Welcome to Dojo Tiger

Dojo Tiger is the software that runs the business side of a martial arts studio: who is enrolled, who turned up, who has been promoted, and — if you want it to — who has paid. It is built for the person who owns or manages the studio, not for an IT department, and everything in it is meant to be done between classes on whatever device is on the front desk.

What it actually does

Six jobs, roughly in the order a studio needs them:

• Bring people in. A public registration page and a QR code for the lobby, a simple lead pipeline for enquiries that aren't ready yet, and trial bookings that drop a prospect into a real class on a real date.
• Hold the roster. Students, their guardians, and the enrollments that link a student to a program. Waivers get signed during registration and are kept with the record.
• Run the classes. A weekly schedule, an attendance sheet per session, and a tablet kiosk students can check themselves in on.
• Track progress. A belt rank ladder per program, single and bulk promotions, and a history that stays with the student.
• Handle money. Optional. Connect Stripe and you can charge a card at the desk, take payments online, and bill tuition monthly. Leave it switched off and the app never mentions payments at all.
• Tell you how it's going. A dashboard of the things that need attention today, plus financial and membership reports.

Families get their own view of the same data — schedule, events, announcements, videos and payments — so the front desk answers fewer questions.

The five nouns

Almost every confusion about Dojo Tiger comes from these five words meaning something specific:

The one worth reading twice: a registration is not a student, and a student is not an enrollment. A registration is the form a family filled in; it sits in a worklist until staff turn it into a student. A student can exist without being enrolled in anything.

A day using Dojo Tiger

Nothing here takes long, and most days you'll only do two or three of them:

1. Open the dashboard. It shows new registrations, leads that have gone quiet, trials booked, today's classes and current enrollment numbers.
2. Work through anything new — approve a registration into an enrollment, follow up a lead, confirm a trial.
3. Classes run. Students check themselves in at the kiosk, or an instructor marks the roster on the attendance sheet.
4. Anything exceptional — a promotion, a refund, a new family added by hand — is done as it comes up.

How to read this manual

The sections in the list are ordered the way a new studio needs them, so reading from the top and doing what each article says will get you from an empty account to a running studio. The Next link at the foot of every article follows that order. Once you're set up, it works fine as a reference — every article is a single task, and the search box matches on titles and summaries.

Most of it is written for the people who run the studio — Owner and Admin — but instructors and families are welcome to read it, and where a screen is only visible to one role, the article says so.

Three conventions used throughout:

• A path like Classes then →Programs means the group and item in the left-hand sidebar of the app.
• A named screen or panel is written like Payment history, so you know you're looking for a heading rather than a button.
• Anything that costs money, moves money, or can't be undone is called out explicitly rather than left to be discovered:

This manual is public and doesn't require signing in, so you can open it on your phone mid-setup, or send a link to a member of staff who doesn't have an account yet.

Last reviewed 2 August 2026