MemberVault vs. MINDBODY

I recommend it for those who are maybe 1-2 employees in their business--in other words, people just starting online with their business. It's priced right, so you can still make money with few sales. Plus, the ongoing support really helps you understand how to navigate the platform. It probably wouldn't be as great for someone who has thousands of people taking a course or someone who can afford a platform like Kajabi, where you can have everything right there. Because it doesn't host everything you need, it is for the frugally minded or smaller clientele biz owner.

Incentivized

MINDBODY excels in areas that rely on the "bread and butter" of its design: scheduling, member management, and payment processing. Overall as a fitness center management solution, MINDBODY is by far the best product we have used and they have evolved their capabilities in good alignment with our needs as well.

Incentivized

• They have great customer support.
• They are priced in a reasonable way for even small business owners.
• You can display all of your products on one page.
• They have weekly support through Zoom meetings.

Incentivized

• MindBody does a great job of sending out reminder emails to clients so they do not miss a class.
• MindBody does a great job at giving instructors a fast and easy way to check in clients and to see who is all signed up for their classes for the week.
• MindBody has a great payroll feature. All you have to do is set the dates and it generates a nicely laid out PDF of all the classes you taught during that time period and what you have made from them.

• I do wish you could host video right on the platform. You can't now but have to use other video sites.
• I wish you could tailor the domain to reflect back to a page on your website.
• I like the marketplace page but wish you could design it a little bit differently.
• It's hard for people to cancel a subscription on their own.

Incentivized

• There is so much functionality and not enough accountability. I wish there were more tracking of all transactions done on the clients or operations end to be able to review history and learn from mistakes.
• The MINDBODY branded app connection needs more attention.
• Please add a covid vaccination checker to the application (not just to use in the web browser). It has taken way too long to get this feature.

Incentivized

Settings are often buried, user interface rules vary depending on whether it's a newer feature or an older one. From daily usage, people learn how it works and get used to it, but it's not something someone could just pick up without any training or hand-holding.

Incentivized

Constant errors and TERRIBLE PRODUCT support

Fails at everything form availability to reliability.

MINDBODY support takes forever to get back to you via email in my experience. The process is not as simple as it was back when they had the chat feature. I really wish they would bring that back! Most items are normally some weird glitch that they can fix in minutes but you have to wait days now.

Incentivized

Both Teachable and Kajabi are much higher priced. I feel like the look of Teachable is no better than MemberVault, and so I wouldn't want to pay more for that platform. Kajabi is much more aesthetically pleasing in how it looks and all you can do, but the price is at least 3-4 times more per month. I also wanted a platform that would let me have few people, and they let me start on a free plan initially. The others did not.

Incentivized

MINDBODY is really the only system of its kind that is widely used by fitness and yoga studios. Its app is the industry standard for looking up and signing up for classes, so most students rely on it exclusively. If there were another viable alternative it would have to promise more ease of use and intuitive backend.

Incentivized

Constant errors and ZERO support from the company.

• Since starting with MemberVault 4 years ago, I went from 0 customers to 850 clients, with about 220 paying customers.
• I've grown my mailing list by about 1000 by using this platform.
• I wish they worked with all email providers because I have to pay more for Zapier. This hurts my sales profit.
• Their plan to grandfather us into the price we originally paid helps me save money each year as I add more products.

Incentivized

• I've had agents help me set something up that ended up costing time and money because it was done wrong. [In my experience], less senior agents need to stop guessing or going with "I think so" and talk to a senior agent to make sure what they are telling the client is correct.
• The app is good exposure.