You grow, they charge more
TeamUp scales its price with your active client count, so winning clients raises your bill. Elite Coach Booking Core is a flat $39 a month and Elite a flat $79, whatever the size of your client list.
TL;DR
TeamUp is built for group-fitness and class studios and charges more as your active client count grows. Elite Coach Booking is built for individual sports coaches and small academies, at a flat $39 a month for Core or $79 for Elite, with no per-client meter, a premium coaching website included, and payments straight to your own Stripe account.
Preview my coaching websiteThe TeamUp alternative
The TeamUp alternative that makes coaches look elite.
TeamUp runs group-fitness classes and charges you more as your client list grows. Elite Coach Booking gives you a stunning coaching website and the entire booking, payment, and scheduling system behind it. From $39 a month, built for the way you actually sell time.
- Core $39 a month, Elite $79 a month
- Payments to your own account
- Live in days
A coaching website good enough to charge premium rates.
Every one of these is a real, published coach site. Yours is built the same way, with booking, payments, and your programs wired in behind it.
One app runs everything. And it is wired to your live website.
Configure it once. After that, you create a new offer in the app and it goes live on your public site the moment you save. You never open a website editor again.
- 1 Create the offer in the app
- 2 It publishes to your site instantly
- 3 Clients book and pay themselves
Change a price, add a camp, open a new date. It all updates your site automatically, from your phone.
Why coaches leave TeamUp.
A booking link is not a brand
TeamUp gives you booking pages. Elite Coach Booking gives you a premium coaching website that makes you look like the best coach in town, with booking built in.
Built for classes, not coaching
TeamUp thinks in studio classes. Elite Coach Booking models how coaches really sell time: private lessons, packages, clinics, camps, standing slots, travel days, coaching memberships, and video reviews, each with its own price, capacity, and place.
We set it up, you start coaching
TeamUp hands you the tools and leaves the work to you. In the Launch Room, AI Coach asks about your coaching one question at a time and prepares your offers, places and hours for you to confirm.
The whole coaching business, in one place.
We handle scheduling, offers, payments, and your website in ways built for coaches, not classes. Most of it TeamUp does not have.
Scheduling nobody else does
- Location-aware scheduling that knows your venues and service area
- Drive-time buffers, so you are never booked two places at once
- A real-time availability engine, not a static calendar
- Standing lessons and recurring weekly slots
- Travel and pop-up dates for coaching on the road
Offers built the way coaches sell
- Private lessons at any duration
- Packages and prepaid credits
- Clinics, classes, and multi-day camps
- Group-size pricing and bring-your-own-group
- Deposits or full payment, your choice
Payments that stay yours
- Paid straight into your own Stripe account
- Deposits, packages, and saved cards
- Apple Pay and Google Pay at checkout
- We never sit between you and your income
One system, run from your phone
- A premium coaching website, included
- Create an offer and it publishes to your site instantly
- Clients, programs, and booking history in one place
- Automatic reminders and confirmations
- AI Coach helps you set it all up in the Launch Room
Three tests for any booking tool, including ours.
Before you pick a tool, run the same three questions on every option you are weighing. Hold Elite Coach Booking to them too.
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Does the booking carry everything with it?
A real booking knows the lesson, the place, the length, and the price. If you still retype any of that, you have a calendar, not a system.
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Who holds the money?
The client should pay to confirm, and the payment should go to your own account. You own the calendar and the money.
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Does it know what kind of coaching you sell?
A private, a clinic, a camp, a package, and a membership are different things. Credits, seats, and prices should work the way each one does.
Elite Coach Booking vs TeamUp.
TeamUp is a group-fitness and class-studio platform that charges you more as your client list grows. Elite Coach Booking is built for the individual coach and the small academy, and it makes your business look like you charge what you are worth.
Best fit for Elite Coach Booking
Individual sports coaches and small academies who sell private lessons, packages, clinics, camps, and travel sessions, and want a premium coaching website out of the box.
From $39/mo, flat
Best fit for TeamUp
Fitness studios and gyms running recurring classes, memberships, and packs for a large member roster, including studios that want a branded app, which TeamUp sells as a $99 a month add-on.
