Running a 500-member school every day

RUN THE WHOLE GYM
FROM ONE SYSTEM

Members, leads, billing, belts and bookings in one place — plus the things other gym software leaves out: face-recognition check-in and a fully customizable round timer, leaderboards and signage on any TV in the building.

No contract · Import your roster · Support that actually answers

The SimplCRM dashboard showing active trials, action items and gym KPIs
A real SimplCRM dashboard. Member names, emails and phone numbers are replaced with synthetic data.
Why gyms switch

THE COMPLAINTS WE BUILT AGAINST

Every card below is a thing gym owners say about the software they are leaving. The answer underneath is how SimplCRM handles it.

Support

“We waited two days for an answer — mid-week, mid-problem.”

You message the people who write the code, and they can open your gym to answer. No ticket queue, no offshore script.

Contracts

“The price went up mid-contract and leaving costs a fee.”

Month to month at the price on this page. No setup fee, no exit fee, no annual lock-in to negotiate your way out of.

Your data

“They wanted to charge us to export our own data.”

One-click CSV export of members, leads, payments and attendance. Free, whenever you want, including on your way out.

Interface

“It looks like it was built in 1999 and takes six clicks.”

The screenshots on this page are the actual product. Same design language end to end, built for a busy front desk.

Billing

“A failed card just quietly stopped paying us for months.”

Failed payments open a recovery record with scheduled retries, staff alerts, and a self-serve way for the member to fix it.

Martial arts

“Belt rank is a custom text field, if it exists at all.”

Belts, stripes, time-in-rank and promotion eligibility are core objects — and they show up on the TV leaderboards too.

Pro tier · included

THEY WALK IN.
THEY'RE CHECKED IN.

Members opt in once at the desk. After that the kiosk recognizes them as they walk past, ties the visit to the right class, and updates attendance, streaks and leaderboards without anyone touching a keyboard.

  • Matching runs in the browser against your gym's enrolled members
  • Name search and PIN stay available — nobody gets stuck at the door
  • Works on a tablet, laptop or Fire tablet with a webcam
  • Opt-in per member, and removable at any time
The SimplCRM check-in kiosk showing today's classes and the member grid
The live check-in kiosk. Names shown are synthetic.
In-gym experience

YOUR TVs, DOING SOMETHING USEFUL

Plug a Fire TV or Roku into any screen, pair it with a code, and run a timer, a leaderboard or signage. Every screen is set up separately, so the mat TV can run the round timer while the lobby plays your seminar promo — all changed from the office.

SimplCRM gym timer on a TV showing large countdown digits

Gym timer

Set your own round and rest lengths, pick which modes the coaches can reach, and drop your logo in the middle. Clock, intervals and custom countdowns, driven from the TV remote.

SimplCRM leaderboard on a TV ranking members by classes attended

Leaderboards

Attendance and streak rankings that rotate automatically — you choose the boards, the row count and which columns show. Nothing drives consistency like being on the board.

SimplCRM digital signage on a TV promoting a seminar

Digital signage

Promote a seminar, a belt test or the next intake — images, video and announcements on a loop, alongside tonight's schedule. Update it from the office; the screen follows.

Same timer · your brand

ONE TIMER, EVERY GYM'S LOOK

A solid background colour or a full-screen photo, your text colour, and your logo in the middle — set per screen. Two real schools, the same app.

SimplCRM gym timer branded for BC Jiu Jitsu — black background, yellow digits and the club crest
BC Jiu Jitsu
SimplCRM gym timer branded for Shark Pit BJJ — white background, grey digits and the club logo
Shark Pit BJJ

Native apps for Fire TV and Roku, plus a browser version for anything else.

The daily work

ONE SYSTEM FOR THE WHOLE SCHOOL

Sales, students and money — the three things that decide whether the gym grows.

Sales pipeline

Leads that get worked, not warehoused

Drag-drop pipeline from first inquiry to signed member. Auto-assignment by source, round-robin or percentage split. Follow-up tasks generate themselves on a cadence you set, and log automatically when the call or text goes out.

  • Web forms capture straight into the pipeline
  • Trial templates with class-count or date limits
  • Activity history on every lead
  • At-risk + untouched-lead surfacing
SimplCRM leads pipeline showing lead stages and follow-up tasks
Members & belts

One profile that actually knows the student

Belt, stripes, plan, payment state, attendance streak, documents, family links and conversation history on one screen. Promotion eligibility flags students who have hit your attendance and time-in-rank thresholds.

  • Belt + stripe progression with eligibility engine
  • Family / household accounts and billing
  • E-signed waivers stored on the profile
  • Attendance history and streaks
SimplCRM member roster with belt ranks and plan status
Money

Billing, POS and recovery in one ledger

Authorize.net or Stripe, cards on file, subscriptions, manual cash and check payments, and a POS with inventory, discounts, tax, receipt printing and a USB cash drawer. Every transaction ties back to the member who made it.

  • Authorize.net and Stripe both supported
  • Failed-payment recovery with scheduled retries
  • POS + inventory + cash drawer
  • Per-role financial visibility
SimplCRM analytics showing revenue, retention and attendance metrics
Everything else

AND THE REST OF IT

The unglamorous features that decide whether software survives contact with a busy evening.

Class scheduling

Recurring series, capacity, waitlists, plan-based access, drop-ins and bookings from the member app.

