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DojoChamp Alternative for Martial Arts Schools

DojoChamp sells one flat plan at $199 a month with a 30-day free trial and standard Stripe fees on top. Here is that published price next to ours.

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What DojoChamp does and who it suits

Dojo Champ is martial arts school management software. Its site lists student management with profiles, progress and belt rankings and family accounts; automated billing with failed payment recovery; class scheduling with waitlists and attendance; predictive churn scoring on every student; lead scoring; landing page templates for trials, events and programs; multi-channel email, SMS and push messaging; event management; point of sale; financial reporting; digital waivers; and analytics dashboards.

Best suited for

Dojo Champ's own framing is that the software should tell you what to do, not just store data: "Other software stores your data. Dojo Champ tells you what to do about it," with "predictive retention, automated follow-up and real-time revenue alerts — the work an office manager would do, running quietly in the background." It says it is "trusted across every discipline — karate, taekwondo, jiu jitsu, judo, kung fu and kickboxing, with belt tracking built in."

Where DojoChamp shines

  • One flat price with "unlimited students on every plan" and "no tiers, no feature gates"
  • 30 days free, and the page states "no charge until day 30"
  • "No setup fees · No contracts · Cancel anytime"
  • Churn scoring flags students about to quit, "with the intervention already drafted"
  • Failed cards "retried and recovered automatically"
  • Processing is standard Stripe rather than a marked-up in-house gateway: "Standard Stripe payment processing fees apply."

Trade-offs to weigh

  • $199/month is the only plan, which works out to $2,388 a year with no lower tier for a small school
  • The site lists landing page templates for trials, events and programs, not a custom multi-page school website on your own domain
  • Stripe's fees sit on top of the $199, not inside it
Head-to-head

DojoChamp vs. CyberKnockouts

The DojoChamp column is what DojoChamp publishes, read on 2026-09-26. Where it publishes nothing, the cell says so rather than guessing.

  • Published monthly price

    DojoChamp
    $199/monthPromo: 30-day free trial, no charge until day 30. No setup fees, cancel anytime.
    CyberKnockouts
    $50/mo (website) or $99/mo (admin panel)
  • Credit card processing

    DojoChamp
    "Standard Stripe payment processing fees apply." Stripe publishes 2.9% + 30¢ per successful domestic card charge.
    CyberKnockouts
    Stripe at 2.9% + 30¢ flat per card
  • Custom website included?

    DojoChamp
    Landing page templates for trials, events and programs. A custom school website is not listed.
    CyberKnockouts
    Custom 5-page site, copy included, loads under 1s ($999 one-time)
  • School website

    DojoChamp
    Landing page templates for trials, events and programs
    CyberKnockouts
    Custom 5-page site, copy included, loads in under 1 second — $999 one-time + $50/mo retainer
  • Published monthly price

    DojoChamp
    $199/month — $2,388 a year
    CyberKnockouts
    $50/mo for the site, or $99/mo all-in with the admin panel
  • One-time fee

    DojoChamp
    None — "No setup fees"
    CyberKnockouts
    $999 site, $1,499 admin panel, or $2,250 for both
  • Card processing

    DojoChamp
    Standard Stripe fees, applied on top of the $199
    CyberKnockouts
    Standard Stripe fees too — 2.9% + 30¢ per domestic card charge, on your own Stripe account
  • Whose Stripe account

    DojoChamp
    Not stated on the page
    CyberKnockouts
    Yours, so your academy's name is on the statement
  • Accounting

    DojoChamp
    Financial management and profit/loss reports are listed
    CyberKnockouts
    Automatic sync to QuickBooks Online
  • Retention tooling

    DojoChamp
    Predictive churn scoring with a drafted intervention per student
    CyberKnockouts
    None. Our panel covers members, plans, failed cards, and who showed up
  • Before you pay

    DojoChamp
    30-day free trial, no charge until day 30
    CyberKnockouts
    Free 24-hour working preview of your own academy's site

Every DojoChamp cell above is quoted or paraphrased from the page we read on 2026-09-26.

Read the source (dojochamp.com) →

Where we differ

Our published prices and what they cover. Nothing here is a comparison — it is what you get from us.

The Rebuild

$999 + $50/mo

Custom 5-page site, copy included, mobile-first, loads in under 1 second, and local SEO. The $50/mo retainer covers hosting, updates, and keeping the site fast.

Web + Admin Bundle

$2,250 + $99/mo

Save $248 against buying separately. The Rebuild plus a custom admin panel for members, plans, failed cards, and who showed up last night. Priority support and same-day fixes come with the panel.

Direct Stripe Processing

2.9% + 30¢

Stripe standard card rate vs gym-software rates up to 5%. Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, and cards. Your academy's name on student bank statements.

