Boxing studio software for gyms and clubs

Manage class reservations, attendance, memberships, payments, and boxer progress for traditional clubs and fitness studios. MatGoat keeps the admin in one place so you can stay on the floor.

  • 30-day free trial
  • No credit card required
  • Set up in under 15 minutes

Used by a working Barcelona fight gym

Striking Center Barcelona runs its academy with MatGoat

Striking Center Barcelona is a combat-sports gym in Barcelona's Gràcia district, led by European kickboxing champion Vicente García. The club uses MatGoat for the administrative work behind its classes.

  • Barcelona, Spain
  • Combat sports
  • MatGoat customer

Striking Center BCN

Gràcia · Barcelona

A real combat-sports club serving recreational members and competitors.

The challenges of managing a boxing studio

The schedule, floor, and membership model create practical problems that generic booking tools can miss

Classes, bags, and capacity

A class can look open on paper and still run out of bags, ring space, or safe coach attention. Reservations need a capacity that reflects the session, not only the room.

Fighters and fitness members

Most boxing gyms serve recreational members alongside amateur and professional competitors. They attend different sessions, follow different plans, and need different records.

Cash and missed payments

Monthly fees collected in cash or by transfer leave gaps. Someone always forgets, and chasing payments between rounds takes time away from coaching.

Sparring pairing

Safe sparring depends on level, weight, experience, and coach approval. Those details need to remain visible when more than one coach runs the floor.

Progress without belts

Boxing has no standard belt system, but progress still needs structure. Technique, conditioning, and ring experience are difficult to transfer between coaches when they live only in memory.

Busy floor, no front desk

Most clubs have no receptionist. The coach runs warm-ups, holds pads, and watches the door at the same time, so member admin happens late at night or not at all.

What boxing studio software should actually do

A boxing studio or traditional fight club can run morning conditioning, bag classes, technical sessions, youth training, and sparring on the same day. The coach is often also the owner and administrator. When the tools are fragmented, class lists, attendance, payments, and member notes drift into separate spreadsheets and chat threads.

Online booking matters, but a reservation is only one part of the member record. The useful question is what happens after someone books: whether the class is within capacity, whether the member actually attended, which plan covers the visit, and whether a coach can see their experience before sparring.

MatGoat lets members pre-register before they arrive. Each class can have its own capacity based on available bags, floor space, or coach attention, and overlapping registrations are blocked. At the gym, kiosk check-in records who attended, so a reservation and a completed visit do not become the same event by default.

Attendance remains split by class type, which keeps technique, conditioning, youth, and sparring sessions distinct. Custom levels and fields add the details a boxing club needs, including competition weight, fight experience, sparring approval, or any structure the coaching team chooses.

On the Professional plan, payment management connects recurring plans, direct-debit collections, one-off charges, and drop-ins to the member record. The reports then show attendance patterns and club activity without another spreadsheet.

The sections below explain the workflow, public pricing, and the limits worth checking before you choose a platform. The pricing page lists every feature by plan, while the boxing software comparison examines MatGoat and five alternatives from their published product information.

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How MatGoat helps boxing gyms and studios

Class reservations, attendance, payments, and boxer development in one place

SOLUTION #1

Class reservations and check-in without a front desk

Members can pre-register before class, and parents can manage reservations for linked children. Set a capacity that matches the bags, floor space, or coaching coverage for each session. MatGoat blocks registrations when the class is full or overlaps another reservation, while kiosk mode records who actually arrives.

Reservations respect class capacity, while attendance records the completed visit.

SOLUTION #2

Payments and drop-ins in one record

Create recurring membership plans, collect by direct debit on the Professional plan, and record cash or transfer payments. You can also sell drop-in access and add one-off charges such as licenses or equipment. MatGoat adds no software commission to Professional payment collections.

Membership plans, collections, drop-ins, and one-off charges stay connected to member records.

SOLUTION #3

A level system you define

Boxing progress does not come with colored belts, so MatGoat lets you create your own levels and record each boxer's advancement through them. Use beginner to competitor, or a finer scale that matches your coaching program. Every promotion is dated, and a new coach can review the history instead of asking around the gym.

Custom levels from beginner to competitor
Promotion history with dates
Progress visible to each boxer in the app
SOLUTION #4

Technique videos for homework

Upload combinations, footwork drills, and defensive patterns to a private library organized by level. Fitness members can review fundamentals between classes, while competitors can study tactics and shared fight footage before a bout.

Members review drills and combinations from home, organized by level.

SOLUTION #5

Messages that reach everyone

Announce a schedule change, message the competition team about weigh-ins, or contact one member about a missed payment. Email and push notifications through the app replace the group chat that nobody reads to the end.

Academy-wide announcements
Messages for specific groups
Email and push notifications
SOLUTION #6

Statistics that show the whole club

The dashboard tracks attendance by class, month, and member. See which time slots deserve another class, how summer affects your numbers, and which members are at risk of leaving. Clubs rarely lose members loudly, and the statistics catch the quiet exits.

Attendance trends by class and member help you catch quiet exits early.

From spreadsheet to running club in a day

Four steps, no technical skills required.

1

Create your account

Start the 30-day free trial with your email address. No credit card is required during the trial.

2

Import your members

Upload your member list from a CSV file. Profiles hold contact details, levels, and any custom fields you need.

3

Set up classes and plans

Recreate your weekly schedule for technique, conditioning, sparring, and youth training. Set capacity for each class, then define membership and drop-in options.

