One of the highly undervalued industry – the service industry has now enrolled to the online marketplace. Due to Corona people have stopped going outside to get most services, they can now get the same service at attractive offers from the comfort of their houses. On demand service marketplace applications are just a minute away, and you can neglect the hassle of making calls and booking appointments, waiting in lines, and making payments in cash. It can all be done at the digital marketplaces now. From Gym Trainer to house cleaning services and finding service professionals like photographers and choreographers, everyone is available at these marketplaces. Let’s see how online marketplace works and how it can benefit all stakeholders.

How it Works?

The Gym marketplace work as a portal for End users and Gym Studio / Trainers. Gym Owner signs up as partner and setup a profile on platform with different details like Business name, Opening hours, speciality, and facility available in gym, class schedule, Gym photos and videos. Gym trainer will also be able to define few more details like their association with gyms, Freelancer status and expertise.

Customer sees the listing on Portal. Customer can search for Gym Studios/ trainers by Location, keywords as per the fitness goal they have set for. Listing page offers details of each gym with customer ratings. End use / Customer can click on Book button to initiate the booking process along with online payment.

Commercial Model:

Gym marketplace can have two different models. One is subscription based and another is pay as you go based. The monthly subscription version can give Unlimited or certain number of classes in a particular gym or with trainer. The other one is pay as you go model. Where each payment made gives you some credit and then credit can be consumed by using gym facility. Different gym can set different credit depending on location, activity and trainer.

Benefits of Gym Marketplace to Customers:

Workout on your Own Schedule:

Since the workout sessions aren’t done in person, you can choose to workout anytime you like. Often regular gym usage is not possible to work. You don’t want to have to coordinate schedules with someone who trains in a gym across town, or rush to and from work to get to the gym. Another bonus is that many online gym workouts contain a lot of bodyweight exercises, which can be completed at home. You’re now in charge of your fitness in the online marketplace!

Affordable Prices:

Not everyone can afford one-on-one gym sessions. Especially if you want to train more than once a week, personal training can have a pretty hefty price tag. But most online personal trainers charge a lot less for online training than in-person sessions. In some cases, you might find that an entire month of online training is less than one hour of one-on-one, in-person training. Your investment in your fitness stretches out a lot longer.

Anytime Anywhere Access:

Since online class can happen from Gym portal, customer can do workout anytime, anywhere. Customer can access portal from mobile, Desktop or tablet. Also, our portal providing pre-online videos.

No Long Term Commitment:

Since the system offers two payment options: pay monthly and pay as you go respectively, customer has flexibility to choose the plan that suits their pocket. Often Physical gym facility gives yearly plan, which may not be needed by customers in case of not so regular customers. Pay as you go plan and anytime cancellation monthly plan offers best options to customers.

Member Daily Workout Log Schedule:

Fitness trainer can assign and monitor members’ daily workout activity. Gym customer can see the given workout and can record daily workout by means of log in to portal which provides web and mobile access. Customers also get email notification and can give feedback on gym management, gym equipment, gym trainer etc., So that better bridge can be made between customer and gym centre.

Online Payment:

The system offers customer enhanced payment modes so they can pay the gym charges as per their convenience. Portal also have some provision to link the gym account with customer’s bank and they can transfer the money without any hurdles. One most important thing is that privacy and security of important data like customers bank account number, debit or credit card number which is taken care by trusted payment gateways like PayPal and stripe. So using web application customer can pay the fees securely.

Order History – Usage Reports:

By this prospect, Customers can see their order history and can calculate the total expenses. By this factor, one can get overview of their fiscal situation. Reports are Powerful tools you can use to make better fitness and financial decisions. So customer can get Reports on their fitness journey and progress and also needed steps to achieve fitness goals.

Customer Feedback:

No application is complete without having particular segments of feedback. Feedback segments is part of application at which members of gym can login and give some valuable feedbacks so gym institution can modify their plans accordingly. Customer can also give rating and share their experiences of their fitness journey , so better enthusiasm can be establish in new customer and they can aware about fitness.

Benefits Of Gym Marketplace To Trainers / Gym Studios:

Flexible Working Hour for Trainers:

System offers flexible working hours to Gym trainers and customer both. If a Gym Trainer has full time job somewhere and wants to only few hours of training, they can do so by settings up available hours for each single day of weekdays by hours and minutes setup. Trainer must have access to Computer or Smart phone for remote training session.

Online Workout Made Easy:

One can learn and do workout online via video which are made by gym trainer. Also gym trainer can to one to one (personalized) or One to many workout session by doing online broadcasting through zoom call. System also send reminders to customer which reminds the customer and GYM trainer about their workout timing, water intake timing, calories intake etc., so customer can easily get in touch with gym. Within the live (one too many) video feed customer can also ask / chat with trainer and trainer can solve the queries of members instantly.

Get Paid Faster:

Gym owners and Trainers get paid by the system on weekly or monthly settlement cycle. System offers options to set the commission for Gym owners and trainers and each of them can have different commission based on their facility and expertise. System also brings in lot of transparency and they can get paid faster with weekly payment cycle.

Manage Class Charges and Slots Easily:

On the basis of the capacity of the GYM trainer, they can select the timings and no of slots, so they can offer fitness training with ease. Slots may be for beginners, medium fitness and advanced fitness goals. Many gyms and Gym trainers provide one-to-one training or it also known as the personal trainer system. In this system, Trainers / Gyms gets option to define their own charges for training.

Conclusion:

Service Marketplace is the latest trend in online offerings and it falls in to one of that Low Investment High Return business opportunity. At Dasinfomedia we can help you develop Fitness marketplace portal for Gym Studios or Gym trainers.