New members, cancellations, attendance and who has stopped booking, for the instructor who also does the books.
The club page with upcoming classes, gradings and a way to message the club.
Children sit under a parent’s login with no email of their own, and appear on your register by name.
Name your safeguarding lead, publish your commitment on the club page and give parents a way to raise a concern.
You teach karate because someone once taught you. Here is where the rest of the week goes.
Twenty children in white gis, a few new orange belts and a parent asking when the next grading is.
Brown belts working the kata for their next grading. This is the class you look forward to all week.
Who is eligible, whose licence has lapsed, who has paid the grading fee in cash and who said they would bring it next week.
The register is on paper, the licences are in a folder and the subs are in three bank apps. None of it is karate.
When each student’s grade, syllabus and licence sit on their record, the grading is a ticketed event and subs renew themselves, the clipboard goes back in the drawer.
Teach the kata. Leave the admin to Dyno.
Memberships, payments, bookings and check-in, plus a member app and a club website carrying your name. Put your club in it and have a look around.
Riverside Karate ClubYour team runs the whole club from here: memberships, payments, bookings, check-in and the numbers behind them.
Grades, licences, classes and money in one place, for clubs where the instructor is often the treasurer too.
One app for the timetable, the grading, the subs and the forms.
Juniors and seniors twice a week in a hired hall, a grading every few months, a course with a visiting instructor and licences to renew once a year.
Parents book each child from their own login, and the class has a capacity so the hall is never over-full. When a child joins, the parent completes your PAR-Q and signs your waiver before the membership can be bought.
How waivers and forms workInstructors tick off the kihon, kata and kumite each student has shown for their next grade. The roster for the grade track shows everyone’s current grade and how much of the next syllabus they have covered.
How grade progression worksPut the grading on with a capacity and a fee, and students pay when they book. On the day, check people in from any tablet, then promote everyone who passed from the roster in one go, each with the date on their history.
How events workRecord each student’s association licence and Dyno tracks it from application to active, with a reminder 30 days before it runs out. The list of applications exports for the association.
How licences workMonthly or termly memberships by card or UK Direct Debit through Stripe, into the club’s own account. A family rule can take money off from the second child, on Starter and up.
How memberships workA course with a member price and a non-member price, so karateka from other clubs can book a place as a guest on your club page and pay by card.
Two nights a week, juniors then seniors, everything packed away afterwards.
Classes every day, a kids’ programme by age, adults by grade and a competition squad.
Classes in three halls under one chief instructor, run as one club in Dyno, with the same grade track and syllabus everywhere and a grading students from every hall can book.
Run the whole club from one login. No bolt-ons, no juggling five tools, nothing to reconcile at the end of the month.
UK Direct Debit collected automatically, with failed payments retried for you. Cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay too, all landing in your club's own account, never ours.
Members, payments, bookings, check-in, your member app and club chat. All included, all talking to each other from day one.
No onboarding call and no setup fee. Most clubs take their first payment the same day they sign up.
Hear from the people running their clubs on Dyno.
Before Dyno we were juggling a Facebook group, a spreadsheet of subs and cash in hand payments that were impossible to track. Now the whole club lives in one place, monthly memberships collect themselves, parents book gradings straight from their phones, and I can message a full class in seconds. It has handed me back the couple of hours every week I used to lose to admin, so I can actually focus on teaching. For a club our size it has been a genuine game-changer.
0% platform fee on every plan. Your plan grows as your club does. No per-member pricing, no surprises.
Every new club starts with 30 days of Pro, free. No card needed.
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Add only what you need. All included on Pro, except bespoke website work.
Your teams' fixtures end to end. Put the fixture list up, ask who can play and chase whoever has not answered, pick a side from the yeses and tell the squad, then record the score and the appearances. For football, rugby, cricket, hockey, netball and any other club that plays somebody.
The daily workout, written once and sent to every member's app. Strength percentages worked out from each member's own lifts, a board that ranks RX above scaled, a movement library and benchmark history. For gyms, boxes and strength clubs. Included on Pro.
