Studio overview

Weekly class limit

Free mentor and studio accounts include 1 scheduled session per week, from Monday to Sunday in the account timezone (UTC if none is set). Each group class, private lesson or event date counts separately across all classes and locations, including dates in drafts. Recurring schedules can run once per week on Free. Cancelled sessions do not count. Bookings within a session are unlimited. Upgrade to Pro or Premium to schedule more than 1 session in a week. Existing scheduled sessions and bookings stay in place after a downgrade; adding more sessions requires an upgrade.

A studio account is for a place where classes happen: a space with one or more rooms and a small team of instructors. You get a public studio page, classes and bookings, an instructor roster, room scheduling without double bookings, and the option to rent out your space. The Free plan costs nothing, and there is no commission on bookings.

Studio and teacher accounts

Some features are only on teacher accounts for now: class packs, promo codes, memberships, the embed widget, calendar connections and boosts.

Studios on Pro or Premium can run online classes. The Google Meet or Zoom link comes from the account of the instructor teaching the session. See Online classes for studios.

What it costs

• Free: $0. Classes, schedule, bookings, payments, locations and rooms, the instructor roster, space rentals, reviews and your client list.
• Pro: $49 a month or $499 a year. Adds financials and expenses, and the video library.
• Premium: $99 a month or $999 a year. Includes everything in Pro.

See studio plans or the pricing page.

The studio dashboard

After setup you land on /studio. The sidebar has:

• Dashboard: your overview, with shortcuts such as Manage mentors.
• Teaching
  • Classes: create and edit your classes.
  • Schedule: the week across all rooms and instructors.
  • Client bookings: incoming bookings, where you confirm and mark payments as received.
  • Clients: everyone who has booked with your studio.
  • Reviews: what students say about your classes.
  • Financials (Pro and Premium): earnings and expenses.
  • Video library (Pro and Premium): recordings you sell or share.
• Operations
  • Instructors: your roster of employees and renters. See your instructor roster.
  • Rental requests: teachers asking to rent your space. See renting out your space.
  • Locations: your venues and rooms, their opening hours and rental settings.
• Settings: studio profile, billing and text reminders.

Who teaches your classes

Each class belongs to your studio, and each session can have its own instructor:

• An employee from your roster, picked when you create the class or when they claim an open slot on your schedule.
• Nobody in particular: the class shows your studio's name.
• A custom mentor: a name and photo you credit for someone who doesn't use MoveMentors. See custom mentors.
• A co-listed teacher with their own MoveMentors profile. See inviting platform mentors.

Teachers who rent your space run their own classes on their own account.

Where the money goes

Bookings on your studio's classes are paid to your studio: by card into your own Stripe account, or by the other methods you accept. That is the same whoever teaches the session; you pay your instructors yourself.

When a renter runs their own class in your space, their students pay the renter, and you charge the renter a rental fee.

A typical week for a small studio

• Every day: check new bookings, mark cash and bank transfer payments as received, and look at today's schedule.
• Every week: plan who teaches the coming sessions, and answer rental requests.
• Every month: review financials (Pro and Premium) and settle up with your instructors.

Next steps

• Studio onboarding walkthrough: the setup steps.
• Your instructor roster: invite employees and renters.
• Renting out your space: earn from rooms that would otherwise sit empty.
• For studios: everything MoveMentors does for a small studio.