The working parts of the room
Runbooks for the moments where a sauna business stops behaving like a calendar: seats, sessions, credits, and whole-room decisions.
A session is inventory. The shift is where it becomes a business.
- 01Runbook
Booking and Checkout for a Sauna Business
How booking and checkout work when the thing you sell is a room with a fixed number of seats and a fixed clock, not an open-ended appointment.
- 02Runbook
Capacity and Scheduling for Saunas
How sauna sessions carry their own seat count, fill seat by seat, and reset between turns, and why one booking should never lock out the whole room.
- 03Runbook
Scheduling a Contrast Therapy Circuit: Sauna, Plunge, and Recovery
Why the cold plunge sets the true capacity ceiling of a contrast therapy studio, and how to schedule hot and cold rooms so guests never queue wet in front of a full tub.
- 04Runbook
How to structure sauna memberships and prepaid credits
How to structure visit, value, and unlimited sauna memberships, then set rollover, refunds, and member pricing so prepaid credits stabilize the room.
- 05Runbook
Private Rentals and Buyouts for Saunas
How sauna operators sell private buyouts as their own product, price them apart from shared sessions, take deposits, and schedule them without double-booking the room.
- 06Runbook
Dynamic Pricing for Sauna and Cold Plunge Sessions
How commercial sauna and cold plunge operators price peak evenings, weekends, and slow weekday afternoons directly on the schedule without juggling discount codes.
- 07Runbook
Waitlists and Fair-Draw Allocation for Sold-Out Sauna Sessions
How commercial sauna and bathhouse operators fill last-minute cancellations with automatic waitlists and allocate instant-sellout sessions through a verified fair draw.
- 08Runbook
Shared Group Balances and Household Wallets for Sauna Operators
How commercial saunas and bathhouses let couples, families, friend groups, sports teams, and corporate accounts fund and spend from one shared balance at checkout.
- 09Runbook
Unstaffed and Self-Service Sauna Operations: Waivers, Codes, and Buffers
How unstaffed container, harbor, and Nordic-style self-service saunas automate booking cutoffs, per-guest digital waivers, and partner door-access codes.
- 10Runbook
Walk-In Queues, Check-In, and Front-Desk Flow for Bathhouses
How commercial saunas, cold plunge studios, and bathhouses manage walk-ins, QR self-booking, kiosk check-in, live building occupancy, and overstays at the front desk.