Wodify alternative
CrossFit and functional-training software is overwhelmingly American, and it shows in the one place a UK gym feels every month: how the money arrives. Wodify’s own help centre states that in the UK, Wodify Payments doesn’t support bank account or Direct Debit payments — you can only take card.
Strong OS vs Wodify & US box software
| Strong OS | Wodify & US box software | |
|---|---|---|
| UK Direct Debit | Yes | Wodify: not supported in the UK — cards only |
| Built for | UK class-based gyms & studios | US-first CrossFit & functional gyms |
| Support hours | UK | US-centric |
| Workout & benchmark tracking | No — keep your tracking app | Yes, and genuinely good |
| Waitlists & class packs | Yes | Yes |
Every Wodify & US box software figure above is taken from a primary source — their own pages, their own store listing, or data we collected ourselves. All of them are listed at the foot of this page with the date we checked them.
Cards expire, get replaced and get declined. A Bacs mandate doesn’t. Building a UK membership book on cards means a churn problem you have to manually chase every month.
Sterling, UK VAT, UK payment rails, UK support hours. Not a US product with a currency dropdown.
A problem at 7am on a Monday is a problem during your busiest hour, not during somebody else’s night shift.
Capacity, waitlists that auto-fill, class packs, credits and memberships — the parts that decide whether your 6am fills.
If your members love their whiteboard app, keep it. We’d rather be the system that runs the business than force you to give up something your community actually uses.
Wodify and PushPress do things we don’t. Whiteboard and benchmark tracking, leaderboards, the workout side of a box — that culture is real and we’re not going to claim we replace it. Plenty of UK boxes run a tracking app alongside their booking software deliberately, and that’s a sensible setup.
That is what Wodify’s own help centre says: in the UK, Wodify Payments doesn’t support bank account or Direct Debit payments, so you can only process card payments. It notes this depends on Stripe releasing the option. Check it yourself before you take our word for it — the link is in the sources below.
We haven’t found documented UK Bacs Direct Debit support for either, but absence of documentation isn’t proof, so we’re not going to state it as fact. Ask them directly, in writing, before you commit — it’s a fair question and the answer should take them a minute.
No. That is a real gap for a box and we’d rather say it plainly than bury it. Most UK boxes we speak to run a dedicated tracking app alongside their booking platform anyway; keep yours and let us run the memberships, timetable and money.
Yes. Members, memberships, packs and remaining credits move with you. If you’re collecting by card today, this is also the moment to move members onto Direct Debit — which usually improves collection rates rather than hurting them.
Book a 20-minute demo and we’ll show you exactly how a switch from Wodify & US box software would work for your studio.
Sources
Wodify & US box software publishes its own terms and can change them. If you spot something here that is out of date, tell us at hello@strong-os.com and we’ll correct it.