Resources
Things worth reading
before you choose anything
Tools you can use without giving us your email, and comparisons where every price is sourced, dated and sitting beside ours.
Free tool
Membership churn calculator
Two numbers you already know, and what leaving members cost you per year. No sign-up, and nothing you type leaves your browser.
Guide
The retention reports most platforms cannot produce
Cohort curves, tenure at cancellation and churn as a rate — what each one answers, and why a benchmark cannot answer it for you.
Comparison
What membership software actually costs
Every tier on a public page, every feature on every tier, and the alternatives priced beside it so you can see the gap.
Compared with the alternatives
Every figure is taken from the competitor’s own published pricing, carries the date we checked it, and sits beside our ladder — so the gap is a number you can check rather than a claim you have to take.
Articles
There is a great deal of membership-business advice on the internet already, most of it recycled and none of it sourced. We publish a small number of things instead, and every figure we quote carries a link to where it came from.
Best martial arts school software (2026), compared
How to compare martial arts software: pricing models, contracts, who bills your families and four questions to ask, with a link to the full sourced chart.
Spark Membership pricing in 2026: what it costs at 75 students
Spark Membership is $199 a month after an 8-week free trial, with Ignite, a branded app and texts priced on top. What 75 students cost, from their own pages.
Leaving Spark Membership: how to export your members and switch in a week
What you can export from Spark Membership, what to save before you cancel, and how to import your members into BlackBeltCRM yourself, free, with an undo.
Why we put our price on the website
Some martial arts software is priced after a demo; much is published. Who publishes what in 2026, why we publish ours, and what to ask when it is not.
Billing in your own name vs a billing company
Full-service tuition billing companies collect from your families for you. When that makes sense, what to check first, and how billing in your own name works.
Gymdesk pricing 2026: plans, Gymdesk Payments and what 75 members cost
Gymdesk costs $100 to $240 a month by active members, or $75 to $200 with Gymdesk Payments. Every tier, the add-ons, the card rates, and a 75-member year.
Leaving Gymdesk: how to export your members and move your business
Gymdesk lets you export members, attendance and payments yourself, with no fee to leave. What to export, what to ask about stored cards, and how to import.
Gymdesk vs BlackBeltCRM for martial arts schools (2026)
Gymdesk and BlackBeltCRM compared for martial arts businesses: price at your size, belts and testing, at-risk warnings, Spanish and apps. Sourced and dated.
Kicksite pricing 2026: what a 75-student martial arts school pays
Kicksite is $49 to $199 a month by active students, all features included. Every tier, the payment plans, the cancellation terms, and what 75 students cost.
Leaving Kicksite: export your students and switch without losing anyone
Kicksite says to export before you cancel and that stored cards cannot be exported. The notice period, what to export, and how to import into BlackBeltCRM free.
Mindbody pricing 2026 for small studios: what is published and what to ask
Mindbody publishes a starting price of $79 a month per location; plans are priced by sales. What its pricing page and terms say, the marketplace fee.
Mindbody alternatives for martial arts schools and small studios (2026)
Five Mindbody alternatives for martial arts businesses and small studios, with published prices at 75 students, contracts and what each does best.
Martial arts business plan, numbers first
A martial arts business plan a bank will believe starts with four numbers, not a mission. Here they are, and they suit a studio, a club or a gym just as well.
Leasing space for a martial arts business
The lease is the biggest fixed cost a martial arts business ever signs, and the one no software can undo. Eight things to settle first, for any studio or gym.
Recital and competition fees, no chasing
Costumes, entries, travel and tickets hit every dance, gymnastics and cheer family in the same fortnight. How to bill the season without a month of chasing.
Billing that is not monthly
Weekly rates, half-days, session blocks, class packs, drop-ins. How swim, after-school and gym programs bill what they sell, not a monthly approximation.
The members you are losing to expired cards
Up to 30% of membership churn is involuntary — failed cards, not people deciding to leave. Here is how to see it, and what actually recovers it.
Halloween events that produce members
Most Halloween events produce a good afternoon and no enrollments. The difference is not the event — it is the ninety seconds at the door and the week after.
The marketing calendar, one year at a time
Six moments a year reliably bring families through the door. Here is when each one needs to start, and which are worth skipping.
If there is something you want answered, tell us and it goes on the list.
Every student who quits unseen is tuition you do not get back.
The warning was in your attendance all along. Start the trial and see it on your own members.
- Switching is a file, not a project
- Import your members from your old system’s export, free at any size. You see every family before anything is saved, and you can undo it.
- No contract, no card to start
- Free to try. Export your members to CSV or Excel any time, without asking us.
- $49 a month, every feature
- Priced by the size of your membership. No setup fee, no per-staff charge, no feature held for a higher plan.
- English and Spanish
- Each person on your team picks English or Spanish, and emails go out in each family’s language.