HomeTeamsONLINE Review (2020)

Exercise.com vs. HomeTeamsONLINE Software Review

HomeTeamsONLINE was created to give a non-professional sports team an option for a self-managed website that looks more professional. The “HomeTeams” in the name refers to the home teams, local teams, amateur, or non-professional teams that will find this website builder useful.

The website building and sports league management software features of HomeTeamsONLINE include scheduling, rosters, player profiles, statistics, scores, text and email communication, tournament brackets, and photos. There are different pricing plans with different options in each, which means not all features are available for all users.

The Champion plan also includes options for fundraising and an online store, but that comes at an additional yearly cost.

The HomeTeamsONLINE sports team management software platform does not have all of the features needed to successfully manage and grow a fitness business. They do have online sports registration software, a website builder, customization options, and calendars/scheduling but are missing the important workout creation and delivery options, payment processing, performance health assessment features, and full reporting options. HomeTeamsONLINE markets its software to sports teams, which is exactly the audience this software is most useful for.

Here’s where Exercise.com has you covered because we offer payment processing, calendars and scheduling, websites, and customizations features that HomeTeamsONLINE offers, plus many others to help fitness businesses manage their day-to-day operations.

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

All-in-one Fitness Business Management (FBM) software should have key features that provide all the options you need to successfully run and manage a business from your fingertips 24/7. Important FBM options include scheduling features, payment processing features, reporting, and alternate revenue streams.

HomeTeamsONLINE does have features for calendars and scheduling, which is useful for sports teams to manage their events, tournaments, competitions, and games. They also have player attendance tracking, scores, statistics, text and email communication, standings, and security/password features. HomeTeamsONLINE makes team management easy with its many useful features.

With Exercise.com, you will find an all-in-one software option that can be used by managers, staff, employees, clients, and members of fitness facilities, gyms, studios, and personal trainers. The features are endless to grow and manage your fitness business in a way that makes managing or running a successful business possible for anyone.

Developing an easy intake system with my apps and ways to scale the delivery of workouts has been huge. Working with 20-30 individuals who each have specific goals and restrictions can be challenging, but your platform makes it easy to organize everyone’s programs and put a plan together that will get them the best results possible.

Dean Somerset 

We went live with our Fitness Business Management software at 4 locations. Everything is working great. The import and export are easy and the guys are really liking the look and convenience of the platform. From both my side and the user side the platform has exceeded our expectations.

FMSHS 

The simple, effective tools help expand and simplify my coaching process.

Dean Somerset 

Before I came across Exercise.com, the process I used to try and communicate a program with an athlete long distance was extremely cumbersome. Those days are long gone, and I look forward to providing professional, clean, organized, and effective programs to clients for years to come.

Chip Gosewich PMR Performance

The Exercise.com team is amazing, and their all-in-one software is more than we ever expected! All of this is made possible by a high-quality team.

Mike Boyle Co-Founder, Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning

Exercise.com makes my life easier by providing an all-in-one solution and the opportunity to help those who otherwise would never have access to my programming!

Tony Gentilcore Founder, Core Online

Client/Class Scheduling

HomeTeamsONLINE has calendar and schedule management for sports teams. Teams can create and post their game and league schedules, as well as set up scheduling alerts via text, email, or group chat. You can also send group texts with reminders or updates.

Exercise.com has features for class scheduling and calendars that would be useful for any fitness business. These features allow fitness professionals and personal trainers to set up availability on calendars and schedules so that clients and members can book and manage appointments, sessions, or classes from the mobile app or online dashboard. Clients can also get reminders and notifications for upcoming classes or appointments. Clients can sort calendars by trainer or location, as well as pay for classes or appointments directly from the mobile app or dashboard.

Gym/Facility Management

HomeTeamsONLINE has features that are helpful for sports team management, but not for fitness business management. They allow for player statistics, player attendance tracking, creation of passwords, team rosters, athlete and coach profiles and pictures, and automated standings. This is great for sports teams, but not useful for a fitness business looking to manage its administrative options.

Exercise.com provides options for generating reports on a variety of features, including revenue, classes, trainers, or other administrative reports. It’s also easy to set staff roles and permissions so each employee and staff member has access to the features they need.

