Exercise.com: Your Glofox Alternative
Why Choose Exercise.com?
Here are five reasons why fitness professionals use Exercise.com vs. Glofox.
Fitness Business Management Software to Run Your Business
Unlike GloFox, Exercise.com software is designed to have all components needed to run a fitness business in one place – making it easy and efficient to organize and grow your fitness business with client and class scheduling, check-ins, and billing — all from your custom-branded apps.
Fitness Business Management Software to Run Your Business
Unlike GloFox, Exercise.com software is designed to have all components needed to run a fitness business in one place – making it easy and efficient to organize and grow your fitness business with client and class scheduling, check-ins, and billing — all from your custom-branded apps.
Workout Software to Power Your Training
GloFox does not offer workout software – a crucial feature when running a fitness business. The Exercise.com workout plan creator and exercise manager provide flexible solutions to save you time creating workouts with built-in integrations, tools, and more.
E-commerce Software to Increase Revenue
GloFox has limited e-commerce capabilities. Exercise.com, however, has full e-commerce capabilities allowing trainers to sell single workout plans, offer automated workout memberships, run workout challenges, and deliver individual training.
E-commerce Software to Increase Revenue
GloFox has limited e-commerce capabilities. Exercise.com, however, has full e-commerce capabilities allowing trainers to sell single workout plans, offer automated workout memberships, run workout challenges, and deliver individual training.
Assessment Software to Improve Client Engagement and Retention
GloFox lacks assessment software, but that’s not the case with Exercise.com. Take clients through your personalized assessment to deliver custom workouts for their individual needs – providing massive growth potential and saved time.
Stand Out With Your Own Custom-branded Apps
Like Exercise.com, GloFox offers custom apps and websites. However, Glofox only integrates with 20% of the most popular marketing integrations. On the other hand, Exercise.com offers all of the GloFox integrations and more.
Stand Out With Your Own Custom-branded Apps
Like Exercise.com, GloFox offers custom apps and websites. However, Glofox only integrates with 20% of the most popular marketing integrations. On the other hand, Exercise.com offers all of the GloFox integrations and more.
If you’re ready to get started with an easy-to-navigate, all-in-one fitness software, designed to fuel your business, request a demo with Exercise.com today.
And, if you want to see how Glofox’s additional features stack up to Exercise.com software features, check out our in-depth guide below.
What is Glofox?
Founded in 2014, Glofox is a club management system that manages daily mundane admin tasks, handles scheduling and booking services, performs basic reporting, processes payments, customizes your website and app, sends automated push notifications and emails, and more. Glofox is targeted towards gyms, health and fitness centers, and specialized fitness boutiques.
Glofox allows members to make ecommerce payments for memberships and service credit packs. Memberships allow unlimited bookings within a billed time period. Service credit packs are one-time purchased credits that are only applied to certain classes, courses, or appointments. Memberships allow convenience to use any service, while credit packs allow members to only pay for services they want.
Glofox’s website and app are very visually appealing and easily catch the eye. User reviews remark on how their customers are pleased with the overall look of the website and app. But do the features perform reliably, or does the visual appeal cover up underlying glitches and shortfalls? Keep reading to find out!
To learn how to use Glofox, refer to our article, “How do I use Glofox?”
Unless otherwise stated, all images and reviews below are of/about the Exercise.com All-In-One Fitness Business Management software platform.
Fitness Business Management Software
How effectively Glofox might manage your business depends on what Glofox package you purchase. The company’s lowest package, Growth, doesn’t offer much business support. While the Experience package is a step in the right direction, it’s still missing key elements to manage a business. This means the (most expensive) Operations package is Glofox’s best option. So how does the Operations package compare with the Exercise.com gym management software?
Client/Class Scheduling
Glofox has many standard calendar and booking features like other competitors, such as adding and managing classes, trainers, events, and membership details. However, a quick skim of Glofox reviews on Capterra will show that one of the most common glitches with GloFox is its calendar and booking system.
Some examples Glofox users share include: scheduled classes and events randomly disappear, deleted or expired sessions randomly reappear, current member information will be lost or deleted member information will reappear. More than one review reported the trainers and staff randomly disappear from the system!
Not only are these glitches confusing to staff and customers alike, but they can also cost a business or a trainer a lot of time and money! Imagine the frustration of losing profit over a scheduled class that the system randomly deleted, or the time spent re-entering staff or customer information. Managers don’t have time to double-check that everyone and everything is correctly recorded in the calendar! Your calendar and booking feature should be completely accurate and reliable.
