Fitune vs Shopify

The great effect that the platform you get for your fitness and wellness business can have on your operation cannot be overstressed. One example includes Shopify, with its broad e-commerce capabilities, though not specifically designed for this niche. Fitune is a fitness industry-designed platform, completely consolidating everything that needs booking, membership, and class management. That is to compare reasons that Fitune's out-of-the-box solution makes the advantage much more than Shopify and allows the way of doing business easily without the huge cost or complexity required with Shopify.

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The image contains a screenshot of a customer review from a person named Tom, dated August 17, 2020, with a 5-star rating. The review is titled "An amazing booking system" and reads: "I considered many different booking systems for my fitness business - but none of them offered the simplicity and user clarity that Fitune offers. I run a small Pilates study and it's truly is an all-in-one solution for my business. My customers love it and it has definitely helped my increase my membership sales and one-off bookings."

The Best Shopify Alternative

Automate busywork, save time and money with the all-in-one fitness and wellness solution.

Tailored for the fitness and wellness industry, Fitune delivers specialized tools for seamless business management. Simplify class booking, event coordination, client communications, payment processing, membership management and more.

Shopify

Basic overview

FEATURES

Online store

Standard analytics

Unlimited products

Standard custom apps

Collaboration tools

Free SSL certificate

Live chat 24/7 support

Unlimited contacts

Sales channels

Manual order creation

Fitune

Basic overview

FEATURES

Customizable website

Class booking & scheduling

Unlimited contacts

Marketing tools

Payment processing

CRM management

1 on 1 appointments

Industry relevant analytics

Human customer support

+ many more...

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Shopify

Fitune

Starting price

🔒 Shopify plans range from $19 to $399 monthly with different features and limitations.

🔒 Third-party apps are necessary for basic functions and their costs can add up to thousands every month.

$0 - Free Forever includes:

✅ Website
✅ Class Scheduling
✅ Automatic Billing
✅ Client Management (CRM)
✅ Livestream Zoom integration
✅ Business Reports
✅ Automated Transactional Emails

To keep the Fitune lights on, we take a 6% transaction fee, but considering what you get, it seems fair.

Upgrade to Pro for just $49/month and get:

✅ 50 Active Clients
✅ 2% Transaction Fee
✅ 25GB video hosting space
✅ Publish courses
✅ Custom domain
✅ Waitlists
✅ Promo codes
✅ Analytics graphs

Industry focus

🔒 Shopify is a commerce platform made to help small businesses build an online store to sell goods.

🔒 Shopify is best suited as a sales front for physical goods.

✅ Fitness and wellness industry
✅ Ideal for small studios
✅ Loved by gyms and multi-location studio owners
✅ Trainers and coaches across every discipline

Set up

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🔒 Templates are used to start a Shopify website, there are some free generic templates, but most will cost around $50.

🔒 Third-party services must be manually added for booking, memberships, and courses.

🔒 These have a costs of over hundreds monthly for each service.

🔒 An additional third party CRM subscription like Hubspot.

🔒 For email marketing the Shopify Email app can be installed.

✅ Launch in just 30 minutes and get help from our onboarding specialists.

✅ Your website is ready to go as soon as you sign up.

Product management

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🔒 Shopify is best suited for physical goods sales.

🔒 A third-party app like Easy Appointment can be installed for booking with an additional $29 monthly fee.

🔒 It has limitations like limited locations and services.

🔒 Video content can be sold through Shopify but for membership management you’ll need an app.

🔒 Bold Memberships has a cost of $200 monthly if you want to manage unlimited subscribers.

🔒 An additional courses management app can be installed for an additional $200 monthly if you want to manage course subscriptions.

With a simple and intuitive interface you can manage your business in just 5 minutes a day.

Every feature you might need is fully integrated with the platform.

✅ Calendar: Schedule your in-person and live classes, one-on-one appointments and events.

✅ On-demand video management: Upload videos to create a constant stream of revenue with unlimited hosting space.

