Could Pembee be the Momence alternative you have been looking for?
Pembee is a class and course booking platform for activity providers, from $45/month — with no platform fee on transactions, no contracts, and a 30-day free trial.
| Feature by Features | Pembee | Momence | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Monthly fee | From $45/month (Standard plan) | Basic free • Pro $60/mo • Custom $199/mo | |
| Credit card transaction fees | From 0.59% + Stripe fees | 3.9% + $0.30 (US online cards)* | |
| Platform fee on transactions | None | 5% on Basic, 2.5% on Pro, 0% on Custom* | |
| Free trial | 30 days — no credit card required | Free Basic plan; no self-serve trial of paid plans | |
| Payment Options | |||
| Credit/Debit card | Included | Included | |
| Cash/Bank Transfer | Included | Included | |
| Session passes / Class bundles | Included | Included | |
| Activity Settings | |||
| Sell add-on items | Included | Custom plan only* | |
| Activity pictures and attachments | Included | Included | |
| Customize activity listing page | Included | Template-based | |
| Discount options | |||
| Multi attendee discounts | Included | Workaround via package pricing | |
| Multi session discounts | Included | Included | |
| Discount codes | Included | Included | |
| Bookings | |||
| Customizable intake forms | Included | Basic — limited field types | |
| Family accounts (one parent, many children) | Included | Workaround via linked profiles | |
| Terms and Conditions agreement | Included | Included | |
* Based on rates and plan inclusions published on momence.com/pricing as of April 2026.
Introduction
Momence is a clean, modern booking platform — particularly strong for solo instructors, yoga studios and wellness businesses that want a more polished alternative to Mindbody. If your business runs on group classes, courses, terms and family bookings, Pembee is built for that shape of business, with a flat subscription and no platform fee skimmed off every transaction.
As of April 2026, providers on Pembee have processed over 900,000 bookings and £40M+ in transactions, with a 4.9/5 rating on Capterra (versus Momence's 4.0/5). This page lays out where the two platforms overlap and where they diverge for class-based businesses.
How does Pembee compare to Momence's free Basic plan?
Platform fees on top of card processing. Momence Basic adds a 5% platform fee on every transaction, Pro adds 2.5%, and only the $199/month Custom plan removes it. Layer in US card processing at 3.9% + $0.30, and a £30 class on the Basic plan is closer to £3.40 in fees per booking before you've seen a penny. Pembee charges a flat 0.59% on top of Stripe's published rates and takes nothing on top of that.
What sits behind the Basic and Pro paywall. Add-ons, multiple staff accounts, multiple locations, reporting and the inbox are all reserved for the Custom plan. Pembee Standard at $45/month includes up to five admin users, customizable forms, registers, subscriptions, class packs, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Klarna, discount codes and reminders — no upgrade required.
Wellness-first, not class-first. Momence is a strong fit for appointment-led wellness businesses — yoga teachers, massage therapists, solo instructors. Group class management exists, but multi-week courses, terms, family accounts with multiple children per parent, and reusable medical info per child are not the core model. Pembee is purpose-built for recurring programmes, which shows up in the admin and parent experience.
“Pembee has been a game changer for me. From using a previous booking system, my workload has been cut in half — more than half! Cannot recommend enough.”
Feature deep-dive: Pembee vs Momence for class-based businesses
Below is a side-by-side look at the areas that matter most when you're running recurring classes and courses rather than one-to-one appointments.
Pricing
Flat plan vs platform fees. Pembee Standard is $45/month and Premium is $105/month for waitlists, abandoned-cart recovery, Meta Pixel and unlimited admin users. Neither plan charges a platform fee on bookings. Momence's headline tiers — Basic, Pro, Custom — only land at zero platform fee on the $199/month Custom plan.
Transparent transaction fees. Pembee uses Stripe at 0.59% on top of Stripe's published rates, so the rate you see is the rate you pay. Momence applies its own platform fee on top of card processing on the Basic and Pro plans, which compounds quickly across a busy term.
No contracts. Pembee is monthly or annual with 2 months free on annual. Cancel any time. The 30-day free trial runs the full product, not a stripped-down preview, with no credit card required.
Admin and automation
Registers built for classes. Pembee generates a register automatically from bookings, supports paperless check-in and check-out on the session, and carries attendee data forward term-to-term so parents don't re-enter it every season.
