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Sep 07
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How to Create a Fitness Referral Programme for Your Gym or Studio

By Dance, Fitness marketing and social archives and news, Gym and studios, HIIT and group, Pilates, Yoga

Referral programmes remain one of the lowest-cost ways to grow a fitness business. Whether you run a gym, yoga studio, Pilates business, dance school or personal training service, your happiest customers are often your best marketing channel. People are far more likely to try a class when it’s recommended by someone they already trust.

With Gymcatch, you don’t need to build a fitness referral programme from scratch. Our built-in referral marketing features make it easy for customers to invite friends in just a few taps, while promotional emails, social sharing tools and automated onboarding help turn referrals into paying customers. 

According to a Nielsen report, 83% of consumers trust recommendations from friends and family more than any other form of advertising. That makes referral marketing one of the highest-converting acquisition channels available for fitness businesses.

A successful fitness referral programme can help you:

  • Acquire new members at a lower cost

  • Increase customer loyalty

  • Generate more word-of-mouth recommendations

  • Improve customer retention

  • Build a stronger community around your business

If you’re ready to create your own referral programme, here’s a simple four-step framework.

1. Set a Clear Goal for Your Fitness Referral Programme

Before launching your referral programme, decide exactly what success looks like. While attracting new members is the most common objective, your goals could also include increasing customer retention, filling quieter classes, promoting memberships or generating more package sales.

Whatever your objective, make it specific and measurable. Some useful metrics include:

  • Number of referrals generated

  • New paying customers

  • Referral conversion rate

  • Revenue generated from referrals

  • Customer lifetime value

Once you’ve defined your goals, you’ll also know how to measure success over time. Gymcatch makes it easier to support referral campaigns by giving members simple ways to share your business and invite new customers without adding extra admin for your team.

2. Choose a Reward People Actually Want

The best referral programmes create value for everyone involved. Rewards don’t always have to be cash – free classes, class credits, discounted memberships, exclusive workshops or priority booking can all encourage customers to recommend your business.

Gymcatch supports referral promotions through built-in referral marketing tools and promotional campaigns, making it easy to encourage members to share your business. You can also combine referrals with customisable discount codes, bundles or limited-time offers depending on the type of campaign you’re running.

The most successful reward is often the one your customers actually want. Consider asking your members what would motivate them to recommend your classes to friends and family. Non-cash incentives often outperform cash rewards because they encourage repeat visits while strengthening customer loyalty.

It’s also important to clearly define when rewards are earned. For example, you may only award the referral once the new customer has booked a class or purchased a membership. Setting clear rules from the beginning avoids confusion and makes your programme easier to manage.

3. Identify Your Best Advocates

Instead of asking every customer to promote your business, start with your biggest fans. These are the members who already love what you offer and naturally recommend your classes to others.

Look for customers who:

  • Attend regularly

  • Leave positive reviews

  • Engage with your social media

  • Already bring friends to classes

  • Recommend your business without being asked

Share your mission with these advocates and provide clear messaging they can use when recommending your business. Think about:

  • Who do you want them to target?

  • What action do you want people to take?

  • How can they easily share your business?

Gymcatch’s customer communication tools make it easy to reach your most loyal members with referral invitations, promotional emails and shareable content that they can send directly to friends.

4. Make Your Referral Programme Easy to Share

Even the best referral programme won’t succeed if it’s difficult to use. The easier it is for customers to invite friends, the more referrals you’ll generate.

Promote your referral programme everywhere your customers interact with your business, including:

  • Booking confirmations

  • Email newsletters

  • Social media

  • Conversations after class

  • Your website

  • QR codes in your studio

The goal is to keep your referral programme visible without making it feel intrusive. Regular reminders help customers remember to recommend your business when the opportunity arises.

Gymcatch is designed around making referrals simple. Members can invite friends in just a few taps, while promotional emails and social sharing tools help keep your referral programme visible without requiring constant manual promotion.

