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).

    • sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.chOPEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      I don’t yet know the scope of everything I might need, but right now I believe that a customer management system is the focus. A way to input their details and payment information to have an automatic recurring membership.

      I don’t think I really need a way for them to view their account as it won’t have any fancy features. I just need to know that they are a member and have a membership renewal. They can sign up and cancel in person or over the phone (I’m not making it disgustingly hard for people to cancel like the large gyms).

      On top of that I would imagine it would be nice for the software to keep track of my total number of patrons and thus a total income amount

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        291·
        10 months ago

        payment information

        You can nope alllllllllll the way out of that. Payment information means credit cards means PCI compliance. That’s something you’ll definitely want to outsource.

        • sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.chOPEnglish
          42·
          10 months ago

          I understand the payment will have to connect to the internet and be outsourced but I want all my customer data to stay on my server

          • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            10 months ago

            It’s honorable to want to keep all customer data within your control, but seriously unless you already have experience dealing with PCI compliance, that’s one part you should definitely offload to a payment processor. This might even be a clause in your insurance (Depending on what it covers)

            I don’t have any particular software in mind to recommend, but I’d bet they probably have some sort of integration with processors like Stripe or something

            • femtech@midwest.socialEnglish
              1·
              7 months ago

              This and medical info I will not self host personally. Try to do due diligence but I let someone else take the blame for a breach.

      • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        10 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

  • databender@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I use wger at home and it’s waaaay overkill. Designed for the gym part, probably not the whole package

    • sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.chOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      This looks to be just for writing out workout routines, not a client management software. It might be useful one day so thank you anyways

  • Guzzi@moto.teamswollen.orgEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I have been using Odoo for years to generate invoices for my little IT business. I don’t use any features that cost money. I am working a web store for my wife and have been playing with erpnext. It is written in Python / Javascript and can be installed on your own servers. I has a lot of features that cost in Odoo but are free and looks like it is easer to modify.

  • Bombastion@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I’ve been using Ubiquiti/Unifi for my brewery setup (cameras, several private networks, phone tree stuff). It comes with some pretty solid management software accessible through the local network, but under the hood, everything’s just running Alpine. There’s a bit of a learning curve if you keep the management software installed (firmware updates wipe out the crontab, for example), but you can customize it pretty aggressively if you know your way around a terminal.

  • andrew@lemmy.stuart.funEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    For camera software, zoneminder is a classic, and frigate is probably the new kid in town. Web hosting will depend on your web developers but docker will have you covered for almost anything. Probably just steer clear of asp.net dev shops.

      • andrew@lemmy.stuart.funEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I’m assuming OP wants to run on Linux and I’m not familiar enough with .NET Core to know how much or how easily you can run it on Linux. I know some things definitely run, I just don’t know how much.

        • seang96@spgrn.comEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Ah. Old asp .net standard I don’t think is cross platform, but core is fully supported in Linux. I mainly support these applications at my job so was kinda surprised to see someone not recommend it.