Personal Trainers · Austin TX
Booking software for personal trainers in Austin
The Census Bureau's County Business Patterns 2023 lists 450 gyms, fitness studios and other fitness and recreational sports centers with employees in the Austin metro. 192 were in the under-five-staff bracket.
BookAndGo handles the booking side of an Austin training business, solo or studio: per-trainer calendars, a booking page clients can open any time, and email reminders before every session.
Online booking around the clock
Clients book from your page any time, and the slot comes off your calendar the moment they do.
Email confirmations and reminders
Every booking is confirmed and reminded by email, so fewer clients forget.
Invoices from the booking
Raise an invoice from the appointment, with the sales tax rate you set.
Built for Austin personal trainers
Austin's fitness market is both dense and deep: 450 employer fitness centers, 18.1 per 100,000 residents, 23rd of 387 metro areas, with 97 at five to nine staff, 78 at ten to nineteen and 10 at a hundred to 249. Travis County had 292, Williamson County 100 and Hays County 44. That is a lot of studios and clubs competing for the same early-morning hour, and a lot of trainers who started inside one of them. Recurring weekly slots and a booking page that lists every location are how an independent Austin trainer keeps a full week without a front desk.
Travis County has 21.7 fitness centers per 100,000 residents and Williamson County 14.3, even with Williamson's 19.4 percent growth since the 2020 base. Metro-wide it is one employer fitness center for about every 5,500 people. Round Rock and Cedar Park are growing faster than their gym count, which is the gap a trainer with park and home sessions can fill.
Within Texas, Travis County ranks 1st of 123 counties with 20,000 or more residents for fitness centers per 100,000 people, at 21.7; Collin County is at 19.4.
Measured as employer fitness centers per 100,000 residents, Austin sits between Omaha, NE at 18.2 and Columbus, IN at 17.8, the metros ranked either side of it. For businesses in the class that holds independent personal training, Austin has 13.0 per 100,000, next to Fort Collins, CO at 13.5 and Lynchburg, VA at 12.8.
Census builds this metro from five counties or equivalents, including Bastrop County, Caldwell County and Hays County, so read these as regional numbers rather than a city count. Independent trainers' own businesses fall in a second Census class, all other personal services (NAICS 812990), which had 324 establishments in the Austin metro. Within the mixed personal services class, Travis County had 233, Williamson County 49 and Hays County 36. 280 of its 324 had fewer than five employees.
The largest county counts were Travis County (292), Williamson County (100) and Hays County (44). That puts 65 percent of the metro total in Travis County. Sorted by staff numbers, 192 had fewer than five employees, 97 had five to nine, 78 had ten to nineteen, 47 had twenty to forty-nine, 23 had fifty to ninety-nine, 10 had a hundred to 249 and the other 3 had 250 or more. For comparison, other Texas metros on our city list counted 298 in San Antonio, 1,078 in Dallas-Fort Worth, 806 in Houston.
Set a maximum headcount on any service and clients book their own spot in a bootcamp or small-group session. A client who reaches three no-shows is blocked automatically.
Frequently asked
Are most fitness businesses in Austin small?
Of the 450 employer fitness and recreational sports centers in the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metro in County Business Patterns 2023, 192 had fewer than five employees, or 43 percent, and trainers working alone with no payroll are not in that count.
Can more than one trainer use it?
Yes. Add other trainers and assign them to specific services, so a team working across different sites stays in one calendar.
Take bookings in Austin from today
Your bookings and client records are stored in the United States.
Prices are in US dollars, plus any applicable sales tax.