Here are the ways you could take bookings and sell your videos online, side by side. Nothing here is decided, and you can try each ready-made option for free before you pay anything.
What you'd like
Students can book and pay for classes online, buy your practice videos, and perhaps subscribe each month.
What you have
A website made by your developer, payments by cash, EFTPOS or Visa at the studio, and a library of practice videos.
Your options
Four ready-made services can do this, from free to about $86 a month. They differ mainly in cost, whether a website is included, and whether students need one login or two. You could also have something built just for you.
First step
Get your website cleaned up (see below), then try whichever option appeals to you.
Please read first
Your website needs attention
Your website has more than 170 pages on it that you didn't make. They're adverts for online casinos, added since April 2026, and the newest one appeared on 27 October. That usually means someone has got into the site. It can happen when a website hasn't been updated for a while.
It's also how your homepage appears on Google. This is how it currently shows up in Google search results:
Seen on Google on 28 October 2026. The headline is Thai for "direct website slots", which is an online gambling advert.
People who click through still see your normal homepage, which is why it's easy to miss. That usually means the hack shows Google something different from what visitors see.
Please ask the developer who built your website to:
remove the casino pages, which are blog posts that were all added from the website login named "wendy", and find out how they got in
change every website password and bring everything up to date. Anyone who has a login to the website should also change that password anywhere else they use it.
ask Google to check the site again through Google Search Console, so your normal listing comes back
A note for Wendy: because the pages came from Wendy's website login, it's worth changing that password anywhere else it's used, such as email, and turning on two-step sign-in for email. This doesn't mean Wendy did anything wrong. Logins are often taken over without the owner knowing, and a flaw in the website could also be the cause.
If your developer can't help, your web host, SiteHost, may be able to. It's worth doing whichever option you choose.
Four ready-made options
All prices are in NZ dollars.
All in one, with a website
OfferingTree
Bookings, videos and a website in one place.
About $86 a monthwhen paid yearly (US$49)About $103 paid month to month
What students see: they book, pay and watch your videos on a website that OfferingTree hosts for you, using one login.
What's good
Bookings, class passes, memberships, subscriptions and your video library all live in one place.
You upload videos straight into it, so you don't need a separate video service.
It includes a website builder, so it could replace your current site.
There's email and chat support.
Worth knowing
It's priced in US dollars, so the NZ cost moves a little with the exchange rate.
It comes with one staff login. If other teachers want to see their own class lists, the studio plan with three logins is about $175 a month.
Moving your website over means rebuilding its pages in OfferingTree.
Their help pages say they work in New Zealand, but NZ card fees aren't listed. Ask them before you sign up.
A different kind of option, with different trade-offs.
Built for you
A custom website
A developer, or someone using AI coding tools, builds exactly what you want.
$5 to $20 a monthfor hosting and video (an estimate), plus card fees and the cost of building it
What students see: they book, pay and watch your videos on your own website, designed the way you'd like.
What's good
It can work exactly the way you'd like, with your own look.
Running costs are low, with no monthly subscription to a booking company.
Card payments go through Stripe, the same payment company most of the other options use.
Worth knowing
Someone has to build it, then look after it for as long as you use it. That means fixing problems, keeping it secure and helping students who get stuck.
There's no support team to call. If the person who built it moves on, it can be hard for someone else to take over.
It's new and untested, so expect some teething problems at the start.
How to try one without committing
You don't pay for a plan until you decide to keep it.
Ask your developer to clean up the website and fix the Google listing. Do this first, whatever you choose.
Start a free trial of whichever option appeals. OfferingTree and Bookwhen give you two weeks. Momoyoga and Payhip have free plans that don't run out. Wix lets you build your site for free and pay once you want to take bookings.
Try it the way a student would. Add one class, one class pass and two or three videos. Then book yourself into the class and buy a video.
Keep it only if it feels easy. If it doesn't, try another option on this page.
Keep every account in your own name, with payments going to your own bank account. That way you're always in control, and the company's own support team is there to help.
Probably best avoided
Adding booking and payment plugins to your current website. It sounds cheaper, but it would put payments and student logins on a website that's out of date and has been broken into. Someone would also need to keep those plugins updated, which is ongoing work.
Other services that were looked at
Squarespace: lovely websites and video memberships, but class bookings need its separate scheduling service, Acuity. Together that's about $83 a month plus 5% of video sales, and class passes and videos are kept apart.
TeamUp: built for studios, but about $330 a month for 100 to 200 active students.
