A Zen Planner alternative built for fight gyms
Zen Planner serves every kind of fitness business. CornerDesk serves one: independent Muay Thai, boxing, BJJ, and MMA gyms — and it imports your Zen Planner roster in one upload.
The Zen Planner trade-offs
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Built for every fitness niche
Yoga studios, CrossFit boxes, franchise chains — you're paying for a platform designed around businesses you don't run, with the feature surface to prove it.
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Members need an app
Another app-store download, another password, another 'I can't log in' at the door. Every barrier between a member and check-in costs you attendance data.
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Pricing that grows with your roster
Zen Planner's Studio plan runs from $99 to $289 a month across eight active-member tiers, and its website, marketing, and branded-app add-ons are extra. The better your gym does, the more the software costs.
Zen Planner vs CornerDesk
- Switching in
- Zen PlannerFree onboarding and migration, per their pricing page
- CornerDeskFree done-for-you switch, then 30 days free side by side
- Member experience
- Zen PlannerMember app plus a portal login
- CornerDeskA text-message link — no app, no password
- Pricing
- Zen Planner$99–$289/mo by active members; website, marketing and app extra
- CornerDesk$99/mo flat at any size — every feature included
- Check-in
- Zen PlannerKiosk workflows inside a bigger system
- CornerDeskAny browser on any tablet — under 5 seconds at the door
- Focus
- Zen PlannerFitness businesses of every kind
- CornerDeskIndependent fight gyms, nothing else
What Zen Planner costs at your size
Zen Planner bills Studio by active members — anyone with a membership or a visit in the last month. You’re in their 101–150 active members tier.
Zen Planner Studio and add-on list prices from their published pricing, September 2026; processing fees excluded. CornerDesk includes public schedule, trial and drop-in pages, and automated trial and payment texts — not a full website builder or a branded app.
We move you off Zen Planner — free
Send us your Zen Planner exports and we import your members, memberships, class balances, ranks, notes, and payment history, and your weekly class schedule (paste it in, or we enter it with you). You review a full preview, run both systems side by side for 30 days free, and members add their cards from a text link — first charge on their usual bill date. Prefer to do it yourself? The importer reads Zen Planner CSVs directly.
- 1Send us your Zen Planner exports — we'll show you which reports
- 2We import members, plans and class balances, and your weekly schedule too (paste it in or we enter it); you check the preview
- 3Connect your Stripe — payments settle in your own account
- 4Members add their card from a text — charged on their usual date
Free migration · 30 days free · then $99/mo flat
Asked and answered
01Can I import my members from Zen Planner?
Yes — the importer is purpose-built for Zen Planner CSV exports. It detects the header row, auto-maps columns, flags duplicates by external ID, email, and name, preserves pack credits, and shows per-row warnings before you commit.
02Do my members need to install an app?
No. Members get a magic link by text message — their portal opens in a browser with their next class, booking, membership, and card-update button. Nothing to install, no passwords.
03How does pricing compare?
Zen Planner's published Studio pricing runs from $99/mo (up to 45 active members) to $289/mo (251+), with website, marketing, and branded-app add-ons on top (as of September 2026). CornerDesk is $99/mo flat for unlimited members, staff, and classes — month-to-month, cancel anytime, and the first 30 days are free.
04What happens to my billing?
You connect your own Stripe account and member payments settle directly with you — CornerDesk never holds funds. Failed payments get flagged, texted an update link, and retried on a schedule.
Your corner is ready.
We move your gym for free. Your first 30 days are on us. Then it’s $99/month, flat.