TeamUp Alternatives: Choosing the Right Fitness Platform
TeamUp (goteamup.com) is one of the most widely used class and membership platforms in fitness - popular with boutique studios, CrossFit boxes, yoga and pilates studios, martial arts schools and small independent gyms. It is a good product with an unusually operator-friendly structure. Gyms still shop around, and when they do it is almost always for one of two reasons: the way the bill scales, or the fact that TeamUp does not give you a website.
This comparison covers TeamUp against Glofox - its closest like-for-like rival - and Bizzly, a flat-fee platform bundling a fully flexible website editor, class booking, membership and term or season billing, payment-gated booking quotas and a WhatsApp AI assistant into one subscription. Competitor pricing below is as of July 2026; confirm it on each vendor's own site before committing.
Why Fitness Businesses Look for TeamUp Alternatives
The bill grows with your membership
TeamUp prices on active customers - anyone who registers or purchases in the month, counted once regardless of how often they attend. As of July 2026 that means roughly $104/month up to 100 active customers, with TeamUp's own pricing slider showing around $189/month in the 101-200 band and a reported flat rate near $309/month at the top. Growth is good, but a studio that adds twenty members in January finds the platform bill has stepped up too, and businesses with seasonal peaks feel it most.
No website, so you pay for one twice
TeamUp gives you a customer booking site and embeddable widgets, not a website builder. Almost every TeamUp studio also pays for Wix, Squarespace or WordPress, plus the time to keep two systems in step: new class on the timetable, new page on the site, new price in two places. That is a second subscription and a second login for something most operators would rather buy once.
Only one billing model fits neatly
TeamUp is built around the rolling monthly membership, which it does well and pro-rates sensibly for mid-month joiners. Courses exist alongside memberships, but studios running genuine term-based programmes - a six-week beginners' course, a twelve-week challenge, a school-term junior class - often find the edges rough. TeamUp waitlists, for instance, apply to classes but not to courses. If half your revenue is memberships and half is blocks, test that split carefully in the trial. Reviewers also flag a customer-facing booking flow that can feel slow, admin navigation that is not always intuitive, and fiddly niche billing rules.
What to Look for in a TeamUp Alternative
How the platform charges you
There are three models here: a flat monthly fee (Bizzly), a fee by active member count (TeamUp), and quote-based tiers behind a sales call (Glofox). Work out your cost at your current size and at the size you expect in eighteen months, adding card processing to each, then ask every vendor whether they charge anything on top of it - Bizzly does not, TeamUp passes through its payment partners' rates, and Glofox operators report a platform surcharge. The model that is cheapest today can be the most expensive one you are locked into next year.
Whether the website comes with it
People find studios through Google and Maps. A booking widget does not rank; a website does. Decide whether you want a real website builder - editable page by page, with class landing pages and local SEO copy - in the same product as your bookings, or are content to pay for two. It is the largest single difference here.
Both billing models, or just one
Most fitness businesses eventually sell more than one thing: an unlimited monthly membership, a ten-class pack, and a fixed-length course or seasonal programme. Check your shortlist runs all three properly - what happens when someone joins a block halfway through, whether each group carries its own capacity, what your cancellation policy does to a part-used term. Platforms built around one model treat the others as an afterthought.
Who answers enquiries at 9pm
Most fitness enquiries arrive outside staffed hours, and most are the same five questions: when is the beginners' class, is there space on Thursday, how much is a ten-class pack, do you do a trial. A platform that answers those automatically - and takes the booking - converts enquiries you would otherwise lose overnight.
