LeagueLineup Review (2020)

Exercise.com vs. LeagueLineup Software Review

LeagueLineup has a specific niche for sports team management. This software offers customized websites, schedules, calendars, payment processing, a pro apparel shop, training videos, video uploads, reports, email and text updates, statistics, and player profiles for sports teams. Baseball, football, volleyball, basketball, soccer, hockey, lacrosse, and softball teams would find this software useful.

LeagueLineup does not have all the features needed to successfully manage and grow a fitness business. They do have payment processing, websites, customization, and calendars/scheduling options but are missing the important workout creation and delivery options, performance health assessment features, and full reporting options. LeagueLineup markets its software to sports teams, which is exactly the audience this software is most useful for.

Here’s where Exercise.com has you covered because we offer payment processing, calendars and scheduling, websites, and customizations features that LeagueLineup offers, plus many others to help fitness businesses manage their day-to-day operations.

Unless otherwise stated, all images and reviews below are of/about the Exercise.com All-In-One Fitness Business Management software platform.

Fitness Business Management Software

Fitness Business Management (FBM) software should have key features that provide all the features you need to successfully run and manage a business from your fingertips 24/7. Important FBM features include scheduling features, payment processing features, reporting, and alternate revenue streams.

LeagueLineup does have features for calendars and scheduling, which is useful for sports teams to manage their events, competitions, and games. They also have payment processing via the website. There are also some reporting options and the option to generate revenue through a pro shop with LeagueLineup.

With Exercise.com, you will find an all-in-one software option that can be used by managers, staff, employees, clients, and members. The features are endless to grow and manage your fitness business in a way that makes managing or running a successful business possible for anyone.

Client/Class Scheduling

LeagueLineup has calendar and schedule management for sports teams. Teams can post their practice and game schedules, as well as meetings and special events. You can also schedule recurring and repeating events with the scheduling functions.

Exercise.com has features for class scheduling and calendars that would be useful for any fitness business. These features allow fitness professionals and personal trainers to set up availability on calendars and schedules so that clients and members can book and manage appointments, sessions, or classes from the mobile app or online dashboard. Clients can also get reminders and notifications for upcoming classes or appointments. Clients can sort calendars by trainer or location, as well as pay for classes or appointments directly from the mobile app or dashboard.

Gym/Facility Management

LeagueLineup has features that are helpful for sports team management, but not for fitness business management. They allow for athlete statistics, player attendance tracking, creating of administrative roles and passwords, team rosters, athlete profiles, and automated standings. This is great for sports teams, but not useful for a fitness business looking to manage its administrative options.

Exercise.com provides options for generating reports on a variety of features, including revenue, classes, trainers, or other administrative reports. It’s also easy to set staff roles and permissions so each employee and staff member has access to the features they need.

Client Automation

Client automation options for LeagueLineup include text alerts and email blasts. Game results can be posted to automatically update league standings.

Exercise.com includes email, text, and mobile app reminders, but also includes options to automate workout and assessment information. For example, Exercise.com allows trainers and fitness professionals to:

• Automate Workout Delivery
• Automate Resource Delivery
• Automate Assessment Delivery

Dedicated Zapier Support

The Exercise.com partnership with Zapier adds an exciting variety of extra options at your fingertips. Exercise.com gives clients a plethora of integrations – but, sometimes, you want a bit of a boost. Our partnership with Zapier allows you to, in Zapier’s words, “Integrate (link your web apps with a few clicks, so they can share data), Automate (pass info between your apps with workflows called Zaps), and Innovate (build processes faster and get more done – no code required).

Part of this partnership includes dedicated Zapier support to help you through every step of the process. With over 2,000 apps to choose from, you can rest assured that your company’s website is as efficient and user-friendly as possible. Exercise.com maximizes this partnership with Zapier to give you all the integrations you need to successfully run and manage your fitness business.

Dedicated Account Manager

Another feature that sets Exercise.com apart from many other fitness business management software companies is our dedication to customer service and support. This is why we provide our clients with a dedicated account manager to help them through every step of the process.

