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Cancelling Memberships

We’d love it if it never happened. But inevitably the time will come when a member needs to leave. In this article we’ll cover all aspects of membership cancellation.

Cancelling as a client

Your clients can easily cancel their membership from within the Clovo app at any time. When this happens, the membership will remain active until the end of the current billing period and no longer renew.

When a client cancels their membership in the application you will receive a notification according to your notification preferences and the membership will show as ‘Active, won’t renew’ in Clovo.

Cancelling as an owner or staff

Sometimes you will need to cancel a client’s membership yourself:

Cancel from Clovo Studio

To cancel from Clovo Studio, login with your staff account and then:

  1. Find the Client whose membership needs cancelling
  2. From the client’s profile screen, find the membership under the ‘Plans’ tab
  3. Click ‘Cancel’
  4. Confirm the cancellation on the screen that appears

That’s it, your clients membership will be cancelled at the end of their current billing period.

Cancelling Immediately

Ordinarily when a membership is cancelled in Clovo, the membership remains active until the end of the current billing period.

However, you can if needed for your own business purposes, bring forward the cancellation date and make the cancellation effective immediately.

To do this, a membership will already have to be cancelled following the standard procedure. You can then view the membership in Clovo, where the cancellation details will show including the effective cancellation date. There is an option to ‘Cancel Immediately’.

What happens to existing bookings when a membership is cancelled?

When a membership is cancelled, any bookings that were made prior to cancelling remain so long as they fall within the existing billing period.

Bookings that were made outside of the current billing period are considered credit bookings. That is, they are booked on the assumption that the membership will be renewed by the time the booking date arrives.

When a membership is cancelled, that assumption is no longer valid, and those bookings that fall outside of the current billing period are immediately cancelled, freeing them up for remaining members.

Notes on booking post-cancellation

Clients can continue to book within their current booking period and within the bounds of their membership plan following a cancellation in order to allow them to fully utilise their purchased plan.

However clients will no longer be able to book past the end of their current billing period following a cancellation or if their membership has been cancelled with immediate effect (which disregards any remaining period).

Schedules in Clovo

Schedules are created in Clovo Studio and represent the typical week of class offerings at your studio. Your schedule is the foundation of how Clovo manages your timetable — once you set it up, Clovo automatically generates bookable class openings for your clients on an ongoing basis.

What is a schedule?

A schedule is a recurring weekly pattern of classes at your studio. When you create a schedule entry, you define a class that is offered at a specific time on a specific day of the week. For example, you might have a Beginner Reformer Pilates class every Monday at 4pm and Advanced Reformer Pilates classes at 6am every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Each schedule entry includes the following details:

  • Day of week — which day the class runs (Monday through Sunday)
  • Time — the start time of the class
  • Class — which class type is being offered (e.g. Reformer Flow, Cardio Sculpt, Yogalates)
  • Location — the studio or room where the class takes place
  • Instructors — which instructor or instructors are assigned to teach the class

How schedules generate openings

Clovo takes your schedule combined with the ‘scheduled days ahead’ setting for your studio (defaults to 14 days) and generates a series of ‘openings’ for your classes.

Openings are the individual, bookable instances of your scheduled classes. Clovo will create new openings using your schedule every single day so that you always have exactly the number of ‘scheduled days ahead’ that you specify — for example, 14 days of classes available for booking at any given time.

Openings can be booked by your clients according to the capacity of the class and the allowances on their membership or credit pack. You can view all upcoming openings from the Openings page in Clovo Studio, where each opening shows the class name, date and time, location, assigned instructor, and current booking count (e.g. 3/20).

Creating a new schedule entry

To add a recurring class to your schedule:

  1. In Clovo Studio, go to Setup > Schedule.
  2. Click the + Add schedule button in the top right corner.
  3. Select the day of the week the class will run on.
  4. Set the time the class starts.
  5. Choose the class from your list of class types.
  6. Select the location where the class will be held.
  7. Choose one or more instructors to assign to the class.
  8. Click Create to save the schedule entry.

Clovo will immediately begin generating openings based on your new schedule entry.

Editing and deleting schedule entries

You can view and manage all of your schedule entries from Setup > Schedule. The schedule list shows every entry organised by day of the week, with the time, location, class, and assigned instructors displayed in columns.

