How to choose membership software for a small gym or studio
Big gym systems are built for chains. For one room and a few hundred members, eight questions tell you whether a membership app will be used every day or dropped within a month.
Нотатки для тих, хто керує закладом
Абонементи, рецепція і те, хто заплатив: практичні статті для власників фітнес-залів, студій, басейнів і клубів.
Деякі статті ще не перекладено українською, і вони відкриваються мовою, якою їх написано.
Pass rules every small gym should write down: freezes, missed visits, refunds
"Can I freeze my pass?" "I was ill, do I get the days back?" Without written rules every answer is a negotiation. Seven rules small venues use, and how to keep to them.
How to win back members who stopped coming, without discounts
Most members who leave a small gym or studio never decide to leave. They miss a week, then a month. Three lists, three moments and a short message bring many of them back.
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.
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.