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For class-based activity businesses

A powerful, all-in-one, delightfully modern operations platform for your class-based business.

Save time, save money and grow your business on a platform everyone actually likes using.

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Parents see
Hi, MariaThis week
AvaLevel 2 CheerTue 5:30 PM
LeoLittle Dragons KarateThu 4:15 PM
Balance$0.00
Autopay
You see
OctoberAll programs
Tuition collected$42,180.00
Active students312
New trial classes9
Failed payments recovered14
Still owed$285.00
Staff see
Junior Elite · 6:00 PMCoach Sam
✓Ava M.Here
✓Jordan P.Here
•Kayla R.Absent
Clocked in5:42 PM
Parents. Staff. You.

It does everything your current software does. The difference is people actually like using it.

Registration, billing, attendance, waivers, messaging, reports. Every studio platform has that list, and you've seen it a dozen times. What you probably haven't seen is software your parents stop complaining about, that your staff can run without coming to find you, and where you can actually find what you're looking for.

We built HotGlue as parents who spent years on the other side of those apps, so we knew exactly where they fell apart.

The HotGlue appBillingSchedulingWebsiteReportsMessagingAttendanceRegistrationWaivers

Everyone logs in to the same app and sees exactly what's theirs.

Parents and students

Only what's relevant to them

They log in on the same screen you do and see their classes, their schedule, their balance and their payment history. Add as many guardians per child as the family needs. Waivers get signed during registration.

Staff

What their role allows

They take attendance and clock in from their phones. It's clear enough that they can handle the front desk on their own.

You

Everything

Every class, every family and every dollar, on one screen.

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Save money

Get paid on time, and keep more of what you earn.

HotGlue bills the way you already think about your business. Monthly tuition, payment plans, pay in full or a mix, and every family is enrolled in exactly what they paid for.

When a card fails, HotGlue retries it and reminds the family until it clears. Families can't delete their payment method or turn off autopay on their own, so money you've earned doesn't quietly disappear.

✓Credit, debit and ACH✓Balances by family✓Reports that account for every penny
The Okafor FamilyAUTOPAY ON
✓Sep 1 · Monthly membershipPaid
✓Oct 1 · Card declinedRetried, paid Oct 3
✓Oct 1 · Belt testing feePaid
•Nov 1 · Monthly membershipScheduled
Payments you chased: 0
Card fees paid by you: $0.00
Eliminate credit card fees
Save $5,760a year

That's about what a studio with 100 students paying $150 a month hands to card processing every year. With HotGlue's cash discount program, you pay none of it, and it's fully compliant. The bigger you are, the more you save.

Based on card processing at 3% + 30¢ per transaction. We'll walk you through how it works on your demo.

Pricing
One flat monthly price, however big you get.

No per-student fees and no tiers to graduate into. What you pay at 100 students is what you pay at 1,000. Growing your studio should never raise your software bill.

Pricing is covered on your demo.

Save time

Set it up once and let it run.

Most of your admin week is the same jobs over and over. HotGlue lets you build your business rules in once, and then it runs them for you.

  • Discounts your way. The discount engine lets you build the discount logic you already use, like sibling discounts or multi-class pricing, and HotGlue applies it to every family automatically. Nobody does math at the front desk.
  • Workflows. Connect your membership, billing and enrollment logic so the right things happen on their own. When a family enrolls, HotGlue can send the email and notify the right staff member without anyone lifting a finger.
  • Bulk billing. Charge a competition fee, uniform or event to a whole team or class in one step instead of family by family.
  • No rosters by hand. Families pay for what they want and they're enrolled.
Discount rulesApplied automatically
Sibling discount2nd child and up · 10% off tuitionOn
Multi-class pricing3+ classes a week · 15% offOn
Pay-in-full seasonOne payment · $50 offOn
Families with a discount68
Bulk charge: Regionals fee · 24 athletes
Workflow ran: email sent, coach notified
Grow your business

Make it easy for new families to say yes.

Turn a trial class into an enrolled family.

  1. 1A new family finds your trial class and enrolls themselves.
  2. 2A workflow sends the welcome email and gives your instructor a heads-up.
  3. 3HotGlue creates a lead automatically.
  4. 4Follow-up emails go out on their own, and you track every lead through your pipeline until they sign up.
Lead pipelineThis month
New7
Priya S.
Ethan W.
Noah B.
Trial5
Zoe K.
Mason T.
Aria L.
Attended4
Liam D.
Chloe F.
Enrolled3
Sofia R.
Owen G.
Emma J.
New trial signup: Priya S. · Tiny Tumblers
Follow-up email: sent automatically

A website that runs on your live schedule.

It's built for you and always current, so you never update the same class in two places.

summitathletics.com/classes
Fall ClassesUpdated live
Beginner TumblingMon 4:30 PM · 3 spots leftRegister
Youth KarateWed 5:00 PM · 6 spots leftRegister
Free Trial ClassSat 10:00 AMTry it

Sell it your way.

Package and price everything the way you already think about your business.

ClassesMembershipsClass packsCampsEvents and ticketsPrivate lessonsTrial classesProducts and gear
Pay in fullMonthly tuitionPayment plans
The questions every owner asks

"Can It Do That?"YES!

Tap a category to see everything in it.

Don't see what you need?

Bring it to your demo. If HotGlue can't do something yet, we'll tell you straight.

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Switching

Switching from Jackrabbit, iClassPro or anything else? You don't have to lift a finger.

Your families, students, classes and balances come over with you, and your studio keeps running while it happens. We'll walk you through exactly how it works on your demo.

Zero downtime

Classes, billing and registration keep running the whole time.

Yes, even mid-season

Our process makes switching smooth, transparent and stress-free, whenever you're ready.

Nothing left behind

Families, students and their history move over, so nobody starts from scratch.

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Our story

Who's Behind HotGlue

Ian with his daughter, a dancerIanDance Dad · Co-founder

We Started Out as Frustrated Parents. Turns Out Studio Owners Were Frustrated Too.

Ian is a dance dad. Dan is a cheer dad. Season after season, we fought the same parent portals: confusing balances, clunky registration, and payments we couldn't make sense of. We knew we could build something better.

What we didn't know was that studio owners were just as frustrated as we were. Same software, other side of the front desk.

So we built HotGlue for both sides: easy for families, and a studio that runs itself for you.

See how HotGlue would run your studio.

Book a demo. Bring your questions and your current setup, and we'll show you exactly how it maps over.

Book a DemoEvery demo is live, with a real person.