✅ Course management: Easily create routes and challenges for your clients to follow.

✅ Mix and matching on-demand video, lessons, online classes and in-person classes, and events.
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Video hosting

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🔒 There is no specific functionality for video products so an additional app like SendOwl is recommended which adds up to your monthly expenses.

Fitune offers unlimited space for your videos.
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✅ Monetize your online presence and upload videos to create a steady revenue stream.

✅ Charge for each video as a separate product, as part of a challenge, rent it for limited time, or include it in a membership tier.

✅ With Vimeo and Youtube integration you can integrate your existing videos to your Fitune website, just copy and paste the URL.
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Memberships and payment

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🔒 Third-party apps must be used to manage memberships.

🔒 Some apps like Courses Plus can manage subscriptions on their higher price tiers.

🔒 These can’t be used to manage subscriptions for bookings, leading to redundancy and increased costs of up to hundreds monthly.

🔒 Payments are handled through Shopify Payments which isn’t available in all countries.If needed you can integrate an external payments provider.

🔒 A transaction fee is applied by Shopify on each sale above the 50th each month plus your processor’s regular fees.

✅ Handle all your payments automatically through Stripe, just link your account.

✅ Create membership tiers and grant your clients access to online and in-person classes, events, courses, and videos

✅ Mix and match in any combination you can think of to keep your clients engaged and excited.

🤝 As any card processor, Stripe charges a small fee (1.4% - 3.6%) for processing transactions.
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Client Management

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🔒 Shopify has no native CRM system.The monthly cost for a provider like Hubspot can go up to hundreds depending on the functionalities you’re looking for.

✅ Manage your clients with a simple, customizable, and flexible database.

✅ New customers are added automatically or you can invite them yourself.

✅ Gain data driven insights into your clients with industry specific metrics and a customizable database.
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Sales reports

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🔒 Sales reports can be viewed from analytics and share the same constraint of not being industry-specific.

✅ Quickly access your invoices and track payments per date, client, type, source, and status.

✅ Every metric tracked has been chosen based on the needs of your fitness and wellness business.

✅ Track your business growth with monthly sales reports.
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Marketing tools

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🔒 An email promotion tool is included through Shopify Email, you’ll need to spend time installing and managing this additional tool.

🔒 Emails can be automated but you’ll need to spend time writing all messages and programming them.

✅ Email templates are ready for your prospective and already engaged clients. Fitune sends these automatically when needed.

✅These templates have been designed specifically for the needs of wellness and fitness businesses.

✅Customize each email or add new ones as needed.

✅Create fully customizable promo codes for prospective clients or to reward your current ones.
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Analytics

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🔒 An analytics tool is provided but you’ll need to filter out any non-relevant information for your industry and business.

✅ Guide your business decisions based on data with an array of analytics specifically chosen for the fitness and wellness industry.

✅ Quickly gather information on sales and clients, including new, active and returning.
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✅ Use integrated comparison tools to review your periodic growth.
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✅ Generate comprehensive reports on your bookings, one-on-one appointments and sales.
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✅ Review your on-demand videos performance with metrics like views, watch time and playback devices.

Basic

Popular

$96/year

Basic features for up to 10 users with everything you need.

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Business

$192/year

Advanced features and reporting, better workflows and automation.

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Enterprise

$384/year

Personalised service and enterprise security for large teams.

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Overview

Basic features

Users

Unlimited

Individual data

20GB

40GB

Unlimited

Support

Automated workflows

200+ integrations

Reporting and analytics

Analytics

Basic

Advanced

Export reports

Scheduled reports

API access

Advanced reports

Saved reports

Customer properties

Custom fields

User access

SSO/SAML authentication

Advanced permissions

Audit log

Data history

*Pricing and features taken from the Shopify and third-party providers on 11/18/2023. For more information please visit their pricing page.

Don’t take our word for it

4.9/5

I love how it allows me to manage both in-person and online group classes.

