For BJJ & martial-arts gym owners
Run your gym without paying Mindbody prices for Mindbody problems.
Memberships, billing, check-ins, and belt & stripe promotion tracking — the thing no big platform bothers to build — at a flat $59/mo with support from an actual human.
Sound familiar?
“Mindbody was too expensive and too complex for my needs — $600+/mo all-in.”— r/gymowners
“Run as far as you can from Zen Planner … it was awful.”— r/gymowners
“The customer success team is a joke.”— r/gymowners, on Glofox
Every incumbent is enterprise-priced, contract-locked, and private-equity-owned — and none of them track the one thing a martial-arts gym runs on: progression toward the next belt.
What Dojo Manager does
Members & Stripe billing
Recurring memberships, family plans, pause/cancel handling. Card fails get chased automatically.
QR kiosk check-in
A tablet at the door. Students scan in; attendance feeds everything else.
Belt & stripe promotion rules
“Eligible after 60 classes and 8 months at current rank” — your rules, tracked per student, with an “ready to promote” list before every grading.
Attendance intelligence
Fading-student alerts before they cancel; class-by-class attendance trends.
No contract, human support
Month to month. Email a human who has actually rolled. Leave anytime with a full data export.
Honest pricing, decided up front
Waitlist members can reserve founder pricing: $39/mo — locked in for as long as you stay subscribed. That's $20/mo off, forever, for backing this before it exists.
No card required to reserve. No per-seat surprises later. If Dojo Manager doesn't launch, you've spent nothing and you'll get a straight answer about why.
You're on the list. One more thing —
Want to reserve founder pricing ($39/mo instead of $59/mo, locked for life)? It costs nothing now and just tells me you'd genuinely pay — which decides what gets built first.
You're in. Thank you.
I'll only email you with real progress or a launch date. If you have opinions about what Dojo Manager must get right, reply to the confirmation — I read everything.
Who's building this?
I'm Aaron — a solo developer. I found thread after thread of people describing this exact problem, and I'd rather prove demand honestly (this page) than build in a vacuum. Toolshed Software's whole model: small tools, flat prices, no per-seat games, no venture pressure to raise prices on you later.
Fair questions
- Is this a real product?
- It's in active development. This waitlist decides what ships first — enough interest and Dojo Manager gets finished and launched; not enough and I'll email you an honest "it's not happening" instead of pretending. Your signup is the vote.
- What will it cost at launch?
- $59 per month, flat — no contract, no per-member fees — the price is on this page because hiding pricing until launch is how you end up with HoneyBook math. Founder reservations keep $39/mo for life.
- What happens to my email?
- It sits in a database with a timestamp and where you came from. You'll get at most a handful of progress emails and one launch email. No sharing, no selling, one-click unsubscribe.