Gym and studio software in Hua Hin
Hua Hin is the seaside town Bangkok drives to for the weekend, and a place where plenty of people spend the whole cool season. Its studios have two kinds of customer who want almost opposite things.
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In short: MoveMembers is booking, membership and payment software for gyms, studios and camps in Thailand. It is free up to 20 active members, then Pro costs 2,490 baht a month and Max 4,990 baht. It connects to your own LINE Official Account, records PromptPay payments and runs in 15 languages.
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Training businesses in Hua Hin
From Monday to Thursday a class in Hua Hin is a small, familiar group: neighbours, people renting for the season, a coach who knows every name. Then Friday evening brings the traffic down from Bangkok, and on Saturday morning the same room is asked to hold far more people than usual.
The visitors want one thing, a place on Saturday that is confirmed before they leave home. The residents want another, a plan that makes every morning cheaper and the same face at the desk. Selling both from one counter is where the afternoons disappear.
Camps, yoga rooms and small gyms here are staffed by very few people. The coach who takes the morning class is often the one who reads the chat afterwards.
Seasons and who turns up
The cooler months and the long holiday weekends are when Saturday overflows. Count the places in each session and let the page stop at that number; after it, names go on a waitlist, which is kinder than turning someone away on the doorstep.
Rainy midweek afternoons are the quiet stretch. Monthly plans make sense there, but only for people who live in the area, because a weekend visitor has no use for one.
Payments and receipts
A family up from Bangkok will usually scan a PromptPay code, and the money is visible to the desk straight away. A foreign resident signing up for the season more often puts notes on the counter. The team types in what came in, a card can be charged online on the business's own Stripe account, and each payment leaves a numbered receipt behind.
The languages your customers read
Thai families, English-speaking residents and the occasional visitor from further away all pass through. Each can set the booking page and the members' web app to the language they read; the descriptions you write stay in the language you wrote them.
Three things that come up in Hua Hin
Too many people for one Saturday
Cap each weekend session at what the floor can hold. The extra booking is not refused; it waits on a list, and if somebody drops out in time the first name on it moves up and is told. You stop counting heads on the doorstep.
Two customers, two things to sell
A weekend visitor wants a single session; someone staying for the season wants a monthly plan or a card of visits. List both as items in the one catalogue, each with its own validity, and the desk stops explaining the difference out loud.
Replies typed between warm-ups
Before every weekend the same questions arrive: what is on, how to book, how to pay, whether an account is needed. The booking link answers them, and a confirmation goes back by LINE or e-mail without the coach picking up the phone.
How MoveMembers helps
- Put the booking link in your LINE chat and on your page: anyone can reserve a session with a name and a contact, no account needed.
- Cap the places and switch on the waitlist for Saturdays and holiday weekends, and leave the quiet weekday sessions open to your regulars on the same timetable.
- Sell single-session tickets, visit cards and monthly plans side by side, each with the validity that suits how long people stay.
Questions owners ask
Can visitors book a Hua Hin class before they leave Bangkok?
Yes. The link opens in any browser, so a family can pick a Saturday session the evening before they set off, type a name and a contact, and get a confirmation at once. No account or password is involved, and each person in the group reserves their own place. The reminder before the session follows the contact they entered.
What happens when a Saturday session is full?
The page keeps taking names, but onto a waitlist instead of the session itself. If someone cancels in time, the first person on the list moves into the free place and is sent a message. Nobody has to ring round the day before, and the coach arrives to the number of people the floor was meant to hold.
Can the same timetable serve residents on monthly plans?
Yes. Visitors and residents book from the same timetable and the same page. The difference lies in what each of them bought: a single-session ticket, a card of visits or a monthly plan, each with its own validity. The desk reads the balance off the record rather than asking the person to remember it, and anything unpaid shows there too.
Is it suitable for a small Muay Thai camp or yoga room in Hua Hin?
Yes. A session names its subject, its coach and its places, so boxing, yoga and strength can share one timetable. The pages on Muay Thai camps and yoga retreats cover those two businesses in more depth; the shape of the need in Hua Hin is the same, a small team that wants fewer messages to answer by hand.
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