Free booking systems: 5 plans compared and what to watch out for
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Online booking for trainers and small studios
Training runs on repetition: the same people, the same slots, week after week. What breaks is not finding new clients, it is keeping track of who is coming on Thursday and who moved to Friday.
The same slot every week
Add a client's recurring sessions once and each one sends its own reminder, so nobody turns up on the wrong day.
Clients who move sessions constantly
A cancel and rebook link in every email means changes happen without a single message to you.
Your own hours, not a gym's
Early mornings, split days, a long gap in the afternoon. The schedule takes whatever shape your week actually has.
Two screens, and that is the whole product
What your client sees on their phone, and what you see when you open the laptop in the morning.
Studio Lotos
cs / sk / en / uk / ru
Choose a time
Thursday, 18 September
09:00
10:30
11:45
13:00
14:15
16:30
Your name
Phone
Book for 14:15
No account needed
The booking page, on a phone. That is where 80% of bookings happen.
lotos.termeva.com
Today, Thursday
All times in Europe/Prague
Today
6
Week
31
Month
124
- 09:00 Maria Novakova Masaz 60 min · Anna Confirmed
- 10:30 Sofia Dvorakova Masaz 90 min · Anna Confirmed
- 13:00 Daniel Svoboda Hluboka masaz · Petr Pending
- 15:30 Jan Krejci Masaz 60 min · Anna Confirmed
Bookings from your site and the ones you add by hand, in one list.
Everything a small studio runs on
Not a platform with forty modules. The dozen things you touch every day.
A calendar that cannot lie
Two people can never take the same slot. That is enforced by the database itself, not by hoping the code got it right.
Breaks and buffers
Lunch splits the day, and time for cleaning up after a client is taken into account before the next slot is offered.
Confirmation and reminder
Clients get a confirmation right after booking and a reminder a day before the visit. By email for now, SMS is on its way.
New bookings in Telegram
A bot sends every booking to you or your team chat the minute it is made. Connect it with a code, nothing to configure.
Your team, their own hours
Each person has their own services, schedule and days off. Clients can pick a person by photo or let you decide.
A site you fill in, not build
Eight templates for different trades. Change text, photos, colour and the order of sections right on the page, and nothing breaks on a phone.
Your own domain
Your site runs free at yourstudio.termeva.com or on a domain of your own. We issue the certificate.
Google Calendar for each person
Bookings show up in each person's Google Calendar on their own: new, moved and cancelled.
12 languages on the site and in emails
English, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Russian, German, Polish, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese and Dutch. Each studio turns on the ones its clients need: 2 on Free and Solo, up to 5 on Studio and Salon. Emails go out in the language the client booked in.
Reports and several locations
Revenue, no-shows and utilisation by person, service and day of the week. Several branches, with the client choosing a location when booking.
Deposits, coming soon
A deposit for the bookings worth protecting. The money will go from the client straight to your account, never through us.
Your clients stay yours
Export the full client list whenever you want. No marketplace owning your regulars.
Pricing
One price per studio, not per person. Pay yearly and take 20% off.
Free
0 €
forever
Enough to get your first bookings.
- 1 person
- 25 bookings per month
- Free site on a subdomain
- Email reminders
Solo
9 €
/ month
For one person working alone.
- Unlimited bookings
- No Termeva branding
- Connect your own domain
- Client export
Studio
Most studios19 €
/ month
Deposits live here. Most studios pick this.
- Up to 5 people
- Deposits and prepayment after launch
- Booking page in 5 languages
- 100 SMS per month after launch
- Google Calendar sync
Salon
39 €
/ month
For larger studios and several locations.
- Unlimited people
- Priority support
- 400 SMS per month after launch
- Analytics and reports
- Several locations
Sign-up, dashboard and website are free right now, with every Salon feature for the first 3 months. Paid plans will be switched on later and we will let you know in advance.
Invite another studio and get a month of Salon free for each one that starts taking bookings. The studio you invite gets an extra month too.
Prices exclude VAT. In Czechia we charge in koruna: 229, 499 and 990 Kc a month.
You buy the domain yourself at your own registrar, it costs around 12 euro a year and it stays yours. We only point it at your site and issue the certificate, at no extra charge.
Anything marked after launch is on the roadmap and not in the first release. You will not be charged for a plan before the features you signed up for are in it.
Questions
Do you support group sessions?
Not in the first version. Termeva books one client into one slot, which fits personal training and small studio work.
Can clients book a package of sessions?
Packages and passes are on the roadmap. For now each session is booked separately, and you can add a run of them by hand.
Does it work if I train at different locations?
One location per business in the first version. Several locations come with the Salon plan later.
From the blog
The business side of a small studio: no-shows, deposits, pricing and getting bookings out of your messages.
Booking reminders: what to send clients and when
One message the day before brings back most forgetful clients. When to send it, what to put in it, and why a cancel link helps rather than hurts.
2 min read
How to reduce no-shows in a small studio
A client does not turn up, the hour is gone and you cannot sell it again. Three things that genuinely help, and one that does not.
2 min read
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Your dashboard and booking website are ready in 15 minutes. No card, no commitment.
- Services and hours are pre-filled for your trade, you just adjust prices
- Your site on yourstudio.termeva.com from day one
- Every Salon feature for the first 3 months
- +1 month of Salon for every studio you invite
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Email, password and studio name. A minute later you are in.
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