Referral Programme Examples That Work

Looking for inspiration? Many of today’s biggest brands have built their growth through referral marketing.

Uber

Uber operates referral programmes for both riders and drivers. Users receive a unique referral code to share with friends. When someone signs up using that code and meets the qualifying conditions, both parties receive a reward, creating an incentive for everyone involved.

Dropbox

Dropbox famously grew through referrals by rewarding users with additional free storage space whenever they successfully invited friends to join the platform. Rather than offering cash, Dropbox rewarded users with something they genuinely valued, helping drive rapid customer acquisition.

The lesson from both examples is simple: make your referral programme easy to understand, easy to share and worthwhile for everyone involved.

Run Your Referral Programme with Gymcatch

A successful referral programme shouldn’t create more admin.

Gymcatch includes built-in referral marketing tools that help fitness businesses encourage word-of-mouth growth through simple customer sharing, promotional emails and streamlined onboarding for new members.

You can also combine referral campaigns with discount codes, bundles and limited-time promotions to create offers that match your business goals.

Whether you’re trying to grow memberships, increase class attendance or reward loyal customers, Gymcatch gives you the tools to launch and manage referral campaigns without relying on spreadsheets or manual tracking.

If you’re ready to grow your fitness business through referrals, explore Gymcatch’s business features or start your free trial today.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a fitness referral programme?

A fitness referral programme rewards existing members for introducing new customers to your gym, studio or personal training business. Rewards can include free classes, account credit, discounts or exclusive offers once the referred customer books or purchases.

What rewards work best for gym referral programmes?

Free classes, membership credits, discounted packages and exclusive workshops often outperform cash rewards because they encourage repeat visits while increasing customer loyalty. The best reward is one that your existing members genuinely value.

How do I encourage members to refer their friends?

Keep the referral process simple, offer a worthwhile reward and remind members regularly through email, social media and in-person conversations. The easier it is to share your business, the more referrals you’ll receive.

Can Gymcatch help me run a referral programme?

Yes. Gymcatch includes built-in referral marketing features that let members invite friends in just a few taps. You can also support referral campaigns with promotional emails, social sharing tools, onboarding features, discount codes and limited-time offers to help convert referrals into paying customers.

Are referral programmes better than paid advertising?

Referral marketing and paid advertising work best together. Paid advertising helps people discover your business, while referrals provide trusted recommendations that often convert at a much higher rate because they come from friends or family.

How do I measure whether my referral programme is working?

Track metrics such as:

  • Number of referrals

  • Referral conversion rate

  • Revenue generated

  • Cost per new customer

  • Customer retention

  • Customer lifetime value

Review these regularly so you can refine your rewards, improve your messaging and maximise the long-term success of your referral programme.

Nov 07
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How to define your target customer

By Fitness business management archives and news, Gym and studios, HIIT and group, Pilates, Yoga

Who are you targeting as new customers? What do they want from their fitness provider?

Between now and the end of the year we’re going to take a look at 5 areas to help you Get 2023 ready.  Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin or Twitter to be sure you don’t miss our follow-up posts.

In the first post of our series, we look at why it’s important to define your target customer and how to do it.

As you plan for 2023 it’s a good idea to take a step back and think about your perfect customer.  Your customer profile informs everything at your business; what products/packages you offer, your pricing and marketing strategy.  We’ll explore those wider theme’s later in this series, but let’s first think about how to build that profile.

The best place to start is by interviewing, or at least thinking about, a selection of your customers that you’d consider ‘ideal’. How you conduct your research is up to you, you could use a free online survey tool, paper questionnaires or even just write down based on your personal knowledge (we know many instructors know their customer base very well!).

Below we explain the four most important factors to consider when building your ideal customer profile.

  1. Demographics

These are personal pieces of information that describe who we are as individuals and include age range, sex, income range, education, and family status. 

  1. Attitudes

These are lifestyle considerations and focus on what habits they follow, and what goals and pain points they have.  What values and interests do they have?