Client Automation

Client automation options for HomeTeamsONLINE include text alerts, email alerts, or group chat. League schedules can be automatically created, game results can be posted to automatically update league standings, and statistics can be generated automatically. These are all useful for sports teams, but not for fitness businesses.

Exercise.com includes email, text, and mobile app reminders, but also includes options to automate workout and assessment information. For example, Exercise.com allows trainers and fitness professionals to:

• Automate workout delivery
• Automatic emails
• Automate resource delivery
• Automate assessment delivery
• Automatic reminders and alerts via mobile app, text, and email

Dedicated Zapier Support

The Exercise.com partnership with Zapier adds an exciting variety of extra options at your fingertips. Exercise.com gives clients a plethora of integrations – but, sometimes, you want a bit of a boost. Our partnership with Zapier allows you to, in Zapier’s words, “Integrate (link your web apps with a few clicks, so they can share data), Automate (pass information between apps with workflows called Zaps), and Innovate (build processes faster and get more done – no code required).

Part of this partnership includes dedicated Zapier support to help you through every step of the process. With over 2,000 apps to choose from, you can rest assured that your company’s website is as efficient and user-friendly as possible. Exercise.com maximizes this partnership with Zapier to give you all the integrations you need to successfully run and manage any fitness business.

Dedicated Account Manager

Another feature that sets Exercise.com apart from many other fitness business management software companies is our dedication to customer service and support. This is why we provide our clients with a dedicated account manager to help them through every step of the process.

If you want to redesign your website, your account manager at Exercise.com will get it done. If you want to set up an e-commerce store, your account manager won’t blink twice. Whatever you need, our world-class dev team is there to help!

Customized Software

Your fitness business management software should be customized to your preferences to showcase your business. Your website and mobile apps may be the first interaction that a potential client or customer has of your business, so you want it to stand out. Customization allows consistency among your software online dashboard, mobile apps, website, social media, and any marketing efforts.

All my clients are required to use my online training. When training with me personally face-to-face, they have my app. They train with me—let’s say two days—and then they have the app for one. So they’re constantly working out on their own or required to utilize the app logging so that I can now check on them

Ashton Roberts AR Performance Training

For a while now, we have been looking for a great way to provide an all-encompassing experience for basketball players. The customization features of the web platform and custom-branded apps have allowed us to do that, creating the perfect marriage between our expert content and all of the really cool features that help separate us from the rest of the competition.

Kyle Ohman Basketball HQ

Exercise.com has brought a whole new element to my programming. I am super jealous of my brand and make quite a few demands, um, suggestions for the app. They are always eager to work with me and go above and beyond to deliver. Truly a gold medal team!

Kellie Davis Fit Thrive

Developing an easy intake system with my apps and ways to scale the delivery of workouts has been huge. Working with 20-30 individuals who each have specific goals and restrictions can be challenging, but your platform makes it easy to organize everyone’s programs and put a plan together that will get them the best results possible.

Dean Somerset 

Exercise.com has allowed a lot of flexibility with integration, so I can better connect with my customers. They developed a way to integrate with my CMR so I can send email sequences after purchasing, and they also created an upsell option on the sales page that offers exclusive products to customers.

Kellie Davis 

The Exercise.com team is amazing, and their all-in-one software is more than we ever expected! All of this is made possible by a high-quality team.

Mike Boyle Co-Founder, Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning

Custom-Branded

Your software should match your branding, logo, colors, and verbiage. This consistency is what customers will recognize and will enable you to build brand loyalty.

HomeTeamsONLINE offers customization of the sports team’s website, including logos, colors, text, and menu options. Their website builder allows you to create a free website for your sports team. They also offer a free domain, unlimited custom pages, images, and customized banners.

Exercise.com takes it a step further and offers full customization of mobile apps and websites. You will find the security features and marketing integrations to be helpful customizations to help you grow and manage your fitness business with Exercise.com.

iOS & Android Apps

HomeTeamsONLINE does not offer a mobile app. They focus solely on sports teams’ website management.

Exercise.com has mobile apps for iOS and Android devices that include all of the Exercise.com fitness business management software platform’s features. Exercise.com also allows full customization of your mobile apps. Your clients and members can search for your business name in the iOS or Google Play store, not the name of a third-party app.

Websites

HomeTeamsONLINE has a website builder for sports teams that allows customization of logos, fonts, graphics, banners, and text. The website is optimized for viewing on mobile devices.

