Switching from Clubworx
Clubworx is the Australian incumbent, and it does a lot. It also charges per module: the member app and grading both sit outside the base plan, so the number you signed up for isn't the number you pay.
grappl.club is built for jiu-jitsu specifically, by a Melbourne BJJ gym, and everything we've built is in the one price. We're also a much smaller product — this page says exactly where that shows.
Clubworx figures are its published Australian list pricing as at September 2026; check clubworx.com for current numbers before you decide. We haven't published a price list yet — we're onboarding gyms one at a time and quote directly.
| Clubworx | grappl.club | |
|---|---|---|
| Base plan | A$109 / A$149 / A$169 per month by tier | One flat monthly price, every feature included |
| Member app | +A$100 per month | No member app at all yet — see the gaps below |
| Grading | +A$10 per month | Belts, stripes, promotion history and the who's-due list, included |
| Cut of member payments | No platform percentage published; direct debit runs through Ezidebit, whose dishonour fees are charged to the member | None — we don't touch your members' payments at all, because we don't process them yet |
| Contract | Month to month | Month to month |
Attach the techniques you're teaching to each class on the schedule, then open any student and see which of them they've actually been in the room for. Clubworx has no equivalent — and neither does anyone else we've looked at.
Adult and kids belt ladders with stripes, dated promotion history per student, and a list that ranks your roster by who's closest to their next stripe or belt — measured on mat time and time in grade against thresholds you set per belt. Clubworx's grading module is a paid add-on and counts sessions rather than modelling stripes properly.
Class kinds are gi, no-gi, open mat, kids and competition team, because that's the vocabulary of an academy. Clubworx is a generalist fitness product that a BJJ gym has to bend into shape.
Upload a CSV, map the columns and import — we read a Clubworx member export without you touching the mapping. Getting out is a button too: a zip of your students, attendance, promotions and signed waivers, free, from the settings page. Clubworx assists with both ends. The honest limit on the way in is that a student arrives at their current rank dated to their join date, not with a full promotion history, and parent or guardian columns are skipped rather than guessed at.
Define the statuses your gym actually uses and keep coach notes against a student's profile. Both are in the base product.
There's no tier where the app appears, no surcharge for grading, and no percentage of your members' payments. What you see is the whole bill.
Tap your name on the iPad at the door. Both products have a kiosk; ours is the surface the whole product is designed around, and it's how our own gym runs.
The honest part
We're a small product built by one Melbourne jiu-jitsu gym. These are real gaps today, not features hidden behind a sales call. If one of them is how your gym runs, don't switch yet.
Clubworx does recurring billing with Ezidebit. We do none — no direct debit, no invoices, no payment tracking. You'd keep collecting money however you do now. This is the biggest thing we're missing and it's the next thing we're building.
Clubworx sells one for +A$100 a month. We don't have one at any price. Your members' only touchpoint with grappl.club today is the kiosk at the door.
Clubworx has lead management and messaging. We have a trial pipeline and can email your members from the admin — an announcement, or an automatic notice to a class's regulars when you cancel it. What we don't have is anything that fires on its own, and no SMS at any price. Follow-up is still something you remember to do.
Clubworx ships dozens of report templates. We show dashboard counts, who's drifting, who's due for a promotion, a per-student attendance heatmap, on-time rate and techniques seen — all mat-side, and no revenue reporting at all. Useful, but not a reporting suite.
Anyone you give a login to sees everything. There's no coach-level account with reduced permissions.
Members don't book in. The timetable exists so you can run the room and record who turned up, not to cap a class.
If you're paying for Clubworx's app and grading add-ons, want lesson plans on your timetable, and you're happy to keep taking payments the way you do now, we're worth a conversation.
If member billing through the software is the reason you bought Clubworx in the first place, stay where you are — we'll tell you when that ships rather than sell you a plan.
Leave your email and we'll walk you through the product honestly, including the parts of this page that are still true.