Who this is for: studio operators (admin panel) · Plan: mixed, see each tab · Product: Podyx V2
Studio Settings is where your studio gets its rules, its look and its paperwork. There are thirteen tabs and you do not need all of them on day one. This page is the map: what each tab is for, where to read more, and where to jump to in the walkthrough video.
🆕 If your studio uses the new CMS navigation
A redesigned CMS navigation is available, and we switch it on per studio on request. It replaces the current navigation with a single column of expandable groups, in a light theme.
⚠️ It is off by default. Your studio keeps the current navigation unless you ask us to turn the new one on for you.
The settings themselves do not move. Every tab described on this page still exists and still holds the same things — only the way you get to it changes. Where this article says Studio Settings → Booking, that path is still correct: you open the Studio Settings group in the column and pick Booking inside it. Nothing below is out of date because your navigation looks different.
🎥 Watch the full Settings walkthrough
Watch the complete Studio Settings walkthrough (about 19 minutes, chaptered by tab). Each section below links to its exact moment in the video.
🗺 The thirteen tabs at a glance
Listed in the order they appear in the Studio Settings menu.
Tab | What it does | Read more |
General | Studio name, language, address, contact details and website link | |
Team (Premium) | Invite operators and staff, and assign them roles | |
Security | How much access Podyx support has to your CMS | Below on this page |
Booking | Durations, increments, buffers, cut-offs, unpaid holds, checkout fields and the recording seats question | |
Custom domain | Put booking on your own web address | |
Payment | Connect Stripe, Square, cash or Pay Later. Also holds Tax and currency (currency, tax name and rate, how prices are entered and displayed) and Stripe Connect (booking-domain registration, live wallet and BNPL methods, checkout metadata fields) | |
Notifications | Edit system emails, build custom and re-engagement emails. Emails send in your studio's own language | |
Appearance | Logo, brand colors, fonts, theme, email banner | |
Landing Page | Hero, sections, section order, cover images | |
Terms & Conditions | Your Terms & Conditions and a separate Policy document, each with its own "require agreement at checkout" tick | Below on this page |
Marketing | Page title, share image, Google Tag ID, social links | Below on this page |
Integrations (Zapier and API are Premium) | Google Calendar, file sharing, Zapier and API access | |
Invoicing (Premium) | Company details, numbering, custom billing fields |
⚠️ Set your currency in Payment → Tax and currency before you price anything, and get your invoice numbering right before you issue your first invoice. Both are painful to change later.
💡 Two settings in Tax and currency that often get confused: "Prices are entered" decides what the numbers in your catalog mean and changes what clients pay. "Tax display" only changes how prices look on your booking site.
🧭 Things that are not in Studio Settings
A few settings people look for here live in the main Admin Panel menu instead:
Roles — near the bottom of the main menu. Studio Settings → Team is where you invite people and assign them a role; Roles is where you build and edit the roles themselves.
Pricing Rules — your dynamic pricing rules.
Blocked Slots, Availability, Bundle Plans, Subscription Plans and Promo Codes are all main-menu items too.
🛡 Security
This tab controls how much of your CMS the Podyx support team can see. You choose one of three levels:
Full access — support can inspect your CMS to fix a bug or resolve an issue.
Read-only access — support can look but not change anything.
No access — support cannot see your CMS at all.
💡 Turn full access on when you have raised a problem and need it investigated, then turn it back down. It is your data, and the narrower setting is the safer default.
📜 Terms & Conditions, and Policy
This tab holds two independent documents, each with a title, rich-text content and its own agreement setting:
Terms & Conditions — your booking contract.
Policy — a second document for whatever sits alongside your terms. The field prompts Privacy Policy, Cancellation Policy or Refund Policy.
Each carries a Require customers to agree at checkout tick, and both are on by default, so checkout is unchanged until you turn one off.
💡 Unticking does not hide the document. The page stays published and readable — it just drops the tick box from the booking flow. That is how you publish a cancellation policy clients can read without adding another checkbox to checkout.
Leaving a document's fields empty removes it entirely, rather than leaving an empty checkbox pointing at a blank page.
⚠️ Treat what you write here as your contract with the client, because that is exactly what it is. Check both display correctly before you go live.
✍️ Session editing: the owner has to accept the policy
Session editing lets clients change their own booked sessions — times, services, add-ons — with your studio approving the result. It is switched on, but it does nothing until the studio owner accepts the Session editing policy in Studio Settings.
This is a deliberate two-step, and it is worth being clear about what it means. The capability being on does not mean your clients can suddenly move their bookings. Somebody with authority has to agree to the terms first.
Clients see no change at all until the policy is accepted. Nothing is exposed to them in the meantime — no new buttons on their booking, no new emails, nothing different on your booking page.
Until it is accepted, Edit session and Correct price in the CMS show a short summary of the policy with a way to accept it, rather than an error. So the acceptance can happen at the moment someone first tries to use it — you do not have to go hunting for the setting in advance.
⚠️ Only the studio owner can accept it. Operators and team members will see the summary, but cannot agree on the studio's behalf.
💡 If you want session editing working, the owner needs to go and accept. If you do not want it, doing nothing is a valid choice — clients will never see it.
For what session editing actually does once it is live — what clients can change and how your approval works — see Sessions.
📣 Marketing
Everything here shapes how your studio looks outside Podyx:
Website title and description — what shows in the browser tab and in search results.
Share image — the preview picture when someone posts your link.
Google Tag ID — for tracking and analytics.
Social links — these appear in your page footer. A link that is not a real web address is now refused on save rather than accepted and quietly broken.
Verify every link and tracking value before launch. A wrong tag ID means you collect nothing and will not notice for weeks.
✅ A sensible setup order
The menu order is not the order you should work in. If you are starting from scratch, go through it like this:
General — your studio identity, including the language your emails will send in.
Payment — set your currency in the Tax and currency section first, before anything has a price, then connect your processor and complete its onboarding.
Booking — durations, increments, buffers and cut-offs.
Notifications — the emails clients receive.
Appearance and Landing Page — how it all looks.
Terms & Conditions — your terms and your policy, before you take money.
Those six get you live. Team, Security, Custom domain, Marketing, Integrations and Invoicing can follow once bookings are coming in. If you want clients to be able to edit their own sessions, that is a separate decision for the studio owner — the Session editing policy has to be accepted before anything reaches your clients. If your studio has asked for the new CMS navigation, the same six tabs in the same order still apply — you reach them by opening the Studio Settings group in the column.
Related: Studio Profile & General · Tax, VAT & Currency · Booking Rules · Connect Your Payments · Automated Emails & Notifications · Branding Your Booking Page · Build Your Landing Page · Sessions · Invoicing