Custom software for yoga studios, boutique fitness studios, and studio groups who need class scheduling, membership management, and retention systems built around their specific practice and member community.
Generic studio management tools handle basic class booking. We build the full system: loyalty mechanics, member app, online streaming, and automated re-engagement workflows that keep members committed to your studio rather than switching to the app on their phone.
Class scheduling and booking with capacity management, waitlists, and credit-based membership logic
Custom loyalty and rewards programs that reward attendance streaks, referrals, and milestone visits
Member-facing app with class booking, progress tracking, and community features
Online class streaming to extend your studio's reach beyond your physical location
What you can count on
Retention
3+ years
Average client relationship across active accounts
First milestone
Week 1
A straight read on what to keep and what to rebuild
Pricing
Fixed price
Scope and cost agreed before work starts
Team
No handoffs
The senior engineers who scope the build also ship it
Losing members after month two because there's no automated engagement workflow between classes to keep them connected to your community?
Running class scheduling in one tool, membership billing in another, and your loyalty programme as a paper punch card, with no shared member view?
Short answer
RaftLabs builds custom software for yoga studios, boutique fitness studios, and multi-location studio groups. Around half of new members quit within six months (IHRSA), so we build class booking, membership billing, loyalty and streak rewards, instructor scheduling, online streaming, attendance tracking, and member apps engineered around retention. Fixed cost, launched as a validated v1, then grown.
Trusted by
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Client rating on Clutch
4.9/5
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Shipping production software since
2015
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Per-booking platform fees on software we build
0
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Cost, scoped before we build
Fixed
Studio software built for the member experience that keeps people coming back
Yoga and boutique fitness studios have a retention problem that most owners know but few solve at the software level. Around half of new members quit within the first six months of joining, according to the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA). The studios that keep members lean on three things: easy booking, habit rewards, and a community that lives beyond the physical class.
We build the class scheduling systems, loyalty programmes, and member apps that address the retention problem directly: not with generic booking tools, but with software designed around your specific member experience.
Problems we solve for yoga and fitness studio businesses
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Problem
Class booking and waitlist management done manually
Solution
A class fills up. A member cancels. The studio owner or front desk staff manually contacts the first person on the waitlist. If that person doesn't respond in time, they move to the next. The process takes time the studio doesn't have, and spots go unfilled while members on the waitlist don't know they could have attended.Each unfilled spot is direct revenue lost. In a studio running 20 classes a week with a 15 percent cancellation rate, manual waitlist handling can mean hundreds of empty seats per month. Front desk time spent on this is front desk time not spent on member experience.Automated waitlist promotion fills the spot the moment a cancellation lands. The member gets a notification, confirms with one tap, and the class stays full without anyone making a call.
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Problem
Membership churn and re-engagement with no early warning system
Solution
A member's visit frequency drops from three times a week to once. Then nothing. The studio has no automated signal that a member is drifting and no win-back workflow that triggers before they cancel. Retention data isn't tracked by cohort, so the studio can't tell whether the problem is with new members, long-term members, or a specific class format. According to the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), the average annual gym member churn rate is 28-30%, with 50% of new members quitting within the first six months of joining.By the time a member cancels, the window to retain them has closed. Studios that wait for cancellation notices to act lose members they could have kept with a single well-timed message.Attendance-based churn signals trigger a re-engagement workflow while the member is still active: a personalised message, a class credit, or a direct booking link. The studio gets a chance to intervene before the decision is made.
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Problem
Instructor scheduling and substitution handled by manual messaging
Solution
An instructor calls in sick at 7am. The studio owner sends a WhatsApp to eight people trying to find a substitute. The cover confirmation happens in a thread with no record in the booking system. The class page still shows the original instructor's name when members arrive.This is a member experience failure every time it happens. Members show up expecting a specific instructor and get someone else without notice. Repeat incidents erode trust in the studio's reliability.A substitution workflow lets instructors request cover directly in the system. Qualified substitutes respond, the booking updates automatically, and members get a notification before they leave the house.
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Problem
Retail and merchandise sales at the front desk with no inventory or revenue tracking
Solution
Merchandise, mats, props, and wellness products are sold at the front desk via a cash drawer or a separate POS that doesn't connect to the studio's membership system. Inventory is tracked by eye. Revenue from retail doesn't appear in the studio's class and membership reporting.Front desk retail that runs outside the main system creates blind spots: the studio doesn't know which products sell, when to reorder, or what the per-member retail spend looks like. It's also a reconciliation headache at month end.Retail integrated into the studio platform means sales are recorded against the member profile, inventory updates in real time, and retail revenue appears alongside membership revenue in the same dashboard.
What we build
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Class scheduling and booking
Class schedule management with capacity limits, waitlist handling, and automated promotion from waitlist when a spot opens. Credit-based booking for members on class-pack or monthly credit memberships: deduct from balance at booking, return credits on cancellation within policy. Cancellation policy enforcement with configurable late-cancellation windows and no-show penalties. Multi-location class sharing for studio groups where members can attend at any location. Instructor assignment with substitute management. Walk-in spot management for classes with reserved and drop-in capacity separation.
