A recovery lounge inside a gym, bookable on Shopify
A sauna, a couple of ice baths and a room of massage chairs, run as a business of their own inside a gym. Repose books the space, sells the passes and leaves the gym's membership system alone.
Repose is in review for the Shopify App Store. Until it is listed, we install it with you.
Why a class app gets it wrong
The recovery lounge has its own headcount, its own hours and its own customers, some of whom are gym members and some of whom walk in from the street. The gym's software knows about classes and door access, not about who is in the sauna at 6:15.
Repose runs the lounge as a Shopify store: a location with the lounge's limit, a resource for entry and one for each scarce extra, and offers that are ordinary products in one checkout. The gym's system is not involved.
Example setup
- Venue limit
- 20 people
- Lounge entry
- 90 minutes, 10-minute gap, counts toward the limit
- Ice bath
- 15 minutes, 5-minute gap, 3 places, counts toward the limit
- Offers
- Casual entry, 10-pack, monthly membership, founding offer limited to the first 100 customers
Example numbers. Yours are settings on your location, resources and products.
What you would sell
Each one is an ordinary Shopify product, set up from the Repose card on its product page or from New offer in the app, and paid through your own checkout.
- Casual entry for non-members and a cheaper pack for regulars.
- A founding membership capped at a number of customers, with the standard membership going on sale when it closes.
- Gift cards for the front desk to sell.
Questions from venues like this
Can gym members get a discount?
Price a separate product for them and sell it however you check who is a member, for example a discount code. Repose does not read the gym's membership list.
Can the front desk book a walk-in?
Yes. A staff booking under a typed name, for any number of people, which takes up the space like any other booking and is free on every plan.
What Repose does not do yet
- Remind customers before a session. The only emails are a booking confirmation and a cancellation notice, which you can turn off.
- Schedule instructors or classes with rosters.
- A member mobile app or a check-in device at the door.
- Marketing automation such as win-back email or SMS.
Other venues
- Sauna and bathhouse
Sell timed sessions, passes and memberships for a sauna or bathhouse through your Shopify store. Repose counts the people in the room, not seats in a class.
- Ice bath and contrast therapy
Book ice baths, cold plunges and contrast therapy sessions through Shopify. Repose handles a few baths with short sessions, a shared sauna, and passes that cover one or both.
- Float centre
Book float tanks by the session through your Shopify store. One booking per tank, a long turnaround, packs and memberships paid in your own checkout.
- Cryotherapy
Book whole-body cryotherapy, compression and other short recovery sessions through Shopify. Short sessions, one person at a time, sold as visits, packs and memberships.
- Infrared sauna studio
Book private infrared sauna cabins by the session through your Shopify store. One cabin per booking, a short turnaround, memberships and packs in your own checkout.