There are options to manage and organize information for athletes, coaches, and referee/umpire on the website. You can include scores, standing, statistics, player attendance, player profiles, and photos on the HomeTeamsONLINE website for your team.

Exercise.com allows full customization of your website, which is also optimized for mobile viewing. The best features that are offered for websites include:

• Responsive
• SEO optimized
• Unlimited theme changes
• Built to convert visitors to leads
• Custom graphic work
• Google Certified Partner

Security Features

In the days where we hear about cases of compromised data almost daily, it’s important to make sure your facility’s data and your clients’ data is safe and secure from hackers or data breaches. HomeTeamsONLINE lets you set up roles for specific coaches, staff, and volunteers to allow access to only the features they need to access but there is no information about the security features when it comes to its website data.

Exercise.com ensures the safety of your data with these important features:

• SSL Secure
• Privacy Shield Framework
• Google Cloud

Marketing Integrations

Marketing is an important component of any successful business. Social media, email, text messages, and notifications are great ways to stay in touch with your members and clients. HomeTeamsONLINE allows email blasts, online chat, and text messages to be sent to members, but no assistance or integrations with marketing opportunities.

Exercise.com takes it further for fitness businesses and understands the important role of marketing and provides integrations that help amp up your marketing efforts. Some of our more popular integrations include:

• MailChimp
• ConstantContact
• ConvertKit
• Zapier
• Google Analytics
• Facebook Pixel

Workout Software

Every fitness business needs workout software that enables them to help clients meet their health and fitness goals, plus grow their business with additional revenue streams. This workout software should have all the options you need to create and share workouts, the ability to train any type of client, and extra options to make workouts fun and motivating.

HomeTeamsONLINE focuses solely on sports team management, which means they have no workout software options. Exercise.com is clearly ahead of HomeTeamsONLINE with its variety of workout software options for fitness professionals and personal trainers.

Workout Creator/Logger

Exercise.com has awesome workout creation and delivery features that any fitness professional will regularly use. Our workout creator/logger provides users with endless possibilities for delivering workouts, tips, and encouragement to clients in any scenario, including one-on-one training, group training, or online training.

1-1 Training

One-on-one personal training is still the foundation of many personal trainers’ business success. Exercise.com makes it easy to train with any type of client one-on-one. This setting allows trainers to create an effective workout plan and develop a positive environment that enables clients to reach their health and fitness goals.

Group Training

Personal trainers and fitness professionals might also find success with group training sessions. If group training is your focus, you can use any mobile device to create or view workouts with Exercise.com.

Trainers or group exercise instructors can follow along to stay on track when they are leading the class. Exercisers can view the workout plan if there are groups divided into smaller groups or taking the lead for certain parts of the workout. If you also have access to a television, you can show the workout plan broadcasted there.

For example, if you are leading a high-intensity interval circuit workout, you could have the workout pulled up on a few mobile devices around the room for either you to view or for the clients to work out with a partner. You can also broadcast the workout plan for everyone to see on the bigger television monitors.

Online Training

Online training is a great way to grow your business for a number of reasons. For one, you can train your current face-to-face clients if they are out of town on business, joining you from home, or traveling on a vacation. Second, you can add new clients to your client base no matter where they are located. Third, it gives you more flexibility for training clients in a hybrid format, partially online and partially face-to-face.

Exercise.com works for you to allow you to train clients one-on-one, in groups, online, or hybrid. All of these options give you a ton of flexibility to maximize your time and revenue.

Exercise Library

Exercise.com includes an exercise library, which is an important component of any workout software. An exercise library includes instructions, descriptions, videos, photos, or tips that help exercisers understand how to complete an exercise or movement with good form and technique. This full exercise library includes options to build various workouts with intervals, sets, pyramids, supersets, or other functions.

Personal trainers and fitness professionals can use exercise libraries to design workouts and help their clients fully understand how to do an exercise correctly, what muscles are being worked, and tips to make the most of the exercise or movement.

HomeTeamsONLINE does not have any features that allow users to create or access an exercise library.

Custom Exercises

Exercise.com allows you to add custom exercises so you have everything you need at your fingertips to design and deliver the most effective workouts for your clients to help them meet their health and fitness goals. Custom exercises can include common modifications that you use with clients or your favorite combination exercises, like a squat with a shoulder press. You can add your own videos or photos featuring your staff and trainers.

