Mat Track – The Best Mindbody Alternative for Martial Arts Academies

Mat Track offers:

✅ 0% per-transaction fees
✅ Purpose-built BJJ/MMA attendance & trial workflows
✅ Multi-location tools that scale
✅ Family accounts + group billing
✅ Deep Stripe sync
✅ Predictive retention analytics

All in one streamlined platform.

1. Built for martial arts – not salons, yoga, or wellness

Mindbody’s entire architecture is built around appointment booking, class scheduling, and wellness/spa workflows.
Everything assumes:

• Clients book each class

• Sessions have limited capacity

• Staff manage individual appointments

• Customers rely on an app to reserve spots

Martial arts academies don’t work that way.

Mat Track is purpose-built for martial arts:

• No booking or reservation required

• Unlimited mat-based sessions

• Kids/teen attendance logic

• Family accounts with one payer

• Belt promotions & skill pathways

• Students training across BJJ, NoGi & Striking

• Trial-driven conversion flows

Mindbody can support martial arts… but Mat Track is designed around martial arts.

2. No forced class booking – check-in only

Mindbody forces a class-booking model because their ecosystem assumes “reserve your spot”.

For martial arts, this creates friction:

• Members forget to book

• Kids’ parents don’t want to book

• Walk-ins become messy

• FOH must fix bookings manually

• Attendance becomes inaccurate

Mat Track solves this cleanly:

• QR-code check-in

• Manual check-in (for kids/parents)

• No bookings — ever

• Full attendance history

• Heatmaps to see training frequency

• Alerts for attendance decline (churn prediction)

Your academy trains more smoothly when members just… show up.

3. Proper lead → trial → member conversion funnel (Mindbody doesn’t have one)

Mindbody does not have a native martial arts trial flow.
You can build one using:

• Class passes

• Intro offers

• Automations

• Add-ons

• Workarounds

But none of it reflects the actual BJJ/MMA trial process.

Mat Track handles the full flow natively:

• Location-specific trial signup pages

• Auto-generated QR codes for every trial

• Walk-in trials without booking

• Automated confirmation emails

• Track trial attendance

• “Trial completed” status

• Auto-trigger payment link for conversion

• Family trial signup bundles

If trials are your growth engine (and they are in martial arts), Mindbody makes it harder.
Mat Track makes it automatic.

4. Family billing + kids programmes are painful in Mindbody

Mindbody supports multiple clients but is built for adult individual users in gyms and spas.

For martial arts:

• One parent pays for multiple kids

• Kids train different schedules

• Parents need simple check-in

• Family trials should be grouped

• Billing needs to be unified

Mindbody requires complex configurations and still feels clunky.

Mat Track handles this seamlessly:

• One parent = one payer

• Multiple linked children

• Group check-ins

• Group trials

• Shared notifications

• Unified billing

Families are the backbone of martial arts.
Mat Track is built around them.

5. Multi-location martial arts networks need more than Mindbody offers

Mindbody does support multi-location studios — but it’s built for franchises & boutique fitness, not systems where students train across multiple academies.

Mat Track gives martial arts brands:

• Multiple Stripe accounts

• Multiple physical clubs

• Students training across locations

• Location-specific trial funnels

• Location-based analytics (leads, trials, attendance, retention)

• FOH permissions tied to specific academies

Mindbody wasn’t designed for BJJ networks growing from one dojo to five.
Mat Track was.

6. Staff workflows: Mindbody is owner-centric. Mat Track is team-centric

Mindbody assumes the owner/operator is driving the admin.

Mat Track assumes:

• Front-of-House staff

• Coaches

• Managers

• Multi-location teams

• Big kids programmes

• High walk-in volume

• Evening peak chaos

Mat Track FOH features:

• Quick check-in mode

• Payment/delinquency alerts

• Member “next steps” box

• Simple trial management

• Easy family check-ins

• Staff role restrictions

• Daily task visibility

Staff adoption is instant — which means fewer headaches for owners.

7. Mindbody is complex, heavy, and built for far broader use cases

Mindbody has:

• A massive feature set

• Partner integrations

• A large app ecosystem

• Marketing automation

• Guest passes

• Appointment calendars

• Spa features

It’s powerful…
… but also overbuilt for martial arts.

Most BJJ/MMA gyms use 10% of what Mindbody can do — and wrestle with the other 90%.

Mat Track stays laser-focused:

• Trials

• Attendance

• Billing

• Family accounts

• Multi-location

• Retention

• FOH efficiency

Nothing more. Nothing bloated.