Pricing

Simple, honest pricing

Start with a free month. Your price follows how many active students your dojo has, so a small dojo pays a small amount. Pick monthly or annual when it’s doing real work for you.

Up to 30 students
R 799R 666/ month

billed monthlybilled yearly — R 7 990/yr · 2 months free

The whole console for a growing dojo: students, billing, classes, gradings, messages.

  • Students, families & billing
  • Online payments through PayFast
  • Calendar, registers & tablet check-in
  • Gradings, events & pre-grading
  • Messages, roles & permissions

Family portal add-on: R 149/month

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31 to 100 students
R 1 199R 999/ month

billed monthlybilled yearly — R 11 990/yr · 2 months free

The same console for an established dojo.

  • Students, families & billing
  • Online payments through PayFast
  • Calendar, registers & tablet check-in
  • Gradings, events & pre-grading
  • Messages, roles & permissions

Family portal add-on: R 249/month

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101 to 250 students
R 1 699R 1 416/ month

billed monthlybilled yearly — R 16 990/yr · 2 months free

For large clubs and multi-class academies.

  • Students, families & billing
  • Online payments through PayFast
  • Calendar, registers & tablet check-in
  • Gradings, events & pre-grading
  • Messages, roles & permissions

Family portal add-on: R 349/month

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Over 250 students
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priced for your club

Large academies, several venues, or a federation. We set it up around how you run.

  • Everything in the other plans
  • Setup help and migration
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Add a managed website for R 899/month — recommended, so your site and back office are truly one system. A new website build is normally R 10 000 once-off; on a 12-month package it can be included at no charge, as in the October Dojo Special. If you leave early you pay back the unused part of that R 10 000. See the terms.

Questions

Pricing, answered

How do families pay their club?

Online, by card or instant EFT, through PayFast. The money goes straight into your club's own PayFast account, never through ours, and each payment is matched to the right invoice and receipted automatically. Families can still pay by EFT or cash, and you can record those by hand. You need your own PayFast merchant account, and we help you set it up.

How do I pay Substrate Studios?

By EFT for now. You get a quote with our bank details and a payment reference, pay it, and upload your proof of payment. We send your invoice once the payment is confirmed. Card and automatic monthly billing through PayFast is coming, and we will move you across with notice.

Is there a free trial?

Yes — every plan starts with a free month, no card required. Set everything up, and if it's not for you, walk away. When the month's up you choose a plan to carry on; either way, your data stays yours.

Monthly or annual?

Your choice at checkout — pay month to month, or commit for the year and get two months free. You pick what suits your cash flow.

How is the price worked out?

By how many active students your dojo has. Up to 30 students is R799 a month, 31 to 100 is R1,199, 101 to 250 is R1,699, and above that we quote. You are never charged for students who have left. Everything in the console is included in the band.

What is the family portal?

A login for every family: parents see their children's belts, attendance, classes and invoices, add photos and accept the indemnity, and get a clear heads-up when a child is behind on what a grading needs. It is a separate monthly add-on: R149 up to 30 students, R249 for 31 to 100, R349 for 101 to 250.

How does the website add-on work?

A managed website built and kept up to date by us, sharing the same system as your console — always current, at R 899 a month. A new website build is normally R 10 000 once-off; on a 12-month package we can include it at no charge, repaid pro rata if you leave early. We strongly recommend it: it makes the whole thing one system, front to back.