What Wodify is good at
Wodify grew up with CrossFit — workout programming, leaderboards, performance tracking — and it does that better than we ever will, because we do not do it at all. Its customer wall mixes CrossFit affiliates with well-known grappling names, and it markets a martial arts product with belt and rank tracking, family memberships, digital waivers and a content library.
So if you are weighing Wodify against Mat+, you are not choosing between a martial arts system and a fitness system. You are choosing between a platform that serves several kinds of fitness business, martial arts among them, and one that serves exactly one art and nothing else.
That choice is worth making deliberately. Breadth is a feature when you run more than one thing under your roof. It is a cost when you run one thing and every default has to be bent to fit it.
“From easier belt tracking and digital waivers to membership management, Wodify's martial arts software helps take your business to the next level.”
The difference
What a Jiu-Jitsu academy needs that a fitness business does not.
One art, not one vertical
Mat+ ships knowing what a stripe is, how adult and youth belt tracks differ, that a student who trained as a kid does not restart at white, and that a graduation is an event with a date and a professor's name on it. Nothing has to be configured into existence first, because there is no other discipline to stay compatible with.
Readiness you can defend, not just a rank field
Mat+ builds a promotion picture from time at the current belt, mat attendance across that belt run, and how much of your curriculum the student has actually covered. When you decide to hold someone back, the reasons are on the screen in front of both of you.
Curriculum coverage, not a video shelf
A content library is a place to put videos. Mat+ maps your syllabus to positions, records what has been taught in class, and tracks each student's progress through it, so when you open a belt group's graduation list every student's curriculum coverage is already on it — before graduation week, not after somebody freezes in a position they have never drilled.
Built for the Australian side of the desk
Prices in Australian dollars, payments through Stripe Australia with a receipt for every charge, and support in your timezone from people who train. Mat+ was built in an academy here, and the billing was written for how Australian schools charge — weekly and fortnightly cycles included, family accounts and pauses handled properly.
Be honest about which one you are.
Software you resent is worse than software you outgrow. Two short lists — read the one that sounds like your week.
Choose a multi-discipline platform if
- You run CrossFit, strength or conditioning alongside the mats
- Workout programming and performance leaderboards matter to your members
- You have several business lines that must share one member database
- Martial arts is one programme in a broader fitness offering
Choose Mat+ if
- Jiu-Jitsu is the whole business, not a programme within it
- You want belt tracks, stripes and graduations right out of the box
- Your curriculum is something you teach from, not something you upload
- You are billing Australian families in Australian dollars
Straight answers.
Wodify already tracks belts. Why would I move?
Only for depth. Rank tracking is one field; a promotion decision is time at belt, mat hours, curriculum coverage and your judgement, put in one place. If the rank field is all you need, you do not need us.
Do you handle workout programming?
No. There is no WOD board, no barbell leaderboard and no strength cycle programming in Mat+. If half your revenue depends on that, stay where it works.
What happens to my kids programme?
Guardians hold the account, sign the waivers and pay one bill; each child keeps their own belt history, attendance and progress. Classes can be limited by age so a nine-year-old cannot end up in the adults' competition class.
Two good systems, two different bets. Theirs is that your academy is one of several kinds of fitness business. Ours is that it is a Jiu-Jitsu academy, and that everything — the defaults, the language, the billing, the graduation list — should assume it.
