Recess - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Recess is an operating system for class based businesses: studios, gyms, martial arts schools, dance and gymnastics programs.

SCHEDULING AND ENROLMENT

Group classes, appointments and courses, recurring schedules, waitlists with automatic promotion, open gym and trial or on-ramp flows. Season and term enrolment for programs that run to a recital or a grading, with variable day patterns and per class capacity.

BILLING

Recurring memberships, class packs that draw down at check-in, and drop-in pricing running side by side. Automatic retries on failed payments. Family accounts hold several people under one payer, one bill and one login, and each person can hold a different product. Discounts, add-ons, deposits and proration are handled in the same checkout.

MEMBER APP

Your own app in the App Store and Google Play under your studio's name, not a shared marketplace. Members book, check pack balances, manage billing and sign waivers in it.

STAFF AND PAYROLL

Role based staff access, clock in, and coach pay calculated per class, per head or per appointment, with payroll reports you can hand straight to your bookkeeper.

PROGRESSION AND ATTENDANCE

Attendance and check-in by kiosk, front desk or app. Belt and rank progression with gradings for martial arts, and achievement tracking for youth programs.

INTEGRATIONS

Stripe and Adyen for payments, Forte for ACH, Twilio for text, SendGrid for email, QuickBooks for accounting, Zoom for virtual classes, Gympass, Google Calendar and Zapier. Embeddable schedule and booking widgets for your own website.

MIGRATION

Importers for Mindbody, WellnessLiving, Wodify, Exercise.com, ASF and TalentHack, built on exported data rather than shared logins.

SECURITY AND DATA

Card details are held by the payment provider rather than by your studio. Staff permissions are role based, each organisation's data is isolated, and signed waivers are stored against the member record.