  1. Actions

This is about behaviour.  Consider how, when and what products those customers buy and potentially ask what they’d like to see added.

  1. Location

With the shift towards working from home, this consideration is particularly relevant.  Consider where your perfect customer is based at different times of the day.

With those questions answered, you can build something like this below (not that it needs to be made pretty!)

From here you can do two things:

  • Review your service and product offering in light of attitudes and location
  • Think about where to find new customers

Reviewing your service offering

Whilst there’s every chance that your current services meet your target customers’ attitudes and location you should take the opportunity to review this regularly. Asking yourself a few simple questions can help:

  • Do all of the services you’ve offered in the past still make sense?
  • Do the buying habits (what’s bought and when) reveal anything about what you should increase or decrease?
  • Do your services accurately map to what your customers state they want?
  • Are there any additions that would better fit or complement their revealed preferences?
  • Do the times of day you offer your services fit their routines?
  • Is there a better or additional location you could use that would better fit their routines?

Think about where to find new customers

With your customer profile built you can now begin to think about marketing tactics:

  • Who would they trust for health/fitness advice or recommendations?
  • Where (digitally / in-person) do they hang out?
  • How best to leverage customer referrals?
  • Are there any local/corporate business opportunities to access them?

This may take some time, and some further research so begins to build that understanding in the next couple of weeks as we review the other building blocks of your business. Making notes on your phone, or having a pad with you to jot ideas down as they come to you is also a good idea.

With your ideal customer profile built and service offering reviewed in our second blog post we’ll move on to consider pricing.  Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin or Twitter to see when it drops in the coming week!

Jul 07
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What’s important in your cancellation policy?

By Fitness business management archives and news, Gym and studios, HIIT and group, Pilates, Yoga

If you have been receiving too many ‘I’m sorry I won’t be able to make it today at the very last minute, is time to set a cancellation policy and start protecting your income. Make this task item number one on your to-do list and keep on reading.

“There’s nothing worse than a cancellation” is a phrase we hear quite often at Gymcatch. Although it’s not quite true. Worse than cancellations are last-minute cancellations, and worse still, a no-show.

We’ve all been in that situation where you have prepared for a training session or class and a client cancels at the very last minute. Handling late cancellations and no-shows can be very difficult for your business, eat away precious income and waste the opportunity to get a new face or different client into the session.

Cancellations and no-shows are out of your control but they are bad for business and bad for morale.   What you can do is two things:

1) encourage responsible behaviour of your client base so to minimise cancellations, maximise the notice they give you when they cancel and eradicate no-shows in all  but extreme cases; and

2) mitigate the financial risk of cancellations.

There is a stack of evidence and proven processes which tells us that you can stop cancellations blighting your business. You don’t need to accept a high drop out rate and you shouldn’t.

Take payment at the point of booking

Cancellation rates at businesses where the client pays at the point of booking are 40% lower than at businesses which operate a pay-on-the-door model.

It’s just a fact of human psychology that once a client has paid for something they are far less likely to not show up or cancel it. Some businesses don’t like taking online payments either for reasons of not wanting to pay the card fees or because of additional admin. All the data points to that being a false economy. What you lose in card fees you’ll make back several-fold in reduced and non-refunded, cancellations.

This helps both sides of the cancellation risk: taking payment in advance reduces the number of cancellations and having the client’s money puts you in control of whether your policies allow a refund in the circumstances.

Do I need to let clients cancel at all?

A cancellation is always better than a no-show (because you’ve got a chance of filling the space). Not giving a client the means of cancelling doesn’t stop them from cancelling, it just means they don’t turn up and you won’t know about it in advance.

This is where having a booking software that automates tasks for you, such as booking confirmation messages and reminders, can be very useful and help reduce your no-shows as well as save you time. If you take a proactive approach, you will help minimize no-shows.


