Gym owners, as we step into 2025, let’s take a moment to reflect on the past year. Like you, we’ve been hard at work, and 2024 was packed with exciting milestones for our gym software firm. In case you missed them, here’s a quick look back at our highlights from the year.
Social Media Top Hits:
- Top Podcast: “Profiting in PRE-sales. Instant Success Story!”
- Top Instagram: “What has your gym given you?”
- Top Facebook: “START – MAKE AN EFFORT – PROGRESS.”
- Top YouTube Short: “Prove it.”
Company Initiatives:
- Introduced our flat, per-month payment plan with a lifetime price-lock guarantee.
- Launched Gym Owner’s Newsletter.
Gym Software Feature Updates and Additions:
- Recurring Scheduled Payments: Place personal training, punch card add-on services, and annual fees on an auto-charge schedule right at sign-up through Sales Guru membership software.
- Bulk Action: Filter specific categories from a report and apply an action against this group. Group messages are our most used bulk action.
- Dark Mode: Reduces eye strain and saves battery life.
- Day Passes: Automatically cancels 24 hours after sign-up.
- Member Anniversary Report: Easily congratulate members every year.
- Payment Method Report: A simple pie chart illustrates membership payment by type.
- Pending Deletes: Expiring accounts can now be scheduled and flagged.
- Pop-up Photo: Access customer account information by simply clicking on photo.
- Membership Agreements: Fully redesigned for ease of use. Gym owners may now switch and edit a member’s status, rewrite agreements, collect new signatures, schedule payments, and charge through an edit tool.
- User Roles: This latest feature added seven standardized employee positions, each with customizable staff permissions – limiting employee access to your fitness club information.
Insight Access (check-in and member management software):
- Force Unlock: Schedule times for doors to be locked or unlocked.
- Club access software: Rebuilt to withstand and work through short internet outages, software updates, and unexpected system glitches!
- Remote Control: Unlock or Force Unlock all your door controllers from your browser, tablet, or cell phone.
Members App:
Members may now print out payment and visit history, as well as update their photo directly from app.
Employee Profiles:
Abigail Bell, Customer Support Expert
Gym Software Special Reports Presented by The Gym Owner’s Blog and Podcast:
1. Simplified data transfers
Covered challenges faced with transferring data between gym software firms.
2. Negotiating gym leases like an expert
Interviewed fitness lease expert Ken Jorgenson, national director for CARR, to bring the latest industry tips on negotiating the best gym leases. These fruitful podcasts and blogs covered little-known concessions, lease renewals, and common negotiation mistakes.
3. Protecting your gym from lawsuits
Dr. JES, an internationally recognized expert in fitness lawsuits, continued to bedazzle us with her legal knowledge through these multiple YouTube shorts.
4. Updates on the FTC’s “Click to Cancel” ruling
Brought gym owners the most recent analysis on this critical revision to recurring subscriptions.
Gym Insight
Happy New Year and thank you for reading our Gym Insight blog! For more than 16 years we’ve been bringing you top-level gym management software designed and built by us. Our staff works very hard to create user-friendly gym software packed with all the tools you need to run a profitable fitness center. From tablet-based sales software to 24/7 digital-based door access systems, we never stop innovating. Call us today at 855-367-4967 (855-FOR-GYMS) for a free demonstration. Anthony or Natalia will be glad to help you.