Mindbody vs. Squire

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

Squire does the job but could be so much better for the end user. At the end of the day, you can run your books but the ease to do anything other than transactions difficult

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.

• Status - I like how helpful the Arrived, Ready, Paid in Shop, and No Show functions work
• Having a place for client notes is helpful for leaving cut details
• Product Inventory is easier to manage
• Rewards point management

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

• Rescheduling is so hard in Squire. Looking to see aviable times and days with no context makes it super hard. I will often use 2 computers to do it, one to look up a time and one with the Appointment details pop up.
• UI/UX The light grey/white of the appointment screen makes those of us with low vision to fight to read. The black font on blue buttons kills my eyes, I wish we could customize the client grouping colors for return, new for barber, new to shop. Right now it's purple, dark blue, light blue, very close and hard to remember which is which.
• The client notes input field is too small. You can add as much text as you want but you have to scroll to see details. It makes it hard to track everything.
• Lag time feels buggy. Swapping menus or clocking in and out will often time out.
• Changing client information is next to impossible. Want swap out an email or phone number so they can keep their reward points? Not possible.
• Duplicate records between app and web logins for clients will not play well together.

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

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.

• 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.

• Positive: Rewards program management makes gamification for clients a breeze
• Positive: Timecard management is clean and easier for everyone to use even those who aren't technical
• Negative: Wasted time fighting to read the screen due to UX color choices

Incentivized