General wellness membership app
Member.Life covers gyms, dance studios, and yoga studios under one general membership-management product. Its published card-processing rate is the highest of any platform in this comparison.
DanceUp pricing
Event Host is free. Studio Owner is $129/mo, Studio Owner Pro+ is $179/mo — all three published, no "request a quote" tier, plus a flat 1.5% platform fee on top of standard card processing.
Member.Life pricing
Member.Life publishes four tiers — Basic $30/mo, Premium $100/mo, Pro $200/mo, and Platinum $300/mo — with card acceptance billed at 5% + $0.30 per transaction on the Basic tier. SMS marketing, automation, AI marketing tools, and multi-location support are all gated to the $300/mo Platinum tier.
Card processing
1.5% platform fee, disclosed, on top of standard card processing
5% + $0.30 per transaction — the highest published rate in this comparison
Dance-specific tooling
Performer/team event registration and vendor-booth registration for festivals and congresses
General wellness membership management, not dance-specific
AI
AI Co-Pilot (drafts, revises, and proactively suggests) and AI Insights, detailed and included on Studio Owner Pro+ at $179/mo
"AI marketing tools" mentioned only at the $300/mo Platinum tier, without specifics
Multi-location
Single location today
Included only on the $300/mo Platinum tier
Check-in
Four ways to check in, including zero-tap scheduled auto check-in
Member check-in with branded cards/keytags, plus fingerprint access on Platinum
Reviews
Public reviews with owner response
Not published as a feature
Dancer / member mobile app
DanceUp's dancer app is a cross-studio discovery marketplace with auto check-in built in. Member.Life offers a custom branded studio app, but it's a Pro-tier-and-up feature ($200/mo+) rather than something every studio gets by default.
Front-desk / tablet app
DanceUp Studio is a dedicated, free-to-use iPad front-desk app with kiosk check-in, QR scanning, and live Kiosk Watch Mode. Member.Life's check-in options (branded cards/keytags, mobile scanning, fingerprint access) are spread across its paid tiers rather than bundled into one front-desk product.
Where Member.Life might actually be the better fit
If fingerprint-based access control is a hard requirement for your facility, Member.Life's Platinum tier has that today — at $300/mo, with everything else gated behind it too.
No sales call required to see what it costs — pricing's public, and Event Host is free to start.