One room. One teacher. No front desk.
Booking, payments and paperwork for the studio you run from home.
The problem
You are the instructor, the front desk and the bookkeeper.
Between classes you are answering messages, checking who has sessions left, and remembering who still owes for last month. None of it is teaching, and all of it is on you.
The spreadsheet
One tab per member, a column per month, and a running total you recalculate by hand every time somebody buys a pack or misses a class.
The WhatsApp thread
Bookings, cancellations and questions arrive in the same place as everything else, and a message that scrolls past is a booking that never happened.
The payment you forgot to chase
Somebody's plan ran out three weeks ago. They are still coming. Nobody enjoys that conversation, so it keeps not happening.
The product
What it does
Everything on this page is built and running. There is no waiting list and no beta.
A schedule that fills itself
Set the weekly timetable once — which days, which times, which class types — and generate a month of sessions from it in one go.
Regulars keep their slot
A member who always comes Tuesday at nine is booked into Tuesday at nine. If you change the timetable and their slot no longer exists, you are told, and they are notified from a message you can edit.
Waitlists that actually move
When a class is full, members join the waitlist. When somebody cancels, the next person is offered the seat with a countdown to claim it, and it passes on if they do not.
Plans, packs and family balances
Session packs, monthly plans and unlimited memberships, with a family able to share one pool of sessions between them.
Card and cash, one ledger
Members pay by card through Stripe and the money goes to your account, not ours. Cash and bank transfers are recorded the same way, so the totals are the real totals.
The waiver, signed and filed
New members complete your intake form and sign it before their first class. The signed copy is stored as a PDF you can produce years later.
Reminders that arrive
Booking confirmations, class reminders and renewal notices by email and text, with unsubscribe handled properly so your mail keeps reaching inboxes.
Why this one
Built for a studio in someone's house
Every other app in this category assumes a storefront and staff. Some of what follows is built. Some of it is why we are building. Each card says which.
Working today
Your own calendar blocks studio time
Subscribe your personal calendar and the school run, the dentist and the day you are away stop being times somebody can book.
Cash is a first-class payment
Half the money in a home studio arrives as cash or a bank transfer. Recording it is one click, not a workaround.
Capacity per class type
A mat class and an equipment class do not hold the same number of people in the same room. Each class type carries its own limit.
Strangers do not see how full you are
You decide whether the number of free spots is visible. Members can see it; the internet does not have to.
Coming next
Your address is a home, not a shop
Not built yetThe public pages will show a neighbourhood and give the exact address to a member once they have booked — never to a stranger, and never to a search engine.
The household is a real constraint
Not built yetA room that is a studio at ten and a living room at four. The timetable should understand hours the house is not available, not just hours you are not.
Equipment decides the capacity
Not built yetTwo reformers means two people, in every class that needs a reformer — set the equipment once instead of typing the same number into twelve class types.
Absence mode
Not built yetYou are ill, or away for a week. One switch that cancels the right classes, tells the right people and does not lose anybody's sessions.
How it is used
Three ways in
Your admin
The schedule, members, plans, payments, messaging and reports. This is where you spend the ten minutes a day the whole thing should cost you.
The member portal
Your members book, cancel, see what is left on their plan and pay, from a page that installs onto a phone home screen like an app. No app store, nothing to download.
Support that can see the problem
When something is wrong, it can be looked at and fixed rather than described over email.
Who is behind it
MyHomeStudio is built and run by one person in Charlotte, North Carolina, working directly with the studios using it. That is the reason a feature request can turn into a release the same week, and the reason the page about where your data lives is written plainly.
More about this →Half an hour, and no slides.
Show me how you run your studio today and I will tell you honestly whether this helps. If it does not, I will say so.