The Mindbody alternative built for dance studios.

On Mindbody, the most commercial moment of the relationship, a student signing in and paying, happens on a Mindbody domain. Your students leave your site to transact, and the experience carries the vendor brand rather than yours.

Floorwork keeps sign-in and booking on your studio domain end to end. Student auth is served from an auth subdomain of your own domain, and account, checkout, and the rest of the student experience live on your studio site. The only third-party domain a student ever touches is Stripe at the card field. This is the single most common reason dance studios start looking for an alternative.

On the incumbents, a student is often a vendor account that the same person reuses across unrelated businesses, so you are effectively renting access to your own audience. Floorwork treats the student as your studio's customer, with data that belongs to you and exports cleanly to CSV.

Because you are the merchant of record through Stripe Connect, payouts land in your own Stripe account and the card statement reads as your studio, not the platform. The customer relationship and the money both sit with you.

Mindbody bolts a booking widget or modal onto a site. The schedule pops out of the page in someone else's layout, and the seams show. Floorwork renders booking as native content inside your site, styled to match the rest of your pages, so a student never feels handed off to a tool.

That difference is not cosmetic. Inline booking that matches your brand reads as part of your studio, which is exactly what a parent deciding where to enroll their child expects to see.

Mindbody sells a template site builder as a separate product, with the customization limits that come with any template editor. Floorwork includes a website designed and built for your studio, with no builder to wrestle and no extra line item.

The site and the booking system are one thing, not a widget glued to a theme. That is why the website is part of the platform rather than an add-on you assemble yourself.

Floorwork is a single flat plan: $199 per month per studio, with the bespoke website included, and $49 per month for an additional studio under the same brand. There is no tiered ladder where the features you need sit behind the next plan up, and the site is never billed separately.

We do not publish or quote Mindbody's pricing here because it varies by configuration and add-ons; the point is that Floorwork's number is one line you can plan around. See the pricing page for the full breakdown.

Mindbody is the stronger choice if you run more than a dance studio. If you operate a multi-discipline wellness business, want a large native marketplace driving discovery, or rely on its mature integrations and reporting at scale, that breadth and two-decade track record are real advantages Floorwork does not try to match.

Floorwork is deliberately narrow. It is a focused tool for a dance studio that wants its booking on its own domain, not a broad platform for the whole fitness market. If your business spans yoga, gyms, and salons, or marketplace discovery is central to how you find new clients, Mindbody's wider net is the more sensible pick. We would rather tell you that than sell you a fit that is not there.

Switching is a guided onboarding, not a self-serve scramble. You bring your own domain, and the booking subdomain plus the studio site are wired up for you, so students keep transacting on your domain from day one.

Existing students, classes, and schedules are migrated as part of onboarding, and student data exports cleanly out of Floorwork later if you ever leave, because the record is yours. The clearest next step is a short call to walk through your current setup and what the move would look like.