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Chennai · Founded 2021
Athleta Gym
Why a Chennai gym switched away from a global gym-management product after 18 months.
"We looked at three other tools. Kasratbook was the only one that felt like it was built by someone who's actually run a gym."
Karthik Suresh, Founder
Athleta Gym
Members
850
Branches
1
Software switch
2 weeks
Member churn
-38%
Support tickets
< 3/mo
The challenge
Athleta was using a US-based gym-management product. The features were rich but the experience was wrong for India: no UPI, no WhatsApp templates, prices in dollars, support tickets answered overnight.
Karthik was spending 30% of his time fighting the software instead of running the gym.
What they did
- Migrated to Kasratbook in 2 weeks, including all members, payments history, and biometric data.
- Replaced 8 distinct workarounds Karthik had built (Google Sheets, manual WhatsApp groups, separate UPI tracker) with native Kasratbook features.
The outcome
- Member churn dropped 38% because the WhatsApp reminder cadence finally worked the way Indian members expect.
- Support tickets dropped from 12-15 per month to under 3, mostly because the product just works.
- Karthik now spends less than an hour per week on operations and the rest on coaching.