Every studio with a healthy book of repeat clients hits the same operational wall: those clients keep coming back, but every booking is still its own one-off transaction. New checkout. New invoice. New back-and-forth about dates. Predictable revenue, completely unpredictable workflow.
And on the admin side, there's a smaller-but-just-as-annoying problem: the rules that protect your customer-facing booking flow (cutoff times, buffers, slot blockers) also get in the team's way when they need to manually fix a schedule, make a same-day call, or log a booking after the session has already happened.
This release tackles both. One headline feature for your revenue model. One quiet quality-of-life upgrade for your admin team.
What's New This Release
📦 Subscriptions, Rebuilt for Recurring Studio Plans
Subscriptions have been fully refactored to support real recurring monthly plans with a predefined number of sessions: the kind your repeat clients actually want, and the kind your business needs to build sustainable, predictable revenue.
What admins can configure:
- Public subscription plans with full visibility and branding on your studio's homepage
- Session details baked into the plan — duration, base service, add-ons
- Tiered packages by session count (e.g. 2 sessions/month, 4 sessions/month, 8 sessions/month)
- Multiple renewal periods (monthly, quarterly, annual) with individual discount levels per period
- Automatic billing handled end-to-end via Stripe Connect — no manual invoicing, no chasing
What your clients see:
- Browse and filter subscription plans directly from your studio's homepage
- Purchase the plan that fits their cadence in a few clicks
- Manage their included sessions — cancel and reschedule following your standard booking rules
Why it matters: Studios with repeat clients needed a way to offer predictable, recurring access to studio time without relying on ad-hoc bookings. The new subscription system brings a fully managed billing lifecycle, reduces administrative overhead, and gives studios the infrastructure to build long-term client relationships instead of chasing one-off sessions.
🔧 Admin Booking — Without the Constraints You Don't Need
Admin workflows often require flexibility that standard booking rules just don't allow. Forcing your team through the same friction as a customer creates real drag when they're manually managing the schedule.
Admins can now:
- Bypass cutoff times — book a session that would have been "too late" for a regular customer
- Toggle off buffer time for an admin-made booking, when back-to-back is actually what you need
- Have slot blockers ignore buffer time, so the team can fit a booking into a gap a customer wouldn't see
- Create bookings retroactively — log a session that already happened, without fighting the system
Why it matters: Your customer-facing booking rules are there for a reason — protecting buffers, cutoffs, and the integrity of the calendar. But your admin team isn't a customer. This update gives them the control to manage edge cases cleanly, without weakening the rules that apply to everyone else.
🚀 See It For Yourself
For subscriptions: Head into your Podyx admin panel → Subscriptions to start configuring your first recurring plan. Make sure your Stripe Connect integration is active before you publish anything.
For admin booking flexibility: The new constraint toggles appear in the admin booking flow automatically — open a new booking from the admin panel and you'll see the additional controls.
Want a walkthrough of the new subscriptions system and the admin booking flexibility — plus a tour of how Podyx ties them into your full operational layer? Book a free 30-minute session with our team.
Try Podyx free for 30 days and put recurring subscription plans to work in your studio from day one. Stripe Connect, automatic billing, full admin flexibility — all included. No credit card required.