4

Open reservations and check-in

Members pre-register before they arrive. At the gym, kiosk mode records attendance while you keep coaching.

Main features

Everything you need to manage your academy

MatGoat vs booking-first gym software

Different platforms suit different operating models. Use these questions to compare the details behind a booking page before you commit your member data and payment workflow.

MatGoat vs booking-first gym software
MatGoat What to confirm elsewhere
Class reservations Pre-registration, capacity limits, and overlap checks Capacity rules and automatic waitlist behavior
Attendance and check-in Kiosk plus attendance by class type Whether reservations and attendance remain separate events
Drop-ins One-time access tied to student and payment records Availability, limits, and fees by plan
Member progress Custom levels with dated promotion history Configurable stages, fields, and history
Boxer details Custom fields for weight class, record, and clearances Custom-field availability and limits
Registration consents Versioned required or optional consent text Waiver controls and parental-signature requirements
Payment pricing 0% MatGoat software commission on Professional Software fees, processor fees, and payout terms
Monthly price $40 to $60, listed publicly Public price or a written quote for your member count

For a sourced vendor shortlist, read the boxing gym software comparison. You can also see how MatGoat compares with Kombat Evolve, Zen Planner, and other alternatives.

Testimonials

What our academies say about MatGoat

What I value most is how easy it is. I'm not tech-savvy at all and in one day I had everything set up and running.

Julio César Alves

Julio César Alves

JC Fight Team

The video library is great for my students. They can review techniques at home and come to class much more prepared.

Mathias Ribeiro

Mathias Ribeiro

Mathias Ribeiro Team

I love being able to see my academy's statistics. I know exactly which classes are most popular and can make better decisions.

Javier Feliubadaló

Javier Feliubadaló

Circle Academy

Transparent pricing for your boxing club

Two public plans, both with kiosk mode. Professional adds payment management with 0% MatGoat software commission. Prices in US dollars.

Basic

For clubs with up to 50 members

$40 /month
  • Kiosk mode for member check-in
  • Attendance history by class type
  • Custom level tracking
  • Private video library for drills and tactics
  • Event calendar for fight nights and events
  • Messages to all members
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Professional

For growing clubs, with no member limit

$60 /month
  • Everything in the Basic plan
  • Unlimited members
  • Payment management by direct debit
  • 0% commission on collections
  • Priority chat support
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Frequently asked questions

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You create custom levels such as beginner, intermediate, advanced, and competitor, and record each boxer's progress through them. Promotions are dated, and private coach notes on each profile hold details about technique, sparring readiness, and fights. A new coach can read the history instead of starting from zero.

Yes. Add custom fields for walking weight, competition weight class, amateur or professional record, medical clearance dates, and anything else your club tracks. The fields appear on the member profile, so weigh-in season stops depending on a separate spreadsheet. When a boxer changes weight class, you simply update the field and the profile stays current.

Yes. MatGoat adapts to any type of boxing gym, from amateur clubs and youth programs to teams with professional fighters. Levels, class types, and custom fields are flexible enough to cover both, and fitness-only members fit alongside competitors in the same system. Clubs that run separate boxercise or fitness sessions track them as their own class type.

Yes. Create membership plans, collect recurring fees by direct debit on the Professional plan, and record cash or transfer payments. MatGoat adds 0% software commission to Professional collections. One-off charges such as licenses or equipment remain connected to the member profile.

Yes. Create separate schedules for technique classes, conditioning, sparring, youth programs, and competition team sessions. Set capacity for each class, accept pre-registration, and track completed attendance by class type.

Yes. Members can pre-register before class, and parents can manage reservations for linked children. MatGoat checks class capacity and blocks overlapping registrations. It does not currently place members on an automatic waitlist when a class fills, so the academy manages cancellations and exceptions directly.

Yes. Each scheduled class can have its own capacity. A bag-work class can use the number of available bags, while sparring or youth sessions can use a lower limit based on space and coaching coverage. Registration closes when the class reaches that limit.

Yes. Academies with payment management enabled can create drop-in access, connect it to a student record, and record the related payment. That keeps occasional visitors in the same attendance and payment workflow as members.

MatGoat can show required or optional consent text and store the accepted title, text, version, checksum, and date. The academy controls the wording. MatGoat does not currently provide a distinct parental e-signature workflow, so confirm whether your local rules require a separate signature process.

MatGoat costs $40 per month for clubs with up to 50 members and $60 per month for unlimited members. Both plans include kiosk mode and the video library. The Professional plan adds payment management with 0% MatGoat software commission. There are no setup fees or per-member charges, and the 30-day trial does not require a credit card.

Yes. The kiosk sits by the door and members check in by tapping their photo. It takes a second, and the coach sees the class list fill in real time. Most clubs run the whole system without a front desk, which is exactly how boxing gyms tend to operate.

Yes. Use levels and custom fields to mark sparring clearance, and review each member's class history before pairing them. Private coach notes hold reminders such as which boxers need more defensive work before hard rounds. Everything sits on the profile, visible to coaches only.

Export your member list to a CSV file and import it into MatGoat. Most clubs complete the initial setup in under 15 minutes. The team is available by WhatsApp and email during the move, and a video call is available if you want help setting up plans or classes. Your data stays yours, and you can export it again at any time.

Yes. Kids classes get their own schedule and attendance history, and parents link their children's profiles to one account to manage the family and receive announcements. When a youth boxer moves up to the senior program, the full training history moves with them.

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