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A Completely Free, Game-Changing Club Manager For Martial Arts

ClubManager by BMABA is a completely unique Club Management Platform that not only takes care of the bread and butter of running your club – such as payments, grades, attendance and classes – but also goes on to deliver a knock-out club management system that can take care of everything from finances to business management, scheduling through to a club webshop. All free. Forever.

Built for martial artists, by martial arts experts

ClubManager by BMABA is free to all of our clubs. We’re not just a tech company – we’re the multi-award winning, leading independent UK martial arts association. Representing more than 100,000 members, we know a thing or two about what clubs actually need. And so we built an exclusive club management platform, just for our clubs.

Grade Tracking

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Attendance Tracking

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Student Management

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Flexible Payments

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Certificate Generator

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Customised Branding

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Calendar & Scheduling

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Self-Service Registration

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Forum Boards

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Safeguarding Reporting

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Student Portal

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Video Lessons

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Event Management

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Manual Invoicing

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Concussion & RtP

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Digital Risk Assessment

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Accident Log Book

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Business Manager

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Lead Management

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Club Web Shop

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All Free. Forever.

We’ve built ClubManager by BMABA from the ground up at our own expense to ensure our clubs have the best possible tools to run their clubs safely and professionally whilst growing.

Quickly & Easily Mark Attendance By Your Preferred Default

You’re free to set whether or not a student should be assumed to be present or absent by default, so you only ever have to mark the odd one out as here or away, rather than having to mark individual attendance for every class all the time.

Who's Turning Up?

Lesson planning is hard enough, let alone if you don’t have an idea on who’s likely to attend.

 

Easily see who’s booked onto classes in realtime, and define the number of available spaces – as well as whether or not its adult only, child only, or mixed – before you start planning lessons.

Customisable Grades

Perfect for multi-style or mixed aged clubs.

Club Manager by BMABA puts you firmly in control of grade structure. You can easily set whatever progression path you like – Kyu Grades, Colour Belts, Levels – the possibilities are endless. Easy to setup, easy to edit and just as easy to manage.

Ready To Grade?

Club Manager by BMABA tells you from a simple, easy to see dashboard widget whenever someone is eligible to grade, based up on the pre-set number of lessons (you decide upon), making it easy to ensure students and your club are ready for the next grading.

Give Your Students & Parents Proper Visibility

From being able to see their own attendance record, grade, time through to next grading opportunity and even the specific syllabus requirements. One screen, one easy to follow update for parents or students. Fully customisable, and entirely unique to your club.

Message Specific Students Or The Entire Club

Secure in-system messages allow you to send messages directly to the student’s dashboard. Target singular, multiple or all students with messages that you know have been delivered.

This also sends an external email to students, to act as an email marketing platform in its own right.

An Intuitive Student Profile

Grading Ready?

You'll see the student's name pop up in your dasboard, and the notification tab, if they're ready to grade.

Billings & Memberships

See whether your student has an active membership, and if so, what that is. Also access payments and receipts with one click from the student dashboard.

Instructor Notes & Medical Info

From instructor notes, written by you or the student/parent, through to medical conditions and Medication, it's included.

Contact Information

You'll easily be able to view profile information and billing information. If there's a parent running the account for a child, you can see who's making payment and in-charge of managing bookings, as well as specific information for the child.

Payments via WooCommerce

WooCommerce For Integrated Payments

Because our Club Manager by BMABA is a WordPress Plugin, you host it on your existing site (we can help if you don’t have a WordPress site yet!). The only other plugin you’ll need is free, and it’s called WooCommerce. If you haven’t heard of this plugin before, it’s effectively the global leader for E-Commerce and is trusted by millions of sites worldwide.

Through WooCommerce you can setup an almost unlimited number of payment gateways, and you can let customers choose. BACS, Pay on the Door, Stripe, Apple Pay, Direct Debit, SagePay, Google Wallet – the list is pretty much endless. 

WooCommerce is totally free, and you can use to build a merchandise shop or similar on your site, too!

A simple, elegant checkout process.

When you have a student ready to commit to a membership or club merchandise purchase, you want to know they can quickly and easily checkout with any of your preferred payment gateways. 

