Build a more profitable studio without passing fees to your members
Arketa's economics are built around shifting costs to consumers. Mariana Tek's economics are built around growing your business. Mariana Tek helps studios increase revenue through stronger retention, better reporting, and deeper member engagement – not checkout surcharges.
Why Growing Studios Choose Mariana Tek Over Arketa
When operators compare Mariana Tek and Arketa, three differences consistently stand out: the member experience, the ability to scale, and the visibility needed to grow with confidence.
Reporting on Arketa was confusing. I knew how many members I had, but diving deeper was manual and cumbersome. It was like a black hole to me. [On Mariana Tek] I can look at an individual month and understand what worked well, which classes were great, and which time slots performed best without needing to piecemeal different datasets together.
Founder, BODICORE
I can look at an individual month and understand what worked well, which classes were great, and which time slots performed best without needing to piecemeal different datasets together.
Amaris Umbarger, Founder, BODICORE
Built for Multi-Location Growth
Scaling a boutique fitness brand requires more than adding new studios—it requires complete visibility, operational control, and consistency across every location. Mariana Tek was purpose-built for multi-location operators with centralized reporting, permissions, inventory management, franchise tools, and enterprise-grade oversight that help brands scale with confidence.
Turn Your App Into a Retention Engine
Basic fitness apps help members book classes. Mariana Tek helps studios create lasting habits through loyalty, gamification, personalized engagement, referrals, and behavior-driven experiences that keep members coming back.
Stop Reconciling Spreadsheets. Start Running Your Business.
Your software should answer your financial questions—not create more of them. Mariana Tek centralizes reporting, membership attribution, revenue allocation, and financial insights so operators can spend less time reconciling data and more time growing their business.
Why do growing fitness brands switch from Arketa to Mariana Tek? As businesses expand, they need more sophisticated financial reporting, membership attribution, and revenue allocation to manage multiple locations efficiently.
Mariana Tek's team is with you every step of the way
FAQs
Passing processing fees to members is a business decision, not a software capability.
Some studios choose to pass fees through to offset costs. Others prefer to absorb those fees to maintain a premium member experience and avoid introducing additional charges during checkout.
Mariana Tek gives operators transparent pricing and standard payment processing rates without adding additional platform transaction fees on top of processing. We know long-term boutique fitness growth comes from improving retention, utilization, referrals, and member lifetime value—not from charging members more.
The most common reasons we hear include:
- Needing stronger multi-location reporting
- Wanting more visibility into revenue and membership performance
- Preparing to open additional locations
- Looking for a better member engagement strategy
- Wanting a branded app designed to drive retention, not just bookings
- Seeking more advanced operational controls
For many operators, Arketa works well early on. Mariana Tek becomes attractive when growth creates new operational complexity.
Both Mariana Tek and Arketa offer branded mobile apps.
Arketa places a strong emphasis on app customization, allowing studios to configure layouts, tabs, and content.
Mariana Tek focuses on member behavior and retention. Features like goals, streaks, milestones, challenges, loyalty, and referrals are designed to help studios increase visits, engagement, and lifetime value.
The difference is less about how the app looks and more about what the app helps your business achieve.
Yes. Mariana Tek supports both group fitness and private training experiences, allowing operators to manage classes and appointments within a single platform.
This is especially valuable for businesses operating hybrid models that combine memberships, personal training, recovery services, and group classes.
Retention is one of Mariana Tek's core strengths.
Through gamification, loyalty, referrals, personalized experiences, and behavior-based automations, Mariana Tek helps operators create reasons for members to return beyond their next booking.
Because retention isn't just a marketing metric—it's one of the biggest drivers of long-term studio profitability.
Yes.
Our team has helped growing boutique fitness brands successfully migrate from Arketa and other fitness software platforms.
We work closely with operators throughout onboarding to help transfer member data, memberships, payment information, and operational workflows while minimizing disruption for staff and members. See how it works.
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