How to grow your payments app with Pilates studios
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Pilates studios and instructors run mat and reformer classes, private one-to-one sessions and courses for beginners, pregnancy and rehab. Reformer classes are small, so a no-show is an empty machine and lost money. Clients buy single classes, class packs and monthly memberships, often on their phone. A payments app that takes payment when a class is booked, sells packs and memberships and handles private sessions can win these studios, and every client who pays sees your app.
Talk to Pilates studios and instructors
Ask local Pilates studios:
- How do clients book and pay for classes, and what happens when they miss one?
- Do you sell class packs or monthly memberships?
- Do you run private sessions, courses or teacher training?
- Do you teach in a studio, a hired hall or online?
Take payment when a class is booked
Taking card and phone payments at booking fills small reformer classes with clients who show up, and cuts the money lost to no-shows.
Sell packs, memberships and private sessions
Payment links for class packs, monthly memberships, courses and private sessions get money in up front and keep clients coming back.
Grow through fitness and wellbeing businesses
Pilates instructors often work alongside physiotherapists, personal trainers and yoga teachers. One studio on your app can bring the practitioners around it.
Build it
Create your own financial platform.
Pick a template, name it, brand it, preview every page before you pay. Your brand, your users, your fees.
Build my platform →Questions people ask
What about yoga and dance studios?
The yoga and dance studios guide covers class passes, memberships and drop-in classes, often paid on a phone before class.
Yoga and dance studios →What about physiotherapists and massage therapists?
The physiotherapists and massage therapists guide covers working by appointment, taking deposits and cutting the money lost when clients miss sessions.
Physiotherapists and massage therapists →Can I call it a bank?
In most countries "bank" is a protected word you can only use with a banking licence. Call it an account, a wallet, an app or a platform. The accounts and payments behind a SendPay Business platform are powered by licensed partners.
Is there a step-by-step plan I can follow?
Yes. The free launch checklist takes you from picking your people and naming your app to setting fees, going live and winning your first ten customers.
Digital bank app launch checklist →How do I start?
Pick a template, name it and preview every page before you pay. Your platform can be live on your own domain within 24 hours of confirmation.
Build my platform →Read next
This guide is general information, not legal or financial advice. SendPay Business is a technology company, not a bank, and does not take deposits; regulated services on the platforms are provided by licensed partners. PayPal, Patreon and Substack are named as reference points only and are not affiliated with SendPay Business.