Built for real studio operations
Scheduling, attendance, memberships, and billing in one workflow — designed around how Indian yoga, dance, and fitness studios actually run day to day.
About Centrl Studio
Studio software built by someone who runs a studio every day
Centrl Studio is studio management software for Indian yoga, dance, and fitness businesses. It was not designed in a boardroom from generic requirements — it was shaped inside Riyasa Studio in Baner, Pune, where memberships, payments, attendance, and WhatsApp follow-ups had to work together or the business suffered.
Today the product is led by Sajal Ghatpande and used daily at Riyasa Studio. We are onboarding additional studios through an early-access program so more owners can replace scattered tools with one clear system built for how Indian teams actually work.
Our mission
We exist so studio owners spend less time chasing spreadsheets and more time with students. Our mission is to give every growing Indian studio — from a single room in Pune to multi-location teams — reliable operations, honest billing, and communication on the channels members already use, especially WhatsApp.
We believe professional studio management should not require enterprise pricing or a full-time admin just to keep records straight. Software should reduce chaos on day one, not add another login nobody understands.
From Riyasa Studio to Centrl Studio
Sajal Ghatpande started Riyasa Studio to teach and build a community around dance and fitness in Baner. As the studio grew, the operational load grew faster: tracking who paid for which plan, which batch had space, who needed a renewal message, and whether last month's GST receipt was correct.
Off-the-shelf tools were either built for Western gym chains or priced like enterprise SaaS. None matched the rhythm of an Indian studio — UPI and cash mix, package renewals, instructor schedules, and parents asking on WhatsApp whether class is on tomorrow.
The breaking point was familiar: three different places for attendance, payments, and messages, and still no single answer to "who is overdue this week?" Centrl Studio was built to answer that question once, then automate the follow-ups. The first version ran inside Riyasa before it became a product other studios could adopt.
"Centrl replaced our scattered tools with one clean workflow. Our team now spends less time reconciling data and more time improving student experience."
By the numbers
We separate what is live in production at Riyasa Studio from projected capacity and public growth targets. Figures labeled projected capacity are modeled from current operations — not network-wide totals across every studio on the platform.
2024
Founded in Pune
Product development began while operating Riyasa Studio.
Growth target
50+
Studios in our growth plan
Early-access cohort target — not current customer count.
Projected capacity
48,000+
Bookings / month (projected capacity)
Modeled class and session volume at full rollout; live deployments inform the model.
Projected capacity
₹18L+
Collections tracked monthly (projected)
Payment and renewal activity at projected operating scale.
Early access: 11 of 50 founding-studio spots claimed. Scale figures marked “projected capacity” are modeled from current operations at Riyasa Studio (Baner, Pune) and active deployments — not network-wide totals across every studio on the platform. We do not present projections as live network-wide totals.
The team behind the product
We are a small, operator-led team. That is intentional — product decisions stay close to the people who open the app between classes, not three layers away from the front desk.
Sajal Ghatpande
Founder & product lead
Runs product and engineering for Centrl Studio. Built the platform after years of operating Riyasa Studio and seeing how much time Indian teams lose to fragmented admin.
Riya Ghatpande
Studio operator advisor
Owner of Riyasa Studio. Tests every major workflow in production and keeps product decisions grounded in real class schedules, renewals, and front-desk pressure.
How we got here
2024
The problem became obvious
While running Riyasa Studio in Baner, we juggled spreadsheets, WhatsApp threads, and separate billing tools. Renewals slipped, receipts took too long, and the team spent hours reconciling instead of teaching.
2025
Centrl Studio took shape
We shipped memberships, GST-ready invoicing, attendance, and WhatsApp renewal flows — the workflows we wished we had on day one as operators.
2026
Scaling what studios need next
Marketplace discovery, deeper analytics, and multi-location operations — so owners can grow without adding more admin headcount.
Visibility & community presence
We do not claim national press coverage we cannot point to. What we do have is real-world visibility where studio owners and students already discover classes — and a product narrative shaped by operators, not agencies.
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Local class discovery
Riyasa Studio is featured on Centrl’s marketplace and Google Maps integration so new students can find classes near Baner, Pune — the same discovery channel we are opening to more studios.
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Operator-led product story
Our homepage and customer conversations focus on practical Indian studio operations — WhatsApp renewals, GST receipts, and instructor logins — not generic enterprise software promises.
Security and reliability first
Role-based access, audit-friendly records, and infrastructure choices that keep student and payment data protected as you grow.
Designed for growing teams
Separate logins for owners, admins, and instructors so your front desk is not sharing one password for everything.
Based in Pune, India
Product and support are grounded in Indian studio operations — GST-ready billing, WhatsApp-first reminders, and workflows tested at Riyasa Studio before they ship broadly.
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