Everything you need for nutrition & fitness coaching
Whether you have a few clients, or thousands, Pono is the one coaching software for everything.
Transform your online coaching business and try Pono, with no long term agreements and a 30 day free trial.
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Everything in one place
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Website and iOS and Android mobile apps
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Unlimited customization & automation
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Smart AI
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Perfect for online macro coaching, nutrition & fitness coaching, and contest prep.
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No other coaching platform comes close to Pono's capabilities
Over 100,000 coaches & clients use Pono
Check-ins
Everything in one place
Your client's entire check-in history at a glance.
Visual and intuitive
Charts, tables, photo comparisons and more.
Smart AI
AI powered progress reports and in-depth AI analysis.
Color coding
Easily see how close your clients are to their goals, and where they're on or off track.
Everything syncs in
Food logs, workouts, body weight, measurements and more sync in automatically.
Check-in schedule
Clients are automatically set up with the correct check-in schedule, depending on type, status etc.
Active / inactive coaching
Offer different access levels, even let AI do most of the work for you while clients are not in active coaching.
On or off-season
Switch your clients automatically between on and off season.
Keep track of events
See what events or competitions your clients are working towards and who is competing where.
Automated reminders
Automatically remind your clients when it's time to check in.
Leaderboards
Let your clients compete with each.
New feature, coming soon!
Your clients will love it
Easy, user friendly and intuitive check-in process on the iOS and Android apps or the website.
Food tracker
New feature in final development, available to everyone using Pono in October!
Contact us if you would like to join the beta test group and let your clients try it out now.
Easy logging
Barcode scanner, food label scanner, quick manual entry and speech-to-text.
Extensive database
Over 4 million popular foods from around the world.
Create your own
Easily create custom foods, meals and recipes.
Copy from previous
Add any previously logged food, meal, or entire day with a couple of taps.
Easy serving calculation
Enter servings any way you like, and let the app auto-adjust between portion sizes.
Auto-calculate remaining macros
Automatically calculate the correct serving size, based on the macros that you have left for the day, or any macros that you enter.
Targets
Set macro goals, and schedule different goals for different days of the week.
Notes & feelings
Add notes, and rate how you feel, for any meal.
Track everything
Track macro and micronutrients, fasting, net carbs, water, alcohol, and other drinks.
Shopping lists
Automatically generate a shopping list, based on your regular eating and drinking habits.
AI reports
See nutrition trends over time, and compare them to progress in the client's body measurements, check-ins, and logged workouts.
Fully integrated
Integrates with other Pono features, and syncs with Apple Health and Google Health Connect so you can also see the data in other apps.
Nutrition & training plans
Create your own library
Create plan "parts" for foods, drinks, supplements, exercises, cardio etc that you and your coaches can use for any client.
Create detailed nutrition plans
With meals, snacks, drinks, supplements etc.
Create detailed training plans
With days, reps & sets, super sets, RIR, RPE, tempo, cardio etc.
Easy to create the perfect plan
Create plan "blocks" (whole meals or foods, drinks, supplements etc for nutrition plans; whole workouts, or exercises for training plans) then add to a plan with just a couple of clicks.
Easy to adjust
Adjust existing plans as your clients progress, and schedule different plans to automatically appear at specific times.
Categorize your plans
For example, add "gluten free" for a food or "home workout" for an exercise, then easily match suitable plans to each client.
Tag the individual parts
For example, tag with "vegetarian" or "keto" for your foods, or "legs" or "arms" for your exercise, then instantly find suitable foods or exercises when creating a custom plan.
Upload finished plans
Easily upload plans that you have created somewhere else (PDFs, spreadsheets etc), or video-only plans.
Messaging & communication
Message any way you want
Message via website/app messaging, video messaging, instant app chat, email, or text/sms.
Bulk messaging
Send bulk messages to lots of clients, and easily filter exactly who should receive them.
Send later
Schedule a message to send at any later time.
Campaigns
Create campaigns that are triggered on whatever schedule you want, or when clients do something specific.
Chat
Quick chat with your clients on the mobile apps with text, emojis, animated gifs, photos and videos.
App notifications
Send or schedule beautifully designed app notifications to let your clients know about special events, offers etc.
Group chat
Let your clients join in community chats where they can post, comment, like etc.
New feature, coming soon!
Video recorder
Allow coaches and/or clients to record videos in their messages or check-ins.
Message snippets
Coaches can add saved snippets to any message, and have it auto-personalized to the client.
Signatures
Let your coaches personalize their messages and chats with a signature or quote.
Organize your messages
Organize messages into labels and folders, for coaches and clients to easily find what's relevant.
See the status
See exactly when clients and coaches have read a message, and if an email is undeliverable.