Other reviews on Glofox’s calendar report that the center can’t block off days that the gym is closed, like for holidays or staff training. There are no recurring appointment features; members who come for their same session at the same time every week must always manually book their session–and trainers know how a “stolen” session can be very upsetting to some members!
Finally, each class must be manually added and deleted in the calendar. If you had a new HIIT class scheduled every Wednesday at 6 PM for 12 weeks, you would have to manually enter each of those 12 classes into the schedule with all the class information. If the class was retracted from the schedule, you must manually delete each of the 12 classes. Or perhaps the instructor got the flu and had to cancel a class last minute, Glofox users report there’s no way to message participants through the app of the change and must be contacted via the information provided in their member profile.
While Glofox may have a seemingly on-par calendar and booking system as their competitors, it’s actually riddled with glitches that make it unreliable. Some of the scheduling inadequacies could confuse or frustrate customers, or not save you much time at all.
On the other hand, the Exercise.com platform is the reliable software that puts you at ease. View and book appointments on your up-do-date schedule from anywhere, on any device. All staff and member information are securely stored so it’s not lost or randomly deleted. And communicate instantly with individual or group clients easily through your custom-branded app!
Best yet, your calendar layout and features can easily be personalized to your style and preferences. With the Exercise.com customizable platform, you can choose the scheduling features you want to help effectively manage your business!
Gym/Facility Management
Glofox offers several types of reporting, such as trainer and class insights, member insights, revenue analysis, transaction tracking, and attendance tracking. With these reports, managers can track which trainers and classes are consistently booked, what members have completed payments, which memberships are soon to expire, how often members check in, and track and analyze revenue.
While Glofox offers more reports than some of its competitors, it still only offers the most basic reports. Any manager knows that a plethora of reports are needed to examine a business from all angles so it can be the most profitable, and GloFox users acknowledge these reporting deficits.
Glofox user reviews note that the provided reports are very basic and their businesses would benefit from more detailed reports. Even more concerning, several users confirm that the reports are inaccurate:
“All the reports are completely wrong. From revenue generation to members, to leads, to no shows, literally nothing works… We have a huge discrepancy in our revenue. 2/3 of the revenue reported by Glofox is wrong.”
Inaccurate reporting creates significant problems for a business! Reports not only help you manage your current business size, but they also help you make smart decisions to grow your business. Inaccurate and misleading reports can be detrimental! In order to ensure reliability, managers need to double-check Glofox’s reports, adding another managerial duty to their plates.
But with Exercise.com, you get tons of easy-access, accurate reports for sales, subscriptions, and charges. Exercise.com goes beyond Glofox’s basic reports with business management reports for all of your services, training, staff and clients, tax and payroll reports, shared packages report, ecommerce commission reports, and more! Most importantly, our reports are trustworthy–the way reports should be–so you can make the best decisions for your business.
Business Dashboard Reports
Both Glofox and Exercise.com have the ability to generate business reports and a dashboard for easy viewing and analyzing your most frequented reports. Exercise.com’s business dashboard features standard and customizable reports which enable you to keep your finger on the pulse of your business. Our dashboard is easily customizable, giving you free-range to how you want to analyze your business or filter information.
Client Automation
Effortlessly stay in control of scheduling and membership renewals by utilizing Exercise.com automatic notification settings. These push notifications can be sent through the app, text, and/or email, or a customizable combination. Additionally, Exercise.com software automatically:
- Sends clients workout plans, videos, and more
- Sends resources and files for easy client access
- Sends clients their fitness assessments
- Charges and receives payments
- Sends reminders and alerts for appointments or classes via app, text, and email
If done manually, these mundane tasks eat away at your valuable time and make trainers less productive. Exercise.com software performs these tasks automatically, which significantly frees up your schedule and keeps trainers engaged with their clients. Personalized notifications remind customers of their appointments, inform members of new classes, or to pay a due balance at their convenience with the privacy and security of Stripe.
Dedicated Zapier Support
The Exercise.com partnership with Zapier includes dedicated Zapier support and access to over 2,000 apps that you can integrate into your custom website and apps for added efficiency.
Dedicated Account Manager
As an Exercise.com client, you will have access to an account manager who will be your main point of contact for all of your software-related needs. From website design to ecommerce store setup and everything in between, your account manager will work with you to maximize your brand’s full potential.
Customized Software
Glofox and Exercise.com are proud to offer fully customizable websites and smartphone apps for your fitness center. Keeping your customers engaged with your individual brand is key to growing your business. Let’s examine the ways Exercise.com emphasizes and prioritizes customization so you can confidently grow your business!
