Services · Ecommerce development · Gym membership sites
Codeeo handles gym membership website development in Houston for independent clubs, boutique studios and owners with locations spread from the Heights to Katy and Pearland. We build the part of your business that sells online: membership tiers, joining fees, class bundles and personal training packages, a checkout that works on a phone in a parking lot, recurring billing, and a member portal where people upgrade, freeze or cancel without calling the front desk. Contracts follow the Texas Health Spa Act, and the paperwork is generated by the site, not retyped by staff.
Houston members choose a gym by drive time as much as by price. A site that shows which club suits their commute, what each tier costs in full and how cancellation works will close more joins than another discount banner. The site sells and bills; your door hardware and gym management software keep doing their own work.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
What we build for Houston clubs
Houston is large and car dependent, so a member who works in the Energy Corridor and lives in Cypress may want one club near the office and another near home. Nurses and technicians at the Texas Medical Center train after night shifts. Families in Sugar Land or The Woodlands buy household plans with a teen on the account. Each of those buyers needs a different product, and the website has to explain the differences in a few seconds on a small screen. Texas also has its own rules for health spa contracts and its own view on sales tax for club dues, so billing logic cannot be copied from a template built for another state. Heat in summer and storms in hurricane season also push members toward short freezes and day passes, which the billing rules must handle. These are the parts we usually build first.
Visitors enter a ZIP code or allow location, and the site lists nearby clubs with the tiers each one honors, opening patterns you publish and parking notes. A member comparing a Galleria club with one in Bellaire sees straight away which plan opens which door.
People buy the access they will actually use.
A home club tier, an all locations tier and an off-peak tier, each with its joining fee, monthly dues and annual fee shown before checkout. Upgrades and downgrades are self-serve, and the price difference is explained in plain language on the confirmation screen.
Fewer front desk disputes about what a plan includes.
The site builds each member contract from your approved wording, places the three business day cancellation notice where Texas law expects it, collects an electronic signature and emails a copy. Every version is stored with the date and the terms the member accepted.
A contract record your attorney can audit in minutes.
Monthly dues collect by card or ACH bank draft through a PCI DSS compliant gateway, with Apple Pay and Google Pay for joining fees and packs. Card data is tokenized by the processor, so it never touches your server. Failed payments trigger a retry schedule and a secure update link.
Recovered dues without staff chasing members by phone.
The Texas Comptroller has long treated private club dues and joining fees as taxable amusement services, with narrow exceptions such as a written prescription. We set up tax rules and receipt lines the way your accountant confirms, so every invoice shows the tax clearly.
Receipts that match your filings.
One payer, several members, each with their own check-in profile. Teen members are added by a parent, with consent recorded and limits on what younger users can buy. The parent sees every charge from a single login.
Family plans that bill once and stay tidy.
Employers in the Energy Corridor, Downtown and the Medical Center can sponsor staff through a company code or an eligibility list. Shift workers get access tiers that cover late night and early morning hours if your clubs open then.
A steady channel of members referred by their employer.
Plan pages, checkout, contracts and emails written in both languages by people, not machine output pasted in at the end. Members switch language at any point, and the signed contract records which version they accepted.
Spanish speaking buyers finish checkout instead of calling.
Members log in to see their plan, invoices and contract, update a card, freeze for travel or medical reasons on rules you set, and cancel online in as few steps as it took to join. Each action sends a written confirmation.
Cancellations that do not turn into chargebacks or complaints.
Plan comparisons, forms and the signature step are built to WCAG 2.2 AA so screen reader users, people zooming on a phone and keyboard users can join without help. ADA claims against business websites are common in Texas courts as elsewhere, and an accessible checkout also converts better for everyone in a hurry.
Fewer abandoned joins and a lower legal exposure.
Who this is for
Clubs in Houston range from a single strength gym in an East End warehouse to groups with locations along I-10 and the Beltway. The site we build for each looks different, but they share one goal: a member should be able to compare, pay, sign and manage their plan without picking up the phone. Here are the starting points we see most often.
If your sign up still runs through a PDF, a tablet at the desk or a generic form, the first release replaces that with a proper plan page, an online contract and recurring billing. We keep the scope tight so your staff learn one system and members stop waiting at the counter to join. Reporting stays simple at first: joins, cancellations and failed payments by week, which is enough to see whether the change is working.
Start with joining and billing; add the rest once it runs.
Studios in Montrose, Rice Village or Midtown often sell intro offers, class bundles and an unlimited plan at once. We build a pricing page that compares them honestly, expiry rules for credits, and an upgrade path from pack to membership when a buyer keeps coming back. Gift cards for intro packs are popular with buyers shopping for a friend, so we can add them without changing the checkout.
When you run locations from Katy to Kingwood, each club needs its own registration details, pricing and staff permissions while sharing one brand and one member database. We set that up so a new club is added through the admin, not through a developer. Regional managers see joins and declines for their own clubs, while head office sees the full group.
Some owners already sell online but suffer high declines, confusing receipts or a cancellation process that draws complaints. We review the payment flow, move members to a cleaner setup and keep historical contracts readable after the switch. We also rewrite the cancellation page so members find it, understand it and get a confirmation by email the same day.
Migration is planned so no member is billed twice.
How we work together
Our team works with Houston clients remotely, and discovery, design reviews and launch checks all run by video call. Most clubs start with a fixed scope first release covering plans, checkout and billing, then keep a retainer for new tiers, seasonal campaigns and integrations. Groups planning several new locations sometimes take a dedicated team for a longer stretch, with the same engineers carrying the work from one opening to the next. Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We pick the stack to fit your billing provider and gym software: a headless storefront in Next.js, WordPress with WooCommerce subscriptions, or Shopify where it suits the product. Payments run through established US processors with tokenized cards. Hosting sits with a US cloud provider in an account you control.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on the number of tiers, clubs and integrations.
A single club with a few plans and one billing provider is the shortest build. Time grows with each extra location, a migration of existing members, a sync with door access or club software, and Spanish content. We agree the scope and dates in writing after discovery, and we would rather launch a smaller first release on time than a large one late. Launch timing also allows for your processor's underwriting checks, which sit outside our control and are started early.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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