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Zen Planner 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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  • Overview
  • Pricing and Plans
  • Features
  • Integrations
  • User Reviews

Overview

Zen Planner
Zen Planner
4.3
(267)

Pricing

Starting at $99.00 per month

About Zen Planner

Our comprehensive, gym member management software provides everything you need to turn your passion into a successful business. With payment processing & auto-billing, lead-generating websites + digital marketing, virtual classes, scheduling, retail, automations, Member & Staff Apps, in-depth reporting & more, you have everything required to grow, nurture & retain your members.

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Zen Planner Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $99.00 per month
Free Trial
Free Version

Zen Planner Studio

$99.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

  • Member Management
  • SugarWOD Integration
  • Zen Planner Community
  • Zen Planner Help Center
  • Memberships & Billing
  • Reporting & Dashboards
  • Online Scheduling
  • Staff Mobile App
  • Member Mobile App
  • Member Self-Service
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Zen Planner Essentials

$198.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

  • Lead Generating Website
  • Customizable Lead Forms
  • Appointment Scheduling
  • Pipeline Management
  • Blogs
  • 2-way Text & Email
  • Facebook Messenger
  • GMB Messaging
  • GMB Call Tracking
  • Missed Call Text Back
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Zen Planner Ultimate

$348.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

  • CRM
  • Email Verification
  • Workflows
  • Lead Tracking
  • SMS & Email Templates
  • Email Marketing
  • Triggers
  • Trigger Links
  • Dashboard Reporting
  • Email Campaigns
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Zen Planner Features

  • Popular features found in Membership Management
    Application Management
    Communication Management
    Dues Management
    Email Marketing
    Event Management
    Member Directory
    Member Portal
    Membership Renewals
    Payment Processing
    Promotions Management
    Registration Management
  • More features of Zen Planner
    Access Controls/Permissions
    Activity Dashboard
    Activity Tracking
    Alerts/Notifications
    Appointment Management
    Appointment Scheduling
    Attendance Management
    Attendance Tracking
    Automated Scheduling
    Belt Ranking Classification
    Billing & Invoicing
    Booking Management
    Calendar Management
    Class Management
    Class Registration
    Class Scheduling
    Client Management
    Client Portal
    Client Profiles
    Community Management
    Contract/License Management
    Credit Card Processing
    CRM
    Customer Accounts
    Customer Database
    Customer Engagement
    Customizable Branding
    Customizable Forms
    Customizable Reports
    Customizable Templates
    Data Import/Export
    Electronic Payments
    Email Campaign Management
    Email Management
    Email Templates
    Employee Management
    Enrollments/Onboarding
    Event Calendar
    Event Scheduling
    Facility Scheduling
    Fitness Performance Tracking
    Fitness Plan
    For Dance Studios
    For Gyms
    For Martial Arts
    For Yoga/Pilates Studios
    Group Scheduling
    Instructor Management
    Inventory Management
    Lead Generation
    Lead Management
    Marketing Automation
    Member Accounts
    Member Communication
    Member Database
    Membership Management
    Member Types
    Mobile Access
    Mobile App
    Mobile Booking
    Online Booking
    Online Payments
    Online Registration
    Point of Sale (POS)
    Push Notifications
    Real-Time Reporting
    Recurring/Subscription Billing
    Reminders
    Reporting/Analytics
    Reporting & Statistics
    Secure Login
    Self Check-In/Check-Out
    Self Service Portal
    SMS Messaging
    Social Media Integration
    Staff Management
    Student Management
    Task Scheduling
    Team Management
    Template Management
    Third-Party Integrations
    Transaction History
    Visitor Management
    Waiver Management
    Website Integration
    Website Management

Zen Planner Integrations

PaySimple
PaySimple
SugarWOD
SugarWOD
WhatsApp
WhatsApp
ClassPass
ClassPass
Zapier
Zapier
Google Drive
Google Drive

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Zen Planner User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

5

58%

4

23%

3

10%

2

4%

1

5%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.0

Value for money

4.2

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.1

MT

Maribel T.

Health, Wellness and Fitness

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

Keeps me organized

4

Previously 5

I'm not the most organized person and doing all admin, billing as well a coaching my clients, Zen Planner helps to keep the back end of my business organized and running smoothly. The automations are great if they're set up correctly. Their customer support is amazing!! Not much waiting time and my issues are always resolved. When I started, they're pricing was pretty competitive. Although, they've gotten much pricier over the past year.