Analytics

MRR, ARPU, LTV, churn, lead conversion, attendance heatmaps and plan mix — not vanity charts.

Automations

Triggers, delays and branches that send email or SMS, assign tasks, open documents or hit a webhook.

Email & SMS

Segmented broadcasts, two-way SMS with STOP/START handling, templates and delivery tracking.

Member app

Installable PWA: schedule, bookings, billing, attendance, rewards, chat and web push notifications.

E-sign waivers

Send, sign and store waivers and policies. Kiosk can require a signed waiver before first check-in.

Staff & timeclock

Roles, permissions, shifts, clock-in, tasks, and gamified XP with leaderboards for your sales floor.

Website builder

A public site for the gym with schedule, team bios, gallery and lead capture wired to the pipeline.

AI assistant

Ask questions about your gym in plain English, and import an existing schedule from a screenshot.

Integrations

Zapier, Slack and Mailchimp, plus CSV export of everything. Your data leaves as easily as it arrived.

Audit + privacy

Settings audit log, per-role module access and financial visibility toggles for multi-staff gyms.

Tournaments

Track who is competing, registrations and results — the stuff generic gym software forgets.

Support

WHEN SOMETHING BREAKS AT 6PM,
YOU GET A HUMAN

Not a ticket queue, not a chatbot, not an offshore script. You message the team that writes the code, they can open your actual gym to see the problem, and you hear back while it still matters — not three business days later.

No queue

You're not ticket #4,812

Direct

To the people who build it

No tiers

Same support on every plan

Live gym

Tested on a real 500-member school

Side by side

WHAT YOU USUALLY DON'T GET

Compared with the mainstream martial-arts gym platforms schools tend to arrive from — Mindbody, GymDesk, Kicksite and Glofox.

FEATURESIMPLCRMMARTIAL-ARTS GYM SOFTWARE
Face-recognition check-inBuilt inNot offered
Gym timer on a TVBuilt inNot offered
Member leaderboards on a TVBuilt inNot offered
Digital signageBuilt inThird-party screen apps
Belt + stripe progressionFirst-classVaries — often a custom field
POS with cash drawerBuilt inUsually third-party
Failed-payment recoveryBuilt inVaries
Email + SMSIncludedCommonly an add-on
Annual contractNoneCommon
Export your own dataOne click, freeSometimes a paid export

Based on publicly documented feature sets at the time of writing, scoped to the martial-arts-focused platforms named above. Some CrossFit-oriented platforms — Wodify, PushPress and Zen Planner among them — do ship their own TV/leaderboard apps. Vendor features change; check current documentation before deciding.

Pricing

PRICED FOR A GYM, NOT AN ENTERPRISE

Month to month. No setup fee, no per-feature upsell, no contract to escape from.

Starter

Up to 50 active members

$99/mo

Everything to run the floor from day one.

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  • Members, leads and class scheduling
  • Belt + stripe tracking
  • Kiosk check-in (name search + PIN)
  • Billing with cards on file
  • POS, inventory and discounts
  • Staff roles and timeclock
  • Bookings and waitlists
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Growth

Up to 200 active members

$179/mo

Add marketing, retention and the member app.

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  • Everything in Starter
  • Email + SMS and segmented broadcasts
  • Lead automation and web forms
  • Automations engine
  • Dashboard KPIs, at-risk alerts, exports
  • Member portal + PWA with push
  • Public website builder

Pro

Unlimited members

$249/mo

The in-gym experience and everything automated.

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  • Everything in Growth
  • Face-recognition check-in
  • TV apps: timer, signage, leaderboards
  • AI assistant + schedule import
  • Staff XP, member rewards and chat
  • Zapier, Slack, Mailchimp
  • Role access control + audit log
Questions

STRAIGHT ANSWERS

Is the facial recognition actually built in?

Yes. Face descriptors are computed in the browser and matched against the members enrolled at your gym — there is no per-reader subscription and no third-party biometric vendor. Enrollment is opt-in per member, and name search and PIN always remain available as fallbacks. It is included on the Pro tier.

What do the TV apps run on?

Any Fire TV or Roku, or any browser you can point at a screen. Pair the device once with an on-screen code, then switch it between gym timer, member leaderboards and digital signage from Settings → TV Apps. The timer has clock, round/rest interval and custom countdown modes.

What hardware do I need for check-in?

A tablet, laptop or PC with a webcam. The kiosk is an installable web app, so an inexpensive Android tablet at the door is enough. There is also a native Android build for Fire tablets.

Can I bring my existing gym across?

Yes — CSV import for members, leads, plans and classes, plus an AI schedule import that reads a screenshot of your current schedule. We have migrated a live 500-member school onto SimplCRM, including historical attendance and billing.

Which payment processors do you support?

Authorize.net and Stripe. Connect your own account and the money goes straight to you — SimplCRM handles subscriptions, cards on file, manual payments, receipts and failed-payment recovery on top.

Is there a contract?

No. Month to month, and you can export members, leads, payments and attendance to CSV whenever you want. Your data is yours.

Who actually builds this?

A small team that trains. SimplCRM runs every day at a real jiu-jitsu school, and most features exist because something broke on the mat and needed fixing. That is also why support answers fast — you are talking to the people who write the code.

PUT THE WHOLE GYM
ON ONE SYSTEM

Bring your roster across, put a tablet on the door and a timer on the wall. Most schools are running the same week they sign up.