Feature Comparison
TeamUp vs Glofox vs Bizzly: Feature Comparison
| Feature | Bizzly | TeamUp | Glofox |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fully flexible drag-and-drop website editor | Every plan | ||
| Class booking with capacity limits | |||
| 1-to-1 / PT appointment booking | |||
| Monthly membership billing | |||
| Class packs / prepaid session credits | With expiry dates | ||
| Term, block and season billing with auto-rolling seasons | Courses | Check website | |
| Mid-term pro-rating for late joiners | Memberships; check for courses | Check website | |
| Payment-gated booking quotas | Check website | ||
| WhatsApp AI assistant (answers, checks availability, books, cancels) | Standard plan+ | ||
| Attendance registers (present / late / absent, printable) | |||
| Waitlists with an automatic timed claim offer | Standard plan+ | Classes only, not courses | |
| Free trial sessions as a bookable service | Standard plan+ | ||
| Customer portal: pause, change plan, self-serve cancellation | Check website | ||
| Per-client progress / lesson journal | A note can be saved with each attendance mark | Check website | |
| Digital waivers with signature | Custom registration forms, not e-signed | ||
| Member mobile app | Responsive web app, not a native app | ||
| Branded white-label app | Around $99/month add-on | Higher tiers only | |
| Door access control | Check website | ||
| In-person POS / card terminal | |||
| On-demand video library | |||
| Online / virtual classes | Google Meet links sent automatically | Check website | |
| Discount codes | Via Stripe promotion codes | ||
| Family accounts (several members under one payer) | Check website | Check website | |
| Sibling / family discounts | Via Stripe discount codes, not applied automatically | Check website | Check website |
| Instructor pay rates / payroll | Check website | ||
| SMS notifications | 50/month on Standard, 200/month on Pro | Check website | |
| HubSpot CRM sync | Via Zapier | ABC ecosystem add-on | |
| Review requests, moderation and publishing to your site | Check website | Check website | |
| Google Business Profile integration | Standard plan+ | Check website | Check website |
| Publicly published pricing | |||
| Flat fee regardless of member count | |||
| Free trial | 14 days, no card | 30 days | Demo / sales call |
Pricing Comparison
| Item | Estimated Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bizzly Base | £19/month (£190/year) | 50 bookings, 1 calendar, 10 pages, the fully flexible website editor, memberships, packs and term billing, attendance registers, review requests, Stripe discount codes, automated invoicing and Stripe payments. No per-booking or platform transaction fee. The price does not move as your member count grows. |
| Bizzly Standard | £29/month (£290/year) | 200 bookings, 3 calendars, 15 pages, the WhatsApp AI assistant (500 messages/month), waitlists, free trial sessions, custom profile fields, 50 SMS/month, Google Analytics and Google Business Profile integration. |
| Bizzly Pro | £49/month (£490/year) | Unlimited bookings, calendars and pages, custom domain, branded email domain, merch store, per-venue pricing, WhatsApp 2,000 messages/month, 200 SMS/month. 14-day free trial on every tier, no card required. Prices shown in GBP; Bizzly is a global, multi-currency product and bills in your own operating currency. |
| TeamUp | From around $104/month | As of July 2026. Priced by active customers per month rather than by feature tier - around $104/month for up to 100 active customers, with TeamUp's own pricing slider showing around $189/month at 101-200, and a reported flat rate of around $309/month at the top band. No setup fee, no contract. Billable in USD, GBP, EUR, AUD or CAD. Confirm your band on goteamup.com/pricing. |
| TeamUp branded app | Around $99/month | Optional add-on for a custom-branded member app, charged on top of your plan fee. The standard TeamUp member app is included at no extra cost. |
| Glofox | Quote only (reported from around $99 to $110/month) | As of July 2026 Glofox does not publish per-tier prices - the pricing page is a "request pricing" flow. Third-party and operator-reported figures start at roughly $99 to $110/month for a single studio and run past $500/month for multi-site groups. Annual or quarterly commitments and onboarding fees are commonly reported. Get a written quote before comparing. |
| Card processing (all three) | Standard processor rates, e.g. Stripe from around 1.5% + 20p on UK cards | Bizzly adds nothing on top of Stripe - no platform fee, no per-booking fee - and the payment methods you accept follow your own Stripe settings, so cards and wallets by default, with Bacs Direct Debit available to UK businesses that enable it in Stripe. TeamUp passes through card and direct debit rates from its payment partners; confirm the figures for your country. Glofox operators report a platform surcharge layered on standard processing - ask for that in writing. |
Platform Reviews
TeamUp
Best for: Studios, boxes and small gyms that run classes in person and need e-signed waivers, kiosk or door check-in, retail and a member app in one system.
