Club OS Comparison (Pricing, Features, & Benefits)

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Choosing software to run your business is a big decision that can be overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be, and by the end of this Club OS review we hope that the best choice stands out.

The Exercise.com fitness software platform is the gold-standard in the industry; from full app customization to workout creation, delivery, and management, e-commerce capabilities, performance health assessments, endless integrations, client engagement, and automation, we’ve made sure to cover all of our bases.

But, that’s not enough.

We can’t claim to be the best gym management software without pitting our features up against one of our competitors Club OS, which is primarily fitness club and studio management software. We want to provide you with our honest opinion on why our software is the ultimate choice (over other fitness business management software options) for your company’s needs.

In this review, we will compare the Exercise.com software platform’s features to Club OS’s features so that you will have all of the information needed to choose Exercise.com for your business management software needs.

In an industry that is constantly growing, if a business cannot adapt to stay relevant, or at least change its practices to be more industry-ready and user-friendly, that business will not be around for an extended period of time. That’s why you should choose the Exercise.com software platform that adapts for every custom client because it’s customized to their brand, so it sets up their business for future success no matter how the fitness industry shifts.

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Club OS Software Review

Club OS is a fitness business software that focuses mostly on sales and marketing. According to the Capterra website, “Gyms and studios use Club OS to streamline and automate sales operations while also strengthening client relationships. Features include automated prospect/member follow-ups, in-house email marketing, texting, reporting, and more.” Club OS has a 4.2 out of 5.0 ratings on GetApp and Capterra, based on 191 reviews.

The Club OS website says, “Club OS is the system you need if you want to grow revenue, increase retention, and, most importantly, take back time for yourself.” Club OS is used by Anytime Fitness, Golds Gym, Charter Fitness, The Edge Fitness Clubs, Orangetheory Fitness, and RushCycle.

There is also a separate version called Club OS Studio, which is designed for small studios like pilates, yoga, boxing, etc. It integrates with MindBody.

Club OS vs. Exercise.com

Club OS targets fitness businesses with their main features of class scheduling and booking, gym/facility management, payment processing, marketing integrations, and client automation. They also build in features for lead acquisition and automated follow-up to help bring and keep new clients in your facility.

Here’s where Exercise.com has you covered: we offer the scheduling, payment processing, automation, marketing integrations, and gym/facility management features that Club OS provides, but we also add in more advanced workout features like an exercise library, workout logger, online training, group training, and workout challenges. Exercise.com also includes assessments and nutrition features as well.

The benefits of Exercise.com are numerous; here’s what Exercise.com users can expect with our software:

• Schedule appointments and classes
• Process payments securely and easily
• Online booking
• Staff roles and permissions
• Automated email and text reminders
• Endless integrations for your business
• Easy to use workout plan creator
• Deliver workouts for any scenario
• Client and trainer workout logging via the app
• Smart performance analysis made easy
• Enhance client retention
• Automated workout engagement
• Sell plans anywhere in the world
• Run workout challenges
• Put recurring workouts on autopilot
• Offer individual and custom workout programs
• Capture smart performance data
• Create custom client assessments

Unless otherwise stated, all images and reviews below are of/about the Exercise.com software platform.

Fitness Business Management Software

All-In-one Fitness Business Management (FBM) software should have key features that provide all the features you need to successfully run and manage a business from your fingertips 24/7. Important FBM features include scheduling features, payment processing features, reporting, and alternate revenue streams.

Club OS has scheduling features, gym/facility management, client automation, and a dedicated account manager. The features vary with different pricing plans. For example, the Enterprise plan is the only one that includes a dedicated account manager.

With Exercise.com, you will find an all-in-one fitness software platform that can be used by managers, staff, employees, clients, and members. The features are endless to grow and manage your fitness business in a way that makes managing or running a successful business possible for anyone.

Client/Class Scheduling

How many more clients could you onboard, engage, and retain if you had an easy to use gym check-in software to schedule and book clients? What if that software was built into the same platform you use to build workouts, sell plans, and deliver assessments? With the Exercise.com software platform, it’s the same unified experience for your staff and clients from the web to apps.

Our client and class scheduling features will empower you to track visits, book classes/sessions/appointments, engage your clients with recurring appointment reminders via email and text, and provide calendar integration with Google and Apple. With Exercise.com’s calendar, you can also sort by:

• Trainer
• Location
• Service
• Recurring
• Time
• Availability

Club OS provides scheduling functions for classes, employee availability, personal training sessions, and more. Members can also get email and text reminders for upcoming classes or personal training sessions.

Gym/Facility Management

Both Club OS and Exercise.com include advanced reporting options to help manage any fitness studio or gym. Club OS offers customized reporting options as an add-on to the pricing plans. Specifically, Club OS will assist with:

• Schedule your reports to send directly to your email each day, week, month, and more.
• Understand each component of your business in-depth.
• Hold your employees accountable based on your sales and marketing reports.

