Movena
Bring memberships, bookings, and physical access together with Movena and Kisi.
From joining a gym to booking a training session and walking through the door, Movena and Kisi help create a more connected member journey. Movena manages access eligibility based on memberships, bookings, and staff-controlled enrolment, while Kisi handles the physical access infrastructure.
As those conditions change, Movena automatically grants or revokes the access it manages in Kisi. This reduces the need for staff to maintain member information across separate systems while giving operators control over which members participate in access control.
How the Movena + Kisi integration works
Operators decide which members are enrolled in Access Control rather than automatically provisioning everyone with a membership or booking. Once enrolled, eligible membership plans can provide ongoing facility access, while eligible bookings can grant time-bounded access around scheduled training sessions.
Movena keeps these permissions aligned as memberships, bookings, and Access Control settings change. It can also check available Kisi user capacity before provisioning multiple users and reuse an existing Kisi user when a member can be safely matched.
The integration only manages Kisi resources and access identified as Movena-managed. Existing Kisi configurations remain untouched, while Kisi continues to manage doors, readers, controllers, schedules, and physical access rules.
Access control features and use cases
Feature | Benefit | Ideal use case |
|---|
Automated access management | Grants and revokes Movena-managed Kisi access as membership, booking, or Access Control conditions change | Fitness businesses looking to reduce manual access administration |
Membership-based facility access | Provides eligible members with general facility access while their membership entitles them to use the facility | Gyms and studios with recurring membership plans |
Booking-based access | Provides time-bounded access around eligible booked training sessions | Studios and training facilities operating around scheduled sessions |
Staff-controlled enrolment | Gives operators explicit control over which members participate in physical access | Businesses that don't want every membership or booking to automatically create access |
Existing Kisi user reuse | Reuses safely matched Kisi users instead of unnecessarily creating duplicate users | Operators managing members who already exist in Kisi |
Capacity-aware provisioning | Checks available Kisi user capacity before operations that could provision multiple users | Businesses provisioning access for larger groups of members |
Protected Kisi configuration | Limits Movena's management to resources and access identified as Movena-managed | Facilities with existing Kisi users and access configurations |
Multi-location operations | Supports participating locations within a connected Kisi organization | Fitness businesses operating across multiple locations |
Requirements
- Active Movena account
- Movena Access Control add-on enabled for participating locations
- Movena Owner or Manager permissions for Access Control configuration
- Active Kisi organization and subscription
- Kisi organization owner or administrator access
- Kisi API key for the organization
- Sufficient Kisi user capacity for members receiving access
- Compatible Kisi access-control hardware at participating facilities
- Required doors and physical access rules configured in Kisi for Movena-managed member groups
Each Movena business connects to a single Kisi organization, with participating Movena locations represented within that organization.
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About Movena
Movena is an operating platform for modern fitness businesses, serving boutique studios, independent gyms, and multi-location operators across Pilates, yoga, CrossFit, boxing, martial arts, strength and conditioning, and personal training. The platform brings memberships and subscriptions, bookings, billing and payments, personal training and workout programming, training history, challenges and leaderboards, and HealthKit-connected experiences into one system across web and native mobile. Its consent-based architecture gives members control over appropriate data-sharing experiences while helping operators manage the permissions and enrolments needed to run their business.