Tula Software Announces Partnership with Zebra Athletics

I’m thrilled to announce today that Tula Software has entered a formal Partnership Agreement with Zebra Athletics, the leading equipment provider and number one brand in the martial arts industry, to bring Tula Software to independent studios in the martial arts community.

This partnership will allow us to continue to be the leading software provider for independent yoga studios, while also helping us expand our reach into other industries with class based businessesas we grow as a company and as a product. Importantly, Zebra will “lead the charge” as it relates to introducing Tula Software to the martial arts community from a sales, marketing and branding standpoint, while allowing Tula to maintain our focus on providing the easiest to use, most powerful software product for independent studios. 

We will bring to independent martial arts studios the same dedication to their success that we have brought to yoga studios for over five years: A powerful, easy to use product; an advanced registration system that empowers the studio; a frictionless registration experience for students; the lowest credit card processing rates in the industry; and of course, unbeatable customer support.

As part of this partnership, Tula will also be helping to introduce yoga studios to Zebra’s flooring and studio equipment. Like Tula, Zebra is an independent family owned business based in the midwest, with a core mission to help independent studios succeed. Through this partnership, Tula customers, both present and future, will have access to state of the art flooring options, financing options for new build-outs, and a whole lot more. 

It is a common experience for both Tula and Zebra that new and existing businesses come to us to strengthen their studios and to keep their businesses running smoothly. We’re thrilled to be partnering with Zebra and we’re looking forward to being introduced to the larger martial arts community, making new friends and helping Zebra make new contacts in the yoga community. 

We’ll both be in Las Vegas this weekend at the International Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World Masters Championships where we’re announcing our partnership. If you happen to be in town, come on by and say hello!

More Summer Updates

We have another set of updates we've shipped out recently that we wanted to outline. As we regularly mention, we're always working behind the scenes to enhance Tula in both big and little ways. Here are some of our latest updates:

The return of one to one emails

We had to turn one to one emails off for a bit as technically those were more of transactional emails than group marketing emails, and our email service provider wanted us to treat them differently. That work is done now so you can once again send one to one emails to your students.

New report: Expirations report

It's always been possible to get an idea of when passes were expiring, but we never had an explicit "expirations report" where you could easily choose a date range to see all the passes, and the people who held them, that were expiring within a date range. Now you do with our new expirations report!

Class Attendance report updates

Our class attendance report was timing out sometimes, in particular with larger data sets. We've made some updates to this report to move it to a background job where the report is delivered to you via email once it's run. It's much better and faster now.

iPhone Bug on Profiles

At times the iphone app would crash when viewing a student profile. This was related to our support of international phone numbers and we've pushed out a small update to fix this bug. Now there's no more crashing on any of the student profiles in the iphone or ipad apps.

More to come!

We have a few other things (bigger things!) that we've been working on that we're very excited to announce. We're not quite ready but we should have another announcement for you in early September with one of our most highly requested features!