Custom-Branded
Highlight your unique brand and help it stand out in a highly competitive fitness market with your own customized website and app! Our comprehensive platform is completely customized to your needs, preferences, and style. Have your brand name and company’s motto front and center, your staff and classes professionally presented, multiple social media plug-ins, testimonials, and more!
Fine-tune the details so your website and app feel authentically yours with custom colors, language, integrations, features, custom dev, and so much more. Having a personalized, professional website and app boosts customer loyalty by keeping your customers engaged in your brand as they access their fitness plans and make payments.
iOS & Android Apps
Glofox and Exercise.com both offer customizable mobile apps.
Exercise.com’s branded apps for personal trainers are fully customizable and can match colors, logo, and verbiage across platforms for a consistent look. We also offer custom dev tools for clients.
Exercisers using these custom mobile apps can view schedules, book classes, view custom-made workouts, track or highlight workouts, view and enter challenges, monitor progress toward goals, and more. Staff and trainers can also use the app to create, plan, and deliver workouts, add exercises or notes, track progress, engage with clients, automate reminders and notifications, and more.
Websites
With Exercise.com software, we help you build an SEO-optimized and fully customized fitness business website that converts visitors to leads and keeps members engaged with your brand.
Independently designing and managing your own website can be a headache, so many managers outsource to a web design professional. But with the Exercise.com all-inclusive package, we’re here to assist you every step of the way! Enjoy creating and personalizing your fitness website design with unlimited theme changes, custom graphic work, colors, features, custom dev, and more. We’re also a Google Certified Partner!
Security Features
Exercise.com emphasizes using the highest standard of security for payment processing and storage of clients’ health information and assessments. Our websites and apps are SSL Secure, client information is protected with the internationally-secure Privacy Shield Framework, and we utilize Google Cloud for storing and transferring data. We also use Stripe for secure online and in-app purchases and transactions.
Marketing Integrations
Glofox integrates with services like Facebook, MailChimp, Stripe, and your fitness center’s website. Additionally, GloFox and ClassPass can be integrated together as well. But many fitness centers use other programs for marketing and member management. If you currently use a program not listed by Glofox, you must convert all of your information into a program Glofox integrates in order to benefit from the Glofox integration features. That’s a lot of program changes!
With Exercise.com, we make the transition to our platform easy by seamlessly integrating Facebook, MailChimp, and your personalized website, plus:
- ConstantContact
- ConvertKit
- Zapier
- Google Analytics
- Facebook Pixel
We integrate more programs to help you succeed!
Learn more by clicking the button below.
Exercise.com is the best Glofox alternative.
Workout Software
A key difference between Glofox and Exercise.com management software is our workout and creation delivery system. Glofox does many things to help manage a business, but it has no features to support personal trainers with their clients. There is no workout creation, nutritional plan, performance assessment, or delivery system in Glofox’s Operations package.
Investing in Glofox means personal trainers (and their clients) must use a second program–or go old-school with paper handouts–to create and follow their workout and nutritional plans. This is not only an inefficient use of funds (as managers must invest in a second software for workouts) but can also be frustrating and confusing for clients to switch between apps or keep track of their papers.
With Exercise.com, you have a streamlined and professional package where everything is in one place! Clients can view the class and appointment schedules, securely pay for their slot, have access to all their workouts, nutrition plans, and performance assessments, and message with their personal trainer, all in the same custom-branded app! Best yet, there’s no need to invest in another program, which saves you money in your bottom line.
Let’s check out the exciting features of the Exercise.com workout software!
Workout Creator/Logger
The versatile Exercise.com software platform allows trainers to fully engage each unique client so they can reach their maximum potential. Whether a client is in-person, online, a traveling athlete, a busy professional, or a hybrid client (in-person/online), every client receives the highest standard of personalized care through communication in the Exercise.com app. Trainers can easily send workout and nutrition plans and updates, videos, resources, and more!
Communication between trainer and client is crucial to answer questions, maintain accountability, and boost motivation. While this is especially helpful for retaining traveling clients or busy professionals, everyone appreciates instant communication with their trainer! Our app’s custom messaging feature keeps trainers in contact with clients for increased customer satisfaction.
1-1 Training
Trainers can customize their clients’ next set of workouts with our workout plan creator to best fit the client’s needs and goals. Choose from your library of instructional methods, such as videos, pictures, intervals, alternates, blocks, modifications, descriptions, individualized instructions and reminders, and notes.