Confirmations, reminders and cart recovery. Email confirmations, balance reminders and reminders before each session cut down on manual follow-ups. Premium adds abandoned-cart recovery for bookings that stall at checkout — useful when you're relying on parents finishing a booking between school pickup and dinner.
Clone classes and terms. Duplicating a successful term is one click — useful every September, January and April. Momence's scheduling is solid for fixed-time classes, but multi-week courses with varying patterns consistently show up in user reviews as where things start to strain.
Customisation
Activity pages you control. Pembee lets you shape each activity page with photos, descriptions, Google Maps links, attachments, and a configurable set of filters so parents can narrow down classes by age group, location or day. Momence's booking pages are more template-locked.
Custom intake forms. Collect the medical, consent and dietary information you actually need — reusable per child, not per booking. Momence's form builder supports basic fields only.
Payments
Stripe-integrated. Pembee uses Stripe for card payments and supports Apple Pay, Google Pay and Klarna out of the box. Offline payments (cash, bank transfer) carry no transaction fee on either platform.
Subscriptions, class packs and trial tickets. Sell monthly memberships, multi-session bundles and discounted or free taster sessions as first-class objects, not workarounds. UK providers also get integrated HMRC Tax-Free Childcare payments — not something Momence, as a US-first platform, supports.
Engagement
Family accounts. One parent, multiple children, one checkout. Medical info lives on the child, not the booking — entered once, reused every term. Appointment-led platforms approximate this rather than model it directly.
Marketing built in. Discount codes, multi-child and multi-session discounts, trial tickets, and Meta Pixel support on the Premium plan. Momence supports codes but multi-attendee discounting is a workaround via package pricing.
Insights
Dashboard and reports. Sales reports, class sales breakdowns and monthly revenue reports are in the admin dashboard from day one. On Momence, reporting is reserved for the Custom plan. See the full class booking system for the complete feature set.
Conclusion: the right choice for class-based businesses
Momence is a solid product for solo wellness practitioners and small studios that want a clean, modern interface and don't mind the platform fee in exchange for a low headline price. If that's your shape of business, Momence probably fits you well. But for studios, clubs, schools and camps running group classes, courses, terms and family bookings — where the 5% or 2.5% platform fee compounds across hundreds of bookings a term — Pembee is designed for exactly that work, priced flat, with the fee left in your account.
Wandsworth Preparatory School switched to Pembee from a legacy booking tool and reported a 20% increase in bookings and a 50% reduction in admin time — the kind of gain that makes the switching friction worth it.
Most studios evaluating Momence are also weighing up Mindbody — read our Momence vs Mindbody breakdown for the head-to-head, or our Pembee vs Mindbody comparison for a third option. You can also see how Pembee compares to other booking tools.
Try Pembee for free by signing up here — 30 days, no credit card, no contract.
Testimonials
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“Using Pembee for my event bookings and registration has cut down my admin time immeasurably. I had got to a point where I felt swamped by the volume of paperwork created by my small but busy business and Pembee has saved the day!”
“Fantastic. Easy to use, support is incredible and we have much happier users.”
“I am blown away by the level of support and service from Pembee, the team have helped me set up the app and tweak it to get it working exactly as I want it. I can't fault any step of the process.”
“So easy to use, great for customers and staff. Clean and crisp front end for parents - easily operated back end for staff. We tried 2 others before this and both were heavily flawed with by support or quality - this system has both.”
“Just absolutely fantastic. I am super impressed with their system and also their customer support.”
“Such an amazing piece of software after trialling a few, Pembee is very easy to use and has solved a problem that we encountered!”
“Amazing app for my business. Helpful and easy to use, plus the online support is amazing from the team.”
“Amazing. Not only a great and easy to use platform but brilliant customer service. Pembee has been a game changer for me. From using a previous booking system, my workload has been cut in half - more than half! Cannot recommend enough.”
“Our previous booking system was going offline and we needed a replacement, Pembee worked with us to ensure their system could offer everything we needed to continue the smooth running of our business. Pembee customer support is second to none. Setting up the system was straightforward and there was always someone on hand to help with any queries we had.”
- Bookings processed
- 900K
- Transactions processed
- $50M
- Total Users
- 230,000+
- Sessions listed
- 600,000+