Spark Membership 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Spark Membership

5.0

(8)

Pricing

Starting at $199.00 per month

About Spark Membership

Spark Membership is a club management software that assists martial arts schools with attendance, marketing, sales, billing and project management operations. The platform enables administrators to record contact information, payment history, ranks and follow-up details of members.

Managers can track new prospects, engage them via emails or text messages and set up reminders to follow-up on leads. Spark Membership allows teams to book slots for private lessons, reschedule missed appointments and assign classes to different staff members using mobile applications on Android or iOS devices. Additionally, operators can define attendance requirements for various rank levels, track inventory levels and process payments via credit cards or automated clearing houses (ACH).

Spark Membership lets businesses gain insights into sold and cancelled memberships, financial transactions and staff activity logs on a unified interface. Pricing is based on monthly subscriptions and support is extended via FAQs, video tutorials, knowledge base and chat.

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Spark Membership Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $199.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$199.00

flat rate, per month

No plan information available

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Spark Membership Features

Popular features found in Martial Arts
Attendance Management
Belt Ranking Classification
Class Scheduling
Electronic Payments
Event Management
Inventory Management
Member Communication
Recurring/Subscription Billing
Student Management
More features of Spark Membership
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
API
Appointment Management
Attendance Tracking
Automated Scheduling
Billing & Invoicing
Booking Management
Calendar Management
Class Management
Client Management
Client Portal
Contract/License Management
Credit Card Processing
CRM
Customer Accounts
Customer Database
Customizable Branding
Customizable Forms
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Email Management
Email Marketing
Email Reminders
Employee Management
Event Calendar
Event Scheduling
Facility Scheduling
For Martial Arts
Instructor Management
Lead Generation
Membership Management
Multi-Location
Online Booking
Online Registration
Payment Processing
Point of Sale (POS)
Real-Time Reporting
Registration Management
Reminders
Reporting & Statistics
Self Service Portal
SMS Messaging
Template Management
Transaction History
Website Integration

Spark Membership User Reviews

Overall Rating

5.0

Ratings Breakdown

100%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.9

Value for money

5.0

Customer support

5.0

Functionality

4.9

Jeremy T.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

Martial art software that evolves along with business trends

Spark has been a great support to our school. The customer service is friendly and provides you with tools that will allow you to report an issue clearly so they can better help get it resolved. They will take the time to walk you through the software, even after the onboarding session. The owner actually got to know who we were and what our goals were and with that information, he suggested what features we should take advantage of in order to help those goals. I have worked with several other software companies that provide the same type of software, but none of them have come close to the type of software and the customer service behind it, that Spark does.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

It is hard to pick out one single thing that I like 'most' about the software. If I have to pick one thing out, it is the fact that it is constantly evolving based on two factors, industry trends, and customer necessities. Spark software is always listening to what its customers need in order to keep them working forward. Unlike most software companies of the same type of product, which only quarterly or semi-annual upgrades, Spark makes new feature releases as soon as they are ready to make sure their customers get the needed tools for their success.

Cons:

The only thing is the initial start-up on the software. Because there are so many things it can do, it starts off a bit difficult to navigate to get to the things you want. This is why I HIGHLY recommend you take full advantage of their onboarding program. It's free and it will allow you to better know the software.

Reasons for switching to Spark Membership

More features that we could take advantage of, plus Spark integrates well with other 3rd party software that we use.

Scott D.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2021

Spark is powerful but easy to use

Spark helps keep us focused more on our classes and curriculum and less focused on collecting billing, missed payments, and constant repetitive communications. At the same time it allowed us to offer a better user experience when purchasing our products and services via Spark's checkout pages.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The automation features and flexibility is great. We have automation for leads but the true power is having them for different ranks. When a student is close to needed gear or weapons at a specific rank, we have Spark sent them an email introducing what they will need and a link to a checkout page to order it. Once this was set up, we stopped thinking about it.

Cons:

I'd wished the POS system and Checkout Pages were linked somehow. This is a minor issue and we have easily worked around it.

Reasons for switching to Spark Membership

I found Kicksite limiting and as a company more focused on being a 'simple' software package. That's great for schools that never had software before but I wanted to do more, specifically with automating repetitive communication we did every belt cycle. Spark allowed us to do that and more in communications, POS, checkout pages, etc.

Adam C.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Currently the best membership software

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ease of use and functionality makes Spark a no brainier.

Cons:

Can sometimes freeze and be buggy with payments. I wish had an event page builder.

Richard B.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2023

Awesome Software to Run Your Martial Arts School!

Excellent software. Highly recommended.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's very straightforward and easy to use. It has multiple features that are key to managing a martial arts school.

Cons:

Some of the automations have grammatical errors or are not written professionally.

Ross A.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

Single Best Investment in running my business

They go way above and beyond. Had nothing new been added over the last several years I would still be happy with the product, however they have added and continue to add new features faster than I can implement them, and the price hasn't increased.

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Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

The best thing about this software is the people who develop and run it. If I had to pick a single area that spark has excelled for me it is keeping the small things from slipping through the cracks while spending less time than I used to.

Cons:

It took me a while to figure out how to best use some of the features.

Reasons for choosing Spark Membership

It was a hard choice but spark seemed the better value and more importantly when I did the demo and talked with [SENSITIVE CONTENT] he came across as sincere and honest. And he has lived up to that initial reaction time and time again.

Reasons for switching to Spark Membership

Zen planners customer service was horrid, things only sort of worked about a year after I had switched over to Zen some of my automations quit working, 6 months latter I still had the same issue and there was no eta on when it would be fixed, they rolled out what was supposed to be a huge update and the only thing it had was an additional pronoun added to the name fields.

Lori W.

Verified reviewer

Sports

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

Outstanding product and Customer Service that beats all competitors

The customer service is fantastic! The team responds in minutes during business hours. When questions come up that need changes or assistance the team works to resolve in usually hours, and for more complicated requests several days. The support from [SENSITIVE CONTENT] with the various calls walking me through the set up process made setting up the account possible. I am able to track my business in one location, and also appreciate that new features and services are constantly being added.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software is pretty comprehensive and makes it easy to manage all aspects of my business. I like the ease of pulling reports, and immediate notification for new memberships, as well as the user friendly interface on the dashboard. In addition, the self help videos help address any questions immediately so there is no down time waiting on someone to help.

Cons:

As a non-traditional user. We are not a school, but are a membership organization, there are several features that we need that we have had to do "work arounds" for. Most have been addressed but there are a few opportunities left.

Reasons for choosing Spark Membership

Chose SPARK Membership because it offered the ability to have multiple memberships (with different end dates) for members, it has a comprehensive CRM program to manage income, members, etc.

Tom H.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

Best company ever!

THEY ARE AWESOME.They created software a martial artist can understand. I don't need to be a tech guru to figure it out!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

They helped me save time and money.I never used credit cards before for business.I started making money right away.

Cons:

The Phone app is the only thing that seems to have some isssues.

Reasons for choosing Spark Membership

I could tell the owners truly cared about me as a business owner.They even offered to help people for free.Giving manuals on instructor training and how to run a better business.

Reasons for switching to Spark Membership

They didn't understand a martial artist point of view. Just a software point of view.

Anna C.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Services

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2023

great tool for Martial arts program