Exercise.com provides options for generating reports on a variety of features, including revenue, classes, trainers, or other administrative reports. It’s also easy to set staff roles and permissions so each employee and staff member has access to the features they need.

Client Automation

Club OS and Exercise.com both offer appointment reminders via text and email. Exercise.com also includes mobile app reminders and options to automate workout and assessment information. For example, Exercise.com allows trainers and fitness professionals to:

• Automate Workout Delivery
• Automate Resource Delivery
• Automate Assessment Delivery

Dedicated Zapier Support

Exercise.com has a step up by offering Zapier integrations. This partnership with Zapier adds an exciting variety of extra options at your fingertips. Exercise.com gives clients a plethora of integrations – but, sometimes, you want a bit of a boost.

Our partnership with Zapier allows you to, in Zapier’s words, Integrate (link your web apps with a few clicks, so that they can share data), Automate (pass info between your apps with workflows called Zaps), and Innovate (build processes faster and get more done – no code required).

Part of this partnership includes dedicated Zapier support to help you through every step of the process. With over 2,000 apps to choose from, you can rest assured that your company’s website is as efficient and user-friendly as possible. Exercise.com maximizes this partnership with Zapier to give you all the integrations you need to successfully run and manage your fitness business.

Dedicated Account Manager

One feature that sets Exercise.com apart from many other fitness business management software companies is our dedication to customer service and support. This is why we provide our clients with a dedicated account manager to help them through every step of the process.

If you want to redesign your website, your account manager at Exercise.com will get it done. If you want to set up an e-commerce store, your account manager won’t blink twice. Whatever you need, our world-class dev team is there to help!

Club OS support does come with a dedicated account manager but only with their Enterprise plan.

Customized Software

Your fitness business management software should be customized to your preferences to showcase your business. Your website and mobile apps may be the first look that a potential client or customer has of your business, so you want it to stand out. Customization allows consistency among your software online dashboard, mobile apps, website, social media, and any marketing efforts.

Custom-Branded

Your software should match your branding, logo, colors, and verbiage. This consistency is what customers will recognize and will enable you to build brand loyalty.

Club OS does not offer a mobile app or website, so there are no customization options. Exercise.com takes it a step further and offers full customization of mobile apps and websites. You will find the security features and marketing integrations to be helpful customizations to help you grow and manage your fitness business with Exercise.com.

iOS & Android Apps

Club OS does not offer a mobile app. Exercise.com offers a mobile app and also allows full customization of your mobile apps. Your clients and members can search for your business name in the iOS or Google Play store, not the name of a third-party app.

Websites

Just like the mobile apps, the Exercise.com software platform website options are fully customizable. Designs are not just your brand’s colors and logo; you have the options to showcase your brand the way you want. The best features that are offered for websites include:

• Responsive
• SEO optimized
• Unlimited theme changes
• Built to convert visitors to leads
• Custom graphic work
• Google Certified Partner

Club OS does not offer a website, website builder, or assistance with website development. 

Security Features

In the days where we hear about cases of compromised data almost daily, it’s important to make sure your facility’s data and your clients’ data is safe and secure from hackers or data breaches. Exercise.com ensures the safety of your data with these important features:

• SSL Secure
• Privacy Shield Framework
• Google Cloud

Marketing Integrations

Marketing is an important component of any successful business. Social media, email, text messages, and notifications are great ways to stay in touch with your members and clients. Club OS offers marketing options like digital guest waivers to capture interests, Facebook Lead Ads, a referral program, Hubspot integration, text and email marketing options, and automated follow-ups. These are all offered as add-on options to the three pricing plans.

Exercise.com takes it further for fitness businesses and understands the important role of marketing and provides integrations that help amp up your marketing efforts. Some of our more popular integrations include:

• MailChimp
• ConstantContact
• ConvertKit
• Zapier
• Google Analytics
• Facebook Pixel

Workout Software

Every fitness business needs workout software that enables them to help clients meet their health and fitness goals, plus grow their business with additional revenue streams. This workout software should have all the options you need to create and share workouts, the ability to train any type of client, and extra options to make workouts fun and motivating.

Club OS does not have any workout software options, like workout creation/delivery, workout loggers, or an exercise library. Exercise.com is clearly ahead of Club OS with its variety of workout software options for fitness professionals and personal trainers.

Workout Creator/Logger

Exercise.com has awesome workout creation and delivery features that any fitness professional will regularly use. Our workout creator/logger provides users with endless possibilities for delivering workouts, tips, and encouragement to clients in any scenario, including one-on-one training, group training, or online training.

1-1 Training

One-on-one personal training is still the foundation of many personal trainers’ business success. The Exercise.com software platform makes it easy to train with any type of client one-on-one. This setting allows trainers to create an effective workout plan and develop an encouraging and collaborative environment that enables clients to reach their health and fitness goals.