TV Workouts

Exercise.com provides clients with the ability to watch demos of the exercises within their workout plans on television screens; gyms can also use the exercise library to cast exercise demos onto gym television screens during group classes or one-on-one training sessions. You can also stream the workout plan on a screen for group training sessions.

E-Commerce Software

The Champion pricing plan allows HomeTeamsONLINE users to set up an online store to sell retail items and products that can be purchased using PayPal. This same pricing plan also allows for payment processing for team and player online registration.

Exercise.com provides fitness businesses with e-commerce options to enhance or add additional revenue streams. Safe and secure payment processing, the ability to sell your retail or other products, and options to sell memberships, packages, or sessions. You can also sell workout challenges, membership plans, or workouts online.

My custom-branded apps have made my life easier and helped streamline my online training, which in turn has transformed into a pretty awesome additional revenue stream for me and my family.

Tony Gentilcore Founder, Core Online

Exercise.com has enabled our company to expand in ways we couldn’t imagine possible. As a Strength Coach that also manages the business this platform has made it much easier to get our programming out to not only our local clientele but also new clientele throughout the world as well as our professional athletes in different cities.

Eric Mahanke Carr Elite

I sold a workout program and matched my yearly salary of in-person training within two weeks of selling to my community.

Paul Fabritz Founder of PJF Performance and BS, CSCS, NSCA-CPT, ACE, FMS

Payment Processing

HomeTeamsONLINE and Exercise.com both include payment processing options for safe and secure processing of credit cards online. You must have the Champion pricing plan to access the payment processing options for online registration with PayPal and Authorize.net.

Exercise.com also allows payment processing for payments accepted in-person and integrates with Stripe, PayPal, and other payment processing software.

Sell Products

A Champion pricing plan is necessary in order to sell products using HomeTeamsONLINE. You are able to set up an online store to sell retail items, tickets, and other products from your team website. You can also set up an online donation manager to offer donation packages for fundraising efforts with the Champion pricing plan.

Exercise.com also allows you to sell your own products online, like fitness apparel or other products. This is a great opportunity to generate extra revenue and build brand loyalty with apparel featuring your logo or fitness business branding.

Sell Workout Plans

HomeTeamsONLINE focuses on sports team management and while this software does have some e-commerce features, there are no options to sell workout plans, online workout memberships, or workout challenges from the website.

Exercise.com allows you to design and customize workout plans that you can then sell via the mobile app or website. Let’s say you created a successful eight-week workout plan for busy professionals that travel and have access to a hotel gym but the workout plan requires minimal fitness equipment. Exercise.com makes it easy for you to sell this customized plan and create an additional revenue stream for your business.

Offer Online Workout Memberships

Online workout memberships are a great way to grow your business. Exercise enthusiasts may have access to a gym in their home or may travel for business with access to a hotel gym. You might have busy moms who have time for a quick workout from home but are unable to travel to a gym for a one-on-one workout session.

If you have a great reputation in the fitness industry, you may want to take that to the next level by marketing yourself, your skills, and your knowledge online outside of your local area. Exercise.com gives you the ability to grow your online clientele by giving you the option to offer online workout memberships. Any personal trainer can and should take advantage of this feature to try something new and build their business.

Sell Workout Challenges

Workout challenges are an excellent way to motivate members, enhance loyalty, and generate additional revenue for your business. Workout challenges among exercise enthusiasts create an environment of healthy competition and motivate exercisers to meet their individual fitness goals. Exercise.com provides the option of creating workout challenges for participants anywhere across the world.

Personal trainers and fitness professionals can create regular workout challenges that can occur monthly, a few times a year, or any time you desire. You can also determine the duration of the workout challenges to be four weeks, six weeks, or any length you choose.

Let’s say you have a good online following on Instagram and Twitter. You could create a workout challenge in the spring to get everyone swimsuit ready. Or you could create a six-week competition at the beginning of the fall and have members set goals before the busy holiday season.

Assessment Software

HomeTeamsONLINE does not have any features for performance health assessments or nutrition tracking. For sports teams, HomeTeamsONLINE does have reporting options for team and player statistics and player attendance tracking, but nothing related to fitness assessments.

