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Zen Planner

Member management for fitness businesses

Overview

What Zen Planner does

Zen Planner is a comprehensive member management system designed for fitness studios, gyms, and martial arts schools. It offers scheduling, billing, member tracking, workout logging, and marketing tools with industry-specific features for CrossFit and boutique fitness.

What people use it for

  • Workout tracking
  • Nutrition management
  • Health monitoring
  • Fitness coaching
  • Wellness improvement

The honest half

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Zen Planner.

  • Limited staff app features compared to desktop version
  • System crashes and occasional bugs reported by users
  • Integration difficulties with certain third-party platforms
  • Customers report continued charges after completed cancellation

Cross-shopped

What people choose instead of Zen Planner

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

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    Zen Planner
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    Wodify logo
    Wodify

    Wodify: Cloud-based gym management with member scheduling and billing, commonly mentioned as top Zen Planner alternative

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    Zen Planner
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    ABC Fitness logo
    ABC Fitness

    ABC Fitness: Full-featured fitness studio management with membership and class scheduling capabilities

Capabilities

Features

  • Member management

    Member management capability

  • Automated billing

    Automated billing capability

  • Class scheduling

    Class scheduling capability

  • Workout tracking

    Workout tracking capability

  • Marketing tools

    Marketing tools capability

  • Stripe

    Integration with Stripe

  • Mailchimp

    Integration with Mailchimp

  • SugarWOD

    Integration with SugarWOD

  • Wodify

    Integration with Wodify

  • Ios support

    Available on ios

  • Android support

    Available on android

  • Web support

    Available on web

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

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Does Zen Planner have a free tier?

No, Zen Planner does not offer a free tier. Pricing starts at $99 per month with no free trial mentioned in their standard offerings.

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Can Zen Planner integrate with ClassPass?

Yes. ClassPass seamlessly integrates with Zen Planner, allowing gyms to sync their schedule and avoid overbooking when offering ClassPass to members.

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Does Zen Planner work with SugarWOD?

Yes. Zen Planner integrates with SugarWOD, making it a popular choice for CrossFit gym owners who want to manage both WOD tracking and gym operations in one system.

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Behind it

Who makes Zen Planner

Company
Zen Planner
Based in
Denver, CO
Founders
Ben Pate, Filipina Pate

Timeline

Zen Planner over time

  1. Acquisition2017-03-20$11.1m

    Daxko acquires Zen Planner for $11.1M

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  2. Funding2013-10-01$10m

    Mainsail Partners invests $10 million in Zen Planner

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