Hi everyone.

I’m planning to open a small gym and am looking for management software. I don’t want cloud services or a subscription fee. I use Linux in my personal life and would prefer to keep running that at the business. Does anyone have experience with this type of thing?

I plan to self host all my services and data if possible such as camera systems and maybe even the website (I found a great local website company I’ll be talking with soon).

  • @RegalPotooEnglish
    13•9 months ago

    Something like odoo (https://www.odoo.com/) might work?

    You probably aren’t going to find something that works for your specific needs right out of the box, so your best bet would be finding a platform that gets you 80% of the way there and provides enough of a plugin mechanism that you can develop the remaining 20% of the functionality yourself

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      4•9 months ago

      There’s a lot to look into there. It covers quite a bit so it could work. I’ll research this for sure. Thank you a lot!

      • appelEnglish
        4•9 months ago

        I’ve used odoo before, it is a large piece of software and can be modified to do lots of things. Most likely you will be able to get it to do what you want. You’ll probably need the e-commerce module, there is probably some sort of mode for subscriptions. You can also add the CRM on top for marketing, etc. there is also the booking module (iirc) which is maybe useful for sessions with trainers etc. maintenance might also be useful.

        • @[email protected]OPEnglish
          1•9 months ago

          I did see the subscriptions module. Once you add enough modules it becomes a paid service. I have yet to find info on if Odoo is subscription based or a one time payment. I don’t mind paying for a software but do not want a subscription service.

          • appelEnglish
            2•9 months ago

            it is subscription, you pay per user per month. It is quite cheap imo, but I understand if you don’t want to pay any subscription. But in that case you can just try to self host it instead.

            • @[email protected]OPEnglish
              2•9 months ago

              Okay I see. I’ll have to check how much it is. So this can be self hosted for free with the tradeoff of having to figure out how to do that? If that’s the case then I could even start off with the ease of the subscription and over time get my self hosting setup figured out.

              • appelEnglish
                2•9 months ago

                Yes it can be selfhosted in theory, I haven’t personally tried it though. That sounds like a good plan.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•9 months ago

            You can easily host the community edition in Docker or otherwise. Odoo has a steep learning curve but it’s very versatile. It can definitely do what you describe.

              • @[email protected]English
                2•9 months ago

                No worries. It has a stripe integration, too, so it’s easy to handle payments without having to hold customers’ credit card info.