ClubManager by BMABA makes that super straight forward, with a seamless, familiar checkout process that fully integrates all of your payment gateways.

Create Unlimited Membership Plans

Whether you want tiered memberships with specific access at each level to different classes, or perhaps different plans for children and adults. Maybe a plan for Karate, and another for Jujitsu. Whatever you need, our flexible membership platform helps you build it just the way your club works.

Only Pay Your Payment Gateway Fees, Not Us

If you’re using cash on the door or BACS, it’s never going to cost a penny. Other than that, it’s just the payment gateway’s usual fees (typically between 1% – 4% depending on who you use). We don’t skim anything off, or inflate the cost. 

Produce Customised Grading Certificates, Licence Slips & Documents Directly From Our Platform

Pre-populated with your student data, and downloadable directly as a PDF or JPG. 

Design Once. Use Forever.

We’ve built a dynamic, flexible certification module into ClubManagerbyBMABA which allows you to effortlessly create licence slips, certificates, documents and more. Easily insert key student metrics (such as dates, names, grades and any other custom data), format, resize, reposition and you’re done!

No more manually creating documents or certificates. No more trying to guess at spelling. Download any document in two clicks, from any device.

Automate Key Documents

Upload an image of the base of a certificate, licence slip, document or anything else you issue and print regularly to save admin and the risk of human error.

Completely Customisable

Change the font, colour, size and position of all information you add to the template to get the right brand and look.

Easily Download & Export

Whether it's a grading certificate or other document, you can easily download in PDF or JPG format straight to your device.

Customisable & Flexible

ClubManager by BMABA can be custom-branded to fit your club’s look, and you can set the functionality to meet your exact needs too.

Imagine if you could have parents & students sign any waivers, terms and club rules when setting up their account...

You can set any page to contain mandatory information that has to be agreed to before an account can be created. This means you can always be assured assumption of risk forms, waivers, terms, charters or rules have been accepted before the student or parent even books a class. Our custom certificate feature can also allow you to pre-set a templated ‘printed’ version which you can download in two clicks with details pre-populated too, if you need a hard copy.

Effective, Clear Scheduling & Calendar Software For Martial Arts

Super clear, easy to use and effective task management and scheduling for martial arts clubs of all sizes and styles.

One Place. Tasks, Classes & Meetings Combined.

Quickly and easily combine all of your tasks, obligations, meetings and more automatically including classes, gradings and events into one easy to view place, which can be shared with your team too.

An easy to use safeguarding tool

We’re experts in martial arts safeguarding and we’ve built our reporting tool to be easy to use, comprehensive and as far as possible, automatically inclusive of information from your student database. This helps save time, ensures you don’t miss crucial steps and avoids data-input errors.

Out Of The Box Student Portal

Whether it’s providing specific content for specific membership types or allowing students to effortlessly see their grades, book onto classes, make payment – and so on. It’s included.

Put Parents In Control To Cut Down On Queries

Complete control and visibility allows parents and guardians the ability to track attendance, grade, progress, classes required before eligibility for gradings and so much more – alongside the core functions like forums, contents, notices, student management and so on.

Front End or Back End Purchases

Whether you want to have all payments made through the student portal exclusively or you want to facilitate a front-end web shop, it’s all possible. No extra fees and no complex setup.

Effortless Event Management & Ticketing For Martial Arts

ClubManager by BMABA provides a comprehensive platform on which you can create, ticket, collect payment for and manage every aspect of your club’s event, tournament or seminar. Best of all, it’s completely free and forms just a fraction of your entire Club Management Platform.

Accounting & Budgeting Software For Martial Arts

Imagine if you had accounting and budgeting software fully integrated into your Club Management Platform, so you can manage your club budget, income and outgoings in one place. Welcome to ClubManager by BMABA.

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Multi-Award Winning & As Seen On Various Platforms

Join More Than 6,500 Like-Minded Instructors & Clubs

Representing Over 100,000 Members Across 94 Disciplines

A completely free club management system.

We know. What’s the catch? Well, we’re a trade body for martial arts, not a profit-hungry corporation. We know how important the latest tech is in keeping our clubs kicking and – ultimately – that keeps us going too!