$119/mo for up to 100 active customers, rising as you grow
| Feature | Elite Coach Booking | TeamUp |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Core $39 or Elite $79 a month, flat, with no per-client meter | Scales up as your active client count grows |
| Built for | Individual and academy sports coaching | Group fitness and class studios |
| Coaching website | Premium coaching website included | Online booking and a branded app add-on. No website builder is listed |
| Offer types | Private, package, clinic, camp, recurring, membership, video review, and travel or pop-up sessions | Classes, courses, and memberships |
| Memberships | Monthly plans on Elite, carrying lesson credits or open access, with booking limits you set | Studio memberships built around class access |
| Travel and mobile coaching | Drive-time and venue-aware scheduling | Built around a studio timetable |
| Payments | Straight to your own Stripe account | Stripe or GoCardless, with no TeamUp fee on the processor |
| Getting started | $1 to activate. AI Coach sets it up with you in the Launch Room | Free trial or a demo, with no setup fee, then you configure the studio |
TeamUp details checked October 7, 2026 against TeamUp pricing and TeamUp getting started guide. Plans change, so confirm current terms on their site before you decide.
Coaches do not leave TeamUp because it is bad software. They leave because their business is not a group-fitness studio. A private lesson, a five-pack, a Saturday clinic, a week-long camp, a standing weekly slot, and a pop-up date in another city are all different offers with different rules, and they deserve a platform that treats them that way.
Elite Coach Booking is that platform. It gives you a coaching website good enough to charge premium rates, a booking engine that understands drive time and location, payments straight to your own account, and a flat price that never punishes you for growing.
What does TeamUp cost as your client list grows?
If you searched for a “team up alternative,” this is TeamUp, the group-fitness and gym platform at goteamup.com, not a team calendar. Its pricing page, checked October 7, 2026, sets the monthly price by how many active customers you have: anyone who registers for or buys something from your business that month, counted once. The first tier covers up to 100 and is the price in the card above. After that the page shows:
| Active customers | TeamUp per month |
|---|---|
| 101 to 200 | $189 |
| 201 to 300 | $219 |
| 301 to 400 | $249 |
| 401 to 500 | $289 |
| 501 or more | $379 |
TeamUp adjusts the plan automatically each month as the count moves, and says there is no setup fee. A coach with 250 active clients on that scale pays $219 a month. Elite Coach Booking Core is $39 and Elite is $79 at 250 clients and at 2,500. Stripe’s processing applies on both.
Is TeamUp still the better fit for a studio?
For group fitness, often yes. The same pricing page lists memberships and packs, courses, waivers and forms, a point of sale, gift cards, access control, family accounts with shared memberships, and a custom branded app at $99 a month. Those are studio tools. If you run recurring classes for a large roster, TeamUp is built for that job.
If other studio software is on your list too, the Mindbody alternative compares it the same way.
What does a coach get instead?
A coaching website that wins the client, offers that match how you sell time (private lessons, five-packs, clinics, camps, and travel days), booking that knows your venues and drive time, and payments straight into your own Stripe account. The same job, written for a sport: pickleball coaching software and tennis coaching software. The rest of the comparison set is on Compare.
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Common questions
Is Elite Coach Booking cheaper than TeamUp?
On list price, yes. TeamUp's starting price, shown in the price card above, covers up to 100 active customers and adjusts upward as your active customer count grows. Elite Coach Booking Core is a flat $39 a month and Elite a flat $79, no matter how many clients you serve. TeamUp figures were checked on its pricing page on October 7, 2026.
How much does TeamUp cost as my client list grows?
TeamUp's pricing page prices by active customers. Above the entry tier it shows $189 a month for 101 to 200, $219 for 201 to 300, $249 for 301 to 400, $289 for 401 to 500, and $379 for 501 or more. Elite Coach Booking Core stays at $39 a month and Elite at $79 at any size.
What counts as an active customer on TeamUp?
TeamUp counts someone who registers for or buys something from your business during the month, once, however many times they attend. The price adjusts monthly with that count. The account can hold any number of customers, and only the active ones set the bill.
Can I move my clients over from TeamUp?
Yes. You can import your client list and set up your offers, availability, and booking page. In the Launch Room, AI Coach helps you set it up, and you publish when you are ready.
Does Elite Coach Booking work for a single coach?
Yes. It is built first for the independent coach who sells private lessons, packages, clinics, and camps, and it scales to a small multi-coach academy.
How fast can I be live?
In the Launch Room, AI Coach asks about your coaching one question at a time and prepares each change for you to confirm. Your site stays private until you publish.