TeamUp is mature, well-liked and unusually honest in structure: there is no feature gating, so a 40-member studio gets the same memberships, class packs, courses, registers, waivers, POS, access control, on-demand video, reporting and Zapier integrations as a 600-member gym. It runs month to month with no contract and no setup fee, includes a member app as standard, offers a free assisted data import, and gives you a 30-day free trial.
The catch is the pricing model: because you pay by active customer, success costs money, and each band you cross is a permanent step up in fixed cost. There is no website builder, so budget for a separate site. And the class/course split has sharp edges - waitlists work on classes but not on courses, which matters if you run block programmes.
- Pricing: From around $104/month (July 2026), by active customer band. Branded app around $99/month extra. 30-day free trial, no contract.
- Strengths: No feature gating at any price, strong in-club operations, member app included, waivers and access control, assisted migration, published pricing
- Limitations: Cost scales with membership, no website builder, waitlists do not cover courses, retail setup is fiddly, customer-facing booking flow criticised as slow by some reviewers
Glofox
Best for: Multi-site studios and franchise groups that need a white-label member app and will negotiate a contract to get it.
Glofox, now part of ABC Fitness, aims squarely at boutique fitness. Its strongest cards are the branded white-label member app, genuine multi-location and franchise tooling, a wide international footprint with multi-language and multi-currency support, and integration with the wider ABC ecosystem including Trainerize. Operators praise the dashboard and the way recurring billing runs once configured - for a group opening its third site, that is hard to replicate self-serve.
The consistent complaint is commercial rather than technical. Glofox does not publish per-tier pricing - the pricing page is a request-a-quote flow - and operators report annual or quarterly commitments, onboarding fees, a platform surcharge on transactions above standard processing, and price increases at renewal. Support quality since the ABC acquisition also draws criticism on public review sites. You simply cannot compare Glofox on paper: get a written quote covering tier price, term length, transaction fee and renewal terms.
- Pricing: Quote only. Operator-reported from around $99 to $110/month at entry, past $500/month for multi-site (July 2026). Confirm directly.
- Strengths: White-label branded app, multi-site and franchise depth, international coverage, strong dashboard, ABC ecosystem integrations
- Limitations: Opaque pricing, contract commitments, reported transaction surcharge and renewal increases, mixed support reviews since the acquisition, no website builder
Bizzly
Best for: Personal trainers, class-based fitness businesses and studios that want their website, their bookings and both billing models in one flat-fee platform.
Bizzly comes at the problem from the other direction. Rather than running the club floor, it runs the commercial front end - starting with the website. Every plan, including the £19 Base tier, includes a fully flexible drag-and-drop website editor: the whole public site is editable page by page, so class landing pages, pricing pages and local SEO copy live in the same product as the timetable - not an embeddable widget bolted onto someone else's site, which is what both competitors here actually offer. You build pages from 26 drop-in components - booking calendar, timetable, membership plans, testimonials, forms, a shop with a cart, and the entire customer portal as a single block - style any element down to a raw CSS inspector, set a global theme and brand colours, write per-page SEO with a SERP preview, restore an earlier page snapshot, and draft or refine a page with AI.
On billing, Bizzly runs monthly memberships, prepaid session packs and fixed-term or seasonal blocks side by side. Term and season billing is a first-class model, not an afterthought: mid-term pro-rating so a week-four joiner pays only for what is left, holiday camps sold whole or per day, capacity held during checkout so a block cannot oversell, and configurable cancellation policies - billing-period end, a notice period, or the end of the season. Season subscriptions can auto-roll members into the next season, billed natively through Stripe. Bookings are gated by payment - a client can only book what their active plan, pack or credits cover, and lapsed payment removes booking access automatically, so billing and access are one system rather than two lists to reconcile. Advance-booking windows, cutoffs and cancellation notice are set per plan.
