ClubReady alternativeBuilt for the sales floor, priced by phone call.
ClubReady is organized around gym membership sales — lead flow, appointment setting, closing — and publishes no standard pricing. Cinch covers that same funnel plus booking, retention, POS, staff scheduling, and payroll at a published $249/month flat.
The difference in one line. ClubReady optimizes the sale. Cinch runs the sale and everything that happens after it, on one bill.
What each one charges.
| Line item | Cost |
|---|---|
| Any tier Quote-based. Payment processing is commonly bundled, which is where the real cost often sits. | Not published |
| Cinch Own Stripe account, Stripe's direct 2.9% + 30¢, no processing markup taken by us. | $249/mo flatpublished |
When a vendor bundles payment processing into the relationship, compare the processing rate as carefully as the subscription — a fraction of a percent on your whole revenue often exceeds the entire software fee. Ask what rate you'd be on and what it would cost to leave.
Competitor figures verified 2026-08-03. Published means the vendor states it publicly; reportedmeans it comes from third-party pricing aggregators and operator reports. Always compare against your own most recent invoice — that’s the only number that is definitely true about your business.
Why operators go looking.
- Bundled processing is the hidden line
A markup over standard card-processing rates is charged against every dollar you collect, forever, and it doesn't appear as a software cost.
- Strong at acquisition, thinner after
The product's center of gravity is the sale. Retention, member experience, and day-to-day operations get less attention than the funnel does.
- Quote-based means renewal-based
A price you negotiated is a price that gets renegotiated, usually in one direction.
Where ClubReady beats us.
Every comparison page on the internet pretends this section doesn’t exist. Here’s ours — if one of these is load-bearing for your business, stay where you are, and we’d rather you learn that here than on a demo call.
Lead routing, appointment setting, call scripting, closer accountability — if your gym runs a real sales floor with commissioned staff, ClubReady's tooling for that is more developed than ours and you should test both against your actual process.
Multi-location franchise groups with corporate reporting requirements are core to their business. We're not built around that yet.
One vendor, one relationship, one support line. Some operators genuinely prefer that to managing a Stripe account, and it's a fair preference.
How the migration goes.
White-glove and included on every plan. Most migrations are one to three days of actual work.
- 1
Export your data
Members, memberships, schedule, instructor profiles, and billing history — a CSV from your current vendor is enough. Every platform on this list can produce one; if yours makes it difficult, that difficulty is itself worth noting.
- 2
We import and reconcile it
White-glove, included, no charge. We load it, then hand you a reconciliation list of anything ambiguous rather than guessing on your behalf.
- 3
Connect your own Stripe account
About ten minutes. Payouts go to your bank — Cinch never holds your money, and you keep the account if you ever leave us.
- 4
Run both in parallel
Keep the old system live while you check the new one against it. Nobody should cut over on faith.
- 5
Cut over and cancel
Members install your branded app, and you cancel the old subscription. Most migrations take one to three days of actual work.
Asked and answered.
Does Cinch have a sales pipeline?+
Who processes our payments?+
Can we keep commission tracking for our sales staff?+
One bill instead of ClubReady plus four others.
$249/mo flat, every feature included, no transaction fees and no contract. Free migration, and a 60-day trial before any of it starts.