Moving your members off a notebook or Excel without losing a single pass
A step-by-step switch: what to collect, how passes keep their real dates, what to tell members, and how to get through the first week calmly.
Notes for people who run a venue
Memberships, the front desk and knowing who has paid: practical articles for owners of gyms, studios, pools and clubs.
How a QR code that changes every 30 seconds stops pass sharing
A paper pass, a plastic card or a fixed QR code can be lent, photographed or forwarded. Here is what a rotating code changes at the door, and what it doesn't.
Five places a small gym loses money at the front desk
Mostly not fraud: small, friendly exceptions that add up. An expired pass waved through, visits nobody counted, cash nobody wrote down. Where they come from and how to close them.
Why we built Abonatus
Small gyms and studios run on notebooks, spreadsheets and trust. We wanted something just as simple that also tells the owner who has paid.