Club Bar vs GymPoint

Club Bar is an open-source point-of-sale system for sports clubs, community centers, and member organizations running a bar or canteen. Members can identify themselves with RFID or NFC cards and see their personal tab at the terminal. The terminal stores data locally, allowing checkout without an internet connection and syncing when connectivity returns. Administrators can manage members and products, handle settlements, view reports, and review transaction journals and audit history. Checkout checks minimum product ages and can refuse an offline sale using a member’s birth date. Settlement tools export XML or CSV, and the backend generates SEPA direct debit pain.008.001.08 XML. The system supports SMTP email and REST APIs, with an optional ESP8266 token dispenser. Its security design includes mandatory admin TOTP two-factor authentication, role-based authorization, encrypted IBANs, audit logging, and terminal anomaly detection. Club Bar is self-hosted at free, with no subscriptions. Hosting documentation specifies PHP 8.3 or later, MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.5+, and Apache mod_rewrite; the Flutter desktop terminal targets embedded Linux.

GymPoint brings gym billing, scheduling, check-in, point of sale, waivers, and member access together in a web platform with Android and iOS apps. Staff profiles can include contact information, membership status, billing and check-in history, and private notes. Scheduling supports recurring templates, capacity limits, waitlists, member bookings, and trial-class bookings that create leads. GymPoint Payments handles tap, chip, swipe, and contactless payments, with inventory tools; the maker says raw card data is handled by third-party processors rather than gym servers. Pulse AI offers lead scoring, churn prediction, failed-payment recovery, and weekly business digests. The free plan includes core tools and unlimited members, but requires GymPoint Payments as the processor. Growth is $149 a month and Pro is $249 a month; annual billing saves 20% on paid plans. A seven-day trial is listed. It also provides a public REST API, outbound Zapier-compatible webhooks, named integrations, and embeddable schedule and signup widgets.