Can we keep our stipend and add seats as well?

Yes. Nothing in the seat pack depends on what else you offer. Someone who spends a stipend on a gym membership tells the intake what that gym has, and their programme is built around its equipment, so the stipend pays for the place and the seat plans what they do there.

What happens to seats nobody takes?

They stay in the pack for the year, ready for anyone you invite later, and an invitation that goes unused for seven days expires and frees its seat again. At renewal you can keep fewer seats, down to 10 and no fewer than the seats people hold at the time.

Will we see who is using their seat?

You see who has accepted an invitation and when they joined, because that is how seats are managed. Beyond that you see group figures only, such as how many people finished the intake, each shown once at least five people contribute. How often any one person trains, checks in or sends a message stays with them.

A wellness stipend set against funded coaching seats

A wellness stipend gives each employee an allowance for their own health, and what it buys, and whether it helps, is left with them. TriageFit offers the alternative as funded seats: each person gets a coached plan for training, food and recovery, and the company sees uptake in group figures, never anyone's own plan. Seats are priced per person per year with VAT included, and a pack starts at 10 seats.

By TriageFit · Published 28 September 2026

A wellness stipend is an allowance an employer pays each person to spend on their own health, whether that goes on a gym membership, a class pass, a pair of running shoes or an app. It is easy to announce and it lets everyone choose for themselves. What happens after the money lands, from what it buys to whether that thing is still in use a few months later, stays with the employee, and the company has little to go on when the benefit comes up for review.

What a stipend gets right

A stipend respects that people want different things. The runner buys shoes, the parent who can only train at home buys a set of dumbbells, and the person who already has a gym they like keeps paying for it with someone else's money. There is no product to choose, no rollout and nothing new for anyone to learn. For a team that is already active and knows what it wants, that freedom has real value.

What it leaves to chance

Money buys access, and access is the easy part. A gym membership arrives without a programme, a class pass without anyone noticing when the classes stop, and an app subscription without anyone reading how the week went. The employees who would gain most from support, such as someone who has never trained, someone nursing an old injury or someone on a rotating roster, are the ones a stipend leaves to work it out alone.

The company's side is thin as well. A stipend paid against receipts shows what was claimed and nothing about whether it helped, and one paid through payroll shows even less. Whether the benefit changed anything for anyone stays a guess at renewal time, which makes it hard to defend when budgets are set.

What a funded seat gives each person

A seat on TriageFit is a full coaching membership that the company pays for, with nothing for the person to pay. They accept an email invitation, complete an intake of about thirty minutes and get a programme in coach-designed phases, built around the equipment they actually have, whether that is a home set-up, a gym or a hotel on a work trip. Their food targets are matched to their metabolism and adjust each week, and sleep and recovery sit in the same plan.

Once a week they check in, which takes a few minutes, and a real coach reads what they send. Between check-ins the AI coach answers at any hour and can shorten a session, move it or swap an exercise when the week changes, with each change confirmed by the person first. Should the intake's health screen turn up something like chest pain during exercise, the person's programme is held until their own doctor has cleared them to train and they have let the app know, and their GP stays the person for anything medical.

Where a stipend can pay for the gym, the seat supplies the plan for what to do there and keeps changing it as the weeks change.

What the company sees in return

The organisation portal shows how many seats have been taken, how many invitations are still open and what share of the team has enrolled. Its report shows participation across the team, and each figure appears only when at least five people stand behind it. If you record each person's department when you invite them, the report breaks figures down by department, and a department with fewer than five people in it is withheld.

Nobody at the company sees one person's training, check-ins, messages or health. Taking part stays voluntary, accepting a seat cannot be a condition of employment, and whether someone joined cannot be used in decisions about them. How employee health data is kept private covers the detail.

The two side by side

Question	A wellness stipend	Funded coaching seats
What each person receives	An allowance to spend	A coached plan for training, food and recovery
Who plans the training	The person, on their own	Coach-designed phases that adjust every week
Who reads how it is going	Nobody by default	A real coach, at each weekly check-in
What the company learns	What was claimed, if anything	Uptake and other group figures, never one person's
Cost per person	Whatever the policy sets	€375 to €500 a year, by pack size
Setting it up	A policy and a way to pay claims	A pack bought online and email invitations

Running both

Some teams are best served by keeping a stipend and adding seats. The stipend pays for the gym or the class pass people already like, and the seat supplies the programme, the food targets and the weekly check-in, built around that same gym's equipment. A team that is already active and wants nothing back beyond goodwill may be content with a stipend alone. A company that wants the benefit to change how people train and eat, and wants group figures to show for it, gets both from the seats.

What seats cost

Seats are priced per person per year, with VAT included and shown separately on the invoice, and every seat in a pack takes the band the pack's size reaches: €500 a seat for 10 to 24 seats, €450 a seat for 25 to 49 seats, €415 a seat for 50 to 99 seats and €375 for 100 or more. The smallest pack is 10 seats, which comes to €5,000 for the year. You pay by card, or by SEPA direct debit when the pack is billed in euro, and a pack runs for twelve months. Seats can be added during the year, and the count can be lowered at renewal.

How to start

The calculator on the business page prices a pack before you sign in, and buying one sets up the organisation portal within a minute or two. The corporate wellness platform walks through that portal tab by tab, and the employee wellness programme follows one seat through its first month.

Questions people ask

Can we keep our stipend and add seats as well?: Yes. Nothing in the seat pack depends on what else you offer. Someone who spends a stipend on a gym membership tells the intake what that gym has, and their programme is built around its equipment, so the stipend pays for the place and the seat plans what they do there.
Do employees have to take a seat once we buy one?: No. Taking part is voluntary under the corporate terms. Accepting a seat cannot be made a condition of employment, whether someone joined cannot be used in decisions about them, and when you invite people you tell them that it is optional and that the company sees only the roster and group figures.
What happens to seats nobody takes?: They stay in the pack for the year, ready for anyone you invite later, and an invitation that goes unused for seven days expires and frees its seat again. At renewal you can keep fewer seats, down to 10 and no fewer than the seats people hold at the time.
Will we see who is using their seat?: You see who has accepted an invitation and when they joined, because that is how seats are managed. Beyond that you see group figures only, such as how many people finished the intake, each shown once at least five people contribute. How often any one person trains, checks in or sends a message stays with them.