Everything a UK dojo needs
Club Forge is built for martial arts clubs specifically — not generic gym software adapted with a few tags. Every feature is designed around how dojos actually run.
A belt creator built
for the real world
Every association has its own system. Club Forge doesn’t assume yours. Build your rank ladder grade by grade — pick the base belt colour, add up to four stripes in any colour combination, and see the result rendered exactly as it will appear across the app. Change it any time without touching your student records.
- Works across all five disciplines — Karate, Judo, Jujitsu, Aikido and Kendo
- Disciplines with no belt system (like Kendo) show grade names only — no belt UI appears
- Belt colours and stripes render on grade badges, the rank ladder, grading screens, and the student kiosk
Most martial arts clubs run on a stack of mismatched tools — a spreadsheet for members, a generic gym app that doesn’t understand kyu grades, an emergency-contact form in a filing cabinet, and a sign-in sheet by the door. It works, badly.
Club Forge replaces all of that. Discipline-specific grading, family memberships, attendance tied to eligibility, coach compliance tracking, GDPR-grade data handling, and a dedicated kiosk for the dojo floor — all in one place, built for UK clubs from the ground up.
- Members & plans
Built around how clubs actually charge
Adult, junior, family, Pay As You Train and trial memberships in one place. Plans are fully configurable — name them, price them, and reorder them yourself. Renewals and lapsing handled automatically.
See memberships → - Grading
The full grading workflow, built in
Nominate students, record results, and progress ranks automatically on a pass. Eligibility is tied to attendance — no manual counting, no separate spreadsheet.
See grading → - Attendance
Session recording that feeds everything else
Mark attendance per session per discipline. Attendance history feeds grading eligibility directly — so when a student is due for grading, the system already knows.
See attendance → - Tablet kiosk
A purpose-built kiosk for the dojo floor
PIN check-in on a shared tablet, family view, and a student portal — designed for shared use. Not a web page with a login screen. A purpose-built app for the door.
See the student tablet → - Compliance
GDPR-compliant by design
Consent versioning, automated retention, soft anonymisation, and data export. Built for UK data law from day one. DBS and first aid tracking for coaches included.
Read about GDPR → - Five disciplines
Real rank ladders for Karate, Judo, Jujitsu, Aikido, Kendo
Every governing body's grading structure pre-loaded. Edit grade names and belt colours yourself, any time, without touching student records.
See disciplines → - Coach profiles
Coach profiles built for safeguarding
DBS checks, qualifications, and discipline assignments in one place. Expiry alerts before anything lapses.
See coach profiles →
Built at a working dojo in Leeds
Club Forge is developed at a real dojo and only ships features that are finished. What’s on this page is what exists — not a roadmap, not a pitch deck.
If a feature isn’t here yet, it isn’t ready. When it is, it will show up here.
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