FREE Club Management Software Exclusively Built By Us, Just For Our Clubs

ClubManager by BMABA is our in-house, professionally developed Club Management solution. It’s free for all of our members and comes with a tonne of essential and groundbreaking features as standard.

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  • Attendance & Grade Tracking
  • Student Records Management
  • Class Bookings & Timetables
  • Flexible Payments & Memberships
  • Grading Certificates Generator
  • Licence Slip & Documents Generator
  • Customised Branding & Functionality
  • Data Freedom & Ownership
  • Leads & Prospects Management
  • Online Video Training Library
  • 1to1 Tuition Management & Billing
  • Events Management & Ticketing
  • Secure Safeguarding Case Management
  • Manage Events & Competitions
  • Student Portal & Member's Content
  • Concussion & RtP Management
  • Digital Incident Log Book
  • Digital Risk Assessments
  • Task Management
  • Registrations & Waivers
  • Built-In Club Community & Forums
  • Manual Invoicing
  • Accounting & Budgeting
  • Staff Management & Staffroom
  • Calendar & Scheduling
  • Business Management & Planning
  • Easy To Use Parent Accounts

Membership with BMABA is so much more than just a piece of paper.

From template grading certificates and draft documents through to a free club website and national club listings. Whether it be advice on club structure and marketing or membership marks and qualifications. DBS checks, first aid qualifications, coaching certificates, instructor licenses, insurance, business plans, equipment, graphics – even club management platforms and web hosting. We can cover it under just one simple, affordable membership.

Founded in 2012 by the now Multi-Award Winning Social Entrepreneur & Life-Long Martial Artist, Giovanni Soffietto.

Frustrated by a governing structure in martial arts that failed to look forward to the future, Giovanni setup BMABA in 2012. Aged just 20 with only £20 of ‘start-up capital’ BMABA comes from humble beginnings.

Focused on professional standards and ethics rather than belts and titles, BMABA boasts the pedigree of a life-long martial arts expert come award winning social entrepreneur as it’s Chief Executive Officer. It’s fair to say we’re well qualified and backed by an industry giant. We now turnover more than £1,000,000 and support tens of thousands of martial artists across the UK.

"BMABA give away belts for cash"

"BMABA don't care about safeguarding"

"BMABA are so unprofessional"

Over the past 13+ years we’ve heard so much of this sort of nonsense from the ‘old boys’ associations.

The truth couldn’t be further than their lazy, fear-filled assertions. We’re a disruptor, renowned for our professionalism and governance, but they wouldn’t want you to know that. 

In an industry so full of cowboys, we don’t expect you to take our word for any of this. Dig beneath the surface, and see for yourself.

Membership To BMABA Is So Much More Than Just A Piece Of Paper

We have always been focused on providing clubs with everything they need under a single membership, and our range of resources, tools and features delivers exactly that.

From template grading certificates and documents through to a free club website and national club listings. Whether it be advice on club structure and marketing or membership marks and qualifications. DBS checks, first aid qualifications, coaching certificates, instructor licenses, insurance, business plans, equipment, graphics – you named it, we cover it under just one simple, affordable membership.

Club Colours Award That Exceeds Sport England’s Safeguarding Standards

Our Club Colours Award process not only issues a ‘school of excellence’ mark to clubs who hold it, but the safeguarding oversight has been mapped against SCiMA and then approved by Sport England which allows us to automatically issue the ‘Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts’ award to every club that holds our ‘tick mark’. We receive zero funding to run this, but we ensure it’s completely free for every single BMABA member to access.

We’re the only independent association who can offer this.

Certification, Insurance & Evidence With You, On The Go.

Tired of waiting weeks for hand-written documents in the post? Access your BMABA instructor’s documentation, student license slips, insurance certification and even your own submitted DBS checks, first aid qualifications and other criteria 24/7.

Our systems provide you with access to all of this documentation on the go. Be it from a mobile, our app or a desktop – so you can access, download and share your certification when you need it most.

BMABA App

Available for free on Android and OS devices, the BMABA app allows instructors, volunteers and assistant instructors to access the latest updates, resources, guidance, community, forums and loads more. Bring your association, along with all your digital certification – with you in your pocket.

