For Gym & Studio Owners
ENTERPRISE-GRADE CLASS MANAGEMENT.
ZERO MONTHLY FEES.
You're paying $200-400/month for software designed for chains with 50 locations. Your boutique studio deserves the same tools without the enterprise price tag. NForge gives you class scheduling, bookings, HD video, and automated payments — completely free.
The problem
SOUND FAMILIAR?
Your software costs more than your electricity
Mindbody. Momence. Glofox. $200-400/month before a single student walks through the door. That's $2,400-4,800/year for software, more than many studios spend on utilities. And that's before payment processing fees get stacked on top. For a small studio, these subscription costs eat directly into your margins.
Your team can't use half the features
Your platform was designed for franchise chains with 50+ locations. It has enterprise reporting, multi-location management, corporate wellness portals, and a hundred features you'll never touch. Your front desk just needs to check bookings, start classes, and confirm payments. Instead, they're fighting through a bloated interface that requires training sessions and a manual.
No virtual class option without another subscription
You want to offer a few online classes for students who can't make it to the studio? Your current platform doesn't include video. Now you need Zoom on top of everything else: another subscription, another system, another set of joining links. The overhead kills the idea.
Payment processing fees stack up
Your platform charges a monthly subscription AND takes a cut of every transaction. At $15,000 in monthly class revenue, you might be paying $300/month in subscription fees plus $420 in processing fees. That's $720/month ($8,640/year) to collect money your students are already willing to pay you.
Students can't find you online
Your studio relies on foot traffic, Google Maps, and word of mouth. There's no platform where people searching for fitness classes in your area can discover your schedule, browse offerings, and book instantly. Your marketing is disconnected from your booking system.
The solution
HOW NFORGE FIXES THIS
ZERO MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION. ZERO SETUP FEES.
NForge is completely free to use. No subscription tiers, no setup costs, no per-user fees, no credit card required. The only cost is 7.9% when a student pays for a class. Slow month? Your software cost goes down with it. Best month ever? You pay proportionally, never a surprise invoice.
- Zero monthly subscription, forever
- No per-user or per-location charges
- No setup or onboarding fees
- Transaction fee only when revenue comes in
- No long-term contracts or commitments
SIMPLE ENOUGH FOR ANY STAFF MEMBER
NForge was built for coaches and instructors, not enterprise IT departments. Your front desk can manage bookings in minutes. Your instructors can start live classes with a single tap. If your staff can use a smartphone, they can use NForge.
- Intuitive mobile app for instructors and staff
- Class scheduling with 5 recurrence patterns
- Student booking and payment management
- Automated reminders and invoicing
- No training required, usable on day one
IN-STUDIO BOOKINGS. VIRTUAL WHEN YOU WANT.
Every in-studio class gets a public booking page on the NForge marketplace: students book a spot or buy a session-credit membership, pay upfront, and get automatic reminders — your instructors just mark sessions done from their phone. And when you want a 7am virtual flow or a 9pm online HIIT session, the built-in HD video (up to 50 participants) uses the same booking system, same payment flow, same schedule.
- Public booking pages and marketplace discovery for in-studio classes
- Memberships & session credits, paid at booking
- Built-in HD video for virtual classes, no Zoom subscription
- Students join online sessions via a browser link, no downloads
- One schedule and one payment flow for both
HOW A BOUTIQUE STUDIO SAVED GBP 4,200/YEAR AND ADDED VIRTUAL CLASSES
The Movement Lab is a boutique fitness studio in Leeds. One room. Four instructors. Twenty classes per week: yoga, pilates, HIIT, and mobility. They were paying GBP 280/month for Momence plus payment processing fees. Their total software cost was roughly GBP 350/month (GBP 4,200/year).
They switched to NForge in January. Setup took an afternoon. Each instructor created their class schedule using the recurrence patterns: yoga on Monday and Thursday, pilates on Tuesday and Friday, HIIT on Wednesday and Saturday, mobility on Sunday. NForge generated every session for the quarter automatically.
The front desk staff picked it up immediately. No training session. No manual. Students browse the schedule, book, and pre-pay through the NForge marketplace. Walk-ins can book on site via the same system. Every booking triggers an automated invoice and payment collection. The front desk hasn't manually processed a payment since February.
In March, they added two virtual classes per week: a 7am yoga class and a 9pm HIIT class. Time slots that weren't viable for in-studio attendance, but perfect for people at home. Sixteen students signed up in the first week, all through the NForge marketplace. That's incremental revenue with zero additional studio rent, zero additional equipment, and zero additional software cost.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is NForge a full gym management system?
How does NForge's cost compare to Mindbody or Momence?
Can my instructors use NForge easily?
Can I add virtual classes to my studio schedule?
Do students need to download an app to book?
Can I run NForge alongside my current platform?
STILL PAYING MONTHLY
FOR SOFTWARE?
Every month you spend on platform subscriptions is money out of your pocket. NForge has classes online and in person, AI-written programmes, client management, automated payments, and a marketplace that sends new clients your way. It costs you nothing until a client pays you.
Free forever • No monthly fees • No credit card needed