Ratings Breakdown

4
Ease of use
4
Value for money
5
Customer support
4
Functionality
Previously 5
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Pros:
Having automated billing, emails and scheduling. Being able to pull billing reports at a moment's notice to see where my finances are is a plus.
Cons:
Having so many options for reports and automations. It can be very confusing at times and sometimes having two steps to accomplish a task isn't clear.

Reasons for choosing Zen Planner

The price, automations and their customer support.

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DC

Damien C.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed July 2024

A must for managing martial arts studios

5

10/10 would recommend. We have had a great experience and enjoy using the software.

Ratings Breakdown

5
Ease of use
4
Value for money
5
Customer support
4
Functionality
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Pros:
We have been supported the entire way with their superior customer service. Everything from set up to troubleshooting tech issues, the staff at Zen Planner have been there to support and guide us in our day to day operations.
Cons:
We had an issue with a tablet that wasn't able to be resolved. However we found a work around and now have no problems whatsoever!

Reasons for choosing Zen Planner

Another gym we know uses Kicksite and they had many issues during implementation.

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CP

Corey P.

Health, Wellness and Fitness

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

Great

4

Previously 5

As a business owner, it is like having another employee without the baggage excess.

Ratings Breakdown

4
Ease of use
5
Value for money
5
Customer support
4
Functionality
Previously 5
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Pros:
The functionality towards business but student retention at the same time
Cons:
the thing that i like least about the software is the Workout tracking feature. It is very clunky.

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KR

Kim R.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2019

You can't beat their support team!

5

I am love the people at ZP. There isn't one person I've come in contact with that hasn't been helpful, positive, encouraging, understanding and cheerful. I went to their office because I was starting a new program and wanted help with the set up of the program and the membership. They set me up with one person to be my helper that day. Now what company will do that? I can tell you that no other software company I've used would've offered me that. Also, love the Zen Academy. I learned about so many more things the software could do for me that I wasn't either using or doing in a google spreadsheet . So now ZP is helping me save more precious time and I'm learning more about my business in the process. Thank you reports and automations!

Ratings Breakdown

5
Ease of use
5
Value for money
5
Customer support
5
Functionality
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Pros:
Honestly, their customer support! However, I don't have to call often as the on boarding team set me up wonderfully to begin with. But the support articles answer almost all my questions so I don't have to call. I am a small studio and don't have a front desk staff but ZP does it all for me (well, allows my clients to do it all for me). It is super easy to use on all fronts.
Cons:
I have't run into anything that I don't like. I use ZP on my laptop in a web browser and I've found it confusing to try the staff app on my phone or tablet. This old dog struggles with learning new tricks :) So we can't blame ZP for that.

Reasons for choosing Zen Planner

When I switched...ease of use and price. But now I'd say for their support and how they help keep me up on trends via their blogs, social media posts and Zen Academy. I'm even switching my website over to ZP!

Reasons for switching to Zen Planner

Price; they are local, I'm in CO, and their customer support.

Vendor Response

Thanks for your feedback, Kim!

Replied September 2019

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RH

Robert H.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2024

Zen Planner Review

4

We've used it for almost ten years now and it has been very helpful for tracking membership data. It's not very intuitive and training new volunteers how to use it takes a while, but its working for what we need it to do.

Ratings Breakdown

3
Ease of use
3
Value for money
3
Customer support
3
Functionality
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Pros:
We can document the important most data from our membership.
Cons:
It is not very flexible and report writing is very clumsy. There is a very bad bug with testing records that overwrites previous data with blanks if you not careful. This has lead to numerous problems and repeat data entry.

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RR

Richard R.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2024

Good software; Horrible back office customer service!

3

ZP's back office customer service is horrible. In fact, "customer service is a misnomer; it is actually customer disservice. ZP's tech support is, from time to time, difficult to access by phone, but the tech support staff is excellent. Additionally, the software is highly evolved, fairly intuitive and reliable.