Accounting Simplicity

QuickBooks Sync

Charges sync to QuickBooks Online, so your accountant does not rebuild the month from a CSV export.

Zero Lock-In

No Contracts

No contracts. You see the preview before you pay, and you can cancel the retainer at any time.

Risk-Free Validation

Free 24h Preview

We build a working preview of your school's new website within 24 hours. You review it live on your own smartphone before paying a single cent.

Published prices, side by side

Published prices side by side, on $18,000 a month of card tuition

Published prices only. This is the one comparison on the site where both sides run on the same processing rate, because Dojo Champ says plainly that standard Stripe fees apply. So the processing column cancels out and the software price is the whole difference. Note the feature sets differ: its plan includes churn scoring, messaging and point of sale that our panel does not.

DojoChamp, as published

Professional, first year after the 30-day trial ($199/mo × 11)
$2,189
Professional, a full year ($199/mo × 12)
$2,388
Setup fee
None — "No setup fees"
Card processing
Standard Stripe fees, extra

CyberKnockouts, as published

Web + Admin Panel, one-time
$2,250
All-in retainer ($99/mo × 12)
$1,188
Website only: one-time
$999
Website only: retainer ($50/mo × 12)
$600

The arithmetic on those published prices

On published software prices: $2,388 a year against $1,188 a year is a $1,200 a year difference. Our $2,250 one-time build equals 1.9 years of that difference ($2,250 ÷ $1,200). In the first year, Dojo Champ's 30-day trial makes its software $2,189 while our first year is $2,250 + $1,188 = $3,438, and you get a custom website out of ours.

Card processing: check your own statement

Dojo Champ states "Standard Stripe payment processing fees apply," so on cards you would pay Stripe's rate on either side of this comparison. That is worth saying out loud: the processing argument we make against some platforms does not apply here.

  1. 1Every 1 percentage point on $18,000 a month of card volume is $180 a month, or $2,160 a year. That is just $18,000 × 0.01.
  2. 2Stripe publishes 2.9% + 30¢ per successful domestic card charge (stripe.com/pricing, read 2026-09-26).
  3. 3On $18,000 a month across 150 charges, Stripe's published rate is $18,000 × 2.9% = $522, plus 150 × $0.30 = $45. That is $567 a month, $6,804 a year — the same on both sides here.
  4. 4If your current platform bundles processing at a rate above Stripe's, that gap is the number worth chasing. Check your own statement to find it.

Stripe's published rate: stripe.com/pricing, read 2026-09-26. For the step-by-step version of this arithmetic, including how to work out your own effective rate from a payout report, read what martial arts schools really pay for gym software and card fees.

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What switching from DojoChamp actually involves

Four steps, in this order. We build the site in 24 hours while you pull your member data at your own pace, so nothing has to move until you are ready.

  1. 01

    Export student records

    Pull your active student list, attendance history, and recurring membership schedules out of your current system.

  2. 02

    View your 24-hour preview

    Tell us about your school. We build a custom 5-page preview shaped around your discipline within 24 hours.

  3. 03

    Keep the Stripe account you already have

    If you already run on Stripe, there is no new merchant application. We connect the account you have.

  4. 04

    Switch the domain and the billing

    Point your domain at the new site, turn on the admin panel, then close the old subscription.

Questions

DojoChamp Alternative FAQ

How does Dojo Champ's price compare to yours?
Dojo Champ publishes $199/month with no setup fee and a 30-day free trial. We publish a one-time build fee ($999 for the site, $1,499 for the panel, $2,250 for both) plus $50 or $99 a month. On software alone that is $2,388 a year against $1,188 a year, a $1,200 difference, so our one-time $2,250 takes about 1.9 years to come out even.
Can I use Dojo Champ for student management and you for the website?
Yes. If its churn scoring and billing automation are doing real work for you, keep them. We build the public website for $999 plus $50/month and link it to whatever portal you use.
Do you have an app in the app stores?
No. We build mobile-first sites that work in any phone browser, so parents and students have nothing to download, update, or log into. If an app-store app matters to you, Dojo Champ and several others on this site offer one and we do not.
Does the processing rate argument apply to Dojo Champ?
No, and we will say so. Its site states "Standard Stripe payment processing fees apply," so you pay Stripe's rate either way. The only real difference in this comparison is the software price and what each product does.
What is included in the $50/month website retainer?
The $50/month retainer covers hosting, updates, and keeping the site fast. You are not paying a developer by the hour to change a class time.

Pricing and trademarks

Prices as published on DojoChamp's site on 2026-09-26; check DojoChamp for current pricing. Dojo Champ is a trademark of its owner. CyberKnockouts is not affiliated.

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