These plans are easy for trainers to create and clients to follow! With our smart delivery feature, workout plans are sent to clients in your custom-branded app. With our on-the-go accessibility, clients can perform and log their workouts anywhere! Trainers can fully support and engage their clients by seeing a client’s logged workouts and fitness progress.
Group Training
Offer group training packages at your facility or organize online group training sessions for added profit! For example, if you are leading a group kickboxing workout, you could have the workout pulled up on a few mobile devices around the room for the clients to work out with a partner. Alternatively, you can broadcast the workout and demonstration videos for everyone to see on your facility’s television monitors.
Online Training
While the workout creator helps in-person or hybrid clients stay on track, it’s particularly helpful for training and retaining traveling or online clients. With a few clicks, trainers can provide a variety of workouts to keep clients engaged and motivated while also being performed anywhere. Clients can use the messaging feature to ask trainers questions, and trainers can moderate the logged workouts.
Exercise Library
Exercise.com software sets you apart from competitors through our customized workout designs and extensive exercise video and instructional libraries. Easily integrate the platform with your YouTube or Vimeo account for a personalized touch. Create your own exercise descriptions and instructions with pictures of proper form. These files are saved in your workout database for easy client assignments, saving you valuable time!
Again, this customized workout design and library is not supported by Glofox. It’s a feature you only get with Exercise.com!
Custom Exercises
You can add your own custom exercises with videos to the Exercise.com exercise library for that added personal touch at no additional charge.
TV Workouts
Cast videos onto gym television screens during group classes or one-on-one training sessions for added engagement and a personal touch when training clients or groups.
Ecommerce Software
The Glofox API has limited ecommerce and point of sale opportunities: customers can make payments for memberships, appointments, or classes, and gyms can sell physical items through a store feature. However, the store only allows one transaction to be made at a time. This inconvenience minimizes the effectiveness of the store feature and does little to sustainably grow your business.
On the other hand, Exercise.com also accepts online and mobile payments, but our program grows your business with sustainable profit and customer engagement! How is this done? Check out some of the most popular ways our customers use the Exercise.com gym ecommerce software.
Payment Processing
For both Exercise.com and Glofox, Stripe, a secure and reliable third-party payment processor, is used to accept automatic payments and ecommerce purchases. But multiple reviews show that Glofox payments suffer from payment glitches, such as billing customers following the completion of their pay period, billing previous clients, and class credits disappearing after payment was processed. Maggie R. writes,
“Glofox has double-charged MULTIPLE students with no evidence on our end. Students have come up to me and shown me bank statements that I had 2x charges that were invisible from my side of the world. Scary.”
Although Exercise.com uses Stripe to process payments, Exercise.com programming avoids these glitches so customers can confidently make payments in your app or website. This will increase customer satisfaction and encourage more purchases!
Sell Products
With Exercise.com ecommerce software, you can sell gym merchandise, sponsored products, and more for added revenue.
Sell Workout Plans
For many reasons, some clients may need to take a break from regular gym attendance. Maybe their job hours changed, maybe they had a new baby, or maybe they are stretched too thin in their personal life. Some might stop working out altogether, hoping to get back to it someday, while others might try a home-based workout program. Unfortunately, both of these options often result in membership attrition.
With the Exercise.com platform, you can prevent attrition and keep your members engaged in your brand by building and selling your own customized workout programs and plans. When time allows, members can be welcomed back to their fitness center family without skipping a beat.
These programs are also an excellent alternative for members who need extra guidance, accountability, or motivation but can’t afford a personal trainer. Offer a variety of levels, styles, and lengths to keep customers interested! The more options you offer, the more you increase customer engagement and lower your rate of attrition. Not to mention, it boosts your business revenue!
Offer Online Workout Memberships
As previously mentioned, Exercise.com software allows you to personalize programming for each individual client. Choose to automatically deliver workouts or nutritional plans to online clients on a daily, weekly, monthly, or annual basis, which takes another managerial load off of your back!
Sell Workout Challenges
Retaining members is the key to a profitable fitness center, but membership retention is often elusive. What is the most effective way to retain members? By creating a positive gym culture.
One of the best and most popular ways to build a positive gym culture (and thereby build customer loyalty) is to run frequent workout challenges. These are a fun way for gym members to catch a competitive spirit and cheer for other gym members. The more loyalty members have to your fitness center’s brand, the more your business will grow.
Exercise.com software makes workout challenges easy through customization and automation! All you have to do is award the winner!