Group Training

Personal trainers and fitness professionals might also find success with group training sessions. If group training is your focus, you can use any mobile device to create or view workouts with Exercise.com.

Trainers or group exercise instructors can follow along to stay on track when they are leading the class. Exercisers can view the workout plan if there are groups divided into smaller groups or taking the lead for certain parts of the workout. If you also have access to a television, you can show the workout plan broadcasted there.

For example, if you are leading a TRX training workout or bodyweight circuit training workout, you could have the workout pulled up on a few mobile devices around the room for either you to view or for the clients to work out with a partner. You can also broadcast the workout plan for everyone to see on the bigger television monitors.

Online Training

Online training is a great way to grow your business for a number of reasons. For one, you can train your current face-to-face clients if they are out of town on business or traveling on a vacation. Second, you can add new clients to your client base no matter where they are located. Third, it gives you more flexibility for training clients in a hybrid format, partially online and partially in-person.

For example, using your fitness website, introductions can easily be made without ever meeting a client face-to-face. You can establish a relationship with your client prior to ever meeting them in person. Exercise.com works for you to allow you to train clients one-on-one, in groups, online, or hybrid. All of these options give you a ton of flexibility to maximize your time and revenue.

Exercise Library

Exercise.com includes an exercise library, which is an important component of any workout software. An exercise library includes instructions, descriptions, videos, photos, or tips that help exercisers understand how to complete an exercise or movement with good form and technique. This full exercise library includes options to build various workouts with intervals, sets, pyramids, supersets, or other functions.

Personal trainers and fitness professionals can use exercise libraries to design workouts and help their clients fully understand how to do an exercise correctly, what muscles are being worked, and tips to make the most of the exercise or movement.

Club OS does not include a built-in exercise library. 

Custom Exercises

Exercise.com allows you to add custom exercises like compound movements, flexibility exercises, or mobility training movements. This way you have everything you need at your fingertips to design and deliver the most effective workouts for your clients to help them meet their health and fitness goals. You can add your own videos or photos featuring your staff and trainers.

TV Workouts

The Exercise.com software platform provides clients with the ability to watch demos of the exercises within their workout plans on television screens; gyms can also use the exercise library to cast exercise demos onto gym television screens during group classes or one-on-one training sessions. You can also stream the workout plan on a screen for group training sessions.

E-Commerce Software

E-commerce features are a key component of any fitness business management software. The e-commerce features provided by Club OS include payment processing for personal training sessions as an add-on feature to the pricing plans. There are no options to sell products, workouts plans, memberships, or workout challenges online.

Exercise.com provides fitness businesses with e-commerce options to enhance or add additional revenue streams. Safe and secure payment processing, the ability to sell your retail or other products, and options to sell memberships, packages, or sessions. You can also sell workout challenges, membership plans, or workouts online.

Payment Processing

Exercise.com also includes payment processing options for safe and secure processing of credit cards online. Both software platforms also have features to include gift certificates, discounts, deals, and customizable receipts. Club OS offers limited payment processing options, which includes an add-on feature for the pricing plans that allow for billing for personal training sessions.

Sell Products

The Exercise.com software platform allows you to sell your own products online, like fitness apparel or other products. This is a great opportunity to generate extra revenue and build brand loyalty with apparel featuring your logo or fitness business branding. Club OS does not have features for selling your products online.

Sell Workout Plans

The Exercise.com software platform allows you to design and customize workout plans that you can then sell via the mobile app or website. Let’s say you created a successful beginner home resistance training plan for older adults that uses minimal equipment and you want to share it with more clients than just locally. Exercise.com makes it easy for you to sell this customized plan and create an additional revenue stream for your business.

Offer Online Workout Memberships

Online workout memberships are a great way to grow your business. An exercise enthusiast may have access to a gym in their home or may travel for business with access to a hotel gym. You might have busy moms who have time for a quick workout from home but are unable to travel to a gym for a one-on-one workout session.

If you have a great reputation in the fitness industry, you may want to take that to the next level by marketing yourself, your skills, and your knowledge online outside of your local area. Exercise.com gives you the ability to grow your online clientele by giving you the option to offer online workout memberships. Any personal trainer can and should take advantage of this feature to try something new and build your business.

Sell Workout Challenges

Workout challenges are an excellent way to motivate members, enhance loyalty, and generate additional revenue for your business. Workout challenges among exercise enthusiasts create an environment of healthy competition and motivate exercisers to meet their individual fitness goals. The Exercise.com software platform provides the option of creating workout challenges for participants near and far.

Personal trainers and fitness professionals can create regular workout challenges that can occur monthly, a few times a year, or any time you desire. You can also determine the duration of the workout challenges to be four weeks, six weeks, or any length you choose.

