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How to set up and run a coaching app for your clients

Step-by-step help for starting a trial, building a first program, adding clients, choosing client types and setting up payments in a safe order.

Set up your coaching app in a safe order and know when to add paid extras.

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How to use Trainerize as a coach: the setup order that avoids surprises

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How a coach sets up Trainerize: start the trial on the web, build a program, add clients, pick client types and set up payments last, from the help center.

Bottom line: To use Trainerize as a coach, start the free trial on the web, run the in-app setup guide, build one master program, add clients by email or CSV, and test the client view before inviting everyone. Set up payments last, because the payments setup locks your country and currency once you confirm them.

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What is Trainerize? The coaching app, its parts and who it is for

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What Trainerize is, how a coach and clients use it, what its parts do and where it stops, from the vendor's pages and help center read October 30, 2026.

Bottom line: Trainerize is software for fitness coaches. A coach builds workout programs, nutrition plans and habits in a web account, and clients follow them in a free mobile app. It also offers messaging, payments and branded apps as paid extras. It is not a gym door-access or membership system, and clients do not pay Trainerize.