Could Pembee be the WellnessLiving alternative you have been looking for?
Pembee is a class and course booking platform for activity providers, from $45/month — with no contracts, no per-calendar pricing, and a 30-day free trial.
| Feature by Features | Pembee | WellnessLiving | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Monthly fee | From $45/month (Standard plan) | Starter $69/mo • Business $199/mo • BusinessPro $349/mo | |
| Credit card transaction fees | From 0.59% + Stripe fees | Integrated WellnessLiving Payments; rates published on sign-up* | |
| Free trial | 30 days — no credit card required | Demo-only; no self-serve free trial | |
| 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 | Included | |
| Activity pictures and attachments | Included | Included | |
| Customize activity listing page | Included | Template-based | |
| Discount options | |||
| Multi attendee discounts | Included | Via package pricing | |
| Multi session discounts | Included | Included | |
| Discount codes | Included | Included | |
| Bookings | |||
| Customizable intake forms | Included | Included | |
| Terms and Conditions agreement | Included | Included | |
* WellnessLiving does not publish card processing rates publicly; rates are disclosed during onboarding. See wellnessliving.com/pricing for current plan tiers (as of April 2026).
Introduction
WellnessLiving is a serious Mindbody alternative — but it's still a wellness platform first, with the same assumptions baked in. The starter tier reads as friendly pricing, then the ladder climbs to Business at $199/month and BusinessPro at $349/month once you need features most class-based businesses actually need. Pembee takes a different approach: one flat Standard plan at $45/month, built around group classes, courses, terms and family accounts.
As of April 2026, Pembee is rated 4.9/5 on Capterra (versus WellnessLiving's 4.4/5), with over 230,000 users and 900,000+ bookings processed on the platform.
Is WellnessLiving worth it for group class businesses?
Pricing shape. Starter at $69/mo is the advertised price, but a branded mobile app, advanced marketing automation, and parts of the reporting suite sit on Business or BusinessPro. Most class-based businesses end up on Business ($199/mo) within the first year, so the “affordable Mindbody” frame erodes quickly. Pembee Standard includes customizable forms, registers, subscriptions, class packs, Apple Pay / Google Pay / Klarna, discount codes and reminders — all at $45/month.
No self-serve trial. WellnessLiving is demo-only — you book a call with sales to see the product. Pembee has a 30-day free trial, no credit card, so you can load your schedule and run it against a real term before you pay anything.
Appointment-first design. WellnessLiving inherited a salon and spa heritage. Group class management exists and works, but terms, blocks, 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 for kids and adults, which shows up in the admin and parent experience.
“A system that actually understands how schools operate. For a growing performing arts school, that flexibility is key.”
Feature deep-dive: Pembee vs WellnessLiving for class-based businesses
Where the feature table is broadly level, the differentiation lives in how the two products treat pricing, onboarding and the class-based programme model.
Pricing
One plan vs a three-tier climb. Pembee Standard is $45/month and Premium is $105/month for waitlists, abandoned-cart recovery, Meta Pixel and unlimited admin users. WellnessLiving runs Starter / Business / BusinessPro, and many of the features class-based businesses need land on Business or higher.
Transparent transaction fees. Pembee uses Stripe, from 0.59% on top of Stripe's published rates. WellnessLiving's integrated payments don't publish public rates — you're told during onboarding.
No contracts. Monthly or annual (2 months free annually), cancel any time. A genuine 30-day free trial.
Admin and automation
Registers and check-in. Pembee generates registers automatically from bookings and supports paperless check-in and check-out on the session itself — useful if you're running camps or after-school clubs where safeguarding hinges on knowing who's in the room.
Confirmations, reminders and cart recovery. Automatic email confirmations, balance reminders and session reminders. The Premium plan adds abandoned-cart recovery so parents who drop off at checkout get nudged back.
Customisation
Activity pages. Pembee lets you build a branded activity listing with photos, descriptions, Google Maps links, attachments and custom filters. WellnessLiving's booking pages are more template-based.
Custom intake forms. Collect the medical, consent and dietary information you actually need, attached to the child rather than the booking — so parents don't re-enter it every term.
Payments
Stripe-integrated. Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Klarna out of the box. UK providers also get integrated HMRC Tax-Free Childcare payments — not something WellnessLiving, as a US-first platform, supports.
Subscriptions, class packs and trial tickets. Sell monthly memberships, multi-session bundles, and discounted or free taster sessions as first-class objects, not workarounds.
Engagement
Family accounts with multiple children. One parent login, any number of children, reusable profiles. A core pattern for kids' activity businesses that appointment-shaped platforms approximate rather than model directly.
Discounts built in. Multi-child and multi-session discounts are native in Pembee; WellnessLiving handles similar outcomes through package pricing.
Insights
Dashboard and reports. Attendance, sales, and monthly revenue reports in the admin dashboard. See the full class booking system for the complete feature set.
Conclusion: the right choice for class-based businesses
WellnessLiving is a strong product for wellness studios that want a Mindbody-style stack at a friendlier entry price, and are happy going through a demo-and-sales-call onboarding. That's a real use case — but if your business runs on terms, families, registers and recurring kids' or adults' classes, Pembee is designed for exactly that, priced to stay flat as you grow, and you can try it for 30 days without talking to anyone.
Wandsworth Preparatory School switched to Pembee after years on legacy tooling and reported a 20% increase in bookings and a 50% reduction in admin time — the kind of result that justifies the switch.
If you're also weighing up Mindbody, read our Pembee vs Mindbody comparison — most people evaluating WellnessLiving are evaluating Mindbody too. Or 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!”
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“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+