Front-desk software, for a studio with no front desk
Mindbody is built for businesses with a front desk, a membership director, and a card reader on the counter — and it is priced per location, by a sales team. If you teach eight classes a week on your own, that is a lot of product to carry. Sitz does the handful of things a one-to-three-instructor studio actually does, at a price you can read without talking to anyone.
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How the two are built differently
Their published price is a starting point. Ours is the price.
Mindbody publishes a starting price for its entry plan and points you to its sales team for anything beyond it — plan detail, discounts, what your studio would actually pay. That is a sensible way to sell a configurable platform to a large business, and it means a call before you know your number. Sitz publishes all three plan prices in full. There is nothing to book and no quote to wait for.
It is priced per location
Mindbody's published rate is quoted per location. That is the right unit for a business with more than one, and it is the wrong unit for a studio with one room and three instructors. Sitz is priced per instructor, with unlimited students on every plan.
It is an all-in-one for a much larger business
Mindbody covers fitness, wellness and beauty businesses at scale — staff management, point of sale, marketing, a consumer marketplace. Those are real features built for businesses that need them, and they are in the product whether you open them or not. Sitz has no payroll, no POS and no location hierarchy, because a solo instructor does not have those problems.
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What Sitz does instead
Published pricing: $19, $29 or $49 a month
Flat, listed, and priced by how many instructors you have — not how many clients you teach. Every plan includes unlimited students, so a full roster costs exactly the same as an empty one.
Set up the same afternoon
Create your studio, add this week's classes, share your booking link. No demo, no onboarding call, no implementation fee. Most studios are taking bookings inside an hour.
Your revenue stays yours
Paid bookings, class packs and memberships run through your own Stripe account. Sitz never holds your money and never takes a percentage, so the subscription is the whole cost of the software.
No contract, and your data exports any time
Month to month on every plan. Upgrade, downgrade or cancel from your dashboard, and take your client list and reports with you as CSV whenever you want them.
Straight answer
Mindbody is a long-established product with a track record Sitz does not have, and if you run multiple locations, need staff payroll or a hardware point of sale, depend on a specific integration, or want to be discoverable in a consumer marketplace, it will serve you better than we will. We would rather you knew that now than after you migrated. Sitz is built for one to three instructors who want the booking, packs, memberships and waitlists and none of the rest. We're new — that's the real risk, so we made it cheap to leave.
Frequently asked questions
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Bring your clients. Skip the sales call.
Import your client list in minutes — pack balances too, on Growth and up — then run your schedule on Sitz for one flat price.
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