Automation of waitlists and refunds

While you can reduce the number of no-shows and cancellations they can’t be eradicated. But encouraging clients to act responsibly and follow a clear process if they need to cancel maximises the chance of you not being out of pocket.

Making it simple to cancel (and receive a refund if it is due) incentivises clients to do this and give you maximum notice.

And for clients who want to take a cancelled space, an instant waitlist which converts to bookings and that is easy to use saves you the bother of phoning round to try and fill a spot.

Do I need a cancellation policy?

Yes, you do. Every business should have a cancellation policy that sets the boundaries of its services. You don’t need to be a lawyer or to copy someone else’s policy. It just needs to very simply and in plain language set the rules that clients need to know when they book.

With this clear, no-surprises, approach a cancellation policy’s role goes beyond protecting your income and also protects your relationship with your client as it stipulates how you work and what your working boundaries are. Most client-provider relationships that break down, do so because of a lack of communication.

Don’t be afraid of making the terms onerous. Strict cancellation policies will encourage good clients to book rather than put them off because it places real value on the place – it demonstrates scarcity and that the client is buying something in demand.

Setting the tone at the very start, for example at sign-up stage will help bring more commitment from the client too. This doesn’t mean that you can’t use your discretion when a client comes to you with some particularly difficult circumstances – you’ve always got that option.

What should I include in a cancellation policy?

  1. Contact information
    How to contact you or your gym or studio. If your client needs to contact you to cancel a session make sure you tell them the process for that. Do you want them to contact you directly, if so how. Or do they need to cancel their booking on your booking system?
  2. Cancellation without penalty?
    Are you going to allow clients to cancel and provide them with a refund, provided they give you sufficient notice?
    Not all businesses do this. Some say that once you’ve booked there are no refunds. Others will always provide a refund no matter when the cancellation comes in. Most businesses fall somewhere in the middle.The whole point of this is to maximise your chance of selling the space that the client is cancelling. If you’re a business with packed waitlists and are regularly over-subscribed and your services are easy to participate in at short notice you can afford to allow cancellations until relatively late. E.g. 48 or 24 hours before the start time.If your session is harder to fill, you don’t have a regular waitlist, or the class is difficult to participate in at short notice then you will probably want the place on sale for longer. E.g. 1 week.We find that cancellation policies which allow refunds up until a few hours before the class start time are counter-productive and see low levels of client uptake on the newly available and more frequent cancellations.at least 24 or 48 hours before. Some will even charge a penalty fee if the 24- or 48-hour timeframe has been breached. If your client has adhered to the timeframe, however, you can give them the option to book into the next session.
  3. Cash refunds or credit
    It’s important to state in your cancellation policy whether you will issue a monetary refund, allow to reschedule or even include a penalty fee.  Offering a refund in the form of a credit to book another session will usually be the better option.  It cheats the revenue in the business, is lighter on admin and acts as a better tool for retention.
  4. Agreement
    When a client makes a booking you’re entering a contract with them so you need to know that you’ve got their agreement. Make sure they read and understood both your cancellation and refund policies. Having your clients tick or sign in the agreement will save any misunderstandings as they’re in clear knowledge of how you operate.

Gymcatch helps you minimise the number of cancellations. Our online booking software and management system lets you set your cancellation policy to suit your business needs. You can choose to automatically credit customers with a class package that lets them book a replacement class if they give you enough notice. And although cancellations are inevitable and when this happens, our waitlist feature set allows you to fill up the cancelled space fast.

 

 

May 03
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3 step guide to cutting costs for your fitness business

By Fitness business management archives and news, Gym and studios, HIIT and group, Pilates, Yoga

As a fitness or wellness professional, you’re probably already feeling the squeeze of rising costs and the impacts this will have on your business. Looking at your financial health and planning for the months ahead will prove an invaluable exercise.

And although there are some critical costs or expenses that can’t be avoided, there are others that can easily be reduced and get you to start saving money, fast.