If you want to redesign your website, your account manager at Exercise.com will get it done. If you want to set up an e-commerce store, your account manager won’t blink twice. Whatever you need, our world-class dev team is there to help!

Customized Software

Your fitness business management software should be customized to your preferences to showcase your business. Your website and mobile apps may be the first look that a potential client or customer has of your business, so you want it to stand out. Customization allows consistency among your software online dashboard, mobile apps, website, social media, and any marketing efforts.

Custom-Branded

Your software should match your branding, logo, colors, and verbiage. This consistency is what customers will recognize and will enable you to build brand loyalty.

LeagueLineup offers customization of the sports team’s website, including logos, colors, text, and menu options. Their website builder allows you to create a free website for your sports team.

Exercise.com takes it a step further and offers full customization of mobile apps and websites. You will find the security features and marketing integrations to be helpful customizations to help you grow and manage your fitness business with Exercise.com.

iOS & Android Apps

LeagueLineup does not offer a mobile app. They focus solely on sports teams’ website management.

Exercise.com has mobile apps for iOS and Android devices that include all of the Exercise.com fitness business management features. Exercise.com also allows full customization of your mobile apps. Your clients and members can search for your business name in the iOS or Google Play store, not the name of a third-party app.

Websites

LeagueLineup has a website builder for sports teams that allows customization of logos, fonts, graphics, and text. Sports teams can post schedules and calendars, player profiles, league standings, and statistics, but the options are limited.

Exercise.com allows full customization of your website. The best features that are offered for websites include:

• Responsive
• Built to convert visitors to leads
• Google Certified Partner

Security Features

In the days where we hear about cases of compromised data almost daily, it’s important to make sure your facility’s data and your clients’ data is safe and secure from hackers or data breaches. Exercise.com ensures the safety of your data with these important features:

• SSL Secure
• Privacy Shield Framework
• Google Cloud

Marketing Integrations

Marketing is an important component of any successful business. Social media, email, text messages, and notifications are great ways to stay in touch with your members and clients. LeagueLineup allows sponsor advertising by using ad banners on the sports team’s website. LeagueLineup allows emails blasts and text messages to be sent to members, but no assistance or integrations with marketing opportunities.

Exercise.com takes it further for fitness businesses and understands the important role of marketing and provides integrations that help amp up your marketing efforts. Some of our more popular integrations include:

• MailChimp
• ConstantContact
• ConvertKit
• Zapier
• Google Analytics
• Facebook Pixel

Workout Software

Every fitness business needs workout software that enables them to help clients meet their health and fitness goals, plus grow their business with additional revenue streams. This workout software should have all the options you need to create and share workouts, the ability to train any type of client, and extra options to make workouts fun and motivating.

LeagueLineup focuses solely on sports team management, which means they have no workout software options. Exercise.com is clearly ahead of LeagueLineup with its variety of workout software options for fitness professionals and personal trainers.

Workout Creator/Logger

Exercise.com has awesome workout creation and delivery features that any fitness professional will regularly use. Our workout creator/logger provides users with endless possibilities for delivering workouts, tips, and encouragement to clients in any scenario, including one-on-one training, group training, or online training.

1-1 Training

One-on-one personal training is still the foundation of many personal trainers’ business success. Exercise.com makes it easy to train with any type of client one-on-one. This setting allows trainers to create an effective workout plan and develop a positive environment that enables clients to reach their health and fitness goals.

Group Training

Personal trainers and fitness professionals might also find success with group training sessions. If group training is your focus, you can use any mobile device to create or view workouts with Exercise.com.

Trainers or group exercise instructors can follow along to stay on track when they are leading the class. Exercisers can view the workout plan if there are groups divided into smaller groups or taking the lead for certain parts of the workout. If you also have access to a television, you can show the workout plan broadcasted there.

For example, if you are leading a TRX training workout, you could have the workout pulled up on a few mobile devices around the room for either you to view or for the clients to work out with a partner. You can also broadcast the workout plan for everyone to see on the bigger television monitors.

