MASSAGE

The room, the therapist, and the intake should be ready before the client is.

Intake, therapist matching, room schedules, packages, reminders, and gift cards all decide whether an hour on the table happens. We connect them so the client arrives to a room that is set and a therapist who already knows what they asked for.

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A day that will sound familiar

A Wednesday at 5:45 pm

The after-work rush is in the lobby. A client here for deep tissue is filling out the health history on a clipboard while her therapist stands in the hallway, sheets warmed, eight minutes into the hour. The phone rings: a caller wants someone strong on deep tissue, Saturday morning. The desk books the first open name. Two therapists are working tonight and there are three rooms, but room two is booked twice at six because the online booking knows the therapists and not the rooms.

A package client checks out and asks how many sessions he has left. The desk says three. He is fairly sure it is four. The card on file for another package client expired and the desk finds out when it declines. In the drawer under the register is a stack of gift cards sold in December, half of them unredeemed, none of them ever followed up. The therapists are good. The hour on the table is fine. Everything on either side of it is held together by whoever is at the desk at 5:45.

Five workflows

What changes for massage businesses.

  1. 01Intake before arrival

    Today

    The health history is a clipboard in the lobby. The session starts late and ends on time, so the client gets fifty minutes.

    Connected

    Your intake form goes out with the confirmation and comes back before the appointment. The therapist reads it before the client walks in, and the hour is the hour.

  2. 02Therapist matching

    Today

    The client asks for deep tissue or a specific therapist. The desk books whoever is open.

    Connected

    Requests are matched to therapists by what they offer and what the client asked for: modality, pressure, a preferred therapist, or a request for a male or female therapist. The client gets the right person or a clear choice of times when that person is free.

  3. 03Room scheduling

    Today

    The online booking checks the therapist and not the room. Two clients arrive for the same room at six.

    Connected

    A booking checks the therapist and the room together, including the rooms with a table for couples or hot-stone setup. If the room is not free, the client is offered the times when it is.

  4. 04Packages and reminders

    Today

    Sessions are counted at the desk and disputed at checkout. Reminders go out when someone remembers. Expired cards decline in front of the client.

    Connected

    Each visit draws the package down in one place. Reminders go out on a schedule. An expiring card is flagged before the visit, and the client can be told what remains before he asks.

  5. 05Rebooking and gift-card follow-up

    Today

    The next session is offered if checkout is calm. Gift cards are sold and forgotten by both sides.

    Connected

    At checkout the next session is offered on the client’s cycle with the same therapist. Gift-card recipients hear from you once with a way to book, and the ones still unredeemed get a reminder before they expire.

Where it breaks

Four places the process usually fails.

  1. THE CLIPBOARDA health history filled out in the lobby is time the client paid for and the therapist spent standing in a hallway.
  2. WHOEVER IS OPENA client who asked for deep tissue and got a relaxation therapist does not complain. She just does not come back.
  3. THE DOUBLE-BOOKED ROOMTwo clients and one table at six. One of them waits in the lobby, and the therapist who was ready has nowhere to work.
  4. THE DRAWER OF GIFT CARDSEvery unredeemed gift card is a new client who was already paid for and never walked in.

One handoff, before and after

A gift card bought in December

Today
  1. A husband buys a ninety-minute gift card on December 20. The desk writes the number in a notebook.
  2. The recipient puts it in a drawer. Nobody from the business ever contacts her.
  3. In April she finds it and calls. The desk cannot find the number in the notebook.
  4. She is booked with whoever is open, fills out the clipboard in the lobby, and gets fifty minutes.
  5. She is not offered a next session. The card is used and the client is gone.
Connected
  1. The gift card is issued with the recipient’s contact, and she gets a message with a way to book.
  2. She books a ninety-minute session in January with a therapist matched to what she asked for.
  3. The intake form goes out with the confirmation. She completes it the night before.
  4. The room and the therapist are checked together. She arrives, the therapist has read her form, and the hour starts on time.
  5. At checkout she is offered the same therapist in four weeks and books it.

What to track

The numbers that tell you whether it is working.

We do not promise a percentage. We show you which numbers to watch, and we measure them before and after.

Questions massage businesses ask us

01Our intake asks about health conditions. Do you handle that?

We make sure the form you already use goes out with the confirmation, comes back before the client arrives, and lands with the therapist. We do not write the questions or interpret the answers. What the therapist does with the form stays with the therapist.

02What does this actually cover for a massage business?

The parts on either side of the table. The intake goes out and comes back. The request is matched to the right therapist and a free room. Reminders go out. Packages are counted in one place. The next session is offered at checkout. Gift cards get a follow-up. The hour on the table does not change.

03Can it match clients by pressure or by a preferred therapist?

Yes. Each therapist has a profile of what they offer. A client who asks for deep tissue, a specific therapist, or a male or female therapist is offered the times when that request can actually be met, instead of whoever is open.

04Our therapists are independent and rent rooms. Does this still work?

Yes. Each therapist keeps their own rules, hours, and clients, and the rooms are shared on one schedule. The business sees the whole day, and each therapist sees their own.

05How soon is the first piece running?

One handoff at a time. Intake before arrival or room-and-therapist booking is typically live within a few weeks. We start with whatever is causing the 5:45 pm lobby.

START WITH ONE PROCESS

Bring us the process that leaves a therapist waiting in the hallway for a clipboard.

We will map how it works today, find where it waits or gets repeated, and tell you whether fixing it is worth the effort.

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  1. The mapOne process in your business, drawn end to end on a single page
  2. The waitEvery place it stalls or gets repeated, and who is carrying it today
  3. The answerWhat fixing it would take, or a straight answer that it is not worth fixing