We wanted to share a guide that might help you save money and get your business into better financial health by cutting common costs or expenses without jeopardizing your business’ potential to grow. This isn’t about cutting corners – this is about making sure that every penny you spend is well spent. Here’s a practical guide to cutting costs and improving business in three As.

1. Audit

What are you spending, on what and why? Are there alternatives to any item of expenditure, are there items that you can eradicate by changing your internal processes?  On revenue, what are your attendance and cancellation rates, and how are your products and services performing?

Write down every process or cost associated with your business. Don’t restrict yourself to the obvious things. This is every expense, policy process. Think about cancellation policies, waitlist, communications, marketing, the operations of your business, the time you spend on different elements, your training and development. This is a deep dive into everything in your professional life.

Break down every detail of your business, no matter how small or no matter how long that expense has been in your business. Take nothing for granted and don’t pass off small costs. The accumulation of marginal gains goes straight to your bottom line.

2. Analyse

What are the little changes you can make to improve your profitability? These might all be small changes individually, but when you add them up, they can really make a difference.

The SCAMPER method will help you find the best and most innovative solution. SCAMPER is the acronym for (substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put, eliminate and reverse) and encourages you to improve existing processes.

Take your list of expenses and process and say for each of those and apply the SCAMPER options to each of them. Is there a substitute, can you adapt or modify it?

Is there something you use but you could use something less expensive? Do you use something which doesn’t actually pay for itself? Are you doing work that you could push back on your clients?

This table gives you an example of how to analyse the operations of your business:

3. Action

Now that you have worked out what savings you can make, is time to get stuck in with planning and work out how you will operationally manage your business so that your costs remain low, you reinvest where you need to, and simultaneously your efficiency runs high.

See this as a new opportunity to reinvent some of the things you do and bring added value to your customers. By connecting with your most loyal customers, they will be feeding you tons of great insight. Use this information to improve the way you communicate with your audience to truly connect with them and grow your community. Adding value will help you figure your niche and stay one step ahead of everyone else.

 

These are our top 5 tips for creating value for your customers:

  1. Make it easy for your customers to book and pay. Everyone dislikes a painful buying experience. Make this easy for them, and yourself and automate this. They will love getting notified and being able to have control over their class or appointment booking schedule.
  2. Leverage the power of customer testimonials. Make sure you reward your loyal few and fill their inboxes with discount codes and other incentives they can use to encourage them to invite friends and family.
  3. Make sure your customers hear from you, and often. Staying top of mind is an artform and you want to make sure your name pops to mind even at the dinner party. Give them access to free resources such as healthy tips guides, helpful facts and reminders, or an inspirational story.
  4. Create a VIP room. You can use Facebook to bring your most loyal customers together in a place where they can feel inspired and motivated, and hear the most up to date news from you. Add them to a priority list in your booking system too so that they get access to booking ahead of anyone else and can secure their spot!
  5. Do what you love. When you do the things you love you become more productive and motivated. Automating and delegating some of the boring admin tasks with software will enable you to do more of what you love and gain more time to engage more with your customers.

 

Once you have audited your expenses or costs and know the actions you need to take to make some savings, you’ll want to make sure your booking and customer management software is affordable and easy to use for you and your customers. That’s where Gymcatch can help you, get in contact with us today.

Mar 22
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How to Price Your In-Person Fitness Classes

By Fitness business management archives and news, HIIT and group

Pricing your fitness classes can be one of the hardest decisions you make as a fitness professional. Charge too little and even a busy class may not be profitable. Charge too much without demonstrating the value behind the price and you may struggle to fill places.

The right price needs to reflect your local market, experience, costs and the type of service you provide. You also need a simple way to put that pricing into practice. With Gymcatch, you can set prices for your sessions, take payments online and offer different purchasing options such as individual classes, packages and courses without manually managing every transaction.

Personal trainer Anna Martin shares her advice on finding a price that works for your clients and your fitness business.

1. Research Your Local Fitness Market

Every area has a different price ceiling. What customers expect to pay will vary according to your location, local demographics and the type of fitness service you’re offering.