Performance health assessments are important for personal trainers and fitness professionals to gather data about the fitness level of a client so they can develop an appropriate fitness program for the client. Who wants to use another software or conduct assessments with pen and paper (the old-fashioned way)? There are online tools to help you with conducting and using assessments, but who has time to use different websites to keep track of all of that information for your clients?

Exercise.com has robust assessment features. Performance health assessment software should allow you to:

• Turn leads into clients
• Engage clients through assessments
• Gather baseline data about a client’s current fitness level
• Plan effective fitness programs to help clients meet their health and fitness goals
• Track measurement data, injuries, etc.
• Optimize the delivery of personalized workouts and nutrition
• Use to compare to normative data of similar age and sex

Working with Exercise.com and their team has been an amazing experience and a dream come true in terms of accomplishing a vision! Their workout technology has helped us effectively engage our community, and I highly recommend Exercise.com to grow your business!

APMD Performance 

Assessments

Every time you visit a medical provider they take your blood pressure, which is a type of assessment that gives your health care professional an idea of your cardiovascular health. Performance health and fitness assessments can be used for a variety of reasons including to help determine a baseline, to increase motivation, as a comparison to fitness norms, and to enhance loyalty. Assessments are used to test various fitness aspects, like cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, balance, and body composition.

You can use the results of those assessments to get a baseline measurement of your client’s current level of fitness, which can be used to plan an appropriate exercise program that also uses progressive overload to see results from their hard work. The assessment results can be compared to normative values that represent different levels of fitness for a comparable age and sex.

Performance & Measurement Reports

Assessment reports are important to determine if there has been any progress over time toward goals. HomeTeamsONLINE does not have any reports available for performance and measurement reports. Exercise.com makes it easy for you to set up delivery of these reports to share information with your clients either manually or automatically.

Let’s say you conducted a skinfold percent body fat estimate assessment with your client when they started their workout program with you and they had an estimated 30% body fat. After working out consistently for six months, you do the skinfold assessment. This time they are estimated at 27% body fat, which shows a fat loss of 3%. Both you and your client can see the improvement in their body composition within the six-month time frame.

Nutrition

Nutrition is a key component of any health and fitness program. If a client is working hard during their personal training sessions but does not have good eating habits, it will slow their progress. By using a diet tracker like MyFitnessPal, personal trainers using Exercise.com can view their clients’ nutrition and can make basic recommendations for them to improve their eating habits.

HomeTeamsONLINE Pricing

HomeTeamsONLINE has four pricing options depending on what features would work best for your team. The table below discusses the pricing structure and options included with each tier.

The prices start with single teams and cost extra for each additional team. For example, two teams would add an additional $20 per year for each plan, except the free sports league website plan, dubbed “the Rookie plan.” Three teams would add an extra $30 for each plan, except the Rookie plan.

League pricing includes four teams or more in one sport and costs $115, $190, and $285 for the Pro-Style, All-Star, and Champion plans respectively. The Rookie plan remains free for leagues. The pricing increases as more teams are added to the league.

The Multi-sport pricing starts at $440 a year for two sports and four teams per sport. The price increases as you add additional sports or teams.

HomeTeamsONLINE Software Competitors

Other sports management website builders and software competitors of HomeTeamsONLINE include LeagueLineUp, Wooter, SportsBook, SportsEngine, EZFacility, and TeamStuff.

The Bottom Line: Pros and Cons

HomeTeamsONLINE would be appropriate for any sports team looking to manage their calendars, athletes, communications, and website. This software does not have the options that a fitness business would need to fully manage and grow their business. Exercise.com clearly wins for all the features that a fitness business would need to be successful and to fully engage with clients and members.

HomeTeamsONLINE Cons

Fitness businesses would only find a few of the features offered by HomeTeamsONLINE useful for managing their business. There are too many missing features that fitness businesses need, including workout creation and delivery, fitness business management, selling workouts, mobile app use, and performance assessments.

Exercise.com Pros

Exercise.com truly is all-in-one fitness business management software that will help you manage and grow every aspect of your business. Investing in a reputable and effective fitness business management software is an investment in your business.

You can build your client base locally, nationally, or even internationally with the e-commerce and workout creation/delivery features. You can enhance client loyalty with performance assessments, mobile apps, workout creation/delivery, and e-commerce features. Exercise.com makes your life and your clients’ lives happier and healthier.

This comparison has described the all-in-one software features of Exercise.com. Which features would be most helpful to you?

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