ClassIQ vs MyStudio
MyStudio comes from inside the industry — built by martial-arts school owners, with ATA integration and genuinely strong belt-testing events. Its pricing pulls the other way: the advertised rates need a 12- or 24-month term, belt testing isn't on the Starter plan, waitlists need the $239+ Scale plan, and by default processing costs land on your members' receipts as "admin fees." ClassIQ is month-to-month, one price for the whole catalog, and your members never see a surcharge — Stripe's published rate is the only rate, absorbed by you like any normal cost of business.
MyStudio details from public pages, verified July 26, 2026 · spot something outdated? Tell us
Why owners move from MyStudio.
Your members shouldn't fund your software
MyStudio's default passes processing to students as an "admin fee" line on every checkout — your brand wearing a junk fee. ClassIQ members see your price and nothing else; Stripe's cost is yours to absorb or build into the plan price, like rent.
The term-contract treadmill
The advertised $79 Starter needs a 24-month agreement; true month-to-month runs $119–$359 — roughly 50% more. ClassIQ has one price and no term, because the product should be the reason you stay.
Features behind tier gates
Belt testing skips Starter, waitlists are Scale-only, white-label needs Growth, and SMS, the branded app, and the website are all add-ons. ClassIQ has no tiers to climb — the catalog is the plan.
Feature by feature.
The whole surface, including where MyStudio is ahead. MyStudio's column reflects their public docs and pricing pages as of July 26, 2026 — corrections welcome.
Where MyStudio genuinely wins.
ATA-grade testing machinery
Pass/fail rosters, double promotions, mass rank updates, printable certificates, and ATA templates — testing-day paperwork is their home turf, refined across a franchise ecosystem.
Sell-anything registration
Camps, trials, tournaments, and retail sell through polished public flows and QR codes, 24/7 — their sales-page machinery is broader than ClassIQ's event ticketing.
Franchise tooling
Corporate dashboards, franchise-fee auto-collection, and global templates from $499/mo serve multi-school brands in a way ClassIQ does not attempt.
If those are the features your studio runs on, MyStudio may be the right tool — and this page should make that easy to see.
"Admin fees" are your brand eating the cost.
MyStudio's default is passing processing to your members as an admin fee at checkout — the studio saves money by charging students more than the price on the sign. ClassIQ takes the opposite stance: Stripe's published rate, 0% added, paid by the business — and your members' receipts stay clean. If margins are tight, raise the plan a dollar; don't make the receipt lie.
Switching is our job, not yours.
Done-for-you migration
Export your members from MyStudio (or hand us the spreadsheet) and we import them — mapped, previewed, and verified before anything goes live. Included, not an add-on.
Your Stripe account, not ours
Payments run on a Stripe account you own. Saved cards and payment history stay yours — including if you ever leave ClassIQ.
No contract holding the door
Month-to-month, no setup fee, CSV export any time. If ClassIQ stops earning its keep, leaving is a download — the same standard we'd hold MyStudio to.
Common questions.
- MyStudio looks cheaper — is it?
- At the 24-month term, Starter is $79 to ClassIQ's $99. Month-to-month, Starter is $119 and the mid Growth tier — where belt testing actually lives — is $239. Add the SMS add-on, the branded app, the website, and plan-dependent processing, and the flat ClassIQ price with everything included usually wins on the second look.
- How does belt testing compare?
- MyStudio's testing events are genuinely strong: rosters, pass/fail/no-show grading, double promotions, printed certificates, ATA templates. ClassIQ counters with attendance-driven eligibility, recorded assessments, cohort rosters, and gradings sold as public ticketed events — included on the one plan, not gated to Growth and above.
- Can ClassIQ pass processing fees to members like MyStudio?
- No, and that's a stance rather than a gap. Surcharge lines erode trust at the exact moment a member is paying you. If you need the margin, put it in the plan price — members forgive a clean $131 more readily than $125 plus a mystery fee.
- What does switching look like?
- Rosters and payment history export as CSVs, and we run the import. MyStudio runs on Stripe connected accounts, so a Stripe-to-Stripe card migration is possible in principle — we'll help sequence it; worst case, members re-add a card once at their next payment and the portal chases the stragglers.
MyStudio is a trademark of its owner, which isn't affiliated with ClassIQ and hasn't endorsed this page. Competitor details come from the public pages below, last verified July 26, 2026; prices and features change, so check with MyStudio before deciding on numbers alone. See something wrong or stale? Email us and we'll fix it fast.
See it on your own schedule.
A demo is thirty minutes, founder to owner. Bring the spreadsheet — or the export from your current system. Migration is included.
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