Martial arts belt tracking software records each student’s rank, reads attendance against your curriculum and shows who is ready to test.
Spark Membership tracks belts in the same account that runs your memberships, billing and check-in.
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Martial arts belt tracking software
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Rank records
Martial arts belt tracking software keeps a record of every student’s rank and what they need for the next one. It shows which students are eligible to test without anyone counting classes by hand.
Gym software built for general fitness stores a name and a payment plan. The rank, the stripe count and the class total sit in a spreadsheet beside it.
In Spark Membership, rank sits on the student record, joined to attendance, billing and signed waivers.
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Rank history, attendance, signed waivers and every message sent sit on one student record, next to billing, scheduling and the member app.
Rank tools
Six rank jobs, from enrollment to promotion day.
Rank Records
Every student record holds rank history next to attendance, signed waivers and every message sent. Instructors see where a student stands from one screen.
Curriculum Requirements
Each school sets its own requirements for every rank level inside Spark. A belt system or a stripe system fits without building custom fields.
Test Eligibility
Attendance counts toward the next rank on its own. The school sees which students have earned their next test without keeping a spreadsheet.
Milestone Alerts
When a student reaches a testing milestone, Spark notifies both the instructor and the student.
Mass Rank Promote
Move a whole testing group to their next rank in one pass. Spark sets the rank and belt order and prints the belt labels.
Certificates and Registration
The same flow produces rank promotion certificates and the registration pages a school sends out before testing day.
One Platform. Three Tools.
Belt tracking runs on Spark’s three core tools, all reading one student record.
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Seven rank tasks at a martial arts school, kept by hand and kept in Spark.
Task
Spreadsheets and paper
Spark belt tracking software
Current rank
A spreadsheet column someone has to update
Rank history on the student record
Class counts
Tallied from attendance sheets
Read from attendance as students check in
Test eligibility
Worked out the week before testing
Shown per student against your own requirements
Testing milestones
Remembered by the instructor
Instructor and student both get notified
Promotion day
Updated one student at a time
Mass Rank Promote moves the whole group in one pass
Labels and certificates
Gear for the next rank
Made by hand
Announced in class
Belt labels and promotion certificates from the same flow
A rank-triggered message with a checkout link
Who built it
Master Ron Sell opened his first martial arts school in Florida in 1991, at nineteen, and ran four by 2003. Grandmaster Cheong Park owned eight.
The two started building Spark in 2017 and launched it in 2019, the year it reached 1,000 schools.
Spark tracks rank progression, testing and student milestones as part of the student record, with no custom fields to set up.
“What I appreciate most is that SPARK is built specifically for martial arts schools.”
Andy Cassady, Royce Gracie Academy of Macomb
Spark’s data team moves your student list and your account rep sets up your rank structure.
Student list migrated
Export your student data from your current system and send it to the Spark data team, who migrate it at no extra cost.
Rank structure configured
Your dedicated account rep sets up a rank structure that matches your curriculum, along with billing and attendance.
Training when you need it
Free one-on-one training stays available after launch, with self-serve videos for quick answers.