Let’s say you have a good online following on Instagram and Twitter. You could create a workout challenge in the spring to get everyone ready for summertime. Or you could create a six-week competition at the beginning of the fall and have members set goals before the busy holiday season.

Performance Health Software

Club OS does not have any features for performance health assessments or nutrition tracking.

Performance health assessments are important for personal trainers and fitness professionals. No one wants to use a separate software platform or conduct them the old-fashioned way with pen and paper There are online tools to help you with conducting and using assessments, but most fitness professionals do not have extra time to use different websites to keep track of all of that information for clients.

Exercise.com has robust performance health assessment features. Performance health assessment software should allow you to:

• Turn leads into clients
• Engage clients through assessments
• Gather baseline data about clients
• Plan effective fitness programs to help clients meet their health and fitness goals
• Track measurement data, injuries, etc.
• Optimize the delivery of personalized workouts and nutrition
• Use to compare to normative data of similar age and sex

Assessments

Assessments can be used for a variety of reasons to help determine a baseline, to increase motivation, as a comparison to fitness norms, and to enhance loyalty. Assessments are used to test various fitness aspects, like cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, balance, and body composition.

You can use the results of those assessments to get a baseline measurement of your client’s current level of fitness, which can be used to plan an appropriate exercise program that also uses progressive overload to see results from their hard work. The assessment results can be compared to normative values that represent different levels of fitness for a comparable age and sex.

Performance & Measurement Reports

Performance assessment reports are important to determine if there has been any progress over time toward goals. Club OS does not have any reports available for performance and measurement reports. Exercise.com makes it easy for you to set up delivery of these reports to share information with your clients either manually or automatically.

Let’s say you conducted a push-up assessment with your client when they started their workout program with you and they were able to do 10 push-ups in one minute. After working out consistently for six months, you do the push-up assessment with them again. This time they are able to do 20 push-ups. Both you and your client can see the improvement in their muscular endurance within the six-month time frame.

Nutrition

Nutrition is a key component of any health and fitness program. If a client is working hard during their personal training sessions but does not have good eating habits, it will slow their progress. By using a diet tracker like MyFitnessPal, personal trainers using Exercise.com can view their clients’ nutrition and can make basic recommendations for them to improve their eating habits.

Club OS Software Pricing

Club OS has three software plans but Club OS pricing is not listed online. They offer a Single Location, Multi-Location, and Enterprise Plan (which combines the features of both Single and Multi-Location plans). The Enterprise Plan offers all of the standard features, plus custom integration, a dedicated account manager, and options to tailor to your business.

There is no information online to mention if Club OS offers a 14-day free trial. See the table below for the three pricing plans and features.

Club OS also has multiple add-ons, such as text and email marketing, Facebook Lead Ads, Hubspot integration, customized reporting tools, personal training follow-up, and billing and management for personal training sessions. The website does not list the cost of these add-on features.

Club OS Software Competitors

The biggest competitors to Club OS are ZenPlanner, Vagaro, Mindbody, PushPress, and, of course, Exercise.com. Other direct competitors include WellnessLiving, GloFox, RhinoFit, ClubExpress, Pike13, and VirtuaGym.

The Bottom Line: Pros and Cons

There are many Club OS features that fitness businesses will find useful, including payment processing, scheduling, gym/facility management reports, client automation, and marketing and sales features. However, it is missing some key features like performance health assessments, an exercise library, mobile apps, websites, and the option to sell online membership options. A fitness business or gym would need additional software to have access to these important features.

So, while Club OS prides itself as being reputable fitness and gym management software, this is only half of the battle when it comes to actually managing a fitness business. If you are looking for an all-in-one fitness software platform to fuel your business, then Exercise.com is the option for you.

Club OS Cons

The cons of Club OS are focused on what this fitness software platform is missing. There are no workout software features, like workout creation/delivery, an exercise library, or the ability to sell workout plans online. There are also no performance health assessment features.

Club OS is missing e-commerce features to sell products, offer point-of-sale items, or selling online memberships. These features could offer additional revenue streams and this is a missed opportunity.

Fitness businesses using Club OS would need additional software platforms to offer these missing features. Staff, employees, personal trainers, and managers would need to learn and use more than one software to successfully run and manage their fitness facility.

Exercise.com Pros

Exercise.com truly is an all-in-one fitness software platform that will help you manage and grow every aspect of your business. Investing in a reputable and effective fitness business management software is an investment in your business.

You can build your client base locally, nationally, or even internationally with the e-commerce and workout creation/delivery features. You can enhance client loyalty with performance assessments, mobile apps, workout creation/delivery, and e-commerce features. Exercise.com makes your life and your clients’ lives happier and healthier.

This comparison has described the all-in-one software features of Exercise.com. Which features would be most helpful to you?

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