Comparison
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Gyms and boxes, with a free tier that is paid for through card processing. Here is where each of us is stronger, with prices we checked on 31 August 2026 and the sources listed at the bottom.
The difference that is not a feature
Most membership platforms tell you how many members you have. Very few tell you why they leave — and that is not a screen somebody forgot to build, it is a consequence of how long they have been keeping records and in what shape.
Black Belt CRM has been running membership businesses since 2011 and keeps the whole record: every status change, every promotion, every attendance mark, every payment. That is what makes cohort retention curves, tenure at cancellation and churn as a rate possible. A platform holding two years of shallow data cannot produce them by adding a report.
What PushPress does better
A $0 entry tier is a real option for a brand new gym with almost no billing volume, and their branded app is a product we do not offer.
We do not offer a branded member app, and we have no free tier.
Where we are stronger
Do the arithmetic on the free plan before you choose it. It carries 4.99% card processing against 2.89% on their paid tier — a 2.1 point difference. On $10,000 a month of member billing that is about $210 a month, so the free plan costs more than the paid one for most gyms that are actually running. Ours works differently: you bring your own merchant account and keep the rate you negotiated with your processor, and payment processing is billed as a flat monthly fee rather than a share of everything you take. A flat fee does not grow when your revenue does.
Their pricing page is honest that the tiers differ on processing. The trap is arithmetic, not disclosure — it is just easy to read $0 and stop reading.
Pricing, side by side
PushPress: Three tiers including a free one, but the processing rate changes with the tier. Add-ons priced separately.
PushPress
| Core Free | $0card processing 4.99% + $0.30 |
| Core Pro | $159card processing 2.89% + $0.30 |
| Core Max | $229card processing 2.75% + $0.30 |
| Grow add-on (CRM and marketing) | $329 |
| Branded app add-on | $97 |
| Train add-on | $79from $79 |
Black Belt CRM
| Up to 25 members | $39 |
| 26 – 100 members | $59 |
| 101 – 250 members | $85 |
| 251 – 500 members | $125 |
| 501 – 1,000 members | $155 |
| 1,001+ members | $195 |
Every feature is on every plan. Nothing is held back for a higher tier and there are no per-staff charges. Charged on top only if you use them: extra Locations at $39 each, payment processing, and text messaging.
Switching
The trial runs 30 days, asks for no card, and switches every feature on. Bring one program across and run it alongside what you have — that is a more honest test than any demo, including ours.
One thing we will not pretend about: we have no import tool. Moving your records across is manual work today. If somebody tells you migration is effortless, ask them to show you.
Sources
PushPress pricing verified 31 August 2026 from:
Their pricing changes and ours has gone stale before, which is why these pages carry a date. If you are reading this well after the date above, check their site — and tell us, so we can fix it.
Try it against your own numbers
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