Booking software for yoga and Pilates studios in Canada
Twelve mats, eight reformers, a Saturday workshop and a teacher off sick on Wednesday: Slotora runs a studio timetable, lets students pick their reformer, and emails the waitlist when somebody drops out. Before anything else, read the two things it does not do yet — they are just below. Then try it for 14 days.
Start a 14-day trialTwo things to know before you read further
Both matter to some studios a great deal and to others not at all.
- No monthly memberships for Canadian students
- Slotora sells class passes — five, ten, twenty classes, with an expiry — and single drop-ins. It cannot yet charge a student's card automatically every month in Canada. If unlimited monthly memberships are most of your revenue, this is the wrong tool for now.
- No timetable grid on the booking page
- Students choose the class, then the day, then the time. There is no week-at-a-glance schedule and no count of places left; a full class simply offers its waitlist instead of a time.
Building the timetable
Set the season once; change single dates when life happens.
01
Each class gets its seat count
Up to 99 places per class. Hatha on Monday evenings with twenty mats and Reformer Foundations on Tuesday mornings with eight machines are two classes with two limits.
02
Weekly, fortnightly, or just once
A class can repeat every week, only on even or odd weeks, or run on a single date — useful for a monthly restorative evening or a guest teacher.
03
One date changes, the series does not
Cancel the Thanksgiving Monday class, move Thursday's to the bigger room's time, cut a class to six places, or put a substitute teacher on it, without touching the rest of the season.
04
Students pick their spot
Turn on spot picking and a student chooses reformer 4 or the mat by the window when they book. Two people can never be given the same machine.
05
Workshops that book as one
A four-week beginners' course takes a seat in every session with a single booking, so nobody finds a place on week one and a waitlist on week three.
Day to day at the front desk
A waitlist that empties itself
When a place frees up — a cancellation, a moved booking, a no-show — Slotora emails up to 25 people waiting for that class, oldest first. Whoever books first gets the place; it is not held for anyone.
Class passes with an expiry
From two to a hundred classes, lasting from a week to two years. Students buy online with a card or ask online and pay at the desk; each booking takes one class off the pass.
A waiver before the first class
Write your own liability waiver or use the readiness questionnaire template, and have new students sign on their phone before they arrive.
Long weekends, already listed
Your province's statutory holidays appear on the hours page ahead of time. Close Family Day or Victoria Day with a tick, and online booking closes with you.
Against the studio platforms you have heard of
Mindbody is the name most Canadian studios know. Its pricing page puts resource and room management and its Pick-a-Spot feature on the Accelerate and Ultimate plans, not on Starter, and lists a branded app as an add-on. Glofox does not publish prices; its page leads to a quote form. Both are strong on memberships and on a studio app of your own, and Slotora has neither.
Where Slotora is different is weight and cost: spot picking and the waitlist are in the one Canadian plan, which is counted by the teachers clients can book and paid in Canadian dollars, with no commission on passes or drop-ins.
And the smaller print
- Email, not text
- Waitlist alerts and class reminders go by email, with no texts in Canada so far, and an emailed waitlist works best when students actually check their inbox.
- English, not French
- The booking page has no French, and studios in Québec cannot sign up yet.
- No livestreaming
- An online class can carry one fixed meeting link in its emails. There is no video platform built in and no on-demand library.
Studio questions
Can students book a whole season's Tuesday class at once?
If you set it up as a workshop, one booking covers every session of the run. For an open weekly class, each date is booked on its own.
What happens when a full class gets a cancellation?
The people on the waitlist for it get an email, oldest request first, up to 25 of them. The first to book gets the place.
Can a teacher see only their own classes?
Yes. A staff login opens its own column of the diary unless you give it more.
Can I sell an unlimited monthly membership?
Not in Canada yet. A pass with a large number of classes and a 30-day expiry is the closest you can get today.
Is there a commission on drop-ins?
No. Slotora charges its monthly subscription and nothing per class.
Rebuild one week of your timetable
Enter one week's classes with their seat counts and book a test student into a full one. You will know within the trial whether it fits your studio.
Sources
Read on each company's own pricing page.
- Mindbody — business pricing — https://www.mindbodyonline.com/business/pricing · read
- Glofox — get a price quote — https://www.glofox.com/pricing/ · read