Spark Membership or Konjo?
What each one is built for
Spark Membership was built first to catch new leads and turn them into members. 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 Spark Membership is built for
Schools that want lead generation first: funnels, checkout pages, SMS and an AI that answers new leads and books them in.
Spark Membership is member management software sold to martial arts schools alongside dance, gymnastics, yoga, CrossFit and kickboxing. It launched in 2019 and was founded by two seventh-dan black belts.
Only a promotion is published: $99 a month for 12 months against a $199 list price, with eight weeks free. No plans, processing rates or contract terms are published, so treat the real price as unknown until you are quoted one.
Where these numbers come from: Source 8, Source 9, Source 10.
Konjo and Spark Membership, row by row
24 rows, in the order an owner asks them, with a dated source under every claim about Spark Membership.
- 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 Spark Membership column are Spark Membership’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 | Spark Membership |
|---|---|---|
| Built for martial arts schools | ✓Belts, curriculum, test requirements and readiness are the product, not a field added to it. Source 3 | ◐Sold to martial arts, dance, gymnastics, yoga, CrossFit and kickboxing from one product. Source 10 |
| 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 | ◐Belt progression is claimed on its comparison pages but is not on its feature list. Source 9 |
| Years in market and schools served | NewKonjo is launching with its first schools. There is no customer count to publish. Source 4 | 2,000+ businessesThe figure its own site publishes. It launched in 2019. Source 10 |
| 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 5Google 4.7 from 99 reviews, with Capterra and Software Advice at 4.6, as shown on its own pricing page. Source 8 |
| Belt testing workflow | ✓Test events, a roster built from your requirements, results, promotions in bulk, and a certificate. Source 3 | –Testing is not on its feature list. Source 9 |
| 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 | –Not on its feature list. 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 feature list. 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 feature list. Source 9 |
| Video coaching with written feedback | ✓A student sends video and gets structured feedback back against the requirement. Source 6 | –Not on its feature list. Source 9 |
| Instructor tools on the floor | ✓Class mode, attendance, class plans and readiness, in the same app the instructor already carries. Source 6 | ◐A kiosk app and booking are listed. Instructor floor tools are not. 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 | ◐Member and kiosk apps are listed. Whether they cost extra is not published. Source 8 |
| Family accounts | ✓One parent login manages every child, including children too young for an account of their own. Source 6 | –Not on its feature list. 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 funnel builder and checkout pages are listed. A public school page is not. Source 9 |
| 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 automation, SMS and an AI that answers new leads are all on its feature list. Source 9 |
| Full website builder | ◐One public dojo page, not a site you can build out. If you already have a website, keep it. Source 3 | ◐Funnel and checkout pages are listed. A website builder is not. Source 9 |
| 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 | ◐Payments are listed; processing terms are not published. Source 9 |
| Markup on card processing | NoneCard processing is Stripe’s own rate, paid to Stripe. Konjo adds no markup and takes no cut. Source 1 | –Not on its pricing page. 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 | ◐Only a promotion: $99 a month for 12 months against a $199 list price. No plans, processing rates or contract terms. 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 | ◐Its pricing page publishes eight weeks free alongside a 12-month discount. The terms of it are not published. Source 8 |
| Same price whatever your size | ✓A school of 40 and a school of 400 pay the same. Source 1 | –Not on its pricing page. Source 8 |
| Contract or minimum term | NoneNo contract and no minimum term. Cancel in the product before your next renewal. Source 1 | –Its promotion runs for 12 months. 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 | ✓A dedicated account rep sets the account up, with automations, payments and attendance configured. What it migrates is not published. 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 | ◐A public status page is linked from its site. Support channels, hours and response times are not published. 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. Spark Membership — pricinghttps://www.sparkmembership.com/pricing/Read Sep 5, 2026.
- 9. Spark Membership — featureshttps://www.sparkmembership.com/features/Read Sep 5, 2026.
- 10. Spark Membership — home pagehttps://www.sparkmembership.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 Spark Membership 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 Spark Membership is ahead
- Its billing is running today. Spark has been selling to schools since 2019 and lists payments among its features, though it does not publish its processing terms. Your dojo’s own Stripe account is connected during Guided Launch, and no school is billing live on it yet.
- Its founders are two seventh-dan black belts, and it has been selling to schools since 2019.
- Its marketing tools go further than ours: funnels, checkout pages, and an AI that answers new leads and books them in.
- It has more reviews than Konjo does, and it runs a public status page.
- Its first year is heavily discounted, and the discount is published with numbers.
Where Konjo is ahead
- Konjo publishes its model in full. Spark publishes a promotion and no plans, no processing rates and no contract terms.
- Belts, curriculum and testing are what Konjo is built around. Spark’s own feature list does not mention belts, ranks, testing or waivers, even though its comparison pages sell them.
- Students get a training journal, curriculum and coaching in the included app.
- Card processing is Stripe’s own rate, and Konjo adds no markup.
Moving from Spark Membership
Spark does not publish what its export contains. Ask Spark for everything it will export. Send us whatever arrives, in whatever shape. 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.