Spark Membership leans hard into sales — lead conversion, follow-up, closing trials. That emphasis is the main thing that separates the two.
Spark Membership is built around converting prospects into members, with the CRM and follow-up tooling front and centre. Axion Dojo is built around running the school once they are members — attendance, rank, grading, billing and the family relationship.
Both cover both jobs. The difference is which one the product is organised around, and that shows up in daily use.
| Axion Dojo | Spark Membership | |
|---|---|---|
| Organised around | Running the school | Converting prospects |
| Lead capture | Embeddable forms and a shareable prospect link | Core CRM and follow-up tooling |
| Rank and grading | Per-style ladders, gradings as an event | Belt tracking included |
| Where tuition lands | Your own Stripe account, straight to your bank | Integrated billing |
| Pricing model | Monthly, by active student count | Flat-rate plans |
Spark Membership details checked September 2026; check sparkmembership.com for current features and pricing.
If your bottleneck is sales — leads arriving and not converting, trials not closing, follow-up not happening — Spark is built for exactly that, and a school in that position will feel the difference.
Axion Dojo does lead capture and prospect tracking, but it is not trying to be a sales platform, and it would be dishonest to claim otherwise.
Depth on the operational side: separate rank ladders per style, gradings run end to end with fees and automatic promotion, a kiosk for check-in, a family portal that takes billing questions off the front desk, and tuition that settles into your own bank through your own Stripe account.
This page is the summary. The guide is the manual — written for people running a school, not for people shopping for software. Read how prospects and follow-up work, or start at the contents page.
It tracks prospects from first enquiry to enrolled student, with sources, history and follow-ups. It is not as sales-focused as a product built primarily around conversion.
A brand-new school with no students yet is mostly doing sales, and should weigh conversion tooling heavily. An established school losing time at the front desk should weigh operations.
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