bsport alternative: REQUR vs bsport compared

bsport sells four tiers. Start is the base to run your studio, Build adds integrations and on-demand classes, Engage brings the app in your own branding and the community features, and Elevate puts the advanced marketing tools on top of that. Run several sites or a franchise and you end up in Scale, with a price tailored to you.

What those tiers cost is not on the site. bsport writes that its pricing is straightforward and that you book a demo for a quote tailored to your business. New studios also get a lower starting rate that later moves to the standard rate. That can work out fine, but you cannot lay it next to another supplier in advance, and you want to know exactly what happens to your bill once that starting period ends.

REQUR costs €39.99 a month. Everything is in there: member management, scheduling, the app for your members, POS, reporting and support, with unlimited members and unlimited locations. No tier to upgrade later and no quote to request first before you can compare.

At bsport the branded member app is part of Engage, the third tier. So if you want an app with your own name and branding in the App Store and the Play Store, in practice you buy the two tiers below it as well. For a studio that is mainly after that app, this is an expensive route.

At REQUR the app is part of the €39.99 plan, for iOS and Android, in your own branding. Your members book, pay, cancel their spot and receive push notifications, and you also reach them by SMS, WhatsApp and email from the same system.

On top of the subscription every system charges per transaction, and that is where it gets murky fast. bsport mentions flexible payment options and fast payouts, but publishes no rate per transaction. So ask explicitly about three things: the percentage over your revenue, the fixed amount per transaction and what a failed direct debit costs.

At REQUR those amounts are on the pricing page: €0.20 per iDEAL payment, €0.20 per SEPA direct debit, €0.07 per card transaction at the front desk and €0.20 per failed direct debit. No percentage over your revenue.

That last item is the one most often forgotten. A failed direct debit, a storno, is a collection that gets reversed, for instance through insufficient funds or because a member has the payment returned. With 200 members and a five percent reversal rate that is ten of them a month, so €2.00 at REQUR. With a supplier that charges a euro or more for it, work out what that does to your margin over a year, and ask as well whether a second collection attempt is charged again.

bsport offers no free version. Instead you get a free initial period built into the start of your contract. So you pick a tier and sign first, and try afterwards. Ask in advance about the term, the notice period and what happens if you want out halfway through.

At REQUR you try 30 days for free, with no credit card and no obligation, and after that you can cancel every month. Those 30 days are no marketing number: in a month you go through a full invoicing cycle, including the reversals and renewals that follow it. That is exactly where you notice whether a system suits you.

bsport visibly invests in marketing and data: campaigns you set up with a single prompt, segmentation of your customer base, churn scores, revenue forecasts and pricing recommendations. If you run a boutique studio where acquisition and retention make the difference, that is a serious asset.

REQUR puts the weight on running the business here: SEPA direct debits and invoicing that keep going by themselves, a POS with card terminal at the front desk, AI scheduling, a link to your accounting package and reporting on revenue, occupancy and retention. If you mainly run memberships and group classes, that is the centre of gravity you need.