Arketa vs GymSales

Arketa provides fitness and wellness studio software for scheduling, payments, payroll, and business automations. Clients can book classes, appointments, and events, with waitlists and guest passes. The Individual plan includes class, private, and event scheduling, client management, an on-demand library, memberships and packages, and an embeddable booking widget. Higher-tier plans add features such as staff management, payroll reporting, email and text campaigns, automated workflows, lead management, and an AI-powered email builder. Studios can publish a branded app in the App Store and Google Play for clients to book, pay, and watch classes. Listed integrations include Google Calendar, Google Business, Facebook, ClassPass, Wellhub, Kisi, Mailchimp, and Zapier. Arketa targets businesses including yoga, Pilates, gyms, recovery, personal training, and massage, and says it supports operations from one to 100 locations. Individual costs $49 a month billed annually, plus a 3% Arketa transaction fee and Stripe fees. The stated U.S. Stripe card processing fee is 2.9% plus $0.30.

GymSales is a lead management platform for fitness businesses, covering lead capture, follow-up and sales activity. Gyms can collect website enquiries or use a branded iPad guest sign-in app or QR code flow that includes waiver submission. Staff can build prospect profiles, assign salespeople and manage follow-up tasks. Contact options include automated follow-ups, bulk campaigns, and one-to-one email, SMS and phone engagement. Reporting covers campaign results, waiver compliance, daily activity, sales funnels, team activity and custom sales targets. The system can track additional sales such as personal training or childcare with separate automated items and follow-up tasks. GymSales is web-based and has an API for connecting existing lead capture forms. Listed platforms include Android, iOS, web and API access. The site directs prospects to book a demo rather than publishing a price. Subscription fees are billed monthly in advance; optional SMS is charged per credit sent. The terms specify a 99.95% monthly uptime target, subject to exceptions including planned downtime and third-party outages.