Personal Trainers · Charlotte NC

Booking software for personal trainers in Charlotte

County Business Patterns 2023 counted 466 fitness and recreational sports centers with paid staff across the Charlotte metro: gyms, fitness studios and the other facilities where trainers find and train clients. 193 had fewer than five employees, and trainers working alone with no payroll are not in these counts.

BookAndGo handles the booking side of a Charlotte 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 Charlotte personal trainers

Charlotte has a deep fitness market: 466 employer fitness centers, 16.5 per 100,000 residents, 39th of 387 metros, and 123 of them had ten to nineteen staff, a large middle tier. Mecklenburg County had 250, York County in South Carolina 42 and Iredell County 41. With the metro up 8.4 percent since the 2020 base, new residents are choosing gyms and trainers for the first time, and a recurring booking in their first week is how a trainer keeps them.

Mecklenburg County has 21.3 fitness centers per 100,000 residents and York County, South Carolina, 14.1. Metro-wide it is one employer fitness center for about every 6,100 people. York County grew 7.5 percent since the 2020 base, so the South Carolina side is growing with fewer gyms per resident, a useful fact for a trainer choosing where to run sessions.

Within North Carolina, Mecklenburg County ranks 1st of 80 counties with 20,000 or more residents for fitness centers per 100,000 people, at 21.3; Wake County is at 20.9.

Measured as employer fitness centers per 100,000 residents, Charlotte sits between Appleton, WI at 16.6 and Ann Arbor, MI at 16.5, the metros ranked either side of it. For businesses in the class that holds independent personal training, Charlotte has 10.3 per 100,000, next to Minneapolis, MN at 10.4 and Santa Rosa, CA at 10.3.

Census builds this metro from eleven counties or equivalents, including Anson County, Cabarrus County and Gaston 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 292 establishments in the Charlotte metro. Within the mixed personal services class, Mecklenburg County had 156, York County, SC 44 and Iredell County 24. 247 of its 292 had fewer than five employees.

By county, Mecklenburg County had 250, York County, SC 42 and Iredell County 41. That puts 54 percent of the metro total in Mecklenburg County. By size, 193 had fewer than five employees, 73 had five to nine, 123 had ten to nineteen, 50 had twenty to forty-nine, 12 had fifty to ninety-nine, 12 had a hundred to 249 and 3 had 250 to 499. For comparison, other North Carolina metros on our city list counted 280 in Raleigh.

Set up each session type and location, whether a park, a gym or a client's home, and clients pick the one they want; the confirmation carries the location so nobody goes to the wrong place. Book a regular into the same slot every week or every two weeks in one action. Each session is a real appointment with its own reminder, and you can move or cancel the whole series at once.

Frequently asked

How many personal trainers are there in Charlotte?

County Business Patterns does not count trainers. It counted 466 employer fitness and recreational sports centers (NAICS 713940, gyms and fitness studios among them) in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro in 2023, and 292 businesses in NAICS 812990, the mixed personal services class where personal fitness training services are filed.

Can I run small-group sessions?

Yes. Set a maximum headcount on a service and clients book their own spot until it is full.

Take bookings in Charlotte from today

Your bookings and client records are stored in the United States.

Prices are in US dollars, plus any applicable sales tax.