If you’re reading this, you’re probably already on Glofox — or were — and something isn’t working. Maybe the pricing jumped after ABC Fitness acquired them. Maybe you’re tired of features that look great in the demo but don’t quite work in practice. Maybe support tickets go into a black hole.
You’re not alone. We talk to studio and school owners every week who are mid-search, and “leaving Glofox” comes up more than you’d expect. Not because Glofox is bad — it’s a legitimate platform with real strengths — but because no single platform fits every business.
This guide breaks down seven alternatives worth considering. We’ll be honest about what each one does well, where it falls short, and who it’s actually built for. Member Solutions is on this list, but we’re not going to pretend we’re the right answer for everyone. If another platform fits your situation better, we’d rather tell you that than waste your time.
Why Owners Leave Glofox
Before we get into alternatives, it’s worth understanding the common reasons owners start looking. These come up again and again in conversations with studio owners who’ve made the switch:
Pricing changes after the ABC Fitness acquisition. Glofox was acquired by ABC Fitness in 2023, and many existing customers saw pricing restructured. Some owners who signed up at one rate found themselves paying significantly more at renewal, with limited ability to negotiate.
Feature gaps that surface after onboarding. Glofox demos well. The interface is clean and the mobile app looks polished. But some owners find that once they’re live, specific features they need — detailed reporting, flexible billing rules, advanced scheduling options — are either missing or only available at higher tiers.
Contract and cancellation friction. Annual contracts with auto-renewal clauses catch some owners off guard. If you didn’t read the fine print on your agreement, you might find you’re locked in longer than expected.
Support response times. This one is subjective and varies, but it’s a consistent theme. When you’re dealing with a billing issue at 6 PM on a Tuesday and your members are walking in the door, slow support isn’t just annoying — it costs you money and trust.
Limited customization for niche verticals. Glofox was built primarily for boutique fitness — yoga, Pilates, cycling, HIIT. If you run a martial arts school, a CrossFit box, or a hybrid facility, you may find the platform doesn’t speak your language.
None of these are dealbreakers for every business. But if two or three of them apply to you, it’s worth exploring what else is out there.
The 7 Alternatives
1. Zen Planner
Best for: Martial arts schools and fitness studios that want strong class management with martial arts-specific features.
Zen Planner has been around since 2012 and has built one of the deepest feature sets for martial arts specifically. If you run a dojo, taekwondo school, or BJJ academy, this is the platform that understands your world best — belt tracking, rank promotions, attendance-based progression, family billing.
What they do well:
- Belt and rank tracking with automated progression milestones
- Family accounts with flexible billing (huge for martial arts, where a parent might have three kids enrolled)
- Solid workout tracking for CrossFit-style programming
- Good mobile app for both staff and members
- Built-in website builder (basic, but functional)
Limitations:
- The interface can feel dated compared to newer platforms. It’s functional, but not what you’d call modern.
- Reporting is good but has a learning curve — some owners find the reports they need but take a while to figure out where they live.
- Support has mixed reviews — some owners rave about it, others report inconsistency.
- The payment processing is handled through integrated partners, so your rates may vary.
Pricing: Starts around $117/month for smaller studios. Scales up based on member count and features. Payment processing is typically 2.75-3.5% depending on your setup.
Best for owners who: Run martial arts schools and want a platform that genuinely understands belt systems, rank progression, and family billing — not one where those features feel bolted on.
2. Mindbody
Best for: Studios that want marketplace exposure and operate at a scale where enterprise-level tools matter.
Mindbody is the 800-pound gorilla in the fitness software space. They’ve been around since 2001, they’re publicly known, and they power tens of thousands of studios. Their biggest draw isn’t the software itself — it’s the Mindbody marketplace, which puts your studio in front of people actively searching for classes in your area.
What they do well:
- The Mindbody marketplace drives real discovery traffic. For boutique studios in competitive urban markets, this is genuinely valuable.
- Enterprise-level scheduling, booking, and POS capabilities
- Robust integrations with third-party tools (CRMs, marketing platforms, wearables)
- Brand recognition — members already know how to use it
- Multi-location support for growing businesses
Limitations:
- Pricing is the elephant in the room. Mindbody is significantly more expensive than most alternatives, and the tiered pricing means the features you actually need often live in the higher tiers.
