A gym management program should run your memberships, billing, scheduling and check-in in one place.
Spark Membership is martial arts software that does it for your gym, with lead follow-up and a member app in the same account.
8-week free trial. Free student data migration.
Martial arts gym management software
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The basics
A gym management program is software that runs the business side of a gym. It holds member records, bills memberships, tracks attendance and schedules classes from one account.
Without one, a martial arts gym owner chases expired cards, retypes attendance and works the front desk at every class change.
The work gets split across a mailing list tool, a funnel builder, a booking system and a point-of-sale till. Each one holds part of the member record, and none of them talk to each other.
Spark Membership replaces those tools with one gym management program built for martial arts schools. Billing, attendance, waivers and every message sent sit on the same student record.
Spark also reads belt rank progress from attendance. General gym software leaves that job to a spreadsheet.
From owners
martial arts schools run on Spark
free trial with every feature included
to migrate your student data
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Member records, billing, attendance, scheduling, email, SMS, checkout pages, landing pages and point of sale all run against the same student record.
Inside the program
Six jobs a martial arts gym runs every week, from one account.
Memberships
Sell, upgrade and renew memberships, including family accounts, from the student record. The dashboard shows trial, new, upgraded, renewal and add-on memberships at a glance.
Billing and Payments
Recurring billing, payment reminders and failed-payment follow-up run from the same record as attendance and rank. A declined card starts a follow-up sequence instead of a report someone has to notice.
Class Scheduling
Classes and paid appointments sit on one calendar next to billing and attendance. Automatic reminders and push notifications go out before class and cut no-shows before anyone picks up a phone.
Check-In and Attendance
Students check themselves in from the member app, and staff stay free for the class changeover. Attendance feeds belt rank tracking, and a missed class flags on its own.
The Member App
Students book and pay, message your gym, sign up for events and watch video curriculum from the Spark app on the App Store and Google Play.
Leads and Trials
Every lead, trial and member sits in one pipeline. When a trial student goes quiet after a first class, the Trial and Prospect Maximizer starts a follow-up without anyone pressing send.
One platform. Three tools.
The core of Spark's gym management program, each working from the same student record.
Compare
Seven everyday tasks at a martial arts gym, run on separate tools and on Spark.
Task
Separate tools and spreadsheets
Spark gym management program
Member records
Split across a booking system, a mailing list and a spreadsheet
Failed payments
Someone has to spot the declined card in a report
A declined card starts a follow-up sequence on its own
Trial follow-up
Depends on staff remembering to call
Automatic follow-up when a trial student goes quiet
Marketing
A separate email tool and funnel builder
Email, SMS, checkout pages and landing pages in the same account
Merchandise sales
A separate point-of-sale till
Point of sale on the student record
Belt ranks
Switching
A spreadsheet kept next to the attendance sheet
You move the data yourself
Rank progress read from attendance, with Mass Rank Promote for testing day
Free data migration and a dedicated account rep who configures your setup
Built by owners
Master Ron Sell and Grandmaster Cheong Park, both 7th Degree Black Belts, built Spark after running their own martial arts schools. Sell opened his first in Florida in 1991, at nineteen, and had four by 2003. Park owned eight.
They started building Spark in 2017 and launched it in 2019, and 1,000 schools signed up that first year.
Spark automates the admin of running a martial arts school, from membership billing and attendance to lead follow-up and marketing.
Spark's team handles the move from your current software.
Free data migration
Export your student data from your current system and send it to the Spark data team. They handle the rest at no extra cost.
Setup done for you
A dedicated account rep configures your automations, payments and attendance for your gym.
One-on-one training
Free one-on-one training stays open after setup, alongside self-serve videos you can pull up without waiting.
