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Bookkeeping for Pilates Studios

Bookkeeping for pilates studios starts at $500/month: monthly close, categorized transactions, reconciled bank and card accounts, and a plain-English P&L. Our in-house team handles what makes pilates studios different — deferred membership revenue and billing.

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What makes pilates studios bookkeeping different

Gyms and studios live on recurring revenue, and recurring revenue is the single easiest thing to book wrong. An annual paid up front is cash today but revenue earned over twelve months, and the gap between your billing platform's report and your bank statement is where the month disappears.

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Memberships and prepaid packages are earned over time

A paid-in-full annual or a 20-class pack is deferred revenue: recognized month by month as it's actually used. Booked all at once, your P&L spikes in the sale month and then looks dead for the rest of the year.

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Failed charges, retries, and mid-month cancels

Declines, dunning retries, prorated cancellations, and freezes mean the number your billing platform reports and the number that reaches your bank almost never match on the first pass. Reconciling that gap every month is the core of gym bookkeeping.

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Trainer and coach pay models vary per person

Session splits, per-class rates, 1099 coaches, and salaried staff often coexist in one studio. Tracking pay against the revenue each person generated is what tells you whether a class time is worth running.

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Equipment purchases need their detail kept

Racks, treadmills, and build-outs are large purchases that your CPA will treat differently from ordinary expenses. We keep the purchase detail — date, cost, what it was — so your accountant has what they need at year end.

What’s included

One flat monthly rate for your pilates studio. Everything below, every month.

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Monthly close, every month

Categorized transactions, reconciled bank and card accounts, and books that are actually current — not six weeks behind.

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A P&L you can read

Plain-English monthly statements. Revenue, costs, margin — and what changed since last month, flagged for you.

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Ad spend inside the books

Marketing cost broken out per channel and set against revenue. “Did the ads make money” becomes a line you can point to.

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Catch-up & clean-up

Behind on your books? We reconstruct and clean up past months first, then keep the rhythm going.

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Tax-season handoff

Your CPA gets a clean, organized file at year end — fewer billable hours spent untangling, fewer surprises.

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One team, one thread

Questions answered by the people who keep your books — in-house, not a ticket queue.

How it works

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Free books review

We look at your current books and tell you honestly what shape they're in and what the monthly scope would be.

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Catch-up if needed

Past months reconstructed, categorized, and reconciled before the ongoing rhythm starts.

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Monthly rhythm

Close every month, statements delivered, questions answered — flat rate, cancel anytime.

Starts at $500/month

Simple, flat pricing

$500/month and up

The exact flat rate for your pilates studio is scoped to your transaction volume and account count — quoted after the free books review, with no long-term lock-in. Already running marketing with us? Your books and your campaigns live in one data picture.

Planning the marketing side too? See what marketing costs for pilates studios.

Frequently asked questions

How much does bookkeeping cost for a pilates studio?

Bookkeeping starts at $500 per month. The exact flat rate is scoped to your transaction volume and account count, and it's quoted after a free review of your current books — so you know the number before you commit. No long-term lock-in.

What makes bookkeeping for pilates studios different?

Gyms and studios live on recurring revenue, and recurring revenue is the single easiest thing to book wrong. An annual paid up front is cash today but revenue earned over twelve months, and the gap between your billing platform's report and your bank statement is where the month disappears. Two examples that come up on almost every pilates studio’s books: “Memberships and prepaid packages are earned over time” and “Failed charges, retries, and mid-month cancels”.

Do you file my taxes?

No — your CPA handles filing, and we don't give tax advice. What we do is keep the books that make filing easy: categorized, reconciled, and closed every month, so your accountant gets a clean, organized year-end file instead of a shoebox. If your books are behind, we run a catch-up and clean-up pass first.

Do I have to be a marketing client to use your bookkeeping?

No. Bookkeeping stands on its own for any pilates studio. But when we run both, your P&L and your campaigns share one data picture — which is where the “did the advertising actually make money” answer comes from.

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Start with the free books review

No commitment — we look at where your pilates studio’s books stand today and tell you exactly what monthly upkeep would look like.

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