Solution 001 — Self-operating gym

The gym that runs itself.

Members walk in with their face. Payments confirm themselves and land in the right bank account. The owner sees everything from a phone. A complete system — software, face-recognition terminals, door locks and payments — installed and supported by ACTOR.

Entry
Face · QR day pass
Payments
Bank transfer, auto-confirmed
Money
Routed across many bank accounts
Hours
24/7, no one at the desk
0/7
Opening hours, unstaffed
0s
From the console to every door
0
Faces per terminal
0
Manual transfers at month end

01The member journey

From a phone to the gym floor in three steps.

01 — Sign up

No staff needed

Newcomers scan a code at the entrance, pick a plan and register their face from their own phone — in about a minute.

02 — Pay

A transfer that confirms itself

A bank-transfer QR with the exact amount. The moment the money arrives, the membership is active. Expired members are turned away on their own.

03 — Walk in

The face is the key

The terminal recognises the face and opens the door. The decision is made on the device, so an internet outage never locks a member out.

Walk-ins scan a QR at the door, pay for a day pass — and the door opens by itself.


02Multi-bank cash flow

Every payment lands in the right account.

Link as many bank accounts as the business needs — one per branch, per partner, per purpose, at any bank. Rules decide where each payment goes the moment it is created; the bank feed confirms it; every account stays reconciled. Nobody moves money by hand at the end of the month.

  • MembershipsMonthly · yearly plans
  • Day passesQR at the door
  • Personal trainingPer session · packages
  • Shop & drinksAt the counter
ACTOR routing rules
  • Branch → that branch’s own account
  • Training → trainer’s share, paid out automatically
  • Every payment → a set share to the tax reserve
  • Branch 1Bank A · •••• 0281
  • Branch 2Bank B · •••• 7730
  • Trainer payoutsBank C · •••• 4410
  • Tax reserveBank A · •••• 9902

Illustrative rules and accounts — yours are set in the console and change with the next payment.

01 — Many banks

One ledger for every account

Accounts at different banks sit side by side, with balances and every incoming transfer matched to a member, a plan and a branch.

02 — Routed at the source

No transfers after the fact

Each payment QR is issued for the account the rules choose, so money arrives where it belongs — nothing to move later, no fees for moving it.

03 — Shares

Splits that pay themselves

A trainer’s cut, a partner’s share, a tax reserve — calculated per payment and settled on the schedule you set, with a statement for each person.

04 — Reconciled

Nothing is guessed

Missing, partial and duplicate payments are flagged for a person to decide — never silently accepted or silently lost.


03Built to run unattended

It keeps its rules when the internet, the cloud or the staff are gone.

01 — Autonomous at the door

The cloud may go down

Expiry, the daily visit cap, the home branch — all of it lives on the terminal as a validity window. Offline, the door keeps its rules.

02 — Many locations

One member, every branch

A terminal that meets an unknown face asks its siblings. A confident match that may enter is placed on it at once — the second scan opens the door.

03 — Durable queue

No command gets lost

Enrolments, renewals and door commands wait in a queue with retries. A terminal back after a week offline gets today’s rules, not last week’s.

04 — Nothing to open

Works on any internet line

Terminals call the cloud; nothing ever dials into the gym. No open ports, no VPN, no server on site — a home broadband line is enough.


04The owner’s console

One console for the desk, the doors and the books.

Members, plans, renewals and trainers; terminals and door locks you can open from anywhere; revenue per branch and per account, visit patterns and churn risk. Roles for owner, staff and security, so everyone sees exactly what they need.

Runtime
Edge cloud — no server to buy, patch or keep on site
Identity
Hashed passwords · rotating sessions · CSRF · deny-wins permissions
Payments
Bank-transfer QR per account, confirmed automatically from each bank feed
Privacy
Face data encrypted · explicit consent on record · deleted on a fixed schedule after membership ends
Hardware
Hikvision face-recognition terminals · linked door locks · QR readers for walk-ins

05Case study — Gym Khánh Vân

A neighbourhood gym brand, no front desk.

Gym Khánh Vân runs several locations in Việt Trì, Vietnam. Paper cards and a desk that always needed someone behind it capped how early it could open and how fast it could grow. The brief: members walk in with their face, newcomers sign up and pay online — over home internet lines that refuse every inbound connection.

Client
Gym Khánh Vân · Việt Trì
Scope
Product · Engineering · Hardware integration
Hardware
Hikvision DS-K1T342MFX
Year
2026
Hikvision · Integration Partner

ACTOR is a Hikvision Integration Partner.

We integrate at the protocol level — ISAPI and the PUSH SDK — so Hikvision terminals plug straight into the products we build. No middleware, no bridge box on site.

The terminal calls the cloud. Nothing ever dials into the gym.

  1. 01AuthInfo A salt and a one-time challengeonce
  2. 02Login A signed proof, a session opensonce
  3. 03CommandRequest Up to 20 commands: people, faces, doorsevery 5 s
  4. 04CommandResult Results reported, each command settledafter each command
  5. 05Event Every scan: recorded, de-duplicated, matched to a memberon every scan

06How it’s delivered

From first call to open doors.

01 — Map

We learn how your gym runs

Plans, prices, branches, bank accounts, doors and staff roles — one conversation, one written plan and a fixed quote.

02 — Install

Terminals and locks, fitted

Face-recognition terminals and door locks installed and connected. No server on site and no network changes.

03 — Go live

Members moved over

Existing members, plans and accounts imported; staff shown the console; the first payments routed and checked with you.

04 — Stay on

We keep it running

Monitoring, updates and support after launch — and new branches added whenever you open them.

Want a gym that
runs itself?

Tell us about your gym — locations, members, how you take payments today. We reply within a day with a plan and a quote.

hello@byactor.com