- The platform has gotten bloated over the years. There are a lot of features, but navigating them can feel like flying a 747 when you just need to get to the next town.
- They take a cut of marketplace bookings, so that “free discovery traffic” has a cost.
- Customer support at the lower tiers is widely reported as slow.
- Martial arts is not their focus. The platform works for it, but it wasn’t designed for it.
Pricing: Plans start around $139/month for the Starter tier, but most studios end up at $279-$499/month for the features they actually need. Add payment processing fees on top. The marketplace intro offer pricing has also shifted over the years.
Best for owners who: Run boutique fitness studios in competitive urban markets where marketplace discovery traffic justifies the premium pricing. If you’re already getting your members through referrals and local marketing, you’re paying for a feature you don’t use.
3. Pike13
Best for: Owners who value simplicity and clean design over an endless feature list.
Pike13 takes a different approach from most platforms on this list. Instead of trying to be everything to everyone, they focus on doing the core stuff well: scheduling, billing, client management, reporting. That’s it. And for a lot of owners, that’s exactly what they need.
What they do well:
- Genuinely intuitive interface — the learning curve is one of the shortest in the industry
- Clean, straightforward billing management
- Good client portal that members actually like using
- Solid reporting without the complexity
- Responsive customer support (consistently mentioned in reviews)
Limitations:
- Limited marketing tools. If you want built-in email campaigns, lead funnels, or a marketplace, you’ll need to bring your own.
- No martial arts-specific features like belt tracking or rank management.
- Fewer integrations than platforms like Mindbody or WellnessLiving.
- The simplicity that’s a strength for some owners feels limiting for others — especially as you grow past 300-400 members and need more nuanced tools.
Pricing: Plans start around $118/month. They keep pricing relatively straightforward, which is refreshing. Payment processing is additional.
Best for owners who: Want software that stays out of the way. If your biggest frustration with Glofox is complexity and feature bloat, Pike13 is the antidote. Just don’t expect it to replace your marketing stack.
4. TeamUp
Best for: Growing studios that need affordable, reliable class management without enterprise pricing.
TeamUp is a UK-founded platform that’s gained significant traction in the US market, and for good reason. They’ve built a reputation for transparent pricing, solid core features, and genuinely good customer support. Their pricing model is based on active members, not feature tiers, which means you get the full feature set regardless of your plan.
What they do well:
- Transparent, member-based pricing — you know exactly what you’ll pay as you grow
- Full feature access at every tier (no paywalling essential features)
- Strong class and course management
- On-demand content delivery for hybrid models
- Good integrations (Zapier, Mailchimp, and others)
- Consistent praise for customer support
Limitations:
- The brand is less known in the US, which means fewer integrations with US-specific tools.
- No martial arts-specific features (belt tracking, rank management).
- The marketing tools are basic compared to all-in-one platforms.
- Mobile app experience isn’t as polished as Glofox or Mindbody.
- Less robust POS functionality if you sell retail in-studio.
Pricing: Starts around $99/month for up to 100 active members. Scales based on member count — roughly $159/month for 101-200 members, and so on. All features included at every level. Payment processing is additional.
Best for owners who: Want to grow without worrying about hitting a pricing cliff. TeamUp’s model means your costs scale predictably with your revenue, not with which features you need to unlock.
5. PushPress
Best for: CrossFit boxes and strength-focused gyms that want a modern, community-oriented platform.
PushPress was built by CrossFit gym owners, and it shows. The platform understands the affiliate model, the community dynamics, and the way members interact with programming. If you run a CrossFit box, Olympic lifting gym, or strength-focused facility, PushPress speaks your language in a way most generic platforms don’t.
What they do well:
- Built for the CrossFit/functional fitness model from the ground up
- Strong community features — leaderboards, workout logging, member interaction
- Clean, modern interface that feels current
- Good billing automation with solid retry logic
- The PushPress Core plan (free tier) is legitimately useful for small gyms just starting out
- Active development — they ship updates frequently
Limitations:
- CrossFit-centric design means it doesn’t always translate well to other models. Yoga studios and martial arts schools will find features that don’t quite fit.
- The free tier is good but limited — most growing gyms will need to move to paid plans relatively quickly.
- Reporting could be deeper, especially for multi-revenue-stream businesses.
- Less established in the martial arts space — if that’s your vertical, other options are better suited.
