Setting up your studio

On our website, choose Start your studio. Give your name, your work email, your studio’s name and its address: your site lives at your-studio.joul.studio, and we check the address is free as you type. Pick a plan and agree to the terms.

We email you a 6-digit code and a button. Entering the code (or pressing the button on the same device) creates your studio and signs you in. It works once, for 30 minutes; you can ask for a new one from the same page.

As the owner, you set up two-factor sign-in with an authenticator app straight away and save your recovery codes. Then the set-up wizard opens.

Eight short steps. Every step can wait: Skip for now keeps it on your checklist, and you can open any step again from the list beside it.

1. Studio details: your studio’s name and brand colour. We check the colour on your clients’ site; if text on it or a picked bed would be hard to read, we show the nearest shade that passes and you can use it with one press.
2. Location: where clients come for class, with the address on your site.
3. Rooms and beds: add a room as rows of reformers (or towers, chairs or mats), then drag each bed to where it really stands and tag the window and front-row beds.
4. Class types: start from a common class or your own, with its length, level, places and credits (0 for a free class).
5. First instructor: add who teaches. Tick the invite box to email them a link to sign in as an instructor, or add yourself if you teach.
6. Opening timetable: a class, room and instructor on the days you choose, at one time, from a start day for up to 12 weeks. Days the studio is closed, and times when the room or the instructor already has a class, are left out.
7. Booking policies: how late clients can cancel for free, whether a late cancellation uses the credit, and optional late-cancel and no-show fees.
8. Preview your site: open it as a client would before you share it.

Until every step is done or skipped, Today shows owners and admins the set-up checklist, with what a bookable class still needs: a location, a room with beds, a class type, an instructor and a class on the timetable. Carry on opens the next step.

• Products: add your intro offer and class packs so clients can buy credits (paid at the studio for now).
• Waiver: publish your waiver in Settings; clients sign it before their first booking.
• Team: invite admins and the front desk.
• Import: bring clients, their credits and future bookings across from your current system.