MainLodge for recovery and wellness studios
Every room and every plunge, booked with the turnover built in.
Sauna, cold plunge and compression as bookable rooms and equipment with cleaning buffers, a waiver signed on the client's phone right after booking, memberships and drop-ins side by side, and self-serve sessions that don't need a staff member attached.
Built inside our own studio. Founding-studio places open for recovery & wellness studios.
How it actually runs
What a week looks like in recovery & wellness studios.
10 min
turnover between sessions
A room needs cleaning and a plunge needs resetting. The gap is part of the booking, or it's a client waiting in a towel.
0
staff needed for many sessions
A lot of recovery is self-serve. The system has to hold the room, not a person.
2+
services in one visit
Sauna then plunge then compression. One visit, three resources, one price.
Where the week breaks
The problems that show up at the desk, not in a brochure.
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Two people, one plunge, same minute.
Booking tools built for appointments assume a person is the resource. Here it's the room.
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No buffer, no cleaning.
Back-to-back bookings at exactly 30 minutes means someone skips the reset.
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The waiver is on a clipboard.
First visit, a form on paper, and a photo of it in someone's phone.
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Memberships and drop-ins don't add up.
Members book through one link, drop-ins through another, and the room count is right in neither.
What MainLodge does about it
One calendar, one client record, one set of rules — that fit this room.
Real screens from the product. Anything marked “On the roadmap” isn’t shipped yet — it’s shown as the design we’re building to.
Rooms and equipment as the thing being booked.
Each plunge, sauna and compression chair is a resource with its own turnover buffer. A booking holds the resource and the gap after it; staff are optional.
Resources — rooms and equipment with buffers.
Sessions that combine resources.
A contrast session books the sauna and the plunge in sequence as one service at one price. The calendar shows both held.
A day with rooms as columns.
Waivers signed before the first visit.
Right after booking the client signs your waiver on their phone — guardians sign for minors — and the calendar shows who is covered on the day of the visit. Booking itself is never blocked.
- Anna WeberValid to Aug 2027
- Michael LaoExpired
- Leo Park (15)Guardian needed
Waiver on the client record.
Memberships and drop-ins on the same count.
An unlimited recovery pass and a one-off plunge take spots from the same room count. Nobody double-sells the 6 pm sauna.
- Price
- $360 / 2 weeks
- Commitment
- 4 of 6 cycles
- Member discount
- 37.5% services
Good for Private Training, Strength Class or Recovery · 1 expires Oct 2
- Sep 10 · Private Training · Daniel−1 · Redeemed
- Sep 9 · Strength Class−0.5 · Redeemed
- Sep 10 · Membership renewal+4 · Benefit
A recovery membership.
Live today
What a studio can use on day one.
Shipped and running at Home Mountain, our own studio in Los Angeles.
- Clients book themselves. They pick a service, a person or 'anyone', a time, and leave their details — from any phone, no account needed.
- Day and week calendar. Every appointment on one calendar, a column per instructor, and a week view for any one person. Drag an appointment to move it.
- Rooms, bays and equipment. Tell MainLodge what a session physically needs — a reformer, a simulator, a room — and it books whichever one is free.
- Set-up time and working hours. Add clean-up or set-up time around a service, and grey out the hours each person doesn't work.
- Prepaid sessions and packs. Sell packs of sessions in advance, online or at the desk. Decide which services a pack covers and when it expires.
- Memberships. Recurring plans that give clients sessions every period, billed to their card automatically, with pauses your staff can grant.
- Take payment at the desk. Check out a visit at the desk, sell a pack, take payment and refund it when you need to.
- Waivers that are actually signed. Clients sign your waiver on their phone right after they book; you see who is covered for the visit, and renewals are requested before they lapse.
- Reminders that go out on their own. Booking confirmations, reminders before the visit and cancellation notices by email and text — plus follow-ups that run themselves: a review request after a visit, a check-in after a cancellation, a waiver reminder before the first session.
- Text clients back and forth. Text a client from their page with your own business number; their replies land in the same place.
- Book from your own website. A booking button for your own site, plus a direct link to any service.
- Your name on it, not ours. Your logo, colours and photo on the booking page and every message clients receive.
The full list, including what's on the roadmap: MainLodge features.
A worked example
Example: a recovery lounge with two saunas, two plunges and four compression chairs
The setup we'd build with you before the demo.
| Resources | Sauna 1–2 (10-min turnover), Plunge 1–2 (10-min), Compression 1–4 (5-min) |
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| Services | Sauna (30), Plunge (10), Contrast (45: sauna + plunge), Compression (30), Full recovery (75) |
| Staff | 1 host per shift; sessions are self-serve |
| Ways to pay | Drop-in, 5-visit pack, unlimited monthly, athlete off-peak |
| Rules | Waiver signed after booking (12-month expiry), 4-hour minimum notice, reminders 2 h before |
Switching
We move your data with you, then run both for a while.
Clients, remaining balances, active memberships and future bookings come across. We cut over on a quiet day, and you keep an export at every step. Anything that isn't built yet, we'll tell you before you sign.
Questions we get
Questions from recovery & wellness studios.
- Can a booking hold a room without a staff member?
- Yes. A service can require staff, equipment, or both. Self-serve sessions hold only the room or equipment.
- How do turnover and cleaning gaps work?
- Each resource has a buffer after use. The calendar blocks it, so the next booking starts after the reset.
- Can one booking use several resources in sequence?
- Yes — a session can add a second service before or after it (sauna, then plunge), held as one booking. Tell us your sequence on the demo and we'll set it up.
- Can we require a waiver before the first session?
- Yes. The client signs on their phone right after booking, the signed PDF is kept, and the calendar flags anyone not covered for the visit date. You set how long a signature lasts.
- Do memberships and drop-ins share capacity?
- Yes. Everyone books against the same room count, whatever they paid.
- Do clients get reminders?
- Yes — by email and by text from your own number, at the times you choose, with quiet hours so nobody is texted at night.
Writing your rules? Our free cancellation, no-show & reschedule policy generator drafts the policy for your booking page and shows what no-shows cost recovery & wellness studios.
Also built for
Most studios are two of these at once.
Bring your room list and your turnover times.
We'll set up your rooms, equipment and buffers before the demo so the calendar shows your actual Saturday.