We were founded by martial artists with marketing and information technology backgrounds to help your school grow financially and bring quality student management services to your school. We know how valuable it is to focus your time on teaching students and developing your curriculum, not on worrying about marketing and managing students. We understand the unique nuances of this business, and we offer complete business solutions to help you stay ahead of your competition.
We have developed our own highly customized software designed specifically for martial arts business management. Our software is designed to take many of the mundane tasks that take up your time, and get them accomplished with the touch of a button. Our software lets you track student renewal dates automatically, as well as manage student contact information. Notices of upcoming events, schedule changes, marketing materials, and birthday cards can be sent simply and inexpensively to students by e-mail.
Since we are a web-based software company, it is in our interest to have our clients professionally represented on the world wide web. To accomplish the full integration of our software with your business, we provide and host, free of charge, a customizable home page for your studio. Unlike typical web sites, this site is programmed to allow you to quickly update content, without having to upload files to a server, or hire web designers to make costly and inefficient changes. Students will quickly come to trust that the site is always up to date and reliable. Your site will allow you to post your studio schedule and student photos, advertise upcoming events and distribute promotional materials. Your site will be linked to an e-mail account to allow your students to easily communicate with you.
You can eliminate the need to purchase and store equipment inventory at your studio by allowing us to develop your online storefront, directly on your personal website. With a simple e-mail, you can notify students of equipment they need to buy, and direct them to the online store, where you can offer a greater variety of items which can be drop shipped by the wholesaler. You select the wholesalers, control the pricing, and eliminate the costs of shipping and storage of merchandise. Your students will enjoy a greater selection. Best of all, the online store development and hosting is free of charge. We make our money of a small transaction fee from each payment, rather than by charging you a large set-up fee or monthly usage fee.
We even offer a convenient billing solution, which integrates customized and automated payment processing with your software. Our billing solution offers convenient automatic checking withdrawals, as well as Visa, Mastercard and American Express payments. In addition to these automatic payment systems, we are capable of sending monthly e-bills by e-mail, allowing students to print out the bill and pay it manually by check or credit card. If a student doesn’t have e-mail, we can send paper invoices as well. The billing solution is set up in much the same way as the online store. Setup and maintenance is free of charge, and we make our money on a small transaction fee.
With our packaged software solution, your studio will be much more efficient. Because we have personally developed our own automated system, we can keep our prices lower than competing billing services which offer far fewer features. We have very low overhead, with small staffing requirements.
All billing services have inherent risks involved. These risks are typically caused by member studios going out of business and leaving students who have pre-paid memberships without the services they have paid for. In this instance, the billing company is obliged to refund the students, and attempt to collect from a defaulted studio. To minimize this risk, we carefully screen our member studios, verifying that they are profitable, stable businesses. In addition, we require a hold-back period of 2 weeks, so that if a studio closes, our losses are limited. We have adequate lines of credit and cash reserves to maintain solvency, protecting our remaining client studios.
We are confident that we offer the most efficient, cost-effective solutions for your martial arts business. We encourage you to compare our services with your current management system, and to decide for yourself what is best for your company. Furthermore, it is not an all or nothing solution. You can pick and choose the features you want to utilize, and leave the rest behind.
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