Karate club software, built for real dojos
Karate styles vary widely — Shotokan, Wado, Goju, Shito, Kyokushin and more — and each has its own grading conventions. Generic gym software doesn't get this. Club Forge does.
Most software-for-clubs flattens karate into a single “belt list”. Real karate doesn’t work that way. A Shotokan dojo grades its juniors differently from a Kyokushin gym. A traditional Goju school may run an entirely different junior ladder from the modern WKF-aligned club next door.
Club Forge ships with a sensible default karate ladder and lets you edit every grade name, every belt colour, and every time-in-grade requirement to match how your dojo actually runs.
Your dojo, your grades
The default karate ladder is loaded the moment a club is created. From there, every aspect is editable.
- Default kyu/dan structure pre-loaded
- Every grade name editable to your style’s convention
- Belt colours editable per dojo
- Time-in-grade requirements configurable per kyu — useful for styles with longer time at brown belt
Junior grades, properly
Many karate dojos run separate junior grades — half-belts, white and yellow combinations, intermediate stripes between kyu — that don’t exist in the adult ladder. Club Forge supports a custom junior ladder that’s entirely separate from the adult one.
- Distinct junior and adult ladders per club
- Half-belts, intermediate stripes, and dojo-specific junior grades all configurable
- Promotion from junior to adult ladder handled cleanly when a young member ages up
Family-friendly billing
Most martial arts clubs run on family memberships. Two parents and a child, three siblings, a parent who started training when their kids did. Club Forge handles any composition with one bill, with each profile keeping its own rank and training history.
Check-in built for the dojo door
Kiosk mode sits by the door for PIN check-in, family check-in, and a short student portal. It auto-locks after each session — designed for shared use, not personal use.
GDPR-compliant by design
Club Forge is built for UK data law from day one. Consent versioning, retention rules, soft anonymisation, and admin data export are part of the product, not paperwork. Read about GDPR.