Douvris Martial Arts
martial arts dojo (multi-location) · Ottawa, Eastern Ontario
Congrats on 40+ years and 10 dojos across Ottawa-Gatineau - curious how instructors at each location currently track attendance and belt testing without a shared system?
Why they need it
Douvris runs 10 dojos across Ottawa-Gatineau with 100+ black-belt instructors, and each location is described as independently owned by a former student - a structure ripe for fragmented, per-location spreadsheets or paper attendance and belt-testing tracking, since the public site shows no unified member system. A multi-location ops platform with a parent/student mobile app would let each dojo owner take attendance and log belt progress in seconds, give parents live class schedules and absence make-up booking, and automate tuition billing and renewal reminders across all 10 sites. Head office would get a real-time dashboard of enrollment, retention, and revenue per dojo instead of chasing individual owners for numbers. This cuts admin hours per location and reduces billing errors and member churn from manual re-enrollment - a strong pitch given the org's scale and 40-year track record.
Tech gaps
No visible unified cross-location member portal, no online class-capacity booking shown on-site, no mobile app for parents/students, and no evidence of a shared belt-progress or billing system across the 10 individually-run dojos.
Current tech
WordPress-style marketing site (built by 982studios) with an online sign-up/registration link; no named member-management or scheduling platform visible across the 10 dojos.
Selling a portal + ops tool
PlaybookA customer-facing portal and the internal tool behind it, built together so the data is entered once.
- Lead with whichever side hurts more today; the other side is phase two.
- One data model means the customer sees exactly what the office sees.
Objections (1)
- “That is a big project.”
- It is two small ones in a row. You see the first working before you commit to the second.