Yoga and Pilates studio accounting.
Membership and package revenue (deferred), instructor pay (the classification question that matters), retail margin, and the studio-lease decisions that drive profitability.
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Studio accounting is membership accounting first. Auto-renewing memberships, class packs, drop-ins, and intro offers all hit the books differently. Misclassify the revenue and your "great month" might just be heavy package sales the studio still owes work against.
We work with single-location yoga studios, Pilates reformer studios, and multi-location concepts.
What we handle
- Membership and package deferred revenue recognized as classes are taken.
- Instructor pay — W-2 vs 1099 screening (most are W-2 in IRS's view).
- Retail revenue tracked separately.
- Studio lease as primary expense line with proper allocation if multi-location.
- Equipment depreciation on reformers, towers, props.
A yoga studio had been treating all instructors as 1099. Studio set the schedule, supplied props, used Mindbody for booking — instructors had no other clients. Reclassification cost two years of back-payroll-tax. We rebuilt as W-2 with Gusto in 30 days.
If you sell memberships, deferred revenue is required.
If instructors teach only at your studio on your schedule, they are W-2.
If you scale past one location, per-location P&L matters.
Real membership margin, clean instructor classification.
From $400/month.
Frequently asked questions
Software?
Mindbody, MarianaTek, ClassPass integrations. Sync to QuickBooks.
1099 instructors?
Almost always W-2 if exclusive to your studio. Visiting workshop instructors can be 1099.
Class pack expiry?
If packages expire unused, recognize remaining deferred balance as revenue at expiration.
Retail margin?
Tracked separately so you see which is funding the studio.