Tell us about your studio

Twenty minutes, and they really are twenty minutes, not an hour in disguise.

We show you the program with your classes inside (your timetables, your prices, your capacities) instead of a sample studio.

Seeing your own week working is the only thing that settles whether this fits you.

Questions get answered as we go, so if after five minutes you can see it isn't for you, you say so and we leave it there without pushing.

If you're coming from another program, in that same call we look at what can be migrated from your current account and what can't, before you sign up for anything.

And if you'd rather have it in writing instead of on a call, that works too: tell us when you write and we'll send you the screens for your case with comments, so you can look at them when it suits you.

The person who built Aforo, not a salesperson reading from a script.

We're a small team, and in practice that means the person showing you the program is the person who can change it.

If you point out something that's missing or badly done, that conversation goes where it needs to go.

There are no layers in between, and no form that goes into a ticketing system.

The trade-off, and we say it because it's only fair, is that there are few of us: we don't answer at all hours and we don't promise to.

What we do promise is the timeframe, which is written next to the button.

You write to us from this page, with a couple of lines about your studio, and we reply within one working day to find a time that suits you.

There's no switchboard, no waiting queue and no ticket number.

No, neither to signing up nor to giving an answer that day.

The demo is free and comes with no commitment, and we don't ask for a card or billing details to do it.

If you decide to sign up afterwards, there's no minimum term either: Aforo is paid month by month, and the month it stops fitting, you cancel without calling anyone or explaining yourself, taking your exported data with you.

There's no twelve-month contract and no penalty for leaving, which is what usually sits behind a low entry price.

And if you'd rather think it over, we don't call you three times that week: we leave you in peace and you write to us if you decide.

We'd rather have a customer who comes back on their own than one we won over by insisting, because the second one leaves just as fast as soon as they find something cheaper.

Nothing is required, but there are three things that make the twenty minutes much more useful if you have them to hand.

• Your timetable for a normal week: which classes you teach, at what time and how many places each one has.
• Your prices and how you take payments today, including whether you sell class passes or monthly memberships and on what terms.
• Your rules, even if you've never written them down: how much notice you require for cancellations, how many students a session needs to go ahead, what you do about people who don't turn up.

With that we set up your studio on screen during the call itself.

If you haven't got it all together, that's fine: we'll go through it together, because those rules have often never been written down anywhere and come out as we talk.

It is, in fact, the part of the setup that takes longest, which is why we ask about it before anything else.