Online Training

Online training is a great way to grow your business for a number of reasons. For one, you can train your current face-to-face clients if they are out of town on business or traveling on a vacation. Second, you can add new clients to your client base no matter where they are located. Third, it gives you more flexibility for training clients in a hybrid format, partially online and partially face-to-face.

Exercise.com works for you to allow you to train clients one-on-one, in groups, online, or hybrid. All of these options give you a ton of flexibility to maximize your time and revenue.

Exercise Library

Exercise.com includes an exercise library, which is an important component of any workout software. An exercise library includes instructions, descriptions, videos, photos, or tips that help exercisers understand how to complete an exercise or movement with good form and technique. This full exercise library includes options to build various workouts with intervals, sets, pyramids, supersets, or other functions.

Personal trainers and fitness professionals can use exercise libraries to design workouts and help their clients fully understand how to do an exercise correctly, what muscles are being worked, and tips to make the most of the exercise or movement.

LeagueLineup does not have any features that allow users to create or access an exercise library.

Custom Exercises

Exercise.com allows you to add custom exercises so you have everything you need at your fingertips to design and deliver the most effective workouts for your clients to help them meet their health and fitness goals. You can add your own videos or photos featuring your staff and trainers.

TV Workouts

Exercise.com provides clients with the ability to watch demos of the exercises within their workout plans on television screens; gyms can also use the exercise library to cast exercise demos onto gym television screens during group classes or one-on-one training sessions. You can also stream the workout plan on a screen for group training sessions.

E-Commerce Software

E-commerce features are a key component of any fitness business management software. The e-commerce features provided by LeagueLineup offer members the ability to set up a Fan Shop and get paid a percentage of the revenue generated from the Fan Shop and to process payments for online registration or Fan Shop purchases. There is no way to sell your own workout plans, workout challenges, or online memberships.

Exercise.com provides fitness businesses with e-commerce options to enhance or add additional revenue streams. Safe and secure payment processing, the ability to sell your retail or other products, and options to sell memberships, packages, or sessions. You can also sell workout challenges, membership plans, or workouts online.

Payment Processing

LeagueLineup and Exercise.com both include payment processing options for safe and secure processing of credit cards online. Exercise.com also allows payment processing for payments accepted in-person.

Sell Products

LeagueLineup has a Fan Shop where you can sell customized apparel and products. The bad news is that you only receive a small percentage of the revenue generated from these products. Users of the free version of LeagueLineup get 5% of the sales and Pro and Elite users receive 10% and 15% of the sales, respectively.

Exercise.com allows you to sell your own products online, like fitness apparel or other products. This is a great opportunity to generate extra revenue and build brand loyalty with apparel featuring your logo or fitness business branding. No need to worry about only getting 5% to 15% of the revenue generated if you are using Exercise.com to manage your fitness business.

Sell Workout Plans

Exercise.com allows you to design and customize workout plans that you can then sell via the mobile app or website. Let’s say you created a successful eight-week workout plan for busy professionals that travel and have access to a hotel gym but the workout plan requires minimal fitness equipment. Exercise.com makes it easy for you to sell this customized plan and create an additional revenue stream for your business.

Offer Online Workout Memberships

Online workout memberships are a great way to grow your business. Exercise enthusiasts may have access to a gym in their home or may travel for business with access to a hotel gym. You might have busy moms who have time for a quick workout from home but are unable to travel to a gym for a one-on-one workout session.

If you have a great reputation in the fitness industry, you may want to take that to the next level by marketing yourself, your skills, and your knowledge online outside of your local area. Exercise.com gives you the ability to grow your online clientele by giving you the option to offer online workout memberships. Any personal trainer can and should take advantage of this feature to try something new and build your business.

Sell Workout Challenges

Workout challenges are an excellent way to motivate members, enhance loyalty, and generate additional revenue for your business. Workout challenges among exercise enthusiasts create an environment of healthy competition and motivate exercisers to meet their individual fitness goals. Exercise.com provides the option of creating workout challenges for participants near and far.

