PushPress or Konjo?
What each one is built for
PushPress was built first to make a gym’s billing, booking and check-in reliable. Konjo was built around a belt ladder and what a student does between classes.
What Konjo is built for
Martial arts schools that teach a curriculum and grade people against it. Belts, requirements, testing, attendance and the money that keeps the doors open, in one system.
One flat monthly price for your location, every feature in it, no plan levels and no per-student fee. We give you the figure on the call, because founding-dojo pricing is open while we launch and we would rather quote you than date-stamp a number on a page.
What PushPress is built for
Gyms of any kind that want billing, booking and check-in to be reliable, and buy the rest as add-ons.
PushPress is gym management software, built first for CrossFit boxes and fitness gyms, with martial arts as one of the markets it serves. Its site says more than 5,000 gyms use it, and it publishes both its plan prices and its card processing rates.
Four line items to assemble, not one price. A Core plan comes first — Free, $159 or $229 a month — and the card rate falls as the plan rises, from 4.99% to 2.75%. Then Grow at $329, Train from $79, and a branded member app at $81 to $97 a month.
Where these numbers come from: Source 8, Source 9, Source 10.
Konjo and PushPress, row by row
24 rows, in the order an owner asks them, with a dated source under every claim about PushPress.
- Included — the product does this
- Partial — it does part of this
- Not offered — it does not do this
- Not published — its own pages do not answer this row, so we do not score it
How to read the marks. Sources in the PushPress column are PushPress’s own pages, or a third party where the note says so. Every Konjo cell links to the Konjo page that describes it — our own word, not an outside check. A mark scores what a product does, not what it charges for it: where a feature costs extra, the mark stands and the price is in the note beside it.
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| Feature | Konjo | PushPress |
|---|---|---|
| Built for martial arts schools | ✓Belts, curriculum, test requirements and readiness are the product, not a field added to it. Source 3 | ◐Built for gyms. Martial arts is a section of the site, with rank tracking added on. Source 9 |
| A belt ladder for each style | ✓Every style carries its own ladder. A student who trains two arts holds a rank in each, on one profile. Source 3 | ✓Rank tracking you set up yourself, including stripes and kyu and dan grades. Source 9 |
| Years in market and schools served | NewKonjo is launching with its first schools. There is no customer count to publish. Source 4 | 5,000+ gymsIts martial arts page says 5,000+ gyms in 46 countries. Source 9 |
| Reviews on independent sites | None yetKonjo has no public reviews yet. When there are enough to be worth reading, they will be linked here. Source 4 | 4.7 of 5The Capterra score it shows on its own site, from 196 or more reviews across three sites. Source 10 |
| Belt testing workflow | ✓Test events, a roster built from your requirements, results, promotions in bulk, and a certificate. Source 3 | |
| Curriculum with video, scoped to a rank | ✓What this belt requires, with video, set by your dojo, and nothing from three ranks ahead. Source 6 | ✕Its workout builder is fitness programming, not a rank curriculum. Source 9 |
| Training journal for the student | ✓A class or a solo session logged in seconds, and kept. Over a year it is the record of how they got to the next belt. Source 6 | –Not on its martial arts page. Source 9 |
| Practice that repeats what you forget | ✓Flashcards on a spaced schedule for the material a student has to recite at a test. Source 6 | –Not on its martial arts page. Source 9 |
| Video coaching with written feedback | ✓A student sends video and gets structured feedback back against the requirement. Source 6 | –Not on its martial arts page. Source 9 |
| Instructor tools on the floor | ✓Class mode, attendance, class plans and readiness, in the same app the instructor already carries. Source 6 | ◐Attendance and check-in. No view of who is ready for the next rank. Source 9 |
| Member app included at no extra charge | ✓Included for every student and every instructor. It is the Konjo app, not an app with your dojo’s name on it. It runs in any browser today; iOS is in Apple’s TestFlight beta with the App Store to follow, and Android is in testing. Source 6 | ◐PushPress sells a member app; the one carrying your dojo’s own name is an add-on at $81 to $97 a month. Source 8 |
| Family accounts | ✓One parent login manages every child, including children too young for an account of their own. Source 6 | ✓Family plans, sibling discounts, and a guardian who signs for a minor. Source 9 |
| Public dojo page with trial booking | ✓A page at your own address with your schedule and a trial form that files a lead you can work. Source 3 | ✓A website and a lead pipeline come with Grow, at $329 a month on top of a Core plan. Source 8 |
| Email and SMS automations | ◐Email and opt-in text messages to your whole school or a segment of it, with automations, unsubscribe and STOP handled. No AI lead follow-up. Source 3 | ✓Email and SMS automation with Grow, at $329 a month. Source 8 |
| Full website builder | ◐One public dojo page, not a site you can build out. If you already have a website, keep it. Source 3 | ✓An SEO website comes with Grow, at $329 a month. Source 8 |
| Memberships and billing | ◐Memberships and billing run on Stripe Connect and launch with your dojo. Your dojo’s own Stripe account is connected during Guided Launch, and no school is billing live on it yet. Source 3 | ✓Billing and payments are in every Core plan, free one included. Source 8 |