Sara

Founder Turn Studio
Spain

Glad I came across Fitune, really easy to set up, perfect for my yoga classes.

Mariel

Founder Kopo Yoga
Mexico

Excellent support. They been kind, patient, informative and an absolute pleasure to deal with. I was so scared about the IT side but they have been very encouraging. I’m beyond happy with support and the product itself.

Mrs Marks

United Kingdom

Fitune makes managing things super simple and the greatest part is it's all in one place.

Michelle

Spain

This is a game changer to my scheduling and payment placed in one place together.

Nikki Robs

Founder NRFit
United States

It does everything you need to run your online fitness business. It is so perfect for fitness Instructors and personal trainers.

Erika

United States

Finally found what i was looking for and it has not disappointed, Fitune has revolutionised my business, saved me a-lot of time, given me a professional edge and has been a smart investment.

Amy

United Kingdom

Fantastic service, the booking system is very easy to use. It helps participants to book the classes which in the minutes.

Deimante

Deimante Dance School
United Kingdom

Awesome experience with this platform so far. It’s extremely user friendly in my end and my clients end which is perfect. I love that I can teach my classes, course and coaching all in one place! Everything is organized so well.

Stephanie

United States

I found Fitune a great platform, really friendly to use as a business and for the customers. They have really good service and anything you need help with they make sure to solve it.

Ana Gaby

Mexico

These guys have really improved the software. Every time I login, I'm always looking to minor changes. I actually submitted some feedback, and they made those changes. it makes me feel part of a community.

Diego

United States

I've been looking for a reliable and affordable booking solution for a long time and I'm so glad I came across Fitune. I love how I can run all my services in one place. It's extremely easy to use for myself as well as for my customers.

Emily

United Kingdom

Really good tutorials, fantastic site to navigate round especially if you are a bit of a novice in this area.

Kylie Nicholls

United Kingdom

absolutely love the customer service that Fitune has offered me. They have been very accommodating and understanding with my needs. Love this platform!

C. Johnson

United States

I love how it allows me to manage both virtual and in-person sessions

Sara

Founder Turn Studio
Spain

Glad I came across Fitune, really easy to set up, perfect for my yoga classes.

Mariel

Founder Kopo Yoga
Mexico

This is a game changer to my scheduling and payment placed in one place together.

Nikki Robs

Founder NRFit
United States

I was so scared about the IT side but they have been very encouraging. I’m beyond happy with support and the product itself

Mrs Marks

United Kingdom

It does everything you need to grow your fitness business. Perfect for group classes and personal training.

Erika

United States

Boost Efficiency & Grow Your Fitness Business

You want to automate your business processes and streamline your management to reduce your workload, and provide clients with the convenience of online services like booking and video streaming.
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You have a website but aim to cut costs and simplify management, moving away from complex systems that lack fitness and wellness industry specialization.

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You'll Love That Everything's Included

Video-on demand

Monetize your online presence with videos to create a constant revenue stream. With unlimited hosting, course creation tools, and integrations with Youtbe and Vimeo, reaching a worldwide audience has never been easier.

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Time-saving integrations

Manage your bookings, finances, marketing, and online services from a simple easy-to-learn dashboard in just 5 minutes a day.

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Cost-efficient

Fitune has every management tool needed for your business. Eliminate the need for complex systems or excessive monthly fees.

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Unparalleled Support

Increase your revenue from day one with the help of our onboarding specialists, video tutorials, launch checklists and follow up communications.

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Clients love Fitune

Offer your clients an intuitive interface to ensure a seamless purchase experience and keep them coming back.

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Fitune includes the best tools for your fitness business

✅ In-person booking management
✅ Online booking management
✅ Staff management
✅ Payment processing
✅ One-on-one appointments

✅ Membership management
✅ Automated emails
✅ Live stream integration
✅ CRM management
✅ Industry specific analytics
✅ On demand video

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