Online booking for personal trainers and small studios

Why booking is awkward for trainers

Most of your sessions happen early in the morning, at lunch or in the evening, and those are exactly the moments you cannot reply to a message. A client asks for a slot, you answer an hour later, and by then they have booked with someone else or the time is gone.

With a booking link in your Instagram bio and your WhatsApp status, clients choose a time on their own. They only see times that are really free, based on your hours and what is already in your calendar, and they do not need to register.

Set up the sessions you actually sell

Add each kind of session as a service with its own length and price, and arrange the list in the order you want clients to see it. Prices belong to the service, so every trainer on the team offers it at the same price.

• A trial or first session, kept short
• A 30-minute focused session
• A 60-minute personal training session
• A session for two people training together
• Categories to group them, for example studio and outdoor

Keep the week workable

Set a break between appointments so you can reset the space and drink some water, and choose the time-slot step, for example starting on the hour or every half hour. Each trainer has their own working hours, holidays and days off.

Clients get a booking confirmation by WhatsApp, and can change or cancel from the link in that message. With the Pro plan, automatic WhatsApp reminders go out from your own number in wording you write. A waiting list lets you offer a freed-up slot in one tap.

Where Lumea fits, and where it does not

Lumea works for one-to-one and by-appointment sessions: personal training, small studios where each client books their own time, and trainers who work with a few people at once as separate bookings.

It is not a class timetable. It does not manage group classes, a fixed weekly schedule of classes or a limit on how many people join one. If your business runs on group classes, you will want a tool made for that.