The operational layer is there too: attendance registers with present, late and absent marking, a note against each mark, a printable register sheet and a cross-session roster; waitlists that hold a FIFO queue and auto-offer a freed place as a time-limited claim link; free trial sessions as a per-service toggle with their own booking CTA; family accounts with several members under one payer and custom profile fields driving per-slot eligibility; discount codes through Stripe promotion codes, which is also how sibling discounts are applied; custom registration forms; automated Stripe invoicing and failed-payment dunning; a customer portal covering pauses, plan changes, policy-driven cancellation with a live refund quote, credits, receipts and GDPR data export; sessions synced with Google Calendar; online classes with Google Meet links generated per booking; HubSpot CRM sync; review requests sent by SMS magic link that you moderate and publish straight to the site's testimonials; and Google Business Profile integration on Standard and above. On Standard and above, a WhatsApp AI assistant answers member questions, checks live availability including recurring slots, suggests alternatives, joins waitlists, handles account and invoice queries and takes or cancels bookings 24/7 - handling the 9pm "is there space Thursday?" enquiries that otherwise wait until morning.
The gaps against TeamUp are real and worth naming: no e-signed digital waivers (custom forms only), no native member mobile app - it is a responsive web app - no door access control, no in-person POS hardware, no on-demand video, no instructor payroll, and no per-client progress journal, since the nearest equivalent is the note saved with each attendance mark. Members cancel and rebook rather than rescheduling themselves online, though staff can move a booking for them. A CrossFit box that scans members in at the door and sells supplements at a counter should choose TeamUp.
Where Bizzly wins is cost shape: flat at £19 to £49/month regardless of member count, no per-booking or platform transaction fees on top of Stripe, and the website included rather than bought separately. A studio growing from 50 to 300 members pays what it paid on day one. Bizzly is global and multi-currency: it bills in your own operating currency, wherever you run.
- Pricing: £19 Base, £29 Standard, £49 Pro per month, flat. No per-booking or platform transaction fees. 14-day free trial, no card required.
- Strengths: Fully flexible website editor on every plan, memberships and term/season billing together with auto-rolling seasons, payment-gated booking quotas, WhatsApp AI assistant, registers, waitlists, trials and a self-serve customer portal included, flat price at any member count
- Limitations: No e-signed waivers, no native member mobile app, no POS or door access, no on-demand video, no payroll, no per-client progress journal, no customer self-serve rescheduling on the web
How to Choose the Right Alternative
Stay with TeamUp if:
- You run classes in person and rely on kiosk or door check-in and e-signed digital waivers
- Your members expect a mobile app and you do not want to pay a tier premium for one
- You use retail, POS hardware, door access or on-demand video alongside classes
- You value every feature being available at every price point, with no contract
Choose Glofox if:
- You operate multiple sites or a franchise and need group-level management
- A fully white-label branded member app is a firm requirement
- You want the ABC Fitness ecosystem, including Trainerize for digital coaching
- You are prepared to negotiate, and to read the contract and fee schedule closely
Choose Bizzly if:
- You want a real website - editable page by page - in the same product as your bookings
- You sell memberships and packs and fixed-term or seasonal blocks, and want all three run properly - including seasons that auto-roll into the next block
- You want booking access tied to payment automatically, with nothing to reconcile
- You want a WhatsApp AI assistant answering enquiries and taking bookings overnight
- You are growing and want the platform fee to stay flat as membership rises
Frequently Asked Questions
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Summary
TeamUp is a strong platform and its no-feature-gating policy is genuinely operator-friendly. If your business runs on e-signed waivers, kiosk check-in, retail and a native member app, it remains the most complete of the three and the honest recommendation - you will simply pay more as you grow, and you will still need a website.
Glofox is the choice when a white-label app and multi-site management outweigh the pricing opacity - capable, with real franchise depth, but you will not know what it costs until you have a written quote.
If what you actually need is a website that ranks, class booking with capacity limits, memberships and term or season blocks billed properly side by side, booking access gated by payment, registers, waitlists and trials, and a WhatsApp AI assistant fielding enquiries out of hours, Bizzly covers it for £19 to £49/month flat, with no platform transaction fees and no price rise as your membership grows. It will not run your gym floor, and we would not pretend otherwise - but for studios whose operations are online rather than at the door, it does the job for a fraction of the running cost. Whichever way you lean, confirm current pricing on each vendor's site first: fitness software pricing moves.