# Cultcha

> Cultcha is an all-in-one point of sale (POS) and management platform for lifestyle businesses: gyms and fitness centers, cafes, yoga and pilates studios, climbing gyms, kids activity centers and clubs, play cafes, and dance and music schools. It combines POS, payments, memberships and recurring billing, class and course scheduling, bookings, QR check-in, digital waivers, invoicing, inventory, marketing and reporting in one system, with a branded customer app.

## Key facts

- Website: https://cultcha.app
- Category: Business software: point of sale, membership management, class booking
- Pricing (USD, billed monthly): Base $249/mo (2 screens); Plus $499/mo (6 screens); Premium $799/mo (12 screens); Enterprise from $1,499/mo (unlimited screens, multi-location and franchise support). Every plan is the full platform; plans differ only by how many screens (tills, kiosks, tablets) they run on. Extra screens are $75/mo each. Getting started is free with no credit card. Details: https://cultcha.app/pricing
- Payments: through the business's own connected Stripe account at Stripe's standard rates, paid out directly to the business. Cultcha adds no markup on transactions.
- Card readers: Stripe Terminal smart readers (BBPOS WisePOS E, Stripe Reader S700, Stripe Reader S710) for tap, chip and contactless, plus Apple Pay, Google Pay and online checkout.
- Setup: self-serve signup with no sales call; most venues are taking payments the same day. Data migration is free to do yourself, or assisted from $1,500.
- Customer app: "Cultcha" on the App Store (https://apps.apple.com/app/id6800157510) and Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.cultcha.guest), branded per venue, for bookings, memberships, passes and QR check-in.
- AI access: a hosted MCP server and REST API with an OpenAPI spec, included in every plan. See "AI assistants" below.
- Based in: Brunswick Heads, NSW, Australia.

## What Cultcha replaces

The patchwork of separate billing, scheduling, waiver, check-in and POS tools most lifestyle businesses stitch together. Everything runs from one dashboard, with no double entry and no end-of-day reconciling between systems.

## Features

- Point of sale: customisable layouts with folders and drag-and-drop, product modifiers, bump screen kitchen display, till sessions and end-of-day reconciliation.
- Payments: Stripe Terminal readers, tap/chip/contactless, Apple Pay and Google Pay, online and in-person payments, refunds, split payments, store credit and gift cards.
- Memberships and billing: weekly, fortnightly, monthly and annual billing; term billing anchored to term dates; minimum contracts and notice periods; holds; failed-payment retry schedules and late fees; self-service card updates.
- Classes, courses and bookings: one-off sessions and multi-week courses, recurring timetables, live capacity, waitlists, spaces and rooms with shared capacity, group bookings and party packages, reminders.
- Check-in and access: QR check-in for members, sessions and passes; prepaid passes and packs; family and dependant check-ins; attendance tracking.
- Customer experience: branded customer app and web portal, self-service bookings and purchases, online shop, saved cards, purchase history, push notifications.
- Forms and waivers: digital liability waivers with guardians for minors, custom forms per product, expiry reminders.
- Marketing: segments, email and push campaigns, automated campaigns on segment entry, a contact policy with frequency limits and sending hours, promo codes and trackable links.
- Reporting: revenue, payments, attendance, membership growth, product sales, accounting export.
- Operations: multiple locations, custom staff roles and permissions, device and terminal management, timezone-aware scheduling, audit logs.

## AI assistants

- MCP server: https://cultcha.app/api/mcp (streamable HTTP). Sign-in is OAuth 2.1: add the URL to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client, sign in to Cultcha, and approve read-only or read-and-change access. The assistant acts as that staff member, never with more access than their role.
- Claude Code: `claude mcp add --transport http cultcha https://cultcha.app/api/mcp`
- REST API OpenAPI spec: https://cultcha.app/api/openapi.json
- What an assistant can do: revenue, attendance and membership reports in plain English; look up customers, bookings and transactions; create and update products, memberships and sessions.
- Developer docs (setup per client, OAuth, scopes, tools, endpoints): https://cultcha.app/docs
- Developer docs as Markdown: https://cultcha.app/docs.md; everything in one file: https://cultcha.app/llms-full.txt
- Overview: https://cultcha.app/ai

## Industries

- [Gym & fitness center software](https://cultcha.app/gym-pos-software): memberships and billing, failed-payment retries, holds, class bookings, QR check-in
- [Cafe POS system](https://cultcha.app/cafe-pos-system): modifiers, bump screen kitchen display, split payments, tabs
- [Yoga & pilates studio software](https://cultcha.app/yoga-studio-software): class scheduling and sign-up, courses, class packs, member app
- [Kids activity center software](https://cultcha.app/kids-activity-center-software): play centres and party venues: party bookings, sessions, prepaid passes, waivers
- [Kids activity club software](https://cultcha.app/kids-activity-club-software): term-based clubs and holiday programs: registration, parent accounts, term billing, rolls
- [Play cafe software](https://cultcha.app/play-cafe-software): the cafe and the play room on one till: play sessions, passes, waivers, table orders
- [Climbing gym software](https://cultcha.app/climbing-gym-software): digital waivers, day passes, memberships, prepaid packs, check-in
- [Dance school & studio software](https://cultcha.app/dance-studio-software): term billing, course enrolment and registration, parent app, attendance

## Product

- [Features](https://cultcha.app/features): the full feature list
- [Pricing](https://cultcha.app/pricing): plans, add-ons and data migration
- [How it works](https://cultcha.app/how-it-works): from signup to the first sale, the same day
- [AI & API](https://cultcha.app/ai): the MCP server and REST API: run reports and set up the POS from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
- [Developer docs](https://cultcha.app/docs): connecting MCP clients and scripts: OAuth 2.1, personal tokens, scopes, tools and endpoints
- [Supported card readers](https://cultcha.app/supported-terminals): Stripe Terminal readers that work with Cultcha

## Comparisons

- [Cultcha vs Mindbody](https://cultcha.app/cultcha-vs-mindbody): price, payments and features
- [Cultcha vs Glofox](https://cultcha.app/cultcha-vs-glofox): price, payments and features
- [Cultcha vs PushPress](https://cultcha.app/cultcha-vs-pushpress): price and payment fees
- [Cultcha vs Roller](https://cultcha.app/cultcha-vs-roller): POS, bookings and payment fees

## Company

- [Contact](https://cultcha.app/contact): questions, demos, switching systems, multi-location pricing
- [Privacy policy](https://cultcha.app/privacy)
- [Terms of service](https://cultcha.app/terms)

## Contact

- Email: hello@cultcha.app
- Contact form: https://cultcha.app/contact