The Bookatu blog
Practical, no-nonsense advice for service businesses. Cutting no-shows, building steady income, getting found online, and keeping more of what you earn.
Run your dojo's weekly timetable online, from beginner class to rained-out park session
How a small BJJ and striking gym swapped a whiteboard timetable for an online class schedule that books and pays for itself and handles rained-out outdoor sessions, then rewards the members who bring their friends along.
How a kids gymnastics club runs weekly classes without losing its mind
How a small kids gymnastics club runs weekly classes by age group without counting heads off a spreadsheet: group sessions with spots and venues, live weather and instant credit for outdoor sessions, and referrals that fill a term.
How a badminton club filled its courts with online session booking
How a small Hamilton badminton club moved its weekly social and coached sessions online and got its Tuesday evenings back, using bookable group sessions with live spot counts, weather-aware cards, automatic credits, and referral rewards.
How a Small Dance Studio Filled Its Weekly Ballet and Hip-Hop Classes
A dance studio owner swaps her fraying group chat for weekly classes people book and pay into online, with capped spots and outdoor sessions that carry their own weather, filling the room through the dancers she already has.
Weekly swim lessons that book themselves: a learn-to-swim school's quiet Monday night
How a small learn-to-swim school turned its repeating weekly classes into online group sessions parents book and pay for themselves, with live weather on every outdoor card and automatic credits when a lesson is rained off.
How a small reformer studio fills every machine without a single double-booked class
How a small reformer pilates studio sells fixed-time classes online without ever overselling its machines and auto-credits everyone the moment a session is called off, all on a zero-commission booking platform that also turns happy regulars into referrals.
How a bouldering gym filled its beginner classes without a single phone call
Running intro nights and coached sessions gets messy fast when you track it in your head. Here is how one climbing gym owner moved every class online and got her evenings back.
Your box already runs on a timetable. Let people book into it.
A CrossFit box already runs on a fixed timetable. Here's how turning each class into a bookable, paid-for spot online ends the group-chat headcount and lets your best members bring their friends, with rained-off park sessions handled on their own.
Running a weather-dependent park bootcamp without the 6am group-chat chaos
How one park bootcamp swapped a chaotic group chat for proper bookable sessions, with the weather on the card and rainy mornings that credit everyone on their own.
How a Weekend Golf Coach Filled His Saturday Clinics Without Chasing a Single Text
Marcus runs group clinics at a driving range every Saturday morning. Here's how he stopped juggling payments and cancellations, and started letting people book and pay for a spot online in about a minute.
Run 1:1 sessions and small-group training without the diary chaos
A personal trainer's day only holds so many one-on-one hours. Here's how adding small-group sessions, booked and paid for online, lets you fill a morning with six people instead of one, without the back-and-forth.
Booking that fills every class at your boxing gym
A kickboxing coach was overbooking his Saturday class and quietly losing money to no-shows. Here is how putting each class online, forecast and all, sorted it out for him.