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Run your class timetable, sell drop-ins, class packs and memberships, organise teacher cover, and keep your students coming back, all in one place.
Whether you run a single-room studio offering morning vinyasa or several locations spanning yoga, Pilates and meditation, AMES keeps your timetable, students, memberships and payments in one connected record. Workshops sit on the same timetable as regular classes, and each person signs in once to see their part of it.
UK Governing Body
British Wheel of Yoga (BWY)
Typical Pricing
£8-£15 per class
Class Size
8-20 students
Some students buy class packs, others have unlimited memberships, and walk-ins pay per session, so tracking credits, expiry dates and usage across all three is a juggling act. Class packs come with their own expiry policies, and students regularly ask for extensions or freezes they believe they are owed. Freeze requests spike around school holidays and in January, and each one means adjusting billing. Introductory offers attract new students, but without tracking, the same person can redeem an intro rate more than once. Corporate wellness partnerships add different billing, different class access and monthly reporting. The result is a patchwork of pricing exceptions that eats hours every week and still lets revenue slip through the gaps.
When a teacher is unavailable, finding a qualified cover teacher, telling students and updating the schedule needs to happen quickly and reliably. Style matters: a yin teacher cannot simply step into a power vinyasa class without students noticing. Regular attendees grow attached to particular teachers and may cancel when they see a substitute listed, especially for small-group sessions. Last-minute illness cover early in the morning means frantic messages to your teachers, hoping someone is awake, available and insured to teach at your venue. Pay rates often differ by style, experience and class size, so every substitution changes the cost of that session too.
Hatha, vinyasa, yin, kids yoga and pregnancy yoga all need different room set-ups, props and class sizes, and scheduling them efficiently across shared spaces takes constant attention. Heated classes need rooms that are warmed in advance, so you cannot simply slot a hot class between two unheated ones without a buffer. Props vary widely: a restorative class needs bolsters, blankets and straps for everyone, while a power flow needs clear floor space. Capacity depends on both the room and the style, since a restorative class feels full long before a power class in the same room. Every scheduling decision ripples into set-up time, teacher preparation and student expectations.
Students drift away without regular contact, and knowing who has not been in for a while, who is about to run out of credits and who might leave requires data you cannot easily see. Workshops and events help students feel part of the studio, yet many studios cannot see who comes to them. A student who regularly attends more classes than their membership covers may be ready for a different plan, but the signal is easy to miss. Seasonal dips in attendance are predictable, yet without timely messages, studios lose students who simply fall out of the habit. Marking milestones by hand across a large student base is impractical.
Your teachers are your studio. Students come for the space, but they stay for the teachers. Losing a popular teacher can trigger a cascade of cancellations that takes months to recover from. Yet most yoga studio owners manage their teaching team with spreadsheets, WhatsApp, and hope. This guide covers how to build a teacher management system that supports your team, protects your business, and keeps your best people.
A teacher calls in sick forty-five minutes before a packed vinyasa class. Your regulars are already on their way. The wrong substitute turns a loyal group into a wave of cancellations. This guide covers how to build a reliable cover system that protects your classes, your revenue, and your students' trust.
A student portal is not just a booking page. Done well, it becomes the digital heart of your yoga community, a place where students track their practice, discover new classes, connect with teachers, and feel like they belong. Done badly, it is a login screen that students forget exists. This guide covers how to build a portal that students actually use and that strengthens your business.
Most yoga studio owners know when a student has already left. Far fewer know when a student is about to leave. The difference between those two moments is the difference between a retention problem you can solve and a cancellation you can only accept. This guide covers how to use your studio data to spot at-risk students early, intervene effectively, and predict churn before it happens.
Running a multi-style yoga studio means juggling wildly different requirements from one class to the next. A hot yoga class at forty degrees followed by a restorative yin session in the same room is a logistical nightmare without proper scheduling. This guide covers how to build a timetable that serves every style without burning out your team or your heating system.
Membership revenue is the lifeblood of a sustainable yoga studio. But between corporate accounts, intro offers that get exploited, freeze requests that pile up, and failed auto-renewals that nobody chases, most studios are leaking money they do not even know about. This guide covers how to plug those leaks and build a membership system that protects your revenue.
Yoga studio scheduling is unlike any other activity business. You are managing recurring weekly classes, one-off workshops, multi-day retreats, teacher training intensives, and private sessions, all with different room requirements, different pricing, and different booking rules. This guide covers how to build a flexible scheduling system that handles all of it without drowning in admin.
Yoga studios juggle more pricing models than almost any other activity business. Drop-ins, class packs, monthly unlimited, annual memberships, intro offers, corporate passes. Without proper tracking, revenue leaks through the cracks and students exploit gaps in your system. This guide covers how to build watertight membership management.
The difference between a yoga studio that thrives and one that struggles is rarely the quality of teaching. It is the strength of the community. Studios that build genuine connection between students, teachers, and the space itself retain members for years. Studios that treat yoga as a transactional service lose students to the next Groupon deal. This guide covers what actually works.
If you are still chasing payments manually, reconciling bank transfers, or processing card payments at reception before every class, you are spending hours on work that should happen automatically. This guide covers how to automate every payment touchpoint in your yoga studio, from recurring membership fees to workshop upsells.
Children's yoga is one of the fastest-growing segments in the UK activity market, driven by growing awareness of children's mental health. This guide covers everything from specialist teacher training to building a sustainable class programme.
Schedule recurring classes by style and level, and add workshops and one-off sessions to the same timetable. Each class has its own capacity, students see live availability and book in AMES Connect, full classes offer the waiting list, and a freed place is offered to the next student automatically with a time limit to accept. New students can book an introductory trial at the price you set.
Sell memberships, class packs as credits, drop-in passes and introductory offers side by side. Introductory offers can be limited to new students and to one use per person. Memberships can be paused under your rules, students see their remaining credits and bookings in AMES Connect, and members can check in at the front desk with the membership card QR code in the app.
Collect memberships by GoCardless Direct Debit, and class packs, drop-ins and workshops by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay through AMES Pay. Failed payments are retried automatically with the student told, renewals that fail show on your dashboard, and every payment sits with the student's bookings, so you can see who has paid without a spreadsheet.
AMES Connect gives students their bookings, memberships, credits, payments and messages in one app. They can book and cancel classes, see workshops alongside the regular timetable, read noticeboard updates and studio news, and message your team. Push notifications and automated messages keep students in touch without you sending each one by hand.
Record each teacher's qualifications, DBS check and first aid with expiry dates, and require a qualification for the classes that need it, so an unqualified cover assignment is blocked or flagged. When cover is needed, post the class as an open shift that teachers see in AMES Teach. Teachers clock in and see their shifts on their phone, and timesheets are built from their clock-ins, ready for approval.
Teachers take registers in AMES Teach, so attendance builds up on every student's record. Automated messages can go out on the triggers you choose, such as a credit balance running low, a renewal coming up, a member who left a set number of days ago or a birthday, so students hear from you at the right moment. Reports show attendance by class and student.
See how AMES can automate bookings, payments, and communication for your yoga business.
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