Who this is for: studio operators moving from V1 · Product: Podyx V2
Everything you relied on in V1 is still here. This article is about what is genuinely new, and there is a lot of it. If you only read one migration article, read this one, because most of these are things studios asked us for.
ℹ️ Some features below are Premium plan only. Each one says so. See plans and pricing.
💰 New ways to earn
This is the biggest change. V1 sold one session at a time, at one price. V2 gives you several ways to package what you do, price it by demand, and add revenue inside a booking that is already happening.
📈 Dynamic pricing — one price list that behaves like many
The single biggest revenue feature in V2, found under Pricing Rules. Instead of one flat rate that is always wrong twice — too high when you are quiet, too low when you are busy — you build rules:
Surcharge your peak. Charge more on Friday evenings, across the weekend, or any hours where demand would happily have paid more.
Discount your dead hours so quiet weekday mornings fill instead of sitting empty.
Slide the price by duration, so a four-hour booking is priced differently from a one-hour one and longer sessions get better rates.
Price VIPs and named clients separately, which is what agencies and repeat B2B customers expect.
Reward loyalty automatically, based on how many times someone has booked or how much they have spent — without you having to remember.
Each adjustment can be a percentage or a fixed amount, and can run always, across a date range for a holiday or promotion, or on a recurring weekly schedule. A slot override sets an absolute price on one specific room, date and time and bypasses every other rule, for the genuine one-offs.
You can also stop bundle and subscription holders from booking your surcharged times, keeping premium hours available for full-price bookings.
🎁 Package it instead of selling one session at a time
Bundle Plans. Prepaid packages of sessions. The client pays upfront and draws them down over time, so you get cash in advance and a standing reason for them to come back. Each bundle gets its own shareable landing page, and you can build private admin bundles for a negotiated deal without showing that price publicly.
Subscription Plans (Premium). Recurring plans that bill automatically and grant sessions each period. Multiple tiers, included add-ons, and rollover so unused sessions carry forward instead of vanishing. This is the difference between a good month and a predictable business.
Promo codes and vouchers (Premium). Percentage discounts, fixed amounts or free sessions, scoped tightly to the setups, services, bundles or subscription plans you actually want to promote. Codes double as an affiliate system: give a partner their own code and the tracking is built in.
Store credit. Refund as credit rather than cash, which keeps the money with you and brings the client back.
Studio tours. A separate, low-commitment booking link so prospective clients can come and see the space, then be upsold into a paid session.
📁 File transfer — an upsell built into the booking flow
Every client is asked during booking how they would like to receive their files, and picks from options you define. Keep a basic download link free and put a price on the premium method — a cloud upload, for instance.
The question lands at exactly the right moment: they are already thinking about the finished work, and already paying. Storage and delivery are a real expense in a studio business, and this is the tidiest way to stop absorbing it silently. Unlike most upsells, it costs you nothing extra to offer.
Session files sit alongside it, so you upload finished work for clients to download directly.
💳 More ways to get paid
Wallets, BNPL and local payment methods. If you run on Stripe, clients can pay with digital wallets, buy-now-pay-later providers and the local schemes used where they are. Which ones you can offer is decided by Stripe from your country and your clients' location.
Admin bookings and Pay Later. Create a booking on a client's behalf for phone and walk-in customers, send a payment link with an expiry you control, or settle in person afterwards.
Square as an alternative to Stripe, plus cash.
📄 New back office
Invoicing (Premium). Automatic, branded invoices with numbering series, company details, per-customer billing fields, PDF delivery and bulk ZIP export.
Purchases ledger. Every transaction in one filterable list, with full price breakdowns — original price, discount, tax, credits and amount paid.
Dashboard analytics. Revenue, utilization and client insight, including sold versus delivered and capacity by room.
Data export. Pull users, sessions and purchases out as CSV whenever you need them.
Audit log. A record of every change made in the CMS, who made it, and when — including session reschedules with their old and new times.
Custom roles and permissions (Premium). Build roles with per-tab read, create, update and delete control instead of sharing one login.
👥 New client experience
Video collaboration. Share files, take timestamped comments, manage versions and get approval, all attached to the session.
Guest intelligence. Guest profiles with session history that build into a reusable database.
Booking success page with a map and directions to your studio.
Calendar invites attached to booking emails. The invite follows the booking — it moves when a session is rescheduled and disappears when it is cancelled.
Separate cancellation and rescheduling policies, each with its own cutoff.
Self-service account deletion and multi-studio membership, so one client account works across studios.
🛠 New day-to-day tools
Two-way Google Calendar sync, mapped per room, so external commitments block your availability automatically and your Podyx bookings appear in the calendar your team already lives in.
Blocked slots, with expiry, to hold time without creating a booking.
Shared calendar view, a public read-only availability page.
Customizable email templates, so every message sounds like you.
Dropbox integration, alongside Google Drive.
🌐 New ways to be found and booked
Landing page customization, including section reordering, so whichever offer matters most to your business sits at the top.
Embed booking on your own site (Premium). Put setups, services, add-ons and bundles directly on the pages where you already describe them, instead of sending people elsewhere to book.
Custom domain. Run your booking page on your own web address, so clients never feel handed off to a third-party tool mid-purchase.
Zapier and API integrations (Premium). Connect Podyx to the tools you already run your studio through — Slack, a CRM, a spreadsheet, your email platform — without anyone writing code.
✅ Summary
V2 changes how you charge, not just what the software does. Pricing Rules turn one rate into rules that follow demand — weekend surcharges, off-peak discounts, duration sliding scales, loyalty and VIP pricing. Bundle and subscription plans let you sell packages and recurring revenue instead of single sessions. File transfer puts a genuine upsell inside the booking flow. On top of that: more ways for clients to pay, a real back office (invoicing, purchases, analytics, exports, audit, roles), a much better client experience, and everyday improvements like two-way calendar sync and blocked slots. Nothing from V1 was taken away to make room for it.
Related: Moving from V1 to V2 · Dynamic Pricing · Bundles · Subscriptions · File Transfer · Invoicing