Kicksite is a solid, focused product, so schools looking elsewhere usually have a specific reason — a feature gap, a billing arrangement they want changed, or a website they want to keep.
Broader than Kicksite, covering gyms and studios as well as martial arts, with marketing automation and a branded app sold as add-ons. Suits a mixed facility.
Built around lead conversion. Suits a school whose problem is filling classes rather than running them.
Purpose-built for martial arts academies, with a free tier for small schools.
A separate rank ladder per style, gradings run end to end with fees and automatic promotion, and tuition that settles into your own bank through your own Stripe account.
Where the money goes. Some platforms process your tuition through their own arrangement; others connect to your own merchant account. It affects your rates, your payout timing, and how cleanly you can leave.
What happens to your website. If your site was built by your current vendor, leaving may mean rebuilding it. Platforms that connect to a site you own avoid that problem entirely.
Close to two decades in this market, thousands of schools, and every feature available at every price tier. If nothing specific is wrong, that combination is worth more than a marginally better feature list.
This page is the summary. The guide is the manual — written for people running a school, not for people shopping for software. Read how the Website API works, or start at the contents page.
Usually a specific gap rather than general dissatisfaction — a rank structure that does not fit multiple disciplines, a billing arrangement they want on their own merchant account, or a website they want to keep and connect to.
Axion Dojo is built for that case: a Website API and embeddable sign-up forms that drop into WordPress, Squarespace or Google Sites, so the site you already have reads your live schedule and captures leads into your school data.
See how the Website API and embeddable forms work.