Martial arts school management software is one platform that runs the business side of a dojo: memberships, billing, student records, attendance, class scheduling, and marketing. It replaces the spreadsheets, separate payment tools, and email platforms most schools stitch together. Software built specifically for martial arts also tracks things generic gym software misses, like belt rank progression, curriculum requirements, and trial-to-member conversion.

Spark is all-in-one management software for martial arts schools, built by martial arts school owners. It handles membership management, CRM, billing, attendance tracking, belt rank progression, class scheduling, and marketing automation in a single platform, so school owners can spend less time on admin and more time teaching.

Spark works for any martial arts school: karate studios, taekwondo academies, BJJ gyms, MMA schools, and kickboxing dojos. The system is built around how martial arts schools actually operate, including rank progression, family accounts, and trial classes, rather than being adapted from general gym software.

Spark was built by Master Ron Sell and Grand Master Cheong Park, both 7th Dan black belts who have owned and operated multiple martial arts schools for over 20 years. They built it because they could not find software that understood how a school actually runs day to day.

Spark is used by more than 2,000 martial arts schools worldwide. It also comes with a private community where owners share advice and support with each other.

Spark is currently $99 per month, half off the standard $199 per month rate, locked in for 12 months. The current offer also includes 8 weeks free. Every plan includes full access to every feature, with nothing locked behind a higher tier.

Yes. You can book a free live demo with a Spark specialist who will walk you through the platform and help you work out whether it fits your school. There is no obligation to sign up afterwards.

No. Every Spark account gets full access to every feature, with no usage caps or locked screens. Marketing, CRM, payments, scheduling, and the member app are all included rather than sold as upgrades.

Data migration is free. You export your student and billing data from your current system, send it to the Spark data team, and they handle the transfer securely at no cost.

Switching takes three steps and Spark handles most of them for you. Your data gets migrated free by the Spark team, payments are set up straight away through Spark’s in-house merchant service, and a dedicated account rep configures your automations, payments, and attendance settings to match how your school runs. You also get one-on-one training so your team is confident from day one.

No. Spark’s data team manages the migration for you, so student records, billing history, and contact details transfer across intact rather than being re-entered by hand.

Every school gets personalized one-on-one onboarding plus ongoing access to Spark’s support team. School owners describe it as having an IT department on call rather than a ticket queue.

Yes. Belt rank tracking is built in and ties directly to attendance data, so you can see at a glance who is eligible for their next test without keeping a separate spreadsheet. You set your own curriculum requirements for each rank, and Spark notifies both the instructor and the student when a testing milestone is reached.

Generic gym software tracks names and payments. Spark is built around dojo realities that gym platforms were never designed for: belt progressions tied to attendance, curriculum requirements per rank, trial conversion sequences, and family accounts. It is also built by people who have run martial arts schools themselves.

Yes, and many Spark schools switched from exactly those platforms. Owners moving from Zen Planner most often cite an easier interface, a better payment processor, and direct access to the support team.

Spark flags missed classes automatically and can trigger follow-up messages without anyone remembering to send them. If a trial student goes quiet after their first session, an automated sequence reaches out for you.

Yes. Members can book classes and appointments from their phone, and your team works from a shared live calendar that is always current. Automatic class reminders go out on their own, which cuts no-shows.

Yes. Spark supports family accounts, so households with multiple students enrolled are managed and billed together rather than as unconnected records.

Yes. Spark processes recurring tuition through its own integrated, low-rate merchant service, so billing lives in the same system as your student records. That means expired cards and failed payments surface where you are already working instead of in a separate portal.

Yes. Spark includes point-of-sale payments with inventory tracking, so uniform and gear sales ring through the same system and feed straight into your financial reporting.

Yes. Spark includes checkout pages for selling memberships, events, trials, and gear online, which takes pressure off the front desk and captures sales outside of class hours.

Spark gives you billing, revenue, and growth metrics in a single dashboard. You can also track the full pipeline from lead to trial to active member, so you can see where enrollment is being won or lost.

Yes. Email automation, mass SMS campaigns, landing pages, and sales funnels are all built in. You can nurture leads, re-engage lapsed members, and promote belt tests or events without hiring an agency or paying for separate marketing software.

Yes. Spark includes a drag-and-drop page builder for landing pages and sales funnels, with no coding required. Most owners build a promo page for a belt test or intro offer in minutes.

Spark’s CRM and lead management tools track every prospect and automate the follow-up, so trials do not go cold while you are on the mat. You can see your whole pipeline in one view and know which prospects need attention today.

Yes. The free Spark Member App is available on iPhone and Android. Members use it to book classes, check in, register for events, chat with your team, get push notifications, and access video curriculum and downloadable resources.

No. If you can use Gmail or social media, you can use Spark. It was designed for school owners and front desk staff rather than software administrators, and every account gets one-on-one training to start.

Each student profile holds contact details, belt rank history, attendance records, signed waivers, and full communication history in one place. Everything a staff member needs to answer a parent’s question is on one screen.

Students check themselves in, and attendance updates in real time. That clears the front desk crush so staff can focus on teaching, and it feeds the data behind rank eligibility and absence follow-ups.

Spark replaces the patchwork of tools most schools run today, including Zen Planner, Mindbody, Glofox, GymMaster, EZ Facility, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Twilio, ClickFunnels, Kartra, Unbounce, Thryv, ThriveCart, Classfit, GetResponse, Shopify, and WhatsApp. One platform means one login, one bill, and one complete picture of your school.