Pricing: PushPress Core is free (limited features). PushPress Pro starts around $159/month. PushPress Max adds more advanced features at a higher tier. Payment processing at 2.7% + $0.20.
Best for owners who: Run CrossFit affiliates or functional fitness gyms and want software that was built by people who understand the model. The community features and programming tools are genuinely strong.
6. WellnessLiving
Best for: Owners who want an all-in-one platform that replaces multiple tools — scheduling, marketing, reputation management, billing.
WellnessLiving has positioned itself as the “everything platform.” Where other tools specialize, WellnessLiving tries to cover every base: booking, billing, email marketing, text campaigns, reputation management, rewards programs, a client-facing app, and more. For owners who are tired of stitching together five different tools, that’s appealing.
What they do well:
- Genuinely comprehensive feature set — it does a lot, and most of it works reasonably well
- Built-in reputation management (automated review requests to Google, Yelp, etc.)
- Rewards and loyalty program tools
- Decent marketing automation (email and SMS)
- Competitive pricing relative to feature count
- Good marketplace for client discovery (similar to Mindbody, smaller scale)
Limitations:
- “Does everything” sometimes means “does nothing exceptionally.” Owners who need deep functionality in one area (billing, martial arts, reporting) may find the tools adequate but not excellent.
- The interface can feel overwhelming. There are a lot of menus, settings, and configuration options.
- Onboarding takes longer than simpler platforms because there’s so much to set up.
- Some owners report that certain features work well in theory but have quirks in practice — especially around billing edge cases.
- Support quality has been mixed in recent reviews — some great experiences, some frustrating ones.
Pricing: Starts around $89/month for the Basic plan. The Business plan (where most useful features live) is around $159/month. Professional tier is higher. Payment processing is additional.
Best for owners who: Are currently using 3-4 separate tools for scheduling, marketing, billing, and reviews — and want to consolidate into one platform. Just know that consolidation means compromises in depth for any single function.
7. Member Solutions
Best for: Owners who want their billing handled for them — not just software to manage it, but a team that does the work.
Full disclosure: this is us. We’re including ourselves because we’re genuinely a different category from the other six platforms on this list, and that difference matters for a specific type of owner.
Every other platform here sells software. Good software, in most cases. They give you tools to process payments, manage members, and handle billing. But when a payment fails — and 5-10% of recurring payments fail every month — you’re the one who has to deal with it. You’re the one updating cards, making follow-up calls, having awkward conversations with members you see on the mat every day.
Member Solutions is a billing team backed by software, not the other way around. When a payment fails, our team picks up the phone, calls the bank, disputes the chargeback, tracks down the updated card information. You don’t see a notification. You see the money in your account.
What we do well:
- Dedicated billing team that handles collections, payment recovery, and member billing — the actual work, not just the software
- Revenue recovery that goes beyond automated email reminders: phone calls, bank disputes, chargeback management
- 35 years in the business (since 1991), working with 11,000+ martial arts schools and fitness studios
- OnMat software platform for scheduling, member management, belt tracking, POS, and marketing — take a platform tour
- No setup fees. $99/month (annual) or $199/month (monthly).
Limitations:
- We’re not a discovery marketplace. You won’t get walk-in traffic from a Member Solutions listing the way you might from Mindbody.
- The OnMat platform is solid, but if you’re looking for best-in-class scheduling software specifically, platforms that have focused exclusively on that for years may have deeper scheduling features.
- Our strength is billing and revenue recovery. If billing isn’t your pain point — if your real problem is lead generation, class scheduling, or client booking — we’re probably not the first thing you need.
- We’re strongest in martial arts and fitness studios. If you run a spa, salon, or wellness center, other platforms are better aligned.
Pricing: $99/month (annual) or $199/month (monthly). 2.9% per transaction. No setup fees. No long-term contracts — cancel anytime.
Best for owners who: Are tired of being their own billing department. If you’ve been chasing failed payments, having uncomfortable money conversations with members, and losing revenue to cards that expire without anyone following up — that’s exactly the problem we built this company to solve. We take all of that off your plate so you can spend your time teaching, not collecting.
How to Choose: A Framework by Business Type
After walking through seven platforms, you might be more confused than when you started. Here’s a simplified way to think about it based on what you actually run and what your biggest pain point is.