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Membership management and billing
Membership plan management with unlimited, credit-pack, and hybrid structures. Automatic recurring billing on monthly and annual membership cycles. Pause and freeze management for members who travel or are injured: configured pauses that don't trigger cancellations. Intro offer management for new members with automatic conversion to standard membership after the trial period. Family membership with shared billing and individual member profiles. Failed payment handling with automated retry sequences and member communication before account suspension. Membership reporting: active member count, churn rate, MRR, and per-plan retention metrics.
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Loyalty and rewards programs
Custom loyalty programmes built for the studio model: points for class attendance, streak milestones, referrals, retail purchases, and challenge completion. Attendance streak tracking with automated rewards at milestone intervals: 10 classes, 25 classes, 100 classes. Referral programme with tracking and reward fulfilment for both the referring member and the friend they bring. Seasonal challenges with leaderboards and reward tiers for participation and completion. Digital rewards wallet with redemption at the studio, online, or against membership fees. We've built loyalty and rewards platforms across retail, hospitality, and wellness. See our Loyalty Programme Development page.
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Online class streaming
Live class streaming for members who can't attend in person, extending your studio's value beyond the four walls. On-demand video library with classes organised by style, level, duration, and instructor. Access control tied to membership tier: live streaming for active members, on-demand library as a retention tool for paused members. Recording workflow for instructors with quality review before publication. Hybrid class setup where in-studio and remote members attend the same live session. Analytics on play counts, completion rates, and which content drives the most engagement.
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Instructor management
Instructor profiles with specialisations, certifications, and bio management for member-facing display. Availability management with schedule conflict checking. Sub request workflow where instructors can request coverage and qualified substitutes respond. Pay rate management by class type and instructor level, with payroll reporting at end of period. Instructor app for viewing their schedule, managing class attendance, and accessing member notes. Performance reporting for instructors: class fill rate, member ratings, attendance retention by instructor. Certification expiry tracking with automated renewal reminders to keep teaching qualifications current.
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Member app and studio analytics
Member-facing app for class booking, credit balance, loyalty points, progress tracking, and community features. Push notifications for class reminders, streak alerts, loyalty rewards earned, and personalised re-engagement when attendance drops. Class history with personal milestones and streak visualisation to reinforce habit. Studio analytics dashboard for operators: class utilisation by time slot and day, revenue by membership type, instructor performance, churn rate by cohort, and loyalty programme ROI. Automated weekly digest report sent to studio owners with occupancy, new members, churn, and revenue.
How we work with yoga and fitness studio businesses
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Discovery
We spend the first two weeks mapping your class structure, your membership model, your retention workflows, and where your current platform creates friction. We look at your churn rate by cohort, your most popular class formats, and how your instructors manage their schedules. The product specification reflects your studio's specific member experience, not a generic studio management template.
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Architecture
We design the member record as the central entity, linking bookings, membership status, credit balance, loyalty points, and attendance history in one place. For multi-location groups, we design the shared member record and per-location reporting architecture. For loyalty programmes, we design the points engine and reward rules before any code is written. Loyalty logic that's wrong in production creates customer service problems that are expensive to fix.
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Build
Development runs in two-week sprints. At the end of each sprint, members can test the booking flow, instructors can test the schedule and substitution tools, and studio owners can test the analytics dashboard. Real testing by real users catches friction in the member experience before it affects retention.
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Launch and support
We migrate existing member records, membership plans, and credit balances before go-live. Instructor and admin training is included. A 30-day support period after launch covers any issues that emerge in live use: booking edge cases, payment failures, or member app performance issues on specific devices.
Frequently asked questions
Established studio management platforms handle core booking and billing for most single-location studios well and at low cost. Custom software earns its place in a few clear cases. Your loyalty mechanics go beyond what platform plugins support. You run multiple locations with shared member records and need centralised reporting. You want online streaming tied into your membership and loyalty system. Your member app has to carry your studio's brand, not a white-label shell. Or you're building a studio management product to sell to other operators. The platform cost is lower than custom development for most studios. Custom makes sense when the operational complexity or differentiation requirement justifies it.
Yes. RaftLabs has built attendance streak programmes that track consecutive weeks, reward milestone visit counts, and trigger automated congratulations and reward offers. Referral tracking, where both the referring member and the new member receive a reward and the referral is attributed correctly even when the new member joins weeks after the initial referral, requires careful data modelling. We scope these mechanics during discovery to get the rules right before we start building. Getting them wrong in production creates customer service problems that are time-consuming to resolve.
Yes. RaftLabs builds streaming platforms integrated with your studio's membership system: active members get live stream access, lapsed members can access on-demand content as a retention tool, and digital-only members have their own subscription tier. The streaming infrastructure uses established video delivery services (Mux, Cloudflare Stream, or AWS) rather than building video encoding from scratch. The complexity is in the access control layer and the experience design, making sure the online class experience feels like an extension of your studio brand, not a generic video player.
A focused class booking and membership management system typically runs $25,000 to $50,000. A full platform with booking, membership billing, loyalty programme, instructor management, member app, and studio analytics typically runs $65,000 to $120,000. Adding online streaming to a platform typically adds $20,000 to $40,000 depending on the streaming feature scope. We scope every project before pricing it: fixed cost, agreed before development starts, no hourly billing.
