Clasendra is gym management software built in Mohali, Punjab. It was founded in 2026 by two people: Simranpreet Singh, founder and CEO, and Puneet Verma, CTO. This is the story of why we started it, written so that gym owners can decide whether we are the kind of company they want running their front desk.
The problem we kept seeing
Walk into most gyms in India and you will find the business running on four tools that don’t talk to each other: a register at the desk, a WhatsApp group, an Excel sheet on one laptop and a cash box. The owner is the glue between them, every single day.
Attendance is written by hand, so nobody notices who stopped coming. Fee reminders go out one by one, so renewals slip. Dues live in a file only one person can open, so there is no live view of who owes what. Payments are counted at closing time, and invoices are made later, if at all.
None of this is because gym owners are disorganised. It is because the software on offer was mostly built for somewhere else, or built for the biggest chains, and asked a busy front desk to work around it.
“I’m building Clasendra because India’s gym owners deserve better than Excel sheets and WhatsApp groups to run a crore-level business.” — Simranpreet Singh, Founder & CEO
Why build it for India specifically
Indian gyms run on different rails from gyms in the US or Europe, and software that treats those as add-ons never quite fits. We decided early that each of these had to work from day one, not be bolted on later:
- UPI, because that is how members pay, including UPI Autopay for instalments. See GST billing and UPI.
- GST invoices your CA can use, with a Tally export.
- WhatsApp on the official Business API, because that is where members read messages. See WhatsApp automation.
- Biometric gates that work offline, because power cuts and broadband drops are part of the week. See biometric attendance.
Starting in 2026 helped. There was no old code to drag along and no acquired customer base to protect, so every screen could be built for how an Indian gym works today.
What the CEO looks after
Simranpreet leads product and runs the founding-gym programme. In practice that means working directly with the founding gyms and deciding what gets built next based on what slows their front desks down. When a founding gym writes in, the question goes to Simranpreet, not a ticket queue.
The test for every product decision is simple: does it save the owner or the desk time on a normal, busy day? Features that look good in a demo but add a step at the counter don’t make it in.
What the CTO looks after
Puneet leads the platform: the multi-tenant core that keeps each gym’s data separate, the biometric adapters that connect CAMS, eSSL and MinopCloud readers, and the member app for iOS and Android.
“A gym’s software has one job at 7am: get the queue through the door. Everything we build is judged on that.” — Puneet Verma, CTO
That “7 AM test” shapes the engineering. The gate keeps working when the internet drops and syncs later. Each gym gets its own database schema rather than sharing tables with other gyms. Payments are confirmed by the gateway, not by someone checking a screenshot. Puneet explains each of these in more detail in how a gym management system works.
What we promise gyms
A young company has to earn trust with specifics, so here are ours:
- No setup fee, and migration, biometric pairing, WhatsApp template approval and staff training are included.
- Your data stays yours. Export everything as CSV or PDF at any time.
- Prices on the website, from ₹1,499 a month, with a 14-day free trial and no card.
- A founder answers. Write to info@clasendra.com and it reaches the people building the product.
Where we are now
We are onboarding a small number of Indian gyms as founding members and building the product alongside them. Founding gyms get direct access to the founder, a real say in the order of the roadmap, and their price locked in for as long as they stay, with terms confirmed in writing when they join.
Our mission is the same for a single studio in a Tier-3 town and a 20-branch chain: every gym in India deserves enterprise-grade software, not just the chains. One product works for one floor or twenty branches, and plans scale with your members and branches.
Get in touch
If you run a gym and any of this sounds like your front desk, we would like to hear from you. Read more about the team on our about page, see what the product does on the features page, or apply to be a founding gym. If you are still deciding whether you need software at all, start with what gym management software is, or see what a free option will and won’t do for you.