Payroll made for studios + gyms

Pay per class, per head, revenue share, or salary. Arketa calculates it from your own schedule and checkout, then files your taxes and pays your team.

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Arketa Payroll showing pay rates, a payroll run and a single class’s pay

What makes Arketa Payroll different?

One login, not two

Payroll built into the software that already runs your studio.

Pay models built for studios

Customize by per class, per head, revenue share, hourly, salary, commissions, tips, workshops, subs. Other payroll systems make you generalize all of that into an hourly rate.

No more double entries

Pay is calculated from your schedule and POS. No need to export, reformat, and re-key to a different system.

Taxes filed and paid

Federal, state, and local filed and paid. W-2s and 1099s filed and delivered.

Hourly staff, verified

Scheduled shifts and actual clock-ins live in the same place, so you can see who worked when they were supposed to. Most studios run instructor pay in one system and time clocking in another.

Arketa Payroll pay rates table showing per class, per head, revenue share, hourly and salary rates

Pay the way studios actually pay

Sub requests will correctly get paid
When Maya covers the 6am for Jenny, Maya gets paid for the 6am. Nobody has to remember to tell payroll.

Pay your team by attendance
Set a base plus a per-head rate and Arketa does the math. Arketa took the bookings, so it already knows the number. Comps, promos, and free bookings can be excluded from the head count, because you asked for that.

Commissions calculated from the sale
Sell a membership at 10%, and the commission lands on the right paycheck. Refunded later, and it comes back off. Nothing to reconcile.

An Arketa payroll run with classes, hours and commissions calculated per person

No double entry

Pay is calculated by the same platform that ran the class and took the payment.

No reports to download.

No columns to fix.

No second login to open on a Sunday night.

You review what Arketa calculated, adjust anything you want, and simply press approve.

How it works

Step 1

Set your pay rates

Per class, per head, revenue share, hourly, salary. Build templates once and assign them to your team.

Step 2

Arketa calculates everything for you

Classes taught, subs, head counts, hours, commissions, and tips, pulled from your schedule and checkout.

Step 3

You review and approve

Adjust anything before it goes out. Nothing runs without your sign-off.

Step 4

Arketa pays and files

Direct deposit to your team, taxes filed and paid, year-end forms delivered.

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Frequently asked questions

Studio pay is unique, so three things matter. First, whether it can calculate the way you actually pay: per class, per head, revenue share, commissions, tips. Generic payroll makes you flatten all of that into an hourly rate. Second, whether it runs the payroll or just calculates it. Most studio software produces a report you re-key into a separate provider. Third, whether it pays W-2 employees and 1099 contractors in the same run, since most studios have both. Arketa Payroll does all three, because it's the same system that ran the class and took the payment.