Best gym management software in New Zealand (2026)

The three questions that decide it

1. What’s the total cost?

Subscription plus any percentage of member payments. The second one is usually bigger and never appears on an invoice.

2. Can it direct-debit New Zealand members?

Direct debit is the rail NZ gyms run on. Some international platforms only support cards here, which means collecting manually — not a workaround at 200 members.

3. What do your members actually get?

Every platform ships a member app. Most are a timetable. It decides whether anyone opens it twice.

Six, in no particular order

GymMasterbest for NZ gyms wanting one local vendor

Christchurch, New Zealand · founded 1997

Christchurch-built, in 75+ countries, and the highest-rated NZ-native option — 4.7/5 from 165 NZ reviews.

Pricing: $129–299/mogymmaster.com(opens their pricing page in a new tab). Branded member app $200/mo + $600 setupgymmaster.com(opens their pricing page in a new tab).
Best for: Gyms with no access hardware who want one company to supply, install and support everything. That’s a genuinely tidy package.
Watch for: Hardware is GymMaster’s own ecosystem: their proprietary controller and RFID readers. This works well and is well-supported. The structural risk is software lock-in — if you ever want to switch gym software, your access hardware complicates the move. The readers only work with GymMaster’s controller, so a software change can require a hardware change too.

Full comparison with PATO →

Mindbodybest for studios that need to be found

United States · founded 2000

Heavily used in NZ yoga, Pilates and studio fitness. 4.0/5 overall, 3.6/5 on value.

Pricing: A$89–369/mo per locationmindbodyonline.com(opens their pricing page in a new tab). Branded app $249–299/mo, or their top tier. Processing rate: Not published.
Best for: Studios where discovery is the problem. The consumer app has around 3 million users and drives real first-time bookings.
Watch for: The marketplace charges 20% of a new client’s first purchase, capped at $30. Priced per location, and the percentage scales with your success.

Full comparison with PATO →

PushPressbest for boxes wanting a free entry point

United States

A free Core plan with no member cap, and paid tiers above it.

Pricing: $0 on Free · $159 Pro · $229 Maxpushpress.com(opens their pricing page in a new tab). On member payments: 4.99% + $0.30 on cards (Free plan)pushpress.com(opens their pricing page in a new tab).
Best for: Very small or brand-new gyms where a percentage of not much is genuinely not much.
Watch for: At $20,000/month processed on cards, the “free” plan costs around $11,976 a year. Card processing is limited to the countries their partners cover — confirm they can direct-debit NZ members before committing.

Full comparison with PATO →

Gymdeskbest for simplicity

United States · remote

Everything included on every tier, flat pricing by member count.

Pricing: US$75–325/monthgymdesk.com(opens their pricing page in a new tab). 30-day trial, no card, no lock-in.
Best for: Gyms who want a straightforward product with no upsells and no surprises. The message is the cleanest in the category and the product delivers on it.
Watch for: A much smaller product. No AI, no nutrition tracking, no member companion.

TeamUpbest for scheduling done extremely well

United Kingdom

4.8/5 — the highest-rated option in the category. Fair active-customer pricing, no feature gates.

Pricing: US$189/mo at 101–200 active customersgoteamup.com(opens their pricing page in a new tab). Branded app +$99/mogoteamup.com(opens their pricing page in a new tab).
Best for: Class-led businesses whose main need is scheduling done really well.
Watch for: Scheduling-first by design. No AI, no engagement layer, no access control.

PATObest for gyms that want everything in one AI-first platform

Aotearoa New Zealand · built by NEZIAK

Our own entry — weigh it accordingly. PATO is an AI-first gym operating system: not AI added to existing software, but built around an agent that already knows your gym’s members, classes, pricing and coaches, and can act on it. Every feature on every plan — no tier gates. Used by general fitness gyms, 24/7 facilities, MMA gyms and PT studios. The base offer is more complete at its price point than any other platform in this comparison.

Pricing: $99 / $249 / $499 per month by member count. No commission on member payments, ever. No feature gating — the full offer is on every plan. 14-day free trial, no card required.
Best for: General fitness gyms, 24/7 facilities, MMA and martial arts academies, CrossFit boxes and PT studios that want one platform for everything. Member AI companion, scheduling with a built-in website, marketing that writes itself from live gym data, and billing with no platform commission. The most complete base offer at this price point.
Watch for: We’re new, with no decade of logos. No consumer marketplace — if you need a directory of strangers to discover you, Mindbody has one and we don’t.

At a glance

	Commission	Branded app	NZ direct debit
GymMaster	Via processing	+$200/mo
Mindbody	Takes one, unpublished	$249–299/mo
PushPress	4.99% cards	+$81–97/mo	Ask them
Gymdesk	Via processing	Included	Ask them
TeamUp	Via processing	+$99/mo
PATO	None	+$99/mo

Every figure in this table is drawn from the same source records as the entries above, each linked to the vendor’s own pricing page and re-verified quarterly.

The honest summary

You want a consumer marketplace to be found in

Mindbody

One local vendor for hardware and software

GymMaster

Simplicity above all

Gymdesk

Scheduling done extremely well

TeamUp

Retention is your problem, and you want members using something daily

PATO

Four of those five point somewhere other than us. That’s the point of a roundup — if your problem isn’t the one we solve, we’d rather you found the right answer here than the wrong one from us.

Competitor figures are read off each vendor’s published pricing page and re-verified quarterly. Where a vendor doesn’t publish a figure, this page says so rather than estimating one.

Best gym management software in New Zealand

The three questions that decide it

Six, in no particular order

GymMasterbest for NZ gyms wanting one local vendor

Mindbodybest for studios that need to be found

PushPressbest for boxes wanting a free entry point

Gymdeskbest for simplicity

TeamUpbest for scheduling done extremely well

PATObest for gyms that want everything in one AI-first platform

At a glance

The honest summary

If retention is the problem, start here