Mat Track vs 
TeamUp
The TeamUp alternative built for combat sports.
TeamUp is honest, well-liked software with usage-based pricing and no contracts. It is also a generalist: boutique fitness first, martial arts as one vertical among many. Mat Track is the specialist take: belts, mat time and member retention as the product, not a configuration.
Every figure on this page checked against TeamUp's public pricing, August 2026.
The fair version first
What TeamUp is, honestly
TeamUp does the fundamentals well and prices them fairly: tiers by active customers who are only counted when they actually register or buy, $189 a month at the 101 to 200 tier, no setup fee, no contract, and a member app in the base price. Its feature set spans booking, memberships, courses, waivers, family accounts and access control, and it is transparent in a way this market often is not.
What it is not is martial arts software. Belts, gradings and rank ladders are absent from its advertised feature set; retention is reports and messaging rather than per-member attendance alerts; the branded app is $99 a month extra. In our crawl it barely registers among gyms: 0.7% of identifiable installs. Mat Track starts from the mat: ranks across arts, alerts on each member's own pattern, and an app built for daily habit, included in every plan.
Our data
What 5,191 gym websites told us about TeamUp
Our August 2026 crawl of 5,191 martial arts gym websites found TeamUp on just 0.7% of the 1,146 sites with identifiable booking software. That is not a criticism of the product, which is well regarded in boutique fitness; it is a signal about fit. Very few martial arts gyms choose a generalist here, and the ones that do usually discover the belt and grading workarounds themselves.
Share of the 1,146 sites with identifiable booking software, not of all gyms. The crawler reads public website signals only, so platforms that leave no public footprint on a gym's own site are not measured.
Side by side
Mat Track vs TeamUp at a glance
| Mat Track | TeamUp | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing and plans | ||
| Entry price | Free up to 200 contacts | Usage-tiered; $189/mo at 101 to 200 customers |
| Branded/member app | Native app included in every plan | Member app included; branded app +$99/mo |
| Contracts and setup | No setup fee; free plan monthly, paid annual | No setup fee, no contract, month to month |
| Platform transaction fees | None | Not published on the pricing page |
| Member experience | ||
| Reasons to open the app daily | Streaks, badges, leaderboards, community feed | Bookings, payments, on-demand content |
| Session logging | One tap, feeds streaks and challenges | Class registrations |
| Family accounts | Family and group billing | Yes, family accounts |
| Retention and coaching | ||
| Retention alerts | Each member vs their own 60-day pattern | Engagement reports, email and SMS |
| Comeback flows | Comeback challenges built in | Manual campaigns |
| Per-coach retention view | Yes | Not advertised |
| Martial arts fit | ||
| Belt and rank tracking | Multi-art ranks per member | Not advertised |
| Gradings and promotions | Criteria-based, visible in the app | Not advertised |
| Public gym page | Your page on an 11,000-gym directory | Not offered |
Sources: TeamUp's public pricing page and Mat Track's pricing, both checked August 2026.
The maths
The worked example: a 150-member gym over a year
At 150 active customers TeamUp is $189 a month, $2,268 a year, and a branded app takes it to $288 a month, $3,456 a year. Mat Track Growth covers the same gym at $99 a month, $1,188 a year, app included. Under 200 contacts the free plan does the job for nothing. TeamUp's pricing is fair for what it is; it is simply built for a market where belts and gradings are not on the requirements list.
Built around belts, not adapted to them
TeamUp's advertised features do not mention belts, ranks or gradings; gyms that run it for martial arts improvise with tags and notes. Mat Track's rank ladders are the spine of the product: multi-art ranks per member, grading criteria members read in the app, promotion history, and progress that stays visible through the months between gradings.
The app is the retention lever, and it is included
TeamUp includes a functional member app and sells the branded version for $99 a month. Mat Track's app needs no upsell because it is the product: streaks members protect, badges at milestones, leaderboards, challenges and a community feed that turns classmates into training partners. It ships in every plan, the free one included.
Alerts, not just engagement reports
TeamUp gives you engagement reporting and the messaging tools to act on it. Mat Track closes that loop itself: every member is watched against their own 60-day pattern, drops are ranked by consequence and flagged to the coach today, and comeback challenges go out with a target. The difference is a report you remember to read versus a nudge that finds you.
The rest of the toolkit
Also in Mat Track, so nothing is lost in the move
The front desk
- Kiosk and QR check-in. Members self-scan on the way in; the register fills itself.
- Class scheduling. Bookings, waitlists and capacity limits, synced to the member app.
- Digital waivers. Signed on a phone at the door, stored against the member, no paper.
- Guest passes. Members share a pass from the app, so trials walk in pre-registered.
The money
- Stripe and GoCardless billing. Cards and direct debits, with failed payments chased automatically.
- Family and group billing. One payer, several members, one invoice.
- Day passes and drop-ins. Paid at the door with QR entry and a waiver in the same flow.
- No platform transaction fees. You pay your processor's rate and nothing on top.
Keeping people
- Email and SMS inbox. Messages to members from the console, replies back in one place.
- Automations. Welcome sequences, missed-payment chases and comeback nudges on paid plans.
- Multi-location reporting. Every site on one screen, on Pro.
- Your page on the directory. A claimed profile on the 11,000-gym Mat Track directory, pointing searchers at your door.
Who moves
The gyms that switch from TeamUp
The gym that outgrew the workaround
Tags for belts, notes for gradings, a spreadsheet for testing eligibility. TeamUp runs the bookings fine; the martial arts layer lives outside it. Gyms move when the workaround becomes the job.
The club paying for a second-class app
The included TeamUp app books classes; the branded one is $99 a month. Clubs that want the app to drive attendance, not just record it, switch for streaks, badges and community in the base price.
The academy under 200 contacts
TeamUp's smallest tiers still bill monthly. An academy that fits Mat Track's free plan pays nothing and gets the martial arts features TeamUp never advertised.
The part nobody else has
Practitioners in your area may already be on Mat Track
Mat Track is not just gym software; it is the app martial artists use to log their training, keep streaks and find somewhere to train on the 11,000-gym directory. That is a pool of active practitioners no other platform on this page can show you. Claim your gym's page and your timetable, trial offer and grading culture are in front of the people already searching your postcode.
Switching
What moving from TeamUp looks like
- Export customers, memberships and payment records from TeamUp (CSV exports are built in).
- Import into Mat Track, set up your rank ladders, and invite members to the app; payment consent is collected in the invite flow.
- Run both for one billing cycle, then cancel; TeamUp is month to month with no exit fee.
The honest bit
When TeamUp is the better pick
Pick TeamUp if you run mixed programming where martial arts is one strand among fitness classes and courses, if you value month-to-month billing with usage-based pricing, or if multi-currency support matters. It is transparent, fairly priced software; it just is not built around the mat. Comparing the whole market rather than just us? Our best TeamUp alternatives roundup covers the field.
Frequently asked questions
Is Mat Track cheaper than TeamUp?
Does TeamUp support belt and rank tracking?
What does TeamUp have that Mat Track does not?
How long does switching from TeamUp take?
Can I try Mat Track while still on TeamUp?
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Try the switch without the risk
Free up to 200 contacts, no card. Import your members, run one real week, and keep TeamUp until you are sure. And practitioners already log their training on the Mat Track app; claiming your gym's page puts your timetable in front of them.