Guides
Guides for gym and studio owners.
Plain, practical answers to the jobs that keep owners up at night: moving to new software without losing anyone, waivers that hold up, a front desk that runs itself and promotions that feel fair. Written from a real front desk, with sources.
Switching · 8 min readHow to switch gym software without losing members
Members rarely leave because you changed software. They leave because of a surprise charge, a booking that vanished or a switch nobody explained. Here is the order of work that avoids all three.
Switching · 6 min readHow to export your data from Glofox, and check it
Your members, leads and history are yours, and an export is how you take them with you. This is the list of files to ask for, how to check them, and the mistakes that cost gyms a week.
Martial arts · 8 min readHow to decide when a student is ready for their next belt
Every school promotes differently, and that is fine. What students and parents notice is when the rules change from one student to the next. Written criteria, tracked the same way for everyone, fix that.
Waivers · 6 min readGym liability waivers: what to include and how to manage them
A waiver only helps if it is clear, signed by the right person, and signed before they train. Here is what most gym waivers cover, where state law changes the picture, and how to run them without a filing cabinet.
Front desk · 6 min readHow to set up a self check-in kiosk for your gym
A tablet by the door can take check-ins off your front desk entirely, if it is in the right place, locked to one app and set up with sensible rules. This is what we learned setting one up at a busy gym.
Choosing software · 7 min readHow to choose gym management software: a checklist for small gyms
Feature lists all look the same. The differences show up on a busy Monday evening, in the payment terms and on the day you want to leave. This checklist tests for those.Rather see it than read about it?
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