Click on any schedule entry to view its details. From the detail view you can click Edit to change the day, time, class, location, or instructors, or click Delete to remove the entry from your schedule. Note that deleting a schedule entry will not remove openings that have already been created — see our article on changing class schedules with existing openings for more details.

Pop-up classes

In addition to recurring scheduled classes, Clovo also supports pop-up classes — one-off class openings that occur only once. Pop-up classes are perfect for special events, workshops, substitute classes, or any class that doesn’t repeat on a weekly basis.

To create a pop-up class, go to the Openings page and click + Add Pop-up. You will need to provide a specific date (rather than a day of the week), along with a time, class type, location, and instructor. For more information, see our article on offering pop-up classes.

Managing openings

Once openings have been generated from your schedule, you can manage them from the Openings page. Each opening has a Manage button that lets you view bookings, add missing bookings manually, and see the assigned instructor. You can also view past openings by clicking See Past Openings, and if you need to cancel an upcoming class, see our article on cancelling upcoming classes.

Tips for setting up your schedule

  • Make sure you have already added your classes, instructors, and locations in Setup before creating your schedule — you will need to select from these when adding schedule entries.
  • You can assign the same class to multiple days and times to create a full weekly timetable.
  • Use pop-up classes for one-off events rather than adding and then deleting schedule entries.
  • If you need to temporarily close your studio (for holidays, maintenance, etc.), use the Closures feature under Operations rather than deleting your schedule.

Start accepting payment with Stripe

Clovo is unique in the fitness booking platform world in that at no time do we hold your money or control your payouts. Instead, Clovo guides you through setting up a standard Stripe account that is directly owned and operated by you. This means your payments go directly from your clients to your bank account via Stripe.

Why Stripe?

Stripe is one of the world’s most trusted payment processors, used by millions of businesses. By connecting directly to Stripe, you get:

  • Direct payouts — money goes straight to your bank account, not through Clovo
  • Full control — you own your Stripe account and can access your dashboard, reports, and payout settings at any time
  • Secure payments — Stripe handles all PCI compliance and card security
  • Transparent fees — standard Stripe processing fees apply with no hidden costs from Clovo

How to connect Stripe

  1. In Clovo Studio, go to Setup > Stripe (or click Connect Stripe on the dashboard).
  2. Click Connect with Stripe. You’ll be redirected to Stripe’s onboarding flow.
  3. Follow the prompts to create a new Stripe account or connect an existing one. You’ll need your business details and bank account information.
  4. Once complete, you’ll be redirected back to Clovo Studio and payments will be enabled.

After connecting

Once Stripe is connected, your clients can make purchases in the Clovo app and on your landing page. Payments are processed by Stripe in real time, and you can monitor all transactions from your Stripe dashboard. Clovo takes a small percentage of each transaction — there are no monthly or setup fees.

Changing class schedules with existing openings

Once you’ve setup your schedule and set your ‘schedule days ahead’ setting in Clovo Studio, Clovo will continuously open classes for booking according to that schedule and the number of days ahead you have specified.

For example, if you have a Beginner Reformer Pilates class every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6am and you’ve kept your ‘schedule days ahead’ setting at the default of 14 days, Clovo will make sure that there is an opening for each of those days at 6am available for your clients to book 14 days ahead from the current day.

You can change your schedule at any time by editing it in Clovo Studio. If you’re adding new class times then there’s nothing else to do. However if you are changing or removing existing classes, because there will be openings that have already been created in the future, you will need to decide what to do with them.

1. Do nothing

The original openings will stay in place, but won’t be regenerated if you removed them from the schedule, or will be generated on a new date and time if you changed them. For most studios this will likely be the ideal course of action as it will require no booking cancellations and will give you enough time to communicate the upcoming schedule change to your clients.

2. Cancel the existing openings

If you no longer wish to service the openings you’ve already generated, then simply cancel each of those openings in Clovo Studio.

To cancel the existing openings

  1. Go to the ‘Upcoming Classes’ screen
  2. Find the openings that correspond to the schedule change you’ve made
  3. Click into the opening
  4. Click ‘Cancel’
  5. Click ‘Confirm’ on the confirmation screen that shows. If there are existing bookings, your clients will be notified of the cancellation and their credit pack or membership will be credited accordingly.