Run your martial arts school the way taekwondo is actually taught.
From 10th Gup to Master level, NextKick tracks every rank, testing cycle, and family account — so you spend less time on paperwork and more time on the mat.
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Rank progression, tracked automatically
The path to black belt
Every student is somewhere on the journey. NextKick keeps track of exactly where.
10th–1st Gup
Color Belts
White through red — the daily grind of fundamentals.
1st Dan
Il Dan
First black belt. Poomsae, sparring, and breaking come together.
2nd–3rd Dan
Instructor Track
Assistant teaching, deeper forms, leadership.
4th Dan+
Master Level
Kukkiwon certification and school leadership.
Everything a martial arts school runs on
Testing cycles that run themselves
Schedule promotion tests, set eligibility rules, record poomsae and sparring scores, and print certificates — parents get notified the moment their child qualifies.
Student & family accounts
Attendance, rank history, medical notes, and billing status for every student, grouped by family so nothing slips through the cracks.
Tuition & testing fees on autopilot
Recurring monthly tuition, one-time testing and uniform fees, and automatic reminders. Payments process on their own; you stop chasing invoices.
Parent communication
Push, SMS, and email announcements for schedule changes, belt tests, and tournaments — sent to the whole school or just one group.
Built for the martial arts school
What NextKick does for taekwondo schools
Gup & Dan rank tracking
Model your belt order exactly, from 10th Gup down to 1st Gup and up through Dan grades, with poom grades for juniors.
Testing eligibility by attendance
Set an attendance minimum per rank and NextKick flags who qualifies for the next testing cycle automatically.
Certification records per student
Store Kukkiwon or federation certificate numbers and promotion dates on each student's profile.
Family accounts & sibling billing
Link siblings under one parent login and one invoice, with family discounts applied automatically.
Curriculum & testing notes
Record poomsae, sparring, and breaking results per student so instructors track real progress, not just belt color.
Flat pricing, no per-student fees
One monthly price no matter how many students you enroll — the more you grow, the less you pay per head.
Taekwondo school questions, answered
Does NextKick track Gup and Dan ranks the way taekwondo actually uses them?
Yes. Ranks are modeled as color-belt Gups counting down to 1st Gup, then Dan grades counting up. You can set your own belt order, add poom (junior black belt) grades, and record Kukkiwon or federation certification numbers per student.
Can I require a minimum attendance before a student tests?
You can. Set an attendance threshold per rank and NextKick flags who is eligible for the next testing cycle automatically — no more scanning through cards before promotion day.
We're a family-heavy martial arts school. How does billing work for siblings?
Multiple students link under one family account with a single invoice and one parent login. Sibling and family discounts apply automatically, and parents see every child's schedule, rank, and payment in one place.
Do you support after-school pickup and demo team rosters?
Yes. You can tag students into groups like after-school, demo team, or leadership, track attendance separately, and message just that group when a practice or event changes.
In short
NextKick is taekwondo school management software. It tracks each student against your own gup, poom, and dan ladder, builds the testing-eligibility list from attendance, bills a family on one invoice, and gives parents an app for schedule, current rank, testing dates, and payments.
What to look for in taekwondo school software
Most software sold to taekwondo schools was built for gyms and adapted afterwards. The tell is how it handles rank. A gym membership is a binary — active or not. A dojang runs a ten-gup ladder with poom and dan grades on top, testing cycles keyed to attendance, and families paying for two or three children at once. If the software treats a student as a membership, you will end up keeping the parts that matter in a spreadsheet.
Key takeaways
- Your gup and dan order, not a generic belt list
- Testing eligibility driven by attendance
- Family accounts as the billing unit
- A parent app that answers the front desk's questions
Your gup and dan order, not a generic belt list
Kukkiwon schools, ITF schools, and independent dojangs order and name their ranks differently, and plenty of schools insert their own stripe or tip levels. Software should let you define the exact sequence once — 10th gup through 1st gup, then poom and dan — and then track every student against your ladder, with promotion dates and testing scores attached permanently to their profile.
Testing eligibility driven by attendance
Deciding who tests is the most repetitive administrative job in a dojang. Set a class minimum per rank and the system should produce the eligible list for you, flag the students who are two classes short so you can call the parents, and record the scores on testing day. Certificates should generate on promotion rather than being typed up afterwards.
Family accounts as the billing unit
Taekwondo enrollment is disproportionately families with more than one child. One invoice, one card on file, one login, sibling discounts applied automatically. Software that models each child as a separate member turns a three-child family into three payment relationships and three chances for a card to decline.
A parent app that answers the front desk's questions
Nearly every question your front desk fields is one of four: when is class, what rank is my child, when is the next testing, and did my payment go through. A branded student and parent app that shows all four removes most of that traffic, and it is the single change owners report families noticing first.
Day to day, that adds up to check-in that keeps the 5pm rush moving, tuition and testing fees that collect themselves, a testing cycle you prepare in minutes instead of an evening, and parents who can see their child's progress without asking. NextKick is built around that specific shape of school rather than adapted to it.
Last reviewed by the NextKick team.
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