MatCount, the yoga schedule that fills its own holes · Updated September 8, 2026

What MatCount actually does

Setup happens once: the studio loads its recurring weekly grid, its rooms and its teacher rates. Each teacher then marks recurring availability and blocks off the weeks they are away, from their phone. There is nothing to install, it runs in a phone browser, which is a quietly good decision for a workforce that changes every season.

The core loop is the sub request. When a class needs cover, the request goes only to the teachers qualified for that style and free at that hour, and the first one to claim it takes the class. The claim then propagates: studio board, teacher calendars, booking platform. Nobody has to remember to update the public schedule, which is the step everybody forgets when coverage runs on group texts at midnight.

Pay is assembled from classes actually taught, with base rates, workshop rates and head count bonuses applied automatically, then exported as CSV or PDF. Every request, claim, decline and rate change is logged with a timestamp, so the month end conversation about who taught what has a record instead of two conflicting memories.

The independent contractor angle, and where it stops

MatCount says it is built around offering classes, not assigning them. Requests go out to teachers who match their own stated availability, and a teacher claims or declines without a nudge from the studio. The system records what each teacher agreed to teach and at which contracted rate, which is the kind of paperwork an accountant asks for.

Useful, and worth being precise about: this is a documentation posture, not a legal ruling. MatCount does not file taxes and does not issue 1099s, and the site says so plainly, telling studios to keep their payroll provider and their CPA. Software that keeps a clean record of who chose to teach what is not the same thing as software that settles worker classification. Read that twice before you decide the problem is solved.

Pricing, and what each plan counts

Three published plans, billed monthly in dollars. Single Studio at $49 a month covers one location and up to 15 teachers, with the availability board, vacation blocks, one-tap sub requests, the pay run with CSV and PDF export, and booking platform sync. Studio Plus at $99 a month adds an unlimited roster, multiple rate tiers, workshop splits, head count bonuses, escalating requests with reminders, manager accounts with permissions, an onboarding call and a schedule import. Two Locations at $199 a month adds a shared teacher pool, per location pay runs, cross location rate rules, travel time rules and a named support contact. Three locations or more get a custom quote through a form.

The terms are the interesting part: no setup fee, no annual contract, no per teacher charge, so a roster that is half substitutes bills the same as a roster of regulars, within whatever teacher count your plan allows. Cancellation happens from the billing screen, the plan stops at month end, and you can export schedule history, teacher list and pay records as CSV. The account stays readable for 30 days afterward. No free trial is advertised, so the cheapest way to test it is one month of the smallest plan.

What it does not do, and what to check before you sign

It is not a booking platform and does not pretend to be. Students, memberships and payments stay exactly where they are. MatCount syncs both directions with Mindbody, Momence, Walla and WellnessLiving; everything else goes through calendar feeds and CSV imports. If your studio runs on something outside that list, confirm what the sync actually looks like before you move your schedule over.

There is no student side, no marketing funnel, no app store listing. It is an administrative tool: it moves names into slots and turns those slots into a payment line. It makes no claim about what happens on the mat, nothing about it addresses teaching quality, injury or anybody's health, and none of it is medical advice.

Whatever performance figures a vendor publishes for coverage speed or time saved are the vendor's own numbers, gathered by the vendor, from the customers who stayed. Nobody in this category publishes the studios that quit. Treat those figures as marketing, then run one real month of your own schedule and compare.