Mitch‑Dojo

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Introduction ​

What is Mitch‑Dojo? ​

Mitch‑Dojo is a lightweight, self-hosted dojo management solution for martial arts schools. It keeps your students, locations, classes, attendance, belt progressions, memberships, and communication in one place — with QR check-in at the door, automatic belt-eligibility tracking, reminder emails, a trial pipeline, and a read-only member portal for your students.

Designed with simplicity at its core, Mitch‑Dojo favours fewer, well-connected screens over sprawling configuration. Everything — branding, SMTP, storage backends, roles, retention, and the rest — is managed through an intuitive in-app Admin area. No YAML config files, no Kubernetes manifests, no professional services engagement.

Deploy via Docker Compose behind a reverse proxy and you're running in minutes. Two deployment modes share one database schema: a classic app + PostgreSQL stack for production, or a single container with an embedded PostgreSQL (PGlite) for a Raspberry Pi or a small VPS.

White-label by default ​

Mitch‑Dojo is built to look like your school, not like the software vendor. Your organization name, logos, colours, layout, booking copy, email identity, and PDF headers are runtime settings in the Admin area — no theme files to edit and no rebuild.

  • Name and logo — set your school name under General and your light/dark logos under Appearance. They appear on the booking page, member portal, check-in screens, login screens, staff UI, emails, and generated PDFs.
  • Colours and layout — choose primary/secondary colours, corner radius, and content width for the staff UI. Brand colours apply to the light theme; dark mode keeps its contrast-tuned palette.
  • Emails — set the From name/address under Email, choose the email logo under Appearance, and write the subject/body copy under Templates.
  • Your words — replace the public booking headline and description; authored templates, agreement documents, and names stay exactly as written.
  • Your domain — point a custom domain at the deployment and set APP_URL; TLS and host routing are handled by your reverse proxy.

This is controlled white-labeling, not arbitrary CSS/HTML injection. The source repository and documentation remain Mitch‑Dojo, and the AGPL-3.0 license still applies.

Why Mitch‑Dojo exists ​

Dojo management is a real operational problem — but a small one. Commercial platforms like Zen Planner, Kicksite, and Clubworx sell subscriptions per member, lock your data behind their dashboards, and carry feature sets aimed at multi-location fitness franchises.

Mitch‑Dojo strips it back to what a single school actually needs: know who is training, when, and how far they have progressed. Record attendance, track belts, bill memberships, remind people about class, and give families a portal to check progress and balance. Your data stays in your database, exportable to CSV at any time, under an open-source license with no per-member fees.

It is built to be managed by the instructor or office manager — not an IT department. If you can run a spreadsheet, you can run Mitch‑Dojo.

What Mitch‑Dojo is not ​

Mitch‑Dojo does not aim to replace franchise-scale platforms. It is deliberately single-dojo (multi-location, one tenant), records payments manually rather than processing them (gateways are a later phase), and skips the extras that sound good in demos but never get used — SMS marketing, funnel builders, POS storefronts, native mobile apps.

It is open-source (AGPL-3.0), self-hosted, and yours. If that sounds like your reality, you are in the right place.

Open-source, self-hosted dojo management software.