Start by looking at comparable fitness businesses in your area.

The closer the service is to yours, the more useful the comparison will be. You can compare the cost of small-group training with a dance fitness class, for example, but they’re different experiences serving potentially different customers. Their willingness to pay may not be the same.

When researching competitors, look at:

  • Price per class

  • Class size

  • Session length

  • Instructor experience

  • Facilities and equipment

  • Packages or passes available

  • Introductory offers

  • Cancellation terms

Competitor pricing gives you a benchmark, not necessarily the price you should copy. Don’t assume that being the cheapest provider will fill your classes. Customers consider the overall experience and value you’re offering, not simply the number on the booking page.

2. Value Your Skills, Education and Experience

Your price should reflect what you bring to the class.

If you’ve been teaching for several years, you’ve built knowledge through both formal education and practical experience working with different clients. That expertise has value. 

So don’t automatically lower your prices because another instructor nearby charges less.

If you’re providing a more specialist service, have significant experience or offer something your competitors don’t, you may be able to justify charging more.

The same applies to the experience surrounding the class. Perhaps you provide high-quality equipment. Maybe your classes deliberately have fewer participants so everyone gets more individual attention. Perhaps you have specialist qualifications relevant to the people you’re training.

Those differences should influence your pricing, and you should make sure customers understand what they’re getting for their money.

3. Calculate the True Cost of Running Each Class

Before deciding what to charge, work out what each class actually costs you.

Venue hire is an obvious expense, but it isn’t the only one. Your costs might include:

  • Venue hire

  • Equipment

  • Travel

  • Insurance

  • Licences

  • Marketing

  • Booking and payment software

  • Payment processing

  • Time spent on administration

  • Customer support outside the class

  • Preparation time

Then work out how many people you realistically expect to attend.

For example, imagine a class costs £60 to run once you’ve accounted for your relevant expenses. If you typically have 10 paying customers, you need to generate more than £6 per person before that class produces any profit.

And don’t calculate everything based on a completely full class. If your maximum capacity is 15 but you normally attract 10 or 12 people, your pricing needs to work at realistic attendance levels.

Using Gymcatch’s booking and payment tools can give customers a straightforward way to reserve and pay for their place online while making it easier for you to manage who has booked.

4. Decide How Much Profit You Need to Make

Covering your costs isn’t the same as running a profitable fitness business. Your pricing also needs to compensate you for your time, expertise and the risk involved in running the business.

Ask yourself how much you need each class to generate for it to be worthwhile.

If a class takes one hour to teach but also requires 30 minutes of travel, setup, customer communication and administration, you’re not really selling one hour of your time.

Capacity matters too. A class limited to six people may need a higher per-person price than one that can accommodate 25 because there are fewer customers across whom you can spread your costs.

Think about the minimum attendance you need to make a class viable and the profit you’d generate at typical and maximum capacity. That gives you a much more useful basis for setting your price than simply looking at what another instructor charges.

5. Keep Your Fitness Class Pricing Simple

A common mistake is creating an overly complicated pricing structure in an attempt to suit every possible customer.

You might end up with different legacy prices, one-off arrangements, manual bank transfers and special deals that become increasingly difficult to manage.

Simple and transparent pricing is easier for both you and your customers. For example, you could offer:

  • A single drop-in class

  • A multi-class package

  • A course

  • An introductory offer

Gymcatch lets fitness businesses create different ways for customers to purchase sessions, including individual bookings, packages and courses. That means you can offer flexibility without having to create bespoke arrangements for every client.

Whatever structure you choose, make it easy for customers to understand what they’re buying, what it costs and any conditions attached.

6. Consider Packages and Multi-Class Offers

Not every customer wants to purchase one class at a time.

Packages can give regular customers a convenient way to purchase several sessions while giving your business greater commitment upfront. The important thing is to price them deliberately.

