Honest Comparison

Combat Control
vs
Clubworx

Australian club software for martial arts, fitness and dance studios, with payments through Ezidebit.

Clubworx is the software most Australian martial arts schools already know. It's Australian, it covers martial arts alongside fitness, yoga, pilates and dance, and it has a free plan for very small clubs. Combat Control is narrower on purpose: we only do BJJ, and we run payments through Stripe instead of Ezidebit. Both are Australian. Both work. The real differences are how deep each goes on jiu-jitsu, how members pay, and what you pay as you grow. Here's the honest read.

Where Clubworx Wins

  • ✓Free plan for clubs with up to 20 active members.
  • ✓Covers many disciplines in one tool: martial arts, fitness, yoga, pilates, dance and more. Useful if your school runs Muay Thai or kickboxing beside BJJ.
  • ✓Long-standing in the Australian martial arts market, so many owners and staff already know it.
  • ✓Retail point of sale on paid plans.
  • ✓A custom branded member app is available as an add-on.
  • ✓If your members already pay through Ezidebit, you can keep that set-up.

Where Combat Control Wins

  • ✓BJJ-native. Belts, stripes, time at belt and promotion readiness are built in, not configured from a generic grading system.
  • ✓Stripe instead of Ezidebit. Members pay by card or BECS direct debit on one platform, and money settles to your own Stripe account.
  • ✓Family billing built for jiu-jitsu: one bill, a plan per person, a sibling discount, and pause or cancel one child without touching the rest.
  • ✓Lifecycle automations across the member journey: trial conversion, at-risk re-engagement, win-back and failed payment follow-up.
  • ✓Member app included on every plan, in English, Portuguese and Spanish. No app add-on fee and no App Store download.
  • ✓Injury reports that pause the membership in Stripe and resume it on the return date.
  • ✓Cohort retention, gym health score and class heatmaps tuned for a BJJ timetable.

Feature by Feature

Feature Combat Control Clubworx
Belt & stripe tracking ✓ ✓
Grading events Clubworx: A$10/mo add-on on Accelerating ✗ ✓
Published AUD pricing ✓ ✓
Free plan Clubworx: up to 20 active members ✗ ✓
Multi-discipline support (Muay Thai, fitness, dance) BJJ-only by design ✗ ✓
Card + BECS direct debit on one platform CC: Stripe · Clubworx: Ezidebit ✓ ✓
Money settles to your own Stripe account ✓ ✗
Member app included Clubworx: app add-on from A$100/mo ✓ ✗
Self check-in kiosk ✓ ✓
Online class booking ✓ ✓
Embeddable trial and lead forms ✓ ✓
Lifecycle re-engagement automations Clubworx: advanced sequences on Established ✓ ✓
Retail point of sale ✗ ✓
Multi-gym / franchise dashboard Clubworx: multisite on Accelerating and up ✓ ✓

The Bottom Line

Run a club with several disciplines, or a very small club that fits the free plan, and happy on Ezidebit? Clubworx is a sound choice. Run a BJJ academy and want belts, family billing and retention built for jiu-jitsu, with card and direct debit on your own Stripe account? Combat Control is the better fit.

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Honest math, your numbers

Combat Control vs Clubworx: your numbers

Drag the sliders to match your gym. We show Combat Control's all-in monthly cost (SaaS + 2.5% platform fee + Stripe processing) next to your current platform's loaded equivalent.

Combat Control
per month, all-in
SaaS :
2.5% platform fee:
Stripe processing:
per month, all-in
Difference
25500
A$80A$400
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Combat Control: tier auto-selected by member count (Academy ≤75, Pro ≤200, Unlimited above). Application fee 2.5% on member payments via Stripe Connect. Stripe AU rates: 1.7% + A$0.30/txn on cards · 1% capped at A$3.50/txn on BECS direct debit.

Estimates only. Real costs depend on payment mix, FX, and tier. Run the numbers against your own statement before deciding.

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