If you run a martial arts school…
Your short list should be Zen Planner (best martial arts-specific features), Member Solutions (if billing and revenue recovery is the real pain), or WellnessLiving (if you want marketing tools bundled in). Glofox alternatives like PushPress and Mindbody weren’t built with dojos in mind, and that gap shows up in daily use.
If you run a CrossFit box or functional fitness gym…
PushPress was literally built for you. The community features, WOD tracking, and affiliate-model understanding are hard to beat. If your issue is more about billing and collections than software, Member Solutions handles that side so you can focus on coaching.
If you run a boutique fitness studio (yoga, Pilates, cycling, HIIT)…
Mindbody is the default for a reason — marketplace traffic is valuable in competitive urban markets. But if you’re paying for marketplace exposure you don’t use, TeamUp offers comparable core features at a fraction of the price. Pike13 is worth a look if simplicity is what you value most.
If you’re a growing multi-location business…
Mindbody handles multi-location at enterprise scale better than most. WellnessLiving is a more affordable multi-location option. Most other platforms on this list work at single-location or small multi-location scale.
If your main problem is billing and revenue recovery…
This is where the conversation changes. If you’re losing money every month to failed payments, expired cards, and members who slip through the cracks — and you don’t want to be the one making those calls — Member Solutions is the only option on this list that solves that with a dedicated team, not just software features.
If budget is the primary concern…
TeamUp (transparent member-based pricing), PushPress Core (free tier for small gyms), and Pike13 (straightforward plans) offer the best value at the lower end. Just make sure you factor in the cost of what you’ll still be doing yourself — including chasing failed payments.
Migrating From Glofox: What to Expect
Switching platforms is disruptive. There’s no way around that. But it doesn’t have to be a disaster if you plan it. Here’s what we’ve learned from helping thousands of studios through migrations over 35 years:
1. Export your data before you commit to leaving.
Most platforms, including Glofox, allow you to export member data, payment history, and agreement details. Do this first — before you notify Glofox of your intent to cancel, and before your contract runs out. You want leverage, not a ticking clock.
What to export: Member contact information, billing details (not full card numbers — you won’t get those), agreement terms, payment history, class attendance records, any stored documents.
2. Map your timeline around your billing cycle.
The worst time to switch platforms is mid-billing-cycle. The best time is at the start of a new month, ideally giving yourself 2-3 weeks of overlap where both systems are technically live. This lets you verify that member data transferred correctly before the old system goes dark.
3. Communicate with your members early.
Members don’t care what software you use. They care about two things: “Will my classes still be there?” and “Will my billing get messed up?” Send a simple email two weeks before the switch. Keep it short. Tell them what’s changing (the backend system), what’s not changing (their classes, their membership), and what they might need to do (update a credit card, download a new app).
4. Plan for a messy first month.
No migration is perfectly clean. Some member data will need manual correction. Some payment methods will need to be re-entered. A few members will be confused. Budget an extra 5-10 hours of admin time in the first month. It’s temporary, and it’s worth it to get off a platform that isn’t working for you.
5. Don’t switch just because you’re frustrated in the moment.
This is the most important one. Switching costs are real — in time, in admin headache, in the risk of disrupting your members’ experience. Make sure your reasons for leaving are structural (pricing, missing features, poor support, wrong vertical fit), not situational (one bad support experience, a temporary billing glitch).
If you’ve been unhappy for three months or more, it’s structural. If you’re angry about something that happened this week, give it a month and reassess.
A Note on “Best” Lists
Every “best alternatives” list on the internet is written by someone with an angle. Ours included. We sell billing services and membership management software, so of course we’re going to think our approach is the right one for a lot of studios.
But we’ve been doing this since 1991, and here’s what we’ve learned: the right platform depends entirely on what your business actually needs. A CrossFit box with 80 members and a packed community needs different tools than a martial arts school with 400 families and a billing headache. A boutique yoga studio in Manhattan has different priorities than a taekwondo school in a strip mall.
We’d rather you pick the right tool — even if it’s not us — than sign up for something that doesn’t fit and end up searching for another “best alternatives” list six months from now.
If you’re curious whether Member Solutions might be the right fit for your specific situation, we offer a free billing assessment. It’s a 15-minute call, not a sales pitch. We’ll look at your current billing setup, tell you where you’re likely losing money, and give you an honest take on whether we can help. If another platform on this list is a better fit for you, we’ll tell you that too.
