In a studio, cards move between classes and the teachers change every day: kept by hand, the count always ends up slipping. BetterSport keeps the schedule, the bookings, the balances and the takings in one place.
A schedule in several hands, cards that count down, memberships that renew and students to keep informed.
Every class carries its teacher, its practice and its number of mats. Students filter what interests them and book their slot online, even in the middle of the night.
The ten-session card sells online and comes down with every booking. The member sees their balance, and you no longer keep a spreadsheet on the side.
You can read how many mats are taken, class by class and teacher by teacher. That figure is what decides whether the lunchtime class stays or moves.
The confirmation goes out at booking, the reminder goes out before the session. When a card is running out, the student gets a message without you having to think about it.
Every week, a studio produces a quiet layer of admin: sign-ups, balances to check, last-minute cancellations, takings to track down. That work always falls at the wrong hours, between two classes or late in the evening.
The software takes that part over. A place frees up and the waiting list moves forward. Payment arrives with the booking. The student's record fills itself in: their attendance, the sessions they have left, their history. You only open the file when there really is a decision to make.
In a studio, the student chooses a practice, a time and often a person. So the software has to think by teacher as much as by class. Every teacher opens their own access, sees their sessions and who is booked in, and goes no further into the rest of the studio.
It also settles the question of accounts. When a self-employed teacher invoices the studio for their sessions, the number of students present should not be up for debate: it comes out of the bookings and the attendance that was logged, not an approximate count at the end of the month.
A studio is not one teacher with a notebook. Several teachers take over from one another from morning to evening. The practices draw neither the same people nor the same rhythm. And the same ten-session card travels from one class to the next. So management software has to follow three things at once: who is teaching, which practice, and who has signed up.
It all starts with planning the week. Every session carries its teacher, its length and its number of mats. The student filters, chooses, books; how full the class is updates in real time. Online booking stays open on a Sunday evening, while you are teaching. That is what a booking system is for: taking sign-ups when you cannot.
The spreadsheet holds up for a while. It stalls the moment two people edit it, the moment a balance has to be exact, the moment twelve students need telling about a cancellation. Software made for studios already knows about class booking, limited places and waiting lists: the features are there, you have nothing to rig up. Day-to-day use gets simpler, because everything lives in one place.
A studio lives on its plans. The single session to try it out, the ten-session card for regulars, the monthly subscription for the faithful, the course or the retreat for the high points of the year. In BetterSport, the student can buy their plan directly online. Payment is taken at booking, through Stripe.
After that, the balance follows the member, not the class. Every sign-up takes off one session; every cancellation puts it back according to your rules. Your members check what they have left without writing to you. Online payments and recurring subscriptions spare you the awkward reminders and the cash left behind in the changing room.
Want to give away a taster class, thank a student who brings a friend, or open an extra slot in September? You create the matching plan, and your customer records stay accurate: the booking exists, the place is taken, the balance is untouched. Courses and retreats work in two stages too, the deposit and then the balance.
The invisible work in a studio comes down to four verbs: confirm, remind, follow up, thank. You can automate all four. An automatic email goes out at sign-up. A reminder goes out the day before the class. A follow-up goes out when a card is down to its last session, at the exact moment the student is wondering whether to carry on.
The marketing tools then serve the season. A campaign in September to reopen sign-ups, another in January, a message to the students of one teacher whose time slot is changing: your members get communication meant for them rather than a single mailing. That feeds engagement better than a poster in the changing room. If your shop window needs redoing, building a yoga studio website and the software move forward at the same pace.
A studio is a business, and your time is its scarce resource. Saving time here means putting an end to the re-keying. What the student fills in once feeds their record, their balance and their history. Teachers can see who is booked in without calling you. You win back hours of data entry, and you can concentrate on teaching.
BetterSport is a French platform for coaches and sports facilities, used across France. You get a bespoke website, designed and optimised for search around your activity, and management software built around the way you work: your practices, your plans, your own cancellation rules. An iOS and Android mobile app under your brand completes the set, so that your members book inside your own world.
Our team does not hand over a generic tool for you to fill in. It starts from your real schedule, your cards, your teachers. The software stays intuitive for your users and for your staff alike: the essentials are set in a few clicks, which is enough to make it stick from the first week. This is a solution made for a yoga studio. Enough to give your students a clear experience, and your team calmer days.
What follows is simple. Put your real season into it: your classes, your plans, your members. You will see straight away whether a full week is easy to run, and what you want to improve. Two free weeks are enough to decide, with no bank card and no commitment — start your free 14-day trial.
Yes. The student buys their card, pays by Stripe, and the balance comes down with every booking.
Yes, the software is multi-coach: each one sees their own classes and sign-ups, without reaching the rest of the studio.
When a class is full, the student joins the waiting list and gets an email as soon as a place opens up.
No. The trial lasts 14 days, with no bank card and no commitment.
Yes. A booking widget can be installed on an existing site: your visitors book without leaving your page, and the sign-ups land in the same software.
In two stages. The deposit holds the place at sign-up, the balance is paid before the date. The student knows what they have paid and what is still owed.
At the door, by QR code. The scan confirms the visit, takes the session off the balance and feeds how full the slot is, with no sheet to tick.
Yes. Member records can be created at any time and nothing requires you to wait for September. Open one class first, then add the others to spread its use without disrupting your students.
