Cohiva vs bsport

Who bsport is for

bsport is a booking and management platform for boutique fitness and wellness studios. It is built for the studio model, where class and appointment booking and the member relationship are the core of the business.

If you are searching for a bsport alternative, the question for a growing operator is what happens as you move past a single studio. A studio tool is designed for one venue. Cohiva is built for operators running several venues who want bookings, staff and finance on one data layer.

What Cohiva Complex covers

Complex is the Cohiva product for aquatic and leisure facility management. It covers bookings, memberships, point of sale and access control, along with classes and programs. For a multi-site fitness or leisure operator, that is the timetable, the front desk, retail and entry running off one record of members and venues.

Complex is built for operators running several venues or brands. You can see it on its own domain at complex.cohiva.com or in the Complex overview.

How the two models differ

The difference between Cohiva and bsport is single studio versus multi-site suite.

A studio booking and management platform fits one venue well. As an operator adds locations, the back office grows around it: a separate accounting system, a payroll and rostering tool, and exports between them. Each export is a manual step and a place for the numbers to drift.

Cohiva is built for the multi-site case from the start. Complex sits on one data layer with Crunch for finance and Culture for HR. A booking taken or a membership sold in Complex becomes data finance can see, and a staff member managed in Culture can be rostered across venues. Because the products share one identity and one data layer, there are no connectors to maintain and no manual sync.

What sits inside Complex

For a bsport user, the direct comparison is the booking and front-of-house product. Complex handles bookings for classes and appointments, memberships on recurring billing, point of sale for retail and add-ons, and access control. Those run off one record of members and venues, so a member's bookings, purchases and entries form one history. For a multi-site fitness operator, that is the timetable, the front desk and the till in one product across every location.

The part that separates the two is what happens after the booking. Complex is one product in a suite, so the bookings and sales it captures are the same data finance and HR work from. A studio tool typically stops at the booking and hands the rest to other systems, which is fine for one venue and grows costly across several.

Who should consider Cohiva

Cohiva suits operators running several venues who want bookings, staff and finance connected. Multi-site gyms, health clubs, aquatic centres and swim schools are the core fit.

If you run a single boutique studio, a focused tool like bsport may be the right match. Once you operate multiple venues and want operations, money and staff on one data layer, the integrated-suite model is the difference to weigh up.

What multi-site looks like day to day

The difference shows up as soon as you run more than one venue. A member can book at any location, enter through access control, and pay at the counter, with all of it attached to one member record in Complex. Because Complex shares a data layer with Crunch, the takings across every venue are already transactions finance can see per location, with no export. Staff are rostered across venues in Culture, and their hours feed payroll without re-keying.

A studio tool is designed for one venue, so an operator adding locations tends to bolt a back office around it: a separate accounting system, a payroll and rostering tool, and exports between them. The suite is built for the multi-site case, so that picture is already assembled on one data layer.

Migration and the cost of switching

You can adopt Complex for bookings, memberships and point of sale on its own, then add Crunch for finance or Culture for HR as the operation grows. Because the products share one identity and one data layer, each addition connects to what you already run rather than becoming another integration.

When you assess a bsport alternative for a growing operation, weigh where you will be in a year. A studio tool fits today, and the suite fits the multi-site operation you are building toward.

How to choose

Think about where your operation is heading. For a single studio, a studio tool is simple and direct. For an operator adding venues who wants bookings, staff and finance on one platform, an integrated suite reduces the number of tools and the work of keeping them in sync.

For the facility product, see the Complex overview or visit complex.cohiva.com. The gyms and health clubs solutions show how the suite fits multi-site fitness operators.