ClubReady is fitness club management with an unusually strong sales and lead-management side — pipelines, follow-up cadences, and the conversion discipline that franchise groups build their growth on. Mako is the business platform underneath an independent gym or studio: booking, memberships, payments, staff pay, retail, and profit reporting. They optimise for different problems and different sizes of business.
ClubReady: No pricing is published. Plans are quoted per club after a sales conversation, and the product is generally sold into franchise and multi-site groups. We have not printed a figure because we could not verify one.
Mako: Pulse is free. Basic at $139/month — the complete operational platform with three team members. Team at $249/month — fifteen team members, extra locations at $75/month each, advanced reporting, QuickBooks sync. Enterprise at $999/month — unlimited members across three locations. Roughly 20% off annually, no contract.
If you go to quote, get all of it in writing: base platform, per-location charges, onboarding and implementation fees, contract length, and what the rate becomes at renewal. Franchise-oriented software often carries multi-year terms.
ClubReady's premise is that a fitness business lives or dies on lead conversion — every enquiry worked, every trial followed up, every close tracked. For a high-volume club with a dedicated sales team, that is genuinely the constraint and ClubReady addresses it directly.
Mako's premise is different: most independent operators are not losing money on leads, they are losing it on classes that do not cover their cost, trainers whose pay does not match what they bring in, and members who drift away unnoticed. Those are measurement problems, not conversion problems.
Work out which one is actually your bottleneck before you buy either.
Built for it, and mature. If you employ salespeople, they will have tools that match how they work.
Hierarchies, central reporting, and the structure large groups need across many clubs.
Account management and structured onboarding matched to how bigger organisations buy.
Budget in thirty seconds, same number for everyone, leave whenever you like.
Profit per class and per service after trainer pay and floor time, cash-flow forecasting, unit economics, LTV — built for an owner who is also the finance department.
Session rates, splits, tips, timesheets and payouts, calculated at the rate that applied on the day.
Supplements, merchandise and consumables with stock levels and margin per item.
Pulse compares your churn against market averages and names who has stopped attending. Free, imports from other systems, and evaluable without a sales call.
Pick ClubReady if:
Pick Mako if:
Your gym is a business. Not a hobby, not a side project, not a calendar with a cash register. It deserves software that treats it accordingly. If your platform cannot tell you whether you are financially healthy, it is not doing its job. And in 2026, you have better options.
See Mako in action — no sales call required
Mako is built for independent gym owners who would rather spend their time on members than on demo calls. Open the live demo, poke around, and see exactly how booking, payments, and financial intelligence come together in one place.
Try the demo: https://app.makocrm.so/demo
Self-serve. Instant access. No forms, no calendars, no "talk to sales."
