Activities: Group classes, Appointments & Hybrid sessions
Activities: Group classes, Appointments & Hybrid sessions
What you offer clients is configured in two places, both under Settings → Studio:
Group classes — sessions with a fixed schedule that several clients can join, like "Morning Flow". You set a name, duration, capacity, who can teach it, and a colour for the calendar.
Appointments — one-to-one sessions, where a client picks an available time slot. Clients see these on the Appointments tab of your booking page.
An appointment takes a few more settings:
Participants — normally 1
Duration
Buffer before and Buffer after — blocked time around the session, so nothing can be booked hard up against it. Useful for a changeover or for cleaning equipment. Both start at No buffer .
Colour — for easy identification in the calendar
Description — shown to clients on your booking page, so it is worth writing properly. This is where you say what the session actually is and who it suits.
Hybrid sessions
Hybrid is not a third thing to set up — it is a flag on an appointment. Turn it on and the session is still booked as a one-to-one, with a client choosing an available slot, but once it is confirmed it becomes visible as a class that other clients can join.
This is ideal for something like a Pilates Duet, where two clients share one Reformer machine: the first client books the slot, and the second joins the session that creates.
Who can teach what
Instructors are assigned to what they can teach directly on the Group class or Appointment itself, so add your instructors first — see Instructors & staff.
Default activity
Two independent defaults save you from picking an activity by hand every time:
Per device — set a default activity in Settings, and every new calendar entry created on that device starts with it already selected. Handy if you mostly teach one thing — a personal trainer who almost always books "Personal training" sessions, say.
Per client — a client's profile can also carry its own default activity, alongside their preferred location. Select the client before anything else when creating a session, and their default activity is prefilled automatically — Mary's sessions default to "Piano", Peter's to "Guitar", without you choosing every time. Typical for one-to-one work: personal training, tutoring, music education. See Client profiles explained and Locations .