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Torben Keller

Torben Keller

Switched from Flexybox

Gym Owner, CrossFit North 579 & CrossFit Aalborg

Aalborg, Denmark · CrossFit Affiliate

Torben owns and operates two CrossFit affiliates in Aalborg, Denmark — CrossFit North 579 and CrossFit Aalborg. Founded in 2017, his gyms are built around a simple mission: improving health through fun, effective, and safe training. After years of managing two locations with disconnected tools, he switched to Booking Board to unify operations and give his members a better experience.

Booking Board is our members' way into our system. Their point of contact with us becomes Booking Board. In that way Booking Board becomes part of us, because it is what represents us.

— Torben Keller, CrossFit North 579 & CrossFit Aalborg
1,000+
members, up from 300
2
gyms run on one system
5 → 1
systems replaced by one

From the video

“Before Booking Board, we spent way too much time on admin. Everything required too many clicks, and manual errors were a constant headache. Simple tasks like managing memberships or tracking attendance took far longer than they should have.”

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Our challenges before switching

The challenge: too many clicks, too much admin time

Before the switch, operations were spread across three, four, five different systems, and even small tasks meant a lot of clicking and navigating.

“We spent a lot of time navigating just to get tasks done, so our administration time became far, far too long. And the uncertainty about how things had been done lowered the quality, because the risk of errors was so much higher.”

Torben needed a system that could handle several training spaces, pay his staff, and at the same time give him an overview of revenue, occupancy and all the data the gyms produced.

From the video

“We needed a system that could bring all our data together in one place — member overview, scheduling, billing — without jumping between different tools. Booking Board gave us that structure and clarity from day one. It was exactly the kind of overview we had been missing.”

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Why we chose Booking Board

What mattered most: the member experience first

When Torben chose a new system, he had three requirements in a fixed order.

  1. Members need an interface that makes it easy, intuitive and clear to use their membership.
  2. Coaches need to swap shifts, pick up shifts and see what they have coming up without effort.
  3. The owner needs an overview of finances, class coverage and how the team performs.

“For our members, it is everything that they actually use their membership and have a good experience with it. Behind that there has to be a back end that gives us as owner and staff a really good tool to work in, so we can give our members the very best.”

The biggest difference: everything in one place

“The biggest difference in our daily work is that everything we used to have in three, four, five systems is now in one. When I run payroll, I can easily pull all the hours and move them into Danløn without a pile of manual errors from switching between systems.”

The overview of every class across both gyms is what he calls a decisive difference.

From the video

“Our members love the app — it's clean, it's fast, and it just works. As a gym owner, I'd absolutely recommend Booking Board. The platform has made our daily operations so much smoother, and the support team is always there when you need them.”

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Our recommendation

Members: “The app is one of the things they point to”

Members find the system user-friendly and intuitive, and they notice the ongoing improvements to the interface. The clearest feedback, though, comes from an unexpected place: members who cancelled and later came back.

“We hear from members who cancel with us and, fortunately, come back again, that our app is one of the things they point to as a difference from other places.”

For Torben, the app is not just a tool but the gym's face to its members.

The recommendation

“I would recommend Booking Board to other gyms because it gives members a completely different user experience compared to a lot of other systems out there. It is intuitive, easy and clear. And on our side we can run events and great class times and keep track of our coaches' hours. We have gathered so many things in one place that we can actually run a complete business with a single program.”

About the gym: CrossFit North 579 & CrossFit Aalborg

Members
Over 1,000 (around 300 at the switch)
Locations
Two: CrossFit North 579 and CrossFit Aalborg
Founded
2017
Previous system
Flexybox
Uses most
Class schedule and booking, coach hours and payroll export to Danløn, chat, occupancy and revenue overview

CrossFit North 579: From five systems to one, and from 300 to over 1,000 members

Torben Keller runs CrossFit North 579 and CrossFit Aalborg with a team of coaches. He explains why he chose Booking Board, what changed in the day-to-day, and why returning members name the app as one of the reasons they came back.

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