Sales & Customers · Membership
VanVed vs Mindbody
for Membership
Why businesses choose VanVed over Mindbody
VanVed publishes one price with no per-location multiplier, no 24-month contract and no commission on a member's first purchase. Its plan model is more flexible than Mindbody's in one real way — time and credits can live on a single plan — and its freeze accounting gives back exactly the days a member lost. The status a member sees is recomputed from dates every time it is asked, so nothing depends on a nightly job having run.
Capability by capability
Every row below is what our 2026 research found — including the rows we lose.
| Capability | VanVed | Mindbody |
|---|---|---|
| Plan shapes | A plan can sell time, a number of visits, or both at once — three months capped at twenty classes is a single plan | Memberships, contracts and class packs, as separate constructs |
| Freeze and hold | Freeze and resume with frozen days counted and the end date pushed out, so a member never loses paid time | Supported |
| Renewal | A renewal creates a new period linked back to the old one and raises a real invoice, so the history stays traceable | Autopay against a stored card |
| Automatic recurring charge and dunning | No. Renewal is an explicit action that bills an invoice; there is no stored mandate and no retry on a failed payment | Autopay with stored cards and failed-payment handling |
| Class booking against a membership | A class check-in now spends a credit from the member's plan and is refused when the plan is out of credits or expired — but only where the registration was matched to a membership, and nothing is credited back afterwards | Class booking, waitlists and Client Pick-a-Spot tied to the membership |
| Family and corporate memberships | Not modelled — a membership belongs to exactly one member | Family accounts supported |
| Door and access control | None. There is QR and kiosk check-in, but nothing unlocks a door | Real-time door access through Kisi, Brivo and Gym Access partners |
| Branded member app | No mobile app for this module | Branded app available as a paid add-on, price undisclosed |
| What it costs and what you sign | ₹1,499/month ex-GST published, no per-location multiplier, no marketplace commission | $99/month per location is the only published figure; three of four tiers are quote-only, contracts commonly run 24 months, and a marketplace booking costs 20% of a new client's first purchase |
Where Mindbody is ahead of us today
Mindbody is the operating system of a studio and VanVed's membership module is a plan ledger. Autopay against a stored card, family accounts, door access through Kisi or Brivo and a branded member app are all real there and absent here — though a class check-in does now draw down a credit plan, which it never used to. The one that costs tenants money every month is autopay: VanVed has no stored mandate, so every renewal is a manual action and a failed payment is nobody's job. Mindbody's AI Concierge also turns missed calls into bookings, which has no counterpart here.
We publish this because a comparison that only flatters us is worth nothing to you. If one of these gaps is the thing you actually need, Mindbody may well be the better buy.
What VanVed's Membership module does
- Time or credit plans
A plan can run by date, by credits, or both.
- Freeze and resume
Pause a membership and its clock pauses with it.
- Renewal
Renewing creates the next period on record.