Tuesday's fitness boxing and preparing for a fight night are not aimed at the same people. A site that mixes them drives both away.
A large fitness crowd that pays the rent, a handful of competitors who build the reputation, and strict medical obligations.
Non-contact fitness boxing on one side, competitors on the other. A beginner never lands in a sparring slot, and a competitor finds theirs without looking.
Competition requires them and they expire. Deadlines surface before the fight night, not on weigh-in day.
A few hundred grams decide the weight class. Each member's curve sits on their record, with the full history.
Required level, capacity, compulsory kit: the conditions appear before booking, not at the ropes.
Two tracks, two price lists, two schedules
Medical certificates and licences tracked
Weigh-ins, dated
Sparring by registration, with conditions
On one side "boxing" plus the town, "boxing for beginners", "women's boxing": high volume, from people who fear getting hit. On the other, "competitive boxing club", "fight night preparation": few people, high value.
The phrase that reassures a beginner most is "non-contact". Many give up believing they will step into the ring in their first class.
Show your timetable, your prices and the minimum age. A club that buries this in an image cannot be found.
Federal affiliation conditions access to official competition and insurance. An unaffiliated club can teach, not fight.
The professional card is required to teach for remuneration, and a check of good repute as soon as there are minors.
The obligatory equipment — mouth guard, shell, gloves of the right weight — is written in black and white, including what the room does not lend.
A visitor arrives with three questions: when, who for, how much. Put the week's timetable at the top of the page, session by session, with the length of each one and the age of the group. The club's history and the photos from gala nights come later. What triggers a first enquiry is understanding within ten seconds that there is a place left for you.
A club rarely offers a single activity. English boxing, non-contact boxing fitness, sometimes related disciplines such as savate or kickboxing. The youngest, for their part, belong in educational boxing, which is worked on with touch contact and without power. Each one deserves its own page, with its own vocabulary and its own times, and that is what makes you findable on precise searches. A club teaching several combat sports does well to link those pages to one another, as is done for an MMA & BJJ website or a judo club website.
A future member's search is short and geographical: the name of their town, sometimes “evening classes” or “trial session”. Your site has to answer with a full address, a map, the transport links and somewhere to park. If you have two gyms, each one gets its own page. Describe the training as it really is, too: skipping, bag work, technical work in the mirror, gloves only once the level allows.
Times, telephone, address: the slightest contradiction between your Google listing and your site costs you calls. Keep both up to date at the same time, especially when the season restarts in September and during the school holidays. Reviews, for their part, are won by simply asking for them after a good first class. To go further on this groundwork, see our guide to the search-optimised website for a personal trainer.
A parent types “boxing for children” and discovers educational boxing: explain it in their words, not in federation jargon. A hesitant adult wants to know first of all whether they are going to get hit in their first class. A competitor is looking for a club where they can find an opponent at their level and a team that travels. Spell out in black and white the difference between recreational boxing and competitive amateur boxing: it is the question that stops the most people at the door.
They look much the same from one club to the next, and they all cost sign-ups. Most come from a site conceived as a shop window and never as a tool.
A session bookable around the clock fills up at night, on a Sunday, during the holidays. Your connected schedule shows the coming sessions and the places left, live. When the group is full, the waiting list takes over and you are no longer refereeing by text message. The automated reminders go out by themselves, which brings down absences on sessions with a tight capacity.
Online payment through Stripe takes the money at the time of booking: membership fee, session pass, holiday camp. The confirmations, the reminders and the back-to-season campaigns go out by email, without anyone having to remember to write them. You find past attendance in each member's record, which lightens the handling of groups and licences.
Share the calendar of training sessions, weigh-ins and gala nights from the same tool, for the coaching team as much as for your members, women and men alike. You can open a trial session capped at a few places, count who has signed up, then close it again without touching the rest of the timetable.
You are not buying a template to fill in. Building the site starts from your real timetable, your disciplines and your two audiences: a bespoke site, designed and search-optimised for your activity. Because the booking, the payments and the emails live in the same tool as the site, a change of time is made once and shows up everywhere.
You also get bespoke software and a mobile app for iOS and Android carrying the club's brand, which your members install like any other. The trial lasts 14 days, with no card required: long enough to build a full timetable and open your first bookings. After that, you decide. To talk it through, talk to an expert or start your free 14-day trial.
Yes — two distinct services, each with its own slots, conditions and prices.
The date sits on the member's record; approaching deadlines surface ahead of the sporting ones.
Not if you don't want it to be: required level and capacity are set per session.
To teach, no. To put fighters into official bouts, yes.
No. You change a time, a price or a news item from your own account, and the update appears straight away on the site and in the app. The timetable on display is your schedule: you only enter it once.
Yes, through Stripe, at the time of booking or sign-up. You can also sell session passes and have a camp paid for in advance. The confirmations go out by email automatically, as for any sports club taking payment online.
Each age group becomes its own session, with its own capacity and conditions. Parents book the place online, receive the confirmation and then the reminders. You keep the attendance history, which is useful when a group overflows and you need to open a second class during the week.
Yes. The booking widget is added to an existing site and your visitors book without leaving your page. If the current foundation is too old to rank properly in search, a new site is still possible while keeping your domain name.