Fitness Assessment Software
Assessments are not only essential to membership retention but are a huge part of a personal trainer’s job! They ensure safety, aid in creating effective workouts, and track progress. Without them, trainers and clients alike will feel lost.
Performance assessments are taken at the beginning of a fitness journey and periodically through a training period. These allow clients to see their baseline, need for improvement, goals that have been and are yet to be met, and progress made. Performance assessments are the objective data used to motivate your clients!
Glofox can store members’ personal data in their system to process payments and schedule appointments, but it doesn’t track or save performance assessments. The Exercise.com platform aids in membership retention by helping clients stay on track to meet their goals. Put another way: the assessments in our software help your business grow! This is another way Exercise.com supports business growth where Glofox does not.
Assessments
Exercise.com’s fitness assessment software provides a simple layout for trainers to easily record standard or customized performance assessments so trainers spend less time inputting data and more time with their clients.
Once completed, trainers use the gathered data to adjust their clients’ workout and nutritional plans for increased effectiveness. With automated delivery, trainers can further engage and motivate their clients by sending performance assessment results to their clients’ inboxes!
Performance & Measurement Reports
Exercise.com software enables trainers to automatically send PDFs, resources, nutrition plans, and more to their clients. Everything is kept in one place so customers can easily access all their health and resource information. Customers will be highly satisfied as they see more holistic results, aiding in customer retention.
Nutrition
Fitness experts know that while workouts are crucial to achieving fitness goals, it’s only a piece of the puzzle. Diet, nutrition, education, and incorporating consistent healthy habits are essential to transforming a client’s life with lasting health results. Exercise.com software goes beyond workout creation to support all aspects of improving client health, including nutrition tracking.
Glofox Software Pricing
So, how much does Glofox cost?
Here’s a list of the provided features under the Experience (previously called Silver), Growth (previously called Gold), and Operations (previously called Platinum) packages:
As shown in the chart above, Glofox has a three-tiered pricing system:
- Experience Package (previously called Silver): $129/month
- Growth Package (previously called Gold): $219/month
- Operations Package (previously called Platinum): $309/month
Whatever your budget can afford, it’s important to remember that Glofox is not as comprehensive as it appears. At a minimum, you’ll still need other programs to deliver and save workout programs, nutritional plans, and performance assessments. But other provided features that aren’t up to par (like reporting and ecommerce) may require additional programs in order to capitalize on opportunities. (A Glofox demo can be requested prior to signing up for a Glofox membership.)
This isn’t the case with Exercise.com! With dozens of automated and customized services, our comprehensive program includes everything you need to grow your business.
Glofox Alternatives
Besides Exercise.com, other competitors to Glofox include:
- Acuity Scheduling
- Mindbody
- RhinoFit
- Zen Planner
- SportsEngine
- Vagaro Fitness Software
- Trainerize
- PTminder
- WellnessLiving
- PushPress
The Bottom Line: Pros and Cons
Choosing the right management software can be the difference between a thriving, growing business and one that doesn’t gain any momentum. While Glofox has many important management features, it’s not the comprehensive package of Exercise.com. Our platform is here to help your business flourish! It’s easy for managers, trainers, and customers to use, which boosts customer satisfaction, aids in retention, and creates raving fans.
Glofox Cons
Glofox has the right ideas by offering scheduling, reporting, and complete customization for websites and apps. Unfortunately, there are many glitches with programming that leads to staff and client frustration. The reporting features are basic, inaccurate, and unreliable, the software frequently has trouble processing payments, and it only integrates a few common marketing programs.
But what’s more important than potential programming glitches is what Glofox doesn’t offer, such as workout creation, nutritional planning, performance assessments, and dozens of ecommerce opportunities. Glofox might manage your business well if you escape glitches, but it’s Exercise.com software that will grow your business.
Exercise.com Pros
The Exercise.com All-In-One platform takes the brunt of managerial duties, encourages staff and trainer productivity, and avoids any client frustration of switching between apps. Additionally, Exercise.com software aids your business by:
- Increasing your business’s efficiency and revenue through easy-access reporting and unlimited marketing integrations.
- Engaging customers with your custom-branded website and app.
- Customizing workout and nutritional plans for every client to maximize their fitness potential.
- Capitalizing on every ecommerce opportunity to better engage members.
- Providing an easily-accessible scheduling and booking experience for your staff and customers.
Exercise.com is the platform that helps you manage and grow your business for years to come. Streamline your business with the convenience of one software that delivers a professional, personalized customer experience every time. Interested in learning more? Book a demo today!