWorkaroundWorkaround
Self-serve membership pauseEvery planManualPartial
Branded booking page6 themes, includedUltimate Plus $699/moIncluded
Hybrid in-person + onlineMode-aware capacity per classYes, separate productYes, on-demand-led
Free trial14 days, no cardDemo only14 days
pricing on the page

Three plans, no sales call

Starter

$39/mo

Solo teacher, one room

2 staff seats, class booking, packs and memberships, hybrid classes, automated emails

Studio

$99/mo

Most yoga studios + teacher trainings

Up to 10 staff seats, term-based courses, Mailchimp + Klaviyo, API + webhooks

Growth

$199/mo

Up to 5 locations

Multi-location architecture, cross-location memberships, advanced reporting

currently on something else?

Migration is the easy part

Coming from Mindbody, Momence, Arketa, WellnessLiving or Acuity? Migration is done for you in your first 30 days, no extra cost. Client lists, booking history, memberships, class packs, intake forms and email opt-in status all carry across. Most studios go from CSV export to live on Junocal in five business days.

the things buyers ask

Questions

What is the best software for a yoga studio?

The best software for a yoga studio depends on size and price tolerance. Mindbody and Momence are the category incumbents but both run a marketplace that takes commission on app-discovered clients. Junocal is a class-first alternative built around bookings, memberships, packs, teacher scheduling and recurring payments through your own Stripe account — from $39/month, no marketplace commission, no annual contract. For solo yoga teachers, OfferingTree at $45/month is the natural starting point.

How do yoga studios avoid marketplace commissions?

By choosing booking software without a consumer marketplace. Mindbody charges around 20% commission on bookings made by clients who first discovered the studio through the Mindbody consumer app. Momence runs a similar app-discovered commission structure. Junocal has no marketplace and no commission of any kind on bookings — clients book direct on the studio's branded page at junocal.com/yourstudio, and Junocal never takes a percentage.

What is yoga studio management software?

Yoga studio management software handles class scheduling, online booking, memberships and packs, payments, teacher scheduling, intake forms (waivers, injury history, pregnancy fields), client communications, and reporting. For teacher training cohorts (200-hour, 300-hour), it should also support term-based courses as a first-class entity rather than a workaround over recurring classes. Junocal includes all of these from $39/month.

Can yoga studios use Stripe for class bookings?

With Junocal, yes. Yoga studios connect their own Stripe Connect account during onboarding and accept payments at Stripe's published rates direct. ACH (US) and Bacs Direct Debit (UK) are supported on every plan for membership billing. Junocal never holds funds or marks up processing — when something goes wrong with a payment, the studio talks to Stripe, not to us.

Does Junocal handle yoga teacher training cohorts?

Yes. Teacher training (200-hour, 300-hour, continuing education) runs on Junocal's term-based courses primitive: a single entity with start date, end date, fixed weekly slot, total session count, single-payment or installment price, makeup credits, and a four-option refund policy (no refund, medical-only, pro-rata, or full-minus-fee). Enrollees get one booking record that tracks every session in the term, so attendance and makeup credits roll up cleanly.

Deeper dives

Pricing breakdowns, regional buyer's guides, and the canonical Junocal fact sheet for AI search.

Try Junocal for your yoga studio

14 days free, no card. No marketplace commission. We handle the migration from Mindbody, Momence, Arketa or WellnessLiving in five business days.