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StarChapter works directly with local chapter leaders, national associations, association management companies (AMC), and other membership-based organizations.
Fitness, beauty, and wellness businesses wanting to provide the best customer experience possible from browsing to booking and beyond.
The features I like best about StarChapter are: ease of administration, swiftness of launch, good value for your money. It's great for smaller associations.
Email deliverability is very bad. Email formatting is difficult to use versus Constant Contact.
The platform is great to use and the setup was fantastic. The team is always there to help with questions.
The options for website customization are quite limited, and the design options are very basic. Some functions also do not work well which can be aggravating.
Customer service is pretty helpful. There is still room for growth for them and I hope they will add features in the future.
I have a long list of complaints about this platform.
It was affordable, easy to use, the initial set-up was simple (StarChapter is a HUGE help and does a great deal of the work), and we've found their support team to be very responsive and helpful.
I didn't find anything that is missing from this software.
Just an amazing system, customer support, quality of the product and how easy it is to use.
For example- during covid lockdown they provided no support. Even though the studios were forced to close we were still charged in full.
I like this app because it puts your availability up for you and then notifies you when someone has scheduled an appointment. I like that it’s easy to use and find and the app is free for customers.
So I talked to them in January, now that my business is in dire straights and I was told that my cancellation would be processed the following day.
With its affordable pricing, flexibility, reliability, and excellent customer support, Mindbody is a great app for anyone looking to improve their health and wellness.
My only con is when things from businesses aren’t updated on the app making what is available to the community misleading.
The ease of filtering for what you are in the mood for (ex: HIIT or Pilates workout class) is great. Key considerations, like price and location are easy navigate.
Website integration very poor; no store option. Functions/features buried in an oversaturated back-end; back-end not very intuitive.
Mary G.: Hi, my name's Mary, I am a director of social media. And I am giving a two star rating for StarChapter today. For more ratings, see below. So I use StarChapter right now for email messaging to our members and to manage our chapter website as well. And we also use it a little bit for managing event registration as well. So the one really nice thing about StarChapter is having everything all in one place. There's one centralized source to have all of your membership, marketing, communications, website, everything at the touch of a finger. The pain points that I'm finding with star chapter is primarily related to ease of use. The system is not intuitive and not designed with the user in mind. There's a lot of training that needs to happen for anyone using the system that's a newbie. And my other pain point is it's not very customizable, especially for email marketing. It does not have any of the drag and drop features. It doesn't have any of the cool tech to make an email really splash or really look cool to the end receiver. It's very basic and just not, I guess, not as elevated as I would like to see.
Melanie E.: Hi, my name is Melanie. I am the owner. My business is small, and I give Mindbody a four out of five. Prior to Mindbody, the software that I was using took a lot more time. It was tedious, and, to be honest, it was quite manual. I chose Mindbody because I've heard a lot about it, and a lot of people told me it was a good software to use. So word-of-mouth is everything. Using Mindbody was a little difficult at first, but I was able to manage and power through by looking up different ways that I could find the information without being stuck and alone finding it myself. If you are considering getting Mindbody, just make sure you do your research, so that you know exactly what you're looking for, and you know exactly what you're going to get. If you do not know what features you want, then it's going to be really hard to narrow down the benefits of a new software.
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