HQ.training vs ABC Fitness

A published price, with coaching for every trainer included

ABC Fitness runs Glofox for studios, Ignite for larger gyms and Evo in Latin America, with coaching in a separate product, Trainerize. HQ is one account for a gym at $59 a month: the timetable, memberships and front desk, plus coaching tools and members’ wearable data for every trainer.

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What this page says about ABC Fitness comes from ABC Fitness’s own product pages, Glofox plans page and help centers, read on 13 October 2026. Prices and features change, so check theirs before you decide.

HQ is the better pick if

You want the price before a sales call: $59 a month, published, for the whole staff and any number of members.
Your trainers program members’ training and want it on the same account as bookings and billing, without a second subscription.
Your members wear Garmin, Oura or WHOOP, and you want their training load, HRV and sleep next to their visits.
You’d rather not sign a contract: HQ is monthly or yearly, and you cancel from the billing page.

ABC Fitness is the better pick if

You run many locations or a franchise and need royalty and head-office tools.
You need a member app under your own brand in the stores right away.
You need door hardware other than Kisi, or ABC’s own payments and collections.
You want push journeys and AI agents that answer calls and messages.

HQ.training and ABC Fitness, side by side

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Partly, or at extra cost
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Feature HQ.training ABC Fitness

Published price $59 a month, published, for the whole staff and any number of members Glofox from $99 a month, each tier “Request Pricing”; Ignite and Evo by quote

Contract Monthly or yearly, cancel from the billing page Set in your order form; not published

Card processing Stripe at its standard card rate; HQ adds nothing Glofox Payments on Stripe Connect, rate not published; Ignite through ABC’s merchant services

Classes and waitlists A recurring timetable, online booking, and a waitlist that fills a freed spot on its own Class and appointment booking, waitlists and reminders

Memberships and packs Unlimited or credit-based plans, class packs, day passes and PT packs; freeze, cancel or change plan Recurring memberships, credit packs and failed-payment handling

Waivers Signed online or in the phone app before a membership starts E-agreements on Glofox Boost and up

Check-in By name or QR card at the desk, or, if you allow it, members check in from their phone with the code on your door Kiosk check-in

Door access Kisi only: the gym connects its own Kisi account, members open the door with the Kisi app, and each unlock counts as a visit Kisi, including unlocking from the Glofox app

Point of sale Retail with stock counts, passes, packs and account credit; Stripe Terminal card readers, and for Germany a TSE through your own fiskaly account with signed receipts and a DSFinV-K export. Built to both APIs, not yet tried with a live fiskaly account or a real reader; no DATEV POS, and retail from Glofox Boost

Staff and payroll Five roles, 29 permissions, shifts, a time clock and a payroll report with CSV export; HQ doesn’t pay staff A staff app, permissions, and payroll from Glofox Essential

Marketing Sequences after an enquiry, a trial, an absence, a membership ending or a birthday, with emails and tasks for staff, only to people who agreed and never in your quiet hours; plus broadcasts by plan, status or risk of leaving Email, SMS and push journeys; workflows need the XLerate add-on

Member app The HQ phone app, free for members: classes with the waitlist, the QR card, the membership and next payment, joining and door check-in; iPhone in testing, Android next, and the same screens in any phone’s browser The Glofox member app, for booking and unlocking the door

Branded member app Your name, icon, colours and store listing, set on the Your app page; HQ builds your iPhone app and submits it, and members download it once Apple approves it. None is in the App Store yet; Android follows HQ’s own Android app Add-on on Essential and Boost, included on Elite

Coaching and programming Structured workouts, plans and an AI plan builder for every trainer, included Not in Glofox; through ABC Trainerize, priced separately

Wearables and training load Members’ Garmin, Apple Health, Oura, WHOOP and more, with fitness, fatigue and form Through Trainerize: Apple Health, Garmin, Fitbit, Withings, Health Connect; no training-load charts listed

Several locations Every location in one account at one price, each with its own address, hours and timetable; plans for one location or all, staff limited to theirs, and reports side by side Multi-location and franchise tools on Elite and Ignite

AI An AI plan builder for trainers; no AI front desk ABC AI Agents for leads, calls and messages

API and Zapier A public API and signed webhooks; Zapier through its webhook steps, not a listed app yet Zapier on Glofox Elite only

Leaving One click: members, memberships, payments, attendance, timetable, waiver signatures and staff as CSV, or all of it in a ZIP Glofox staff can download the client list as CSV; no full-export policy published

What sets them apart

A price you can see

Glofox publishes one number, “Plans starting at $99 per month”, and every tier asks you to request pricing, with the branded app, XLerate and Insights as add-ons. HQ’s price is on its pricing page and is the same for every gym.

Coaching on the same account

At ABC, programming lives in Trainerize, a separate product priced by client count, connected to Glofox on Trainerize’s Studio and Enterprise plans. On HQ every trainer on staff gets the coaching workspace, and a member’s sessions, bookings and payments sit on one record.

Built for a chain, or for one gym

ABC says it serves more than 30,000 businesses, from boutique studios to Planet Fitness. For a chain, its franchise, payments and access-control tools go further than HQ’s today. HQ is built for a gym or studio, on one site or a few, that coaches its members as well as books them.

Data behind the attendance

HQ scores every member’s risk of leaving each hour from check-ins, attendance and failed payments. For members who connect a watch or ring, a coach they accept sees training load, HRV and sleep too.

Moving from ABC Fitness

Get your data out

Glofox staff can download the client list as a CSV. Ask ABC for anything more before your term ends.
Check your order form

ABC doesn’t publish its contract terms; your order form sets the term and the notice period.
Start on HQ

Gym & Studio is 14 days free, then $59 a month or $590 a year, with no contract to sign.

Questions

Can I track water intake from a LARQ bottle?: Yes. Pair your LARQ Bottle PureVis 2 directly over Bluetooth in the HQ.training iOS or Android app, without LARQ’s cloud or Apple Health. See estimated water intake and a seven-day chart on your private profile, with optional bottle calibration. Account sync and Apple Health export imports are also available.
Can I connect Eight Sleep?: Yes. The unofficial beta imports your own sleep reports, stages and reported biometrics, and provides a private Pod dashboard. Temperature, schedule and alarm controls are supported; base, pillow and audio controls depend on what your hardware and account report. It works without Apple Health. Sleep Agent, Health Check alerts, proprietary Autopilot algorithms and device setup remain in the Eight Sleep app. Physical Pod 5/6 validation is still pending.
How much is Glofox compared with HQ?: Glofox publishes a starting price of $99 a month and quotes each tier, with the branded app and marketing workflows as add-ons on the lower tiers. HQ is $59 a month for the whole gym, or $99 with more AI.
Do my trainers need Trainerize on HQ?: No. Every trainer on HQ’s Gym & Studio plan gets the coaching workspace: structured workouts, plans, the AI plan builder and each member’s training data.
Does HQ have a branded app?: Yes, new. On the Your app page you set its name, icon, colours and store listing, and HQ builds your iPhone app and submits it to the App Store. Members can download it once Apple approves it, and none is in the store yet. In it they book classes and join waitlists, show their QR card, see their membership and next payment, sign the waiver, join and check in at the door. Until then, and on Android, members use the HQ phone app, free.
Can HQ run several locations?: Yes, at one price. Each location has its own address, opening hours and timetable; a plan works at every location, at a member’s home location or at the ones you pick, and staff can be limited to theirs. The business report compares locations side by side. Franchise royalties and head-office tools are not part of HQ.

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