u/IllustriousTeach3725

This can’t seriously be the workflow

I need to know if this is actually how most wellness studios operate because I refuse to believe this is sustainable 😭

A practitioner I’ve been helping manages:

- attendance on paper

- payments on WhatsApp

- schedules on spreadsheets

- reminders manually

- teacher coordination through random chats

- client history through memory basically

And somehow this entire thing functions every single day.

The weirdest part is that the actual classes/studio experience feels super polished from the outside.

But behind the scenes it’s pure operational chaos.

At some point I started building a small internal system for her because ( I come from a design bg and wanted to help ) even tracking who paid for what batch was confusing and all the registers on top of registers had me !!

Now I’m wondering:

is this a common industry problem or am I just seeing one unusually messy setup?

And if so what tools do you use ?

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