The rent goes up every time you grow
Member software is priced so that every feature you finally need — another program, another schedule, another report — moves you up a tier. Your school gets bigger; so does the bill, permanently.
Programs with your own rank ladders, students who are simply CRM contacts with an enrollment, a class schedule they check into, and a kiosk link that turns the front-desk tablet into a check-in station. The gym app is bought once from the app marketplace — and it runs inside the CRM that already texts your parents and bills your memberships.
You teach commitment for a living, and your software vendor has you re-committing every month — per feature, per location, forever.
It is that nobody has the hours, and the cost of skipping it never shows up as a line on any invoice.
Member software is priced so that every feature you finally need — another program, another schedule, another report — moves you up a tier. Your school gets bigger; so does the bill, permanently.
The member database in your gym software and the contacts in whatever you text from are two lists, drifting apart. The parent who asks a question by SMS is invisible to the system that knows their kid missed three classes.
Nobody announces they are drifting. Attendance fades first — and if no one is watching the pattern, the first you hear of it is the cancellation email.
Install
Martial Arts Gym is a one-time purchase from the app marketplace inside your workspace — bought once, not rented. It runs on your workspace's own contacts from the first minute.
Build
Custom belt ladders per program, with stripes and the full promotion history for every student. Promotion eligibility is computed from attendance and time at rank — advisory, because the instructor decides.
Check in
A signed kiosk link turns any tablet into a check-in station with no login — and one button disconnects every tablet at once if a link leaks. Check-ins feed the attendance log automatically.
Keep
Attendance reporting surfaces the students who have gone quiet. Because every student is a CRM contact, the win-back is a text from the same system — and the review request goes out while the promotion photo is still fresh.
These are not roadmap items. Each one is running in production today, described here in the same words the full product catalog uses.
Belts, attendance and the front-desk tablet, tied to the contact record — bought once, not rented.
Programs with your own rank ladders, students who are simply CRM contacts with an enrollment, and a class schedule they check into — plus a kiosk link that turns any tablet at the front desk into a check-in station.
Let leads book the right meeting without the email ping-pong.
Every event type gets a shareable booking page with your availability, timezone handling, intake questions, confirmation copy, and location instructions.
Stop switching apps to find out what you already told them.
Inbound and outbound SMS, email, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram threaded together per contact, with color-coded bubbles for direction.
Reach a whole segment on any channel, from one screen.
One-off blasts by email, SMS, ringless voicemail, outbound IVR or AI call — one composer, one audience builder, real analytics. Multi-step follow-ups are automations.
Sell your own memberships and let access manage itself.
Sell recurring products through your funnels on your own Stripe account. A paid subscription grants the buyer's access automatically, a lapsed one revokes it, and subscribers manage their own card and cancellation through a Stripe billing portal.
Every finished job asks for the review by itself.
Generate a trackable review link per customer and send it from a workflow the moment work is marked complete. You see who opened it, who clicked, and who left one.
Define an audience once as rules and let it keep itself current.
Rule-based audiences over the contact record and everything attached to it, so “booked but never showed, and nobody has called them in two weeks” becomes a saved segment you send to — not a spreadsheet someone exports again every Monday.
This is the part of Chirply that solves martial arts. See the other 14 areas — CRM, scheduling, messaging, automations, funnels, commerce, reputation and the rest — all included in the same workspace.
You do not have to migrate anything to find out whether this works. Start the trial, set up the one thing you came here for, and judge it on that.
Your trial runs on Scale, the top plan, so nothing is locked while you evaluate. If martial arts is all you need afterwards, Grow at $77/mo carries it — switch down before the trial ends and keep the lower price.
Your order
$0 today. A card keeps the workspace running after the trial, and Scale renews at $97/month unless you change plans or cancel first.
Cancel any time before day 30 and nothing is charged. Calls, texts, emails and contacts are unlimited on every plan — you bring your own Twilio, Mailgun and model keys and pay those providers directly.
$0 today. Cancel before day 30 and you are never billed.
No contract, no setup fee, no cancellation call. The card only exists so a workspace you decide to keep does not stop working on day 31.
The 30-day trial delivers the platform the gym app runs in — the CRM, texting, scheduling, billing and reviews. The Martial Arts Gym app itself is a separate one-time purchase from the app marketplace inside your workspace, on any plan. Bought once, it is yours; there is no per-feature subscription ladder to climb.
It never creates one. A member is a CRM contact plus an enrollment — there is no second list of people to keep in sync, so the parent who texts you and the student who missed three classes are the same record.
You open a signed kiosk link on any tablet and it becomes a check-in station — no login on the device. Check-ins write to the attendance log and count toward promotion eligibility, and one button disconnects every kiosk at once if a link ever leaks.
No, and that is deliberate. It computes eligibility from classes attended since the last promotion and months at the current rank, then flags the student. The belt is the instructor's call; the software just makes sure nobody eligible gets forgotten.
As recurring subscriptions sold through checkout, billed on your own Stripe account — the money goes straight to you, and what each family has paid shows on their contact record next to the attendance and the conversation.
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