| Markup on card processing | NoneCard processing is Stripe’s own rate, paid to Stripe. Konjo adds no markup and takes no cut. Source 1 | 2.75% to 4.99%The card rate depends on the plan: 4.99% on the free tier, 2.89% on Pro, 2.75% on Max, each plus 30¢. Source 8 |
| Price published as a number | On the callThe model is published in full — one flat monthly price for your location, every feature in it, no plan levels. The figure is quoted on the call and put in writing. Source 1 | ✓Core Free, Pro $159 or Max $229, plus Grow $329, Train from $79 and the app at $81 to $97. Source 8 |
| Try it before you talk to anyone | ✕No free trial and no self-serve signup. What replaces it is a 30-minute demo on a sample dojo set up with ranks like yours. Source 7 | ✓Core Free is published at $0 a month, with card processing at 4.99% plus 30¢ on it. Source 8 |
| Same price whatever your size | ✓A school of 40 and a school of 400 pay the same. Source 1 | ✓Unlimited users on every Core plan. Source 8 |
| Contract or minimum term | NoneNo contract and no minimum term. Cancel in the product before your next renewal. Source 1 | –Not on its pricing page. Source 8 |
| Getting your data back out | ✓Full CSV export while you are a customer, and for 30 days after you leave. No fee. Source 1 | –Not on its pricing page. Source 8 |
| Who sets your school up | ✓PushPress publishes setup and data import, staff training, member communication and launch help. Its pricing page does not split those by plan. Source 8 | |
| How you get help after launch | ◐One person, not a support desk. Email, or write from inside Konjo Studio. The target for a first reply is one business day, and there are scheduled office hours. No phone line, and no plan that gets answered sooner. Source 2 | ✓Support is published by plan: self-serve and AI support with a 48-hour target for a human answer on the free plan, and live human answers plus scheduled video calls on Pro and Max. Source 8 |
Sources
- 1. Konjo — how pricing workshttps://getkonjo.com/pricingRead Sep 5, 2026.
- 2. Konjo — support after your first 90 dayshttps://getkonjo.com/pricing#after-launchRead Sep 5, 2026.
- 3. Konjo Studio — what the owner’s dashboard doeshttps://getkonjo.com/product/studioRead Sep 5, 2026.
- 4. About Konjohttps://getkonjo.com/aboutRead Sep 5, 2026.
- 5. Konjo — how switching workshttps://getkonjo.com/switchRead Sep 5, 2026.
- 6. Konjo — the member app, and where it runs todayhttps://getkonjo.com/product/appRead Sep 5, 2026.
- 7. Konjo — what a demo is, and what happens after you ask for onehttps://getkonjo.com/demoRead Sep 5, 2026.
- 8. PushPress — pricing, including card processing rateshttps://www.pushpress.com/pricingRead Sep 5, 2026.
- 9. PushPress — martial arts softwarehttps://www.pushpress.com/fitness-business-software/martial-artsRead Sep 5, 2026.
- 10. PushPress — home pagehttps://www.pushpress.comRead Sep 5, 2026.
Take any row that matters to your school and we will show you the answer with the product open — including the rows PushPress wins.
Where each one is ahead
Both lists are short, and neither one is padded. If something on the left is the thing your dojo runs on, say so on the call and we will tell you straight whether to wait.
Where PushPress is ahead
- Its billing is running today. Billing and payments are in every PushPress Core plan, the free one included. Your dojo’s own Stripe account is connected during Guided Launch, and no school is billing live on it yet.
- It is far bigger. Its martial arts page says 5,000+ gyms in 46 countries, and it shows ratings from three review sites. Konjo has none of that yet.
- Its marketing goes further. Grow does websites and a lead pipeline on top of the messaging both products send. Konjo has no lead funnel and no AI that answers a new lead.
- It publishes a phone number and a mailing address, and it answers support on a stated schedule.
- There is a free plan. If your school is small and you can live with 4.99% on every card, PushPress costs nothing a month.
Where Konjo is ahead
- Konjo runs the whole test. PushPress tracks a rank against criteria you set and sells invite-only events for belt tests — but no list of who is eligible on your requirements, no results workflow, no bulk promotion and no curriculum behind it.
- The member app is included. On PushPress the branded app is $81 to $97 a month on top of a plan.
- One price instead of four line items. A martial arts school buying the equivalent of Konjo from PushPress is assembling Core, Grow, Train and the app.
- Card processing is Stripe’s rate. On PushPress the rate you pay depends on which plan you are on.
Moving from PushPress
Ask PushPress for every export it offers, including members, memberships and rank. Send it to us in whatever shape it arrives, and we will tell you what is missing before you agree on a launch date.
What we bring across
Your people and households, and the rank each student holds today on your own ladder. Your memberships and who is on what, your belt ladders and what each rank requires, your programs, your class schedule and your curriculum with its video. Your waiver, your locations, and the first year a new student follows. Nobody arrives in Konjo as a white belt.
What we quote separately: the dated history behind all of it — past promotions, attendance and payments in your old system. Send the exports and we scope it with you before you commit to a date.
Recurring billing is set up again on Stripe, and each family enters a card once. Konjo does not import saved card numbers.
Konjo builds your dojo from those exports, section by section. You read every section and ask for corrections, and nothing goes live until you have approved it.
See both, with your own school in front of you.
Bring your dojo’s ranks, classes and curriculum. We will show you Konjo running with them, and answer any row in the table with the product open.
Three boxes and a tap, and the rest is optional. Galen replies within one business day. The call takes about 30 minutes. It runs on a sample dojo set up with ranks like yours.