Ratings Breakdown

3
Ease of use
3
Value for money
3
Customer support
3
Functionality
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Pros:
Zen Planner has nearly all features we require to run our school of traditional Japanese karate, including payment processing, rank tracking, online store, class and event management.
Cons:
We started with ZP in late 2023 and had fully migrated by March 2024. In December 2023, we decided to change banks and asked ZP and its payment processor, Gains, to do so. For four months, we've been waiting for them to resolve this issue, but they don't answer our emails and refuse to telephone us to make this simple back-office change. We are mystified and disappointed. So, we've let them know we'll leave ZP if they don't resolve this matter by May 1, 2024.

Reasons for choosing Zen Planner

We had used ZP before the pandemic. We left because ZP because it did not have the capacity to stream live online classes or recorded content.

Reasons for switching to Zen Planner

Wellness Living is expensive; it's Tech Support is very difficult to reach by phone (long waits on hold is the norm); it made no enhancements to its features for traditional martial arts schools during more than 2 years we were clients.

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RA

Ross A.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Zen planner does an ok job

2

Would not waste my time with this software, they don't deliver on their promises, invent fees to access your data, don't follow through with their support. It took me 3 months to get them to finish my cancelation as they kept sending emails to students saying they owed because their payments failed AFTER I switched to another system. Very unprofessional and rude.

Ratings Breakdown

2
Ease of use
4
Value for money
2
Customer support
2
Functionality
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Pros:
It was quite a bit less per month then any of the other software I checked into at the time. It did an ok job for doing parents nights out.
Cons:
On the surface it looks like it will do a good job but in reality it is buggy, poorly implemented and just didn't deliver on the promises it was supposed to.

Reasons for choosing Zen Planner

Zen looked like it would do everything that Rainmaker did for less than half the price, 2 years and lots of frustration latter I switched to Spark,

Reasons for switching to Zen Planner

Wanted to upgrade to a program that had better billing and automations

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LM

Liz M.

Verified reviewer

Sports

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2020

Used it for three years - feature rich but hard to use

3

We switched from Mindbody to Zenplanner and used it for three years. Zenplanner is chock full of features (other than membership discounts, as mentioned above), but it's so full of features that it becomes clunky and hard to use. I could do just about anything from my admin account, but my fellow coaches who spent less time in it had a harder time working with it. Customers also struggled a lot. We have now switched to Upper Hand, and while it has fewer features and the reports aren't as good, our customers are actually booking their own classes instead of making me do it.

Ratings Breakdown

3
Ease of use
4
Value for money
4
Customer support
5
Functionality
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Pros:
I was the primary account administrator, and I could fix just about anything retroactively. Once you really know your way around, it's got almost everything you could think to want. There are a lot of customization options for emails you can send your customers, and it was easy to check which emails an individual had opened. The reports were great. Best reporting I've seen, and it's pretty much the only thing I'll miss. Support was good - very responsive, with multiple ways to contact them. I also appreciated the discounts they gave businesses at the start of the COVID shutdowns.
Cons:
The software was very difficult for customers to use, so much that about half of our parents (and a couple of our coaches) just wanted me to do everything for them. Doing so on my end was time-consuming. Zenplanner offers some options to integrate with our existing website, but it didn't work in every circumstance. What customers could do from our primary domain was pretty limited, and it wasn't easy to switch back and forth between our site and the ZP site. Zenplanner does not offer automatically-applied membership discounts, so we had to have customers use offer codes. Membership discounts (such as on retail or private lessons) are pretty standard in fitness businesses and not having that option was a major pain. There was no way to easily see which coaches had availability at which times.

Reasons for switching to Zen Planner

Mindbody raised rates while reducing features. Mindbody was even harder for our customers to use.

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VG

Vincent G.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2024

ZenPlanner Review

3

Not the best. I have looked into other apps and am reviewing a change with the [sensitive content hidden].

Ratings Breakdown

3
Ease of use
3
Value for money
5
Customer support
3
Functionality
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Pros:
Downloadable info into spreadsheets. Being able to customize search queries.
Cons:
App freezes and is inconsistent on a lot of features. Sometimes it works well, others it does not.

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JC

Jessica C.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2024

Zenplanner review

3

My experience with Zenplanner is average. Many items I do not like and find the product confusing and not flexible to the changing landscape of what we need it to do. The web application is reliable.

Ratings Breakdown

2
Ease of use
2
Value for money
5
Customer support
2
Functionality
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Pros:
The uptime of the product is great for the web application. It is reliable.
Cons:
Complicated to use. Struggle to use it to its full capacity Reporting is confusing to set up Does not offer the flexibility needed for a business owner.

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