Personal trainers and fitness professionals can create regular workout challenges that can occur monthly, a few times a year, or any time you desire. You can also determine the duration of the workout challenges to be four weeks, six weeks, or any length you choose.

Let’s say you have a good online following on Instagram and Twitter. You could create a workout challenge in the spring to get everyone swimsuit ready. Or you could create a six-week healthy competition at the beginning of the fall and have members set goals before the busy holiday season

Assessment Software

LeagueLineup does not have any features for assessments or nutrition tracking. For sports teams, LeagueLineup does have options for team and player statistics, baseball pitch tracking, and player attendance tracking, but nothing related to fitness assessments.

Assessments are important for personal trainers and fitness professionals. Who wants to use another software or conduct them with pen and paper (the old-fashioned way)? There are online tools to help you with conducting and using assessments, but who has time to use different websites to keep track of all of that information for your clients?

Exercise.com has robust assessment features. Performance health assessment software should allow you to:

• Turn leads into clients
• Engage clients through assessments
• Gather baseline data about clients
• Plan effective fitness programs to help clients meet their health and fitness goals
• Track measurement data, injuries, etc.
• Optimize the delivery of personalized workouts and nutrition
• Use to compare to normative data of similar age and sex

Assessments

Assessments can be used for a variety of reasons to help determine a baseline, to increase motivation, as a comparison to fitness norms, and to enhance loyalty. Assessments are used to test various fitness aspects, like cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, balance, and body composition.

You can use the results of those assessments to get a baseline measurement of your client’s current level of fitness, which can be used to plan an appropriate exercise program that also uses progressive overload to see results from their hard work. The assessment results can be compared to normative values that represent different levels of fitness for a comparable age and sex.

Performance & Measurement Reports

Assessment reports are important to determine if there has been any progress over time toward goals. LeagueLineup does not have any reports available for performance and measurement reports. Exercise.com makes it easy for you to set up delivery of these reports to share information with your clients either manually or automatically.

Let’s say you conducted a push-up assessment with your client when they started their workout program with you and they were able to do 10 push-ups in one minute. After working out consistently for six months, you do the push-up assessment with them again. This time they are able to do 20 push-ups you both you and your client can see the improvement in their muscular endurance within the six-month time frame.

Nutrition

Nutrition is a key component of any health and fitness program. If a client is working hard during their personal training sessions but does not have good eating habits, it will slow their progress. By using a diet tracker like MyFitnessPal, personal trainers using Exercise.com can view their clients’ nutrition and can make basic recommendations for them to improve their eating habits.

LeagueLineup Pricing

The table below has the pricing structure for LeagueLineup for the Pro and Elite plans. The pricing is based on the number of players and is an annual fee.

You must begin with a free subscription and then upgrade to Pro or Elite. The Pro plan comes with 250 MB of disk space and the Elite comes with unlimited disk space.

LeagueLineup Competitors

Competitors of LeagueLineup in the sports league management area includes Wooter, SportsBook, SportsEngine, EZ Facility, and TeamStuff.

The Bottom Line: Pros and Cons

LeagueLineup would be appropriate for any sports team looking to manage their calendars, athletes, communications, and website. This software does not have the options that a fitness business would need to fully manage and grow their business. Exercise.com is clearly ahead for fitness businesses in this head-to-head battle.

LeagueLineup Cons

The reasons why fitness businesses would not consider LeagueLineup as a top choice for a software option include the missing features of workout creation and delivery, administrative reporting, selling workouts, mobile app use, and performance assessments.

Exercise.com Pros

Exercise.com truly is all-in-one fitness business management software that will help you manage and grow every aspect of your business. Investing in a reputable and effective fitness business management software is an investment in your business.

You can build your client base locally, nationally, or even internationally with the e-commerce and workout creation/delivery features. You can enhance client loyalty with performance assessments, mobile apps, workout creation/delivery, and e-commerce features. Exercise.com makes your life and your clients’ lives happier and healthier.

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