honest comparison
arketa vs boxing bachata
Arketa is a polished, wellness-focused booking platform with excellent video on-demand and a booking flow clients genuinely like. Boxing Bachata is built inside a working boxing and dance studio and focuses on what happens before the booking: an AI front desk that answers Instagram DMs and texts, a lead pipeline, and an automated trial funnel. Wellness studios selling virtual content should look at Arketa; boxing and dance studios that live on Instagram leads are who Boxing Bachata is built for.
pricing as of july 2026
pick arketa if you are
- yoga, pilates, and wellness studios where the booking page is part of the brand
- instructors and studios selling video on demand or hybrid virtual classes
- teams that want a modern interface over an exhaustive feature list
pick boxing bachata if you are
- boxing and dance studios whose leads arrive by Instagram DM, not search
- owners who want trials chased automatically with emails and texts instead of by staff
- studios that want flat pricing without a percentage taken from every sale
feature by feature
Our own column tells the truth about today: what is rolling out says rolling out, and what we do not offer says so. Where we could not verify a Arketa feature, the table says check with them rather than guessing.
| feature | Arketa | Boxing Bachata |
|---|---|---|
| class scheduling and booking | included | included Recurring schedules generate a rolling six-week calendar; public class pages take reservations without a login. |
| member profiles and directory | included | included Member directory, profiles, booking history, and a lead-to-member pipeline. |
| membership plans and class packs | included Memberships, packages, and video subscriptions. | rolling out Membership plans and class packs are being built now. Members and credits are tracked today; selling plans in-app is not live yet. |
| integrated payments | included Stripe-based; watch the platform fee on top of processing. | rolling out Stripe checkout is rolling out. Not live for self-serve payments today. |
| branded mobile app | paid add-on Offered on higher or custom tiers; confirm pricing with Arketa. | not offered No branded app. The booking experience is a fast mobile web page. |
| AI front desk (answers, books, escalates) | check with them Arketa has been adding AI features; an AI receptionist that answers and books across channels is not a published core feature. | included MIA answers Instagram DMs and texts, shares the live schedule, books people into classes, and hands the thread to a human on request. |
| lead pipeline / CRM | limited Lead capture and marketing tools exist; there is no staged pipeline board. | included Kanban pipeline from new lead to member, fed automatically by the website, Instagram, and public intake forms. |
| automated trial follow-up | limited Automations can cover intro offer follow-up on marketing-enabled tiers. | included A five-email trial funnel plus text reminders runs automatically from the moment someone books a first class. |
| email + text class reminders | included | included Email and SMS reminders with real delivery confirmation; failures surface with the carrier's reason instead of disappearing. |
| digital waivers | included | included Native versioned waivers with immutable signed records; minors require a guardian signature. |
| room and floor rentals | not offered No renter-facing room rental portal. | included Public availability page, renter portal with self-booking, and shared-floor capacity rules. |
| email + SMS marketing campaigns | limited Email and SMS marketing on studio tiers. | limited Transactional email and SMS are live. Campaign and blast tooling is built and rolling out per studio. |
| reporting and analytics | included | limited Live dashboard for classes, members, and revenue. Deep reporting is on the roadmap. |
| consumer marketplace listing | not offered | not offered No consumer marketplace, which also means no commission on the clients you acquire. |
| month-to-month pricing | check with them Individual plans are billed annually; confirm studio contract terms. | included Month-to-month. Founding pricing is locked for early studios. |
pricing
pricing as of july 2026
arketa
Arketa lists individual instructor plans in the tens of dollars per month range, while studio plans are quoted by sales after a demo. Individual plans carry an Arketa platform fee of about 3% on transactions in addition to card processing.
| Individual plans | about $49 to $124/mo billed annuallynot published; contact them for a current quoteListed by third parties from Arketa's individual pricing; confirm on their site. |
|---|---|
| Studio plans | quoted by salesnot published; contact them for a current quoteDemo-gated; third parties report roughly $149 to $699/mo depending on tier and locations. |
card processing: Standard card processing plus a reported Arketa platform fee of about 3% on individual plans; confirm your studio rate with Arketa.
- Branded app and some marketing features sit on higher or custom tiers; confirm what your quote includes.
boxing bachata
Flat founding pricing for waitlist studios, month-to-month, no per-location multiplier and no marketplace commission. Join the waitlist for the current rate.
pricing as of july 2026
what arketa does well
- The client booking experience is genuinely beautiful, and studios hear that from their members.
- Video on demand and hybrid virtual offerings are first-class, not bolted on.
- The team ships quickly and the product feels modern compared with legacy suites.
where it can pinch
- Studio pricing requires a demo call, which makes comparison shopping slow.
- The platform fee on transactions quietly compounds as your revenue grows.
- Lead follow-up is thinner than dedicated CRM tooling; chasing trials stays manual work for the front desk.
switching from arketa
- 1Export your client list and purchase history from Arketa before your billing date.
- 2Recreate schedules from recurring templates; a week of side-by-side running catches anything missed.
- 3Members re-enter card details on the new platform; announce the change before the first billing cycle.
questions studios actually ask
how much does Arketa cost?
As of July 2026, Arketa's individual instructor plans are listed by third parties at roughly $49 to $124 per month billed annually, with an Arketa platform fee of about 3% on transactions in addition to card processing. Studio plans are quoted by sales after a demo, so contact Arketa for current studio pricing.
is Boxing Bachata a good Arketa alternative?
For boxing and dance studios, yes, with honest caveats: Boxing Bachata adds an AI front desk, a lead pipeline, and an automated trial funnel that Arketa does not focus on, but payments are still rolling out, there is no branded app, and there is no video on demand. A wellness studio built around virtual content is better served by Arketa today.
does Arketa charge transaction fees?
On individual plans, third parties report an Arketa platform fee of about 3% on top of standard card processing. Studio plan fees depend on your quote, so confirm the all-in rate with Arketa before signing.
see it for yourself
Boxing Bachata is onboarding founding studios from the waitlist. No credit card, no sales call.