If a single class costs £12 and a 10-class package costs £100, you’re effectively offering a £20 discount. Ask yourself whether the additional commitment from the customer makes that discount worthwhile.

You could also use packages to encourage different behaviours, such as rewarding customers who commit to attending regularly.

Gymcatch allows you to sell different purchasing options alongside your schedule, helping customers choose and pay for the option that works for them without you having to manually keep track of every booking.

7. Use Discounts Strategically

Discounting can help you attract new customers or encourage particular purchasing behaviours, but it shouldn’t compensate for pricing that doesn’t work in the first place.

Consider using discounts for a specific purpose, such as:

  • Introductory offers

  • Early-bird bookings

  • Referral campaigns

  • Limited-time promotions

  • Specific classes or packages

Gymcatch’s Discount Codes can help you create promotional offers while maintaining your normal advertised pricing.

Set clear rules around each promotion. Customers should understand what the discount applies to and when it expires. That makes promotions a deliberate marketing tool rather than something you offer whenever someone questions the price.

8. Know When to Increase Your Fitness Class Prices

Your prices won’t stay the same forever.

Venue hire increases. Equipment costs more. Insurance changes. Your own experience grows. Inflation affects the cost of running the business. Eventually, your prices will need to change too.

Don’t wait until your classes have become financially unsustainable before increasing them. Review your pricing periodically and look at:

  • Changes in your costs

  • Typical class attendance

  • Profit per class

  • Local competitor pricing

  • Demand for your sessions

  • Additional qualifications or experience

  • Improvements you’ve made to the service

If the numbers no longer work, a price increase may be necessary.

How to Tell Clients About a Price Increase

Price increases are largely a matter of good communication.

Give customers plenty of notice rather than changing prices overnight. Explain clearly:

  • What the new price will be

  • When it takes effect

  • Which classes or packages are affected

  • What happens to anything they’ve already purchased

You don’t need to spend weeks apologising for the decision. If your costs have increased and you’re providing a quality service, changing your price is part of running a sustainable business.

You may lose the occasional customer. But keeping every customer at a price that no longer covers your costs isn’t a sustainable alternative.

Manage Your Fitness Class Pricing with Gymcatch

Getting your pricing right is important. Managing it shouldn’t create another pile of admin.

Gymcatch helps fitness professionals put their pricing strategy into practice by bringing schedules, bookings and online payments together in one platform.

You can create classes and other sessions, set up different purchasing options, sell packages and courses and use promotional tools such as discount codes without relying on manual bookings and bank transfers.

That means customers get a straightforward way to see what’s available, understand what it costs and book, while you get more time to focus on running your classes and growing your business.

Ready to simplify your fitness bookings and payments? Sign up for Gymcatch or book a demo to see how Gymcatch can support your fitness business.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much should I charge for a fitness class?

There’s no single price that’s right for every fitness class. Consider local competitor pricing, your costs, class capacity, experience and the type of service you’re providing. Your price needs to cover the true cost of running the class while leaving enough profit to make it worthwhile.

How do I calculate the price of a fitness class?

Calculate the total cost of delivering the class, including venue hire, equipment, insurance, travel, administration, marketing and other relevant expenses. Add the profit you need to make, then divide that figure by a realistic number of paying attendees rather than assuming every class will be full.

Should I offer fitness class packages?

Packages can work well if you want to encourage customers to commit to several sessions rather than purchasing individual classes each time. Make sure any discount still leaves you with a sustainable margin and set clear rules around how and when the package can be used.

Can Gymcatch manage different prices and packages for fitness classes?

Gymcatch lets fitness businesses create different ways for customers to purchase their services, including individual sessions, packages and courses. You can also use discount codes for specific promotions, helping you manage different purchasing options without relying on manual bookings or payment tracking.

Can customers pay for fitness classes online with Gymcatch?

Yes. Gymcatch supports online payments as part of the booking journey, allowing customers to select eligible fitness services and pay online rather than requiring you to arrange payment separately.