Forms
Forms & questionnaires
Easily create any type of question and answer form, such as an intake or assessment form, with as many questions as you like.
Conditional questions
Show questions depending on the answers to other questions, or depending on the client's account settings.
One question at a time
Display your full questionnaire on one page, or show it one question at a time.
Terms & waivers
Require that clients accept your terms and digitally sign your forms and waivers.
File or photo uploads
Ask your clients to upload something, such as a photo or video or document.
Built-in spam protection
In addition to a reCAPTCHA, the built-in spam filters intelligently prevent the majority of spam form submissions so that you are not wasting your time on them.
Automations
Remind your clients to fill out the forms that you want them to, and trigger any automation when they do.
Programs
Automatic setup
Everything is set up automatically when a new client signs up with exactly what you want them to get.
Different program types
Create program types such as nutrition or training coaching and see at a glance who is in which.
Auto-assign the coach
Categorize your coaches, for example nutrition or training coaches, and automatically assign the correct coach to the correct client.
Auto adjust
As clients progress, they get everything that you want them to get, on the schedule that you want them to have it.
AI progress reports
Powerful reports show you (and your clients too, if you want) exactly how they're progressing and what might need attention.
Changing program
Easily change a client's program, or let them change it themself with a selection of upgrade and/or downgrade options.
Contracts
Optionally set a contract length for each client, for example binding them to a 12 month contract but letting them change to certain other programs during that time.
Keep track of payments
Automatically notify clients and prompt them to update their payment if a recurring payment subscription fails.
Handling non-payment
Send multiple automated payment reminders, optionally pausing the program and notifying the coach, and even cancelling a program completely if the payment remains unsuccessful.
Calendar & scheduling
Any type of event
Take bookings for any type of appointment or event, for example an orientation session when a client signs up.
Decide who hosts
Events can be general, or they can be hosted by a specific coach or staff member.
Flexible schedules
Each coach or staff member has their own schedule and can flexibly set the days and times that they are available.
Google Calendar
Coaches can connect their Google Calendar, bookings will automatically be added and times with conflicting events will be removed from their availability.
Video chats
Optionally create a Google Meet video chat link when a client makes a booking.
Reminders
Remind your clients (if you like, several times) as it gets close to the day and time.
Reschedule or cancel
Optionally let clients and staff re-schedule or cancel bookings.
See who has attended
Monitor whether or not a client has attended a booked event.
Automations
Workflow wizard
Your ultimate assistant in setting up your entire automations, giving you the full power or Pono in an easy choose and click process.
New feature, coming soon!
Separate by group
Automate almost everything through the powerful groups, controlling what your different types of client can see and do on the website and in the mobile apps.
Move between groups
Automatically move clients between different steps of your onboarding process, different phases, or different coaching levels, and adjust their entire setup as they move from group to group.
See what needs doing
The notification system shows anything that needs attention, for example if a client has not checked in or not done something that they should.
Notifications & reminders
Automatically notify your clients when they have something new, or something that needs their attention.
AI everywhere
Progress reports
In-depth AI generated progress reports show coaches and clients how they are progressing.
Analysis
Drill down and run instant, detailed analysis on any data that you want.
Pre-formulated messages
Get suggestions and prompts for what you need to talk about with the client when you're processing their check-in.
Chat assistant
Let your clients talk about any of their nutrition and/or training questions with a cutting edge AI chat assistant in the mobile apps.
Getting more powerful
AI is not a finished feature, more than anything else in Pono we are developing AI and releasing regular updates with the latest capabilities and technologies as they emerge.
Website & mobile apps
Client account
Each client's personal online account has everything that they need in one place.
Add content automatically
You can manually add whatever you want to a client's account, or you can fully automate the process as they progress through their program.
Access on any device
Clients can use your website and the iOS/Android mobile apps, and switch seamlessly between both with everything perfectly in sync.
Everything in one place
No multiple apps to download, everything is one place for your clients on the web and in the apps.
Cool widgets
On iOS, clients can add home and lock screen widgets that highlight everything that's important.
Intuitive and fun
There's nothing complex for clients to learn, everything is ultra easy, intuitive and most importantly enjoyable to use.
For coaches and staff
The Pono admin presents everything that is going on in one central place.
Admin dashboard
Choose from dozens of widgets to show a quick overview of everything that matters on the main admin dashboard.
User dashboard
The admin user dashboard shows the entire client history at a glance, with every single interaction that you have ever had with each client, organized the way you want.
Coaches & staff
Manually assign a coach
You can manually assign a main coach and multiple additional coaches to any client.
Let clients choose
If you have multiple coaches you can let clients choose who they would like to work with.
Automatically assign
Via the client intake system you can auto assign a client to the correct or most suitable coach.