Industry Renowned Qualifications & Training

We’re always building on our library of industry-leading awards and qualifications. This includes our Level 1 and Level 2 instructor qualifications, our Safeguarding & Lead Safeguarding qualifications, our First Aid Award, Club Colours Award, Club Management Qualifications, Risk Management, Concussion & Head Injury, and so much more. 

All online and accessible 24/7 from any device.

The Ultimate, FREE, Club Management Platform

We provide all members with access to exclusive student management software which will help you track attendance, see student details, show your class schedule, accept online bookings, run a club shop, update your members with club news, run a members’ only area and so much more. All completely free of charge.

From SEO, AI and Analytics through to content publishing, class scheduling, online incident log book entries and so, so much more. It’s all inclusive at no extra cost making BMABA the industry leaders in affordable tech solutions for martial arts clubs.

£1,000 Of Tools, Rolled Into One Affordable Membership

From template grading certificates, safeguarding policies and club registration forms to our online logo designer, club accreditation marks and premium club finder listings. BMABA Club Cash Grants and designated safeguarding lead services through to marketing plans, SEO platforms, AI software, Wordpress websites, web hosting and so, so much more. It’s all inclusive and wrapped up into your membership fee so you can access more services with us than anywhere else without paying a penny more.

We Grant Up To £500 To Help Clubs Make Charitable Impact & Grow

Our BMABA Club Grants Scheme donates up to £500 per grant to clubs up and down the UK of all sizes. It helps to make a difference to clubs who want to make a charitable impact, purchase new kit to offer safer classes, or need emergency support in times of crisis. 

We’ve funded research into safeguarding failures in MMA, classes for women and girls at risk of abuse, scholarships for children living in poverty, new mats and punchbags for clubs wanting to safer classes, and so much more.

All self funded. From our profits, back into our community.

Ready to take your club to new heights?

It's in our slogan; "To High Places By Narrow Roads".

Plus So Much More As Standard Just Some Of The Tools & Resources We Offer

  • Instructor Certification & Licensing
  • Student Insurance & Licensing
  • Free Instructor Qualifications
  • Safeguarding Qualifications
  • Enhanced DBS Checks
  • First Aid Training
  • Free Club Website
  • Club Management Support
  • Instructor Certification & Licensing
  • Logos & Accreditation Marks
  • SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Platform
  • Local & National Networking
  • Stock Grading Certificates
  • Free Instructor Qualifications
  • Template Documents & Forms
  • Printing & Design
  • Safeguarding Code For Martial Arts
  • Best Practice Guidance
  • Wordpress Hosting
  • a.i For Martial Arts
  • Event Management Checklists
  • Safeguarding Model Policies
  • Analytics & Tracking Tools
  • Budgeting Apps
  • Professional Webmail
  • Clothing & Uniform
  • Cyber Toolkit
  • Cash Grants & Funding
  • Risk Management Awards
  • Concussion & Head Injury
  • National Advertising
  • Entrepreneur's Support
  • Plus So Much More

Not entirely convinced?

Try us for free for 12 months, with no obligation.

There’s absolutely no obligation to commit beyond 12 months. You’ll be able to explore what we offer, our member’s area, all of our licensing options and get a better feel for the BMABA’s service without any obligation to become a full member. We genuinely believe the best way to find out if we’re any good is to try us yourself.

Thinking of switching?

We know there’s a lot to think about, and we can help.

We have absolutely no interest in enticing you to switch to BMABA if we’re not the right fit. We know that won’t last and isn’t good for you or us. Instead, we can offer a confidential switching process to help you price up whether or not it’s worth while, whilst also getting answers to any questions you might have.

We have a real team based out of a real office.

There’s nothing wrong with smaller martial arts associations. In fact, we think it’s good for competition and variety. Unfortunately too many are one-man bands run from kitchen tables, and not professional set ups with staff.

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BMABA. Suite I & K, The Old Bakery, Golden Square, Petworth. GU28 0AP

Registered Office

BMABA, 132 City Road, London. N1 6AD

Servicing Office

BMABA, International House, Woolwich House, 61 Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3HZ

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