Built for Dojangs Running Classes, After-School, and Camps at the Same Time
Taekwondo schools are usually the busiest martial arts businesses in town — large student bodies, big families, frequent testing cycles, and three programs running before dinner. Red Belt Gym is built for that volume.
Volume Is What Breaks a Dojang's Admin
More students, more families, and more programs mean the manual approach stops working sooner than anywhere else:
Geup and poom/dan grades for a large student body tracked on paper
After-school pickup, regular classes, demo team, and summer camp all running at once
Households with three or four children spread across different programs
Testing invitations and testing fees handled by hand every single cycle
Poomsae requirements per rank living in a folder behind the front desk
Evenings lost to admin instead of teaching or growing the school
A dojang with three hundred students and a paper testing process is not running a school — it is running a filing operation with classes attached.
Built for High-Volume Schools With Frequent Testing
Build your federation’s rank structure, not someone else’s
Kukkiwon, ITF, ATA, and independent schools all grade differently.
Configure your geup ranks in your own order and colours, with the stripes or tips your school awards between grades, and continue into poom and dan ranks above them. Each rank stores its award date and the instructor who granted it, so a student's full progression is a permanent record rather than a line in a notebook.
Make testing eligibility objective
Every dojang has the parent who thinks their child is ready. Data ends that conversation.
Set attendance requirements and minimum time-in-rank for each geup. The system tracks every student against them, so building a testing roster takes a moment and the answer to “why wasn't my child invited” is a record, not an opinion. Testing fees can be sold online in advance to exactly the students who qualify.
Run after-school and camps as real programs
They are a different product with different pricing and different parents.
Set your after-school program up with its own schedule, its own rate, and its own roster, separate from regular classes. Summer and holiday camps run as time-limited programs or as one-time purchases through a landing page, with the waiver signed at checkout — so you are not chasing forms on the first morning of camp.
One bill for a household with four children
Large families are common in taekwondo and brutal to invoice.
Link every child to one primary account holder. The household pays once, on one payment method, with family pricing applied — while each child keeps their own rank, their own attendance, and their own program enrolment. Failed payments trigger an automatic reminder with a secure link before anything becomes awkward.
Give parents the answers they currently phone you for
What rank is she now, what does he need next, is class on tonight.
The Student Journey app puts the schedule, rank progress, assigned documents, and training videos in the parent's hand, with push notifications for changes and announcements. Your front desk stops being a call centre, and parents who can see progress stay enrolled through the awkward months.
Manage the demo team without a separate system
Your demo and sparring squads need their own communication.
Tag your demo team, your sparring competitors, and your leadership students, then message each group directly by text or email from the school's number. Squad sessions run as their own programs, so you can track who is actually attending the extra training they signed up for.
Geup, Poom, and Dan — Configured as Your School Awards Them
Red Belt Gym imposes no ranking system. Below is a common structure, but every rank, colour, and requirement is yours to define.
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White belt
10th geupThe entry point and the biggest retention risk. Short attendance requirements and visible stripe progress keep new students engaged through the first weeks.
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Yellow to green
9th–6th geupSteady progression with regular testing cycles. Attendance thresholds per rank make each testing roster quick to build and easy to justify.
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Blue to red
5th–2nd geupRequirements lengthen and poomsae get more demanding. Record progress against your syllabus on each student profile using custom fields and notes.
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Black stripe / recommended
1st geupThe pre-black-belt stage many schools run as a longer, structured programme with its own expectations and often its own fee.
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Poom
junior black beltJunior black belt ranks tracked as their own set, with the conversion to dan recorded when the student reaches the required age.
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Dan grades
1st dan and aboveDan ranks, award dates, and certifying body recorded on the profile — including for instructors who train with you and teach elsewhere.
Schools vary enormously in how many intermediate stripes they award and how quickly students progress through the coloured belts. Configure your structure once and it applies to every student, including a separate junior set running alongside the adult ladder.
Where a Dojang's Revenue Actually Comes From
Dues are the base. These are the programs that make the difference — all standard setups.
Standard month-to-month
Your core class membership for children and adults.
- How you build it
- Set up as: A recurring program covering the regular class schedule.
- How it bills
- Billing: Month-to-month on the household payment method.
Family membership
Households with three or four children enrolled.
- How you build it
- Set up as: One primary account holder with every child linked.
- How it bills
- Billing: A single charge with family and sibling pricing.
After-school program
Working parents who need pickup and supervised time as well as training.
- How you build it
- Set up as: A separate program with its own schedule, roster, and rate.