Your club website, built to your design. It starts from the standard site, then we make the changes you ask for in code: layout, extra sections and styling the template doesn't offer. The standard website is included from Growth up; this is the bespoke work, on any plan.
Bookable courts, rooms or pitches with eligibility rules, conflict checks and member self-booking. Available on Starter; included from Growth up.
Bookable coach calendars for 1:1 sessions, with weekly availability, session lengths and prices, and clash checks.
A home dashboard you arrange yourself: drag in the charts and trend cards you want, resize them and drop the rest.
Pinned placement in the Dyno discovery directory to help new members find your club first.
Searchable, exportable record of important actions across your club: sign-ups, cancellations, payments, staff changes. A basic activity log is included on every paid plan; this adds the advanced version.
Sell merch, drinks and one-off items from your club page, in the app and on the web, and at the front desk on a card reader.
Leaderboards, personal stats, attendance streaks and live milestone moments in the member app, all to drive attendance and engagement. Club polls come with it too.
Track times, distances, lifts and scores against the disciplines your club defines. Personal bests are detected automatically and shown to members in the app.
Win members back automatically: we-miss-you emails and push to at-risk members, expiring class-pack reminders and renewal nudges ahead of billing.
On the App Store and Google Play under your club's name, icon and colours. Add it to any plan.
Running a group of clubs or a federation? Ask about Enterprise
Annual Growth and Pro plans come with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Every member payment includes Dyno processing fees of 1.9% + 25p on cards, 1% + 20p capped at £4 on Direct Debit and 1% + 20p capped at £5 on a first payment made from the member’s bank, deducted from your takings and never added on top of your price. Commercial, business and non-UK cards cost more to process, so on those payments you pay what Stripe charges instead. Dyno takes 0% platform fee on every plan. Your club receives the rest, paid straight to your Stripe balance. See the pricing page for a worked example. VAT charged where applicable.
Karate clubs in the UK run on grades, gradings and licences, usually in a hired hall and usually with as many children as adults. Dyno is karate club software that keeps all three on each student’s record, alongside the memberships, the timetable and the money.
Every style grades through kyu grades counting down to 1st kyu, then dan grades counting up from 1st dan. Beyond that, styles and associations differ: Shotokan, Wado-ryu, Goju-ryu, Shito-ryu and Kyokushin clubs use different belt colours, some start beginners at 10th kyu and others at 9th or 8th, and some associations add extra junior grades. In many associations, kyu grades are examined in the club and dan grades by an association panel. Dyno doesn’t assume any of it. You build the grade track in your own order and colours, with the syllabus for each grade.
Most clubs belong to an association that issues an annual licence to each student, often with insurance, and won’t let anyone grade without a current one. Dyno tracks each licence from application to active with a reminder 30 days before it lapses. Registering students with your association still happens on its own system.
Children are often half of a karate club, so each child sits under a parent’s account with no email or login of their own. The parent books classes, completes the PAR-Q, signs the waiver and pays, and instructors see emergency contacts and medical notes on the register. Messages from an instructor to a child go to the parent instead.
Plenty of karate clubs train in a school or community hall they don’t own. Nothing in Dyno needs fixed hardware: the check-in kiosk is a web page on whichever tablet you bring, instructors can tick students in on the register instead, and members carry their pass on their phone.
Gradings, visiting-instructor courses and club competitions run as ticketed events with a capacity, a member price and a non-member price. Promotion from the roster can be one student or the whole grading, every promotion stays on the student’s history, and progression is free on every plan.
Dig into the features behind it: grade progression, licences, waivers and PAR-Q, family accounts, gradings and courses as events.
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Moving from another app? Read our martial arts software roundup or how switching works.
Most clubs set up their grades and memberships in an evening, then move students across at the start of a term.
Add your kyu grades in order with your style’s colours, then the dan grades. Run a separate junior track if your association grades children differently.
For each grade, list what a student needs to show. Instructors tick it off as students get there.
Promote each student to the grade they hold today, and record their licence with its expiry date.
Upload your member list with children under their parent. Direct Debits collected through GoCardless move to Stripe without anyone signing again.
30 days of Pro free, no card needed. Build your grade track this evening and invite the club when you are ready.
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