If you're shopping for a PushPress alternative, the honest answer is there's no single best one — there's the one that handles billing, class scheduling, and your member data on terms you'd still accept three years from now. Start there, not with a feature grid. For independent gyms, CrossFit boxes, and boutique studios, three questions usually settle it: who controls the payment relationship, can you export your full member list without asking permission, and what happens at renewal. AllStrong is worth a place on the shortlist — $99/month per location plus $2 per active member, a direct PushPress import path already built, and member payment data that stays inside a system you can export yourself.
Last updated: August 2026
The next three years of gym software won't look like the last three
Treat what follows as a prediction, because that's what it is.
For about a decade the pitch has been one suite that does everything, priced per member, with your records living inside it. Fair trade, when the alternative was a spreadsheet, a whiteboard, and a shoebox of signed waivers.
It's getting weaker now, and not because of features. Payment processing, member messaging, and member records are becoming things gym owners expect to own and move — the same shift that already happened with email lists, where nobody would sign with a provider that wouldn't let them download their contacts. Gym software hasn't caught up yet. It will.
Owners who pick their next platform on portability rather than demo-day feature count will have real negotiating room at renewal. The ones who pick on the demo find out later what "we can't export that" costs. Data ownership is still an unusual thing to ask about in a gym software sales call — which is exactly why asking now is worth something.
Be specific about why you're leaving
"Alternative" almost always means one of four different things, and they don't lead to the same answer:
- Price. The monthly number stopped making sense at your member count, or processing fees quietly ate the margin.
- One broken workflow. Billing fails on a predictable subset of members, or check-in jams at 5:45am, and everything else is fine.
- Support. Something breaks on a Saturday and nobody answers until Tuesday.
- You've outgrown it, or it outgrew you. A second location, or a platform that keeps adding features you don't use and charging for them.
Write that down before you book a demo. If it's a broken workflow, a cheaper platform with the same gap solves nothing — you'll have paid for a migration and kept the problem.
Six questions worth more than any feature grid
1. Who holds the payment relationship? If a platform sits between you and your members' cards, get it in writing what happens to those payment methods if you leave. It's the largest source of switching pain in this category, and the question most demos are built to skip. More on that in gym membership billing software.
2. Can you export everything, yourself, today? Not "does an export exist" — ask them to run one during the demo and send you the file: members, contracts, attendance history, balances, waivers. A platform that needs a support ticket to hand over your own roster has told you something important.
3. What does the front desk actually touch? Coaches use maybe four screens: check-in, class roster, member status, a quick note. If those are slow, nothing else on the feature list matters. The member records underneath them — the gym CRM software side — is what you'll live in daily.
4. What happens when the schedule changes? Every box reshuffles seasonally. Ask what that does to existing bookings, recurring reservations, and waitlists — usually more manual than the demo suggests.
5. What are the contract and renewal terms, in writing? Length, auto-renewal, notice period, and what happens to your data after cancellation.
6. What does support look like when a class is starting? Ask for real Saturday-morning response times, not the number on the pricing page.
On pricing: pull current figures from each vendor directly rather than from a third-party comparison page, which is often stale and sometimes written by a competitor. For reference, PushPress's own tiered pricing (tracked on our gym software comparison) runs $159–$229/month for the core billing-and-scheduling plan before CRM, a branded member app, or WOD programming get added back on as separate line items — worth checking whether a "full stack" quote from any vendor is one price or several stacked together.
Where AllStrong fits
No feature-by-feature table here, because the numbers that decide these things — price, limits, what has actually shipped — change faster than a blog post does. What's stable enough to state: AllStrong's Gym tier is $99/month per location plus $2 per active member, with a 14-day free trial, and scheduling, billing, CRM, waivers, and messaging are one plan rather than a stack of paid add-ons. If you're coming specifically from PushPress, migration has a direct path — PushPress is one of the source platforms AllStrong's import tool supports by name, via CSV upload or the AllStrong Migrator Chrome extension, with a dry run you review before anything is applied.
What I'd ask for on any call, ours included: a live export of a test member record, the full fee schedule including processing, and the cancellation clause in writing. A platform worth switching to hands over all three without a follow-up email.
For the wider category view before you shortlist anyone, start with gym management software, then gym management software all in one.
Switching without losing a month
Migration is where most owners stall, and the fear is fair — the bad version is a failed billing run and forty irritated members in one morning. Sequencing avoids it.
- Export first, cancel second. Pull members, contracts, attendance history, and balances while the old account is still active, and keep a copy off both platforms.
- Pick your quietest week. Not the first week of January.
- Move members in cohorts, not all at once. AllStrong tracks each member's billing source individually — Stripe, cash, check, third-party, or comped — so members who haven't migrated yet can stay on their old billing status while newly-moved members go live on Stripe, instead of flipping every card on the same day.
- Tell members once, plainly. What changes for them, what doesn't. Most only care whether their card gets charged the right amount.
This doesn't need a project manager, just two weeks of attention and a checklist.
FAQ
What's the best PushPress alternative for a small CrossFit box?
There's no universal answer, and anyone who gives you one hasn't asked about your billing setup. For a single-location box, weigh three things: total cost including payment-processing fees, how fast the front desk can check a member in, and whether you can export your roster yourself. Shortlist two platforms and test both on those three.
How much does it cost to switch gym management software?
The subscription price is the part everyone compares and the smallest part of the real number. On AllStrong specifically: $99/month per location plus $2 per active member, no platform onboarding or setup fee, and a 14-day free trial to test it against your own roster first. Card processing runs through Stripe Connect at a 0.5% platform fee on top of Stripe's own rate. Ask any vendor for that same all-in figure, not just the plan price.
Will I lose member history if I switch?
Not if you export before you cancel. Attendance history, contract dates, and payment records are the hardest items to recover once an account closes, so pull them while the old account is live and keep a copy off the platform. Ask any platform you're considering to show you a real export file during the demo, not a screenshot of an export button.
Can AllStrong import my data from another gym platform?
Yes — PushPress is one of the source platforms AllStrong's migration tool supports by name, importing members, attendance, and billing history through a CSV upload or the AllStrong Migrator Chrome extension, with a dry run you review before anything is applied. Payment methods are the one thing that doesn't carry over automatically on any gym-software migration, AllStrong's included — no processor allows that — so migrated members get a billing-setup prompt instead of a silent card transfer.