- How it bills
- Billing: Recurring, typically at a premium to standard classes.
Testing fees
Collected each cycle from students who qualify.
- How you build it
- Set up as: A one-time item sold online to the eligible testing group.
- How it bills
- Billing: Single charge per test, paid in advance.
Summer and holiday camps
Seasonal revenue and a reliable feeder into full membership.
- How you build it
- Set up as: A time-limited program or one-time item with the waiver at checkout.
- How it bills
- Billing: One-time charge per camp or per week.
Demo team and leadership
Students in squads that train beyond regular classes.
- How you build it
- Set up as: An add-on program layered over the base membership, with a tag.
- How it bills
- Billing: Recurring add-on or fixed-term per season.
Testing Cycles That Do Not Take Over Your Month
Eligibility, invitations, and fees handled from one place.
Pull the list of students who meet your attendance and time-in-rank requirements, message exactly that group from your school's number, and collect testing fees online before the day. Afterwards, record the new rank against each student and the award date is stored permanently. What used to be a fortnight of admin becomes an afternoon.
Where Generic Software Fails a Taekwondo School
Geup and dan structure
Configure your federation’s ranks — Kukkiwon, ITF, ATA, or independent — with your own colours and stripes.
Poom as a distinct rank
Poom tracked as its own rank set, with conversion to dan recorded when the student qualifies.
After-school programs
A separate program with its own schedule, roster, and premium rate.
Camps and seasonal revenue
Sold online as a one-time item with the digital waiver signed at checkout.
Large family billing
One household, one payment, family pricing, individual records preserved.
Testing fee collection
Sold in advance online to exactly the students who qualify, recorded per profile.
Geup and dan structure
A fixed belt list you cannot reorder or rename.
Poom as a distinct rank
Junior black belts recorded as adult dan grades.
After-school programs
Squeezed into the regular class list at the regular price.
Camps and seasonal revenue
Paper sign-up sheets and cash on the first morning.
Large family billing
Four children, four accounts, four charges.
Testing fee collection
Envelopes handed in at the desk.
What You Get on Day One
Configurable geup and dan ranks
Your federation’s structure with your own colours, stripes, order, and naming — including poom as a separate junior set.
Objective testing eligibility
Attendance thresholds and time-in-rank minimums per rank, so testing rosters are built from data.
Online testing fee collection
Sell testing fees in advance to the qualifying group, with payment recorded against each student.
After-school and camp programs
Separate programs and time-limited offerings with their own schedules, pricing, and digital waivers.
Family accounts for large households
Link four or more children to one payment method with family pricing and individual records.
Student Journey parent app
Schedule, rank progress, assigned documents, and training videos with push notifications.
Tag-based squads
Demo team, sparring squad, and leadership students messaged and scheduled as distinct groups.
Retail point of sale
Dobok, belts, sparring gear, and school merchandise sold at the desk or online.
A dojang needs geup and dan tracking, objective testing eligibility, after-school programs, and billing that survives a family with four children. Generic software offers none of it.
Built by martial arts school owners, used by schools across the country. See the results on the case studies page.
From School Owners Running on Red Belt Gym
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Johnny Buck Frequently Asked Questions About Taekwondo Dojang Software
Does Red Belt Gym support my federation’s ranking system?
How are poom ranks handled alongside dan ranks?
How do I decide who is eligible to test?
Can I track poomsae requirements for each rank?
Can I run an after-school program through the same system?
How do summer camps and holiday camps work?
How does billing work for a family with four children?
Can I move my existing student records across?
How These Features Work Inside Red Belt Gym
Create Belt Ranks
Setting color-based categories helps you keep track of student progress. Find the creating and editing process for ranking in this article.
Read the guide How-to guideAssigning a Belt Rank to a Student
Once you have created your class schedule, follow this step-by-step guide for managing martial arts ranking systems, tracking student progression, and updating belt levels.
Read the guide How-to guideCreate Program Age Groups
Setting age-based categories helps you assign students to classes with the appropriate skill level. Learn the process for creating and editing groups.
Read the guide How-to guideManage Family or Group Accounts
Learn how to add and archive dependents to your martial arts school.
Read the guide How-to guideCreate a Class Schedule
Organize your martial arts courses and easily create your own schedule in minutes for efficient school management.
Read the guide How-to guideAssign Membership Programs
Once you have created a program, you are ready to assign it to your students. This article explains how assigning memberships work.
Read the guideSee Red Belt Gym Running Your Dojang
Bring your rank structure, your testing requirements, and your after-school schedule. We will build them on screen so you can see your own school in the system.
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