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Tap-and-go entry that stops membership sharing, keeps solo evening sessions safer, and gives your front-of-house team their time back, without turning your gym into an airport.
The reality on site
Not theoretical risks, but the things your team deals with every single week.
One membership, three people using it. Shared fobs and passed-back cards quietly bleed revenue every month.
24-hour gyms need a way to know exactly who’s on the floor when there’s no one behind the desk, for safety, not just security.
Peak-hour bottlenecks at the door frustrate members before they’ve even started their session.
Phones and wallets left in unsecured lockers are a recurring complaint and a reputational risk.
No real link between who booked a class and who actually turned up, until the room’s already full.
Your booking app, door entry and payments all live in different systems that don’t talk to each other.
The integrated solution
Instead of bolting a door reader onto your existing setup, Arana connects entry, attendance, and reporting into a single flow. A member registers once, and everything after that happens automatically.
Most gyms don’t need a full identity platform behind the door, just entry that works reliably. That’s BluAccess for mobile credential entry, and VeriFace for facial recognition, each running independently rather than through a central identity system.
During a shift change or an emergency evacuation, a single verified identity is the only reliable way to know exactly who’s on site.
Signed up once, at the desk or online
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Face or fingerprint at the turnstile
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Expired memberships held at the door
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Studios, spas and premium zones
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Pay for extras with a fingerprint
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CCTV for 24-hour sites
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Visits and peak times by site
The building blocks
Grouped by what each layer achieves on site — not a parts list to pick through.
Getting the right person through the right door
Outcome
Fast, unattended entry that stops shared and passed-back memberships
Turning footfall into decisions you can act on
Outcome
Real usage patterns, peak hours, class demand, retention risk, instead of guesswork
Managing the site beyond the front door
Outcome
Car park and vehicle access managed alongside member entry, not as an afterthought
Covering everything beyond the front door
Outcome
Out-of-hours and unstaffed-site coverage that ties back to the same reporting
Why Arana
We’re a specialist integrator, not a call-centre-scale vendor. You deal directly with senior engineers from the first site survey onwards, and with a team that takes the time to understand how your organisation actually operates.
Speak with the engineer who set up your entry and membership system, not a support queue starting from zero.
New sites, membership types and opening hours are actioned in days, not a vendor’s quarterly release cycle.
Entry built around your members, classes and opening hours, not a generic gym template.
The team that installs your entry system is the same team accountable when members can’t get in at 6am.
Tell us how your club runs, and we’ll show you what tap-and-go entry actually looks like on your floor plan.
Packages
Pick the shape that matches how your gym actually runs.
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