Personal Trainers · Des Moines IA
Booking software for personal trainers in Des Moines
The Census Bureau's County Business Patterns 2023 lists 121 gyms, fitness studios and other fitness and recreational sports centers with employees in the Des Moines metro. 45 were in the under-five-staff bracket.
BookAndGo gives Des Moines personal trainers one booking page for every session type, recurring weekly slots for regulars, and email confirmations and reminders, so the calendar runs itself while you coach.
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 Des Moines personal trainers
Des Moines is a strong fitness market for its size: 121 employer fitness centers, 16.3 per 100,000 residents, 42nd of 387 metros and well above the national metro median of 11.3. Polk County had 89 and Dallas County 22. Only 45 of the 121 were under five staff, while 21 had ten to nineteen and 27 had twenty or more. With that many established clubs, clients have options, and the trainer who makes rebooking automatic, with the same Tuesday and Thursday slot held every week, keeps them.
In fitness Dallas County already leads on density, 19.7 fitness centers per 100,000 against Polk County's 17.5, and it is growing faster. One employer fitness center for every 6,100 or so residents makes Des Moines a competitive place to train clients, and that competition is about convenience: who makes rebooking easiest.
Within Iowa, Polk County ranks 4th of 32 counties with 20,000 or more residents for fitness centers per 100,000 people, at 17.5; Scott County is at 18.3 and Muscatine County is at 16.5.
Measured as employer fitness centers per 100,000 residents, Des Moines sits between Lincoln, NE at 16.5 and State College, PA at 16.3, the metros ranked either side of it. For businesses in the class that holds independent personal training, Des Moines has 7.2 per 100,000, next to Bremerton, WA at 7.2 and Idaho Falls, ID at 7.1.
Census builds this metro from six counties or equivalents, including Dallas County, Guthrie County and Jasper 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 53 establishments in the Des Moines metro. Within the mixed personal services class, Polk County had 43 and Dallas County 10. 49 of its 53 had fewer than five employees.
The largest county counts were Polk County (89), Dallas County (22) and Warren County (5). That puts 74 percent of the metro total in Polk County. Sorted by staff numbers, 45 had fewer than five employees, 28 had five to nine, 21 had ten to nineteen, 17 had twenty to forty-nine, 5 had fifty to ninety-nine, 4 had a hundred to 249 and the other 1 had 250 or more.
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. Email reminders go out ahead of each session, at 24 hours and 2 hours by default, and you can change the timing.
Frequently asked
Are most fitness businesses in Des Moines small?
Of the 121 employer fitness and recreational sports centers in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro in County Business Patterns 2023, 45 had fewer than five employees, or 37 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.
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