Let coaches choose
When assigning a client you can optionally let coaches accept or decline to work with a client.
Admin hierarchy
Easily control exactly who sees what, with a hierarchy of coach and admin/staff permissions.
Coach time off
When a coach is away you can move their clients temporarily to a different coach, and automatically move them back when they return.
Transferring clients
If a coach is leaving permanently then you can easily re-assign all of their clients to different coaches.
Payroll
Set commission and/or a fixed salary, and auto deduct pay if a client's program is paused or past due or if the coach is on vacation.
Monitor coach performance
See each coach's performance in various metrics such as average response time to chats, messages and check-ins, admin activity and so on.
Lead generation
Offer a free mobile app
Get potential clients using your Pono mobile apps, filled with any or all of the features, AI functionality, and your own content.
Easy upgrades
Market to your potential clients with in-app notifications, and let them upgrade to paid coaching via in-app purchase or on your website.
Web pages
Easily create web pages styled and designed any way that you want to present your business and your products and services.
Sales
Sell anything
Sell online programs or any type of physical or virtual product.
Integrated payment processing
Charge a one-time price or a recurring subscription — on any schedule that you want, with trial periods and/or one-time setup fees.
Automated workflow
Trigger a fully automated workflow when a client places an order, guiding them through the onboarding and account setup process, sending welcome emails etc.
Referrals
Easily track referrals and affiliate orders with automatic commission calculation.
Terms and waivers
Require clients to accept your terms or sign a waiver when they place an order.
Promo codes
Offer promo codes with a percentage or fixed discount, and restrict them any way you like.
Credits and prepaid
Assign a credit to a client that they can use when placing an order, or let clients prepay and use their prepaid balance over time.
Individual pricing
If you're regularly working with the same clients you can set up individual pricing on anything that you sell.
Multiple currencies
Sell your products and services in any currency, with auto-updating exchange rates.
Abandoned cart recovery
Monitor clients who add something to your shopping cart but do not finalize the order, and invite them to complete their purchase.
Any type of content
Resources
Put any content that you want your clients to have into the resources — PDFs, documents, photos, videos, links etc.
Folders & files
Organize large amount of content into a hierarchy of different levels that is easy to search and navigate.
Courses
Give your clients a quick class or a complete curriculum. Let them see all at once, or work through on a specific schedule with new classes opening up however you want.
Articles, blogs & FAQ
Publish any type of article on your website and app, for example a blog or an open/close FAQ system.
Reports & analytics
Coaching analytics
See what your clients are doing and how your coaches are performing, including how many active clients you have, when their programs are ending, how quickly your coaches respond to their messages, retention and churn rates, and more.
Sales analytics
See every sales number and metric that matters, including your subscriptions, new vs returning clients, how your sales are evolving, retention and churn rates, lifetime values, and specific sales by product, region, promo code, day/time, and more.
Form analytics
See reports for the forms that clients have filled out, link forms and compare the answers from two forms to each other — for example, let your clients rate your coaches, and let your coaches rate your clients, and then compare them — and more.
Website & app activity analytics
See your coach and client activity, when they are most active, and how long it takes your coaches to process certain tasks such as replying to a client's message, processing a client's check-in etc.
Admin dashboard
Put your favorite report widgets directly onto the main admin dashboard.
Decide who sees what
Allow coaches access to only the reports that you want them to see, and optionally let them see only their own data within each report.
Color coding
Color code specific values in any report so that you can instantly see how close you are to your targets, and who or what needs attention.
Even more
Options for everything
You have full control to adjust pretty much every option and setting.
Web pages
Quickly build web pages with text, images, videos etc without having to call a web developer.
Coach/staff bios
Present beautifully styled coach or staff bios on your website and mobile app.
Multiple locations
Present multiple business locations with an elegant, interactive Google Maps location finder to let your visitors find a location close to them.
External apps & services
Connect to Hubspot, Zapier, Active Campaign, MailChimp, Google Analytics and Tag Manager, Facebook Pixel and Conversions API, and more.
Enterprise-grade security
Pono is built with the highest level of security, passing the strictest vulnerability and penetration tests using the same underlying scanning engine as big banks and governments worldwide.
Security options
Set options for password strength, email verification, two factor authentication, and requiring users to regularly change their passwords.
You own your data
All files (client photos, videos etc) can be stored on your own Amazon S3 storage, and you can access and export all data that is stored in the database.
Custom development
If you need some features adjusting, or you want something totally custom, then we ca build whatever you need. Learn more
Ready to try Pono?
Macro, nutrition/fitness coaching, and contest prep companies of all sizes are using Pono to power their online business:
Macros Inc
Team Elite Physique
Eat To Perform
Bombshell Fitness
Transform your business with Pono
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