Why Martial Arts Gyms Are Switching from PushPress to Roll Payments
One flat price. Everything a martial arts academy needs already built in.
Roll Payments and PushPress both run gym operations. The difference shows up the moment a gym actually needs CRM, a real website, and someone chasing down a bounced card. That’s where the bill, and the workload, start to diverge.
You don’t want a CrossFitter pretending to be a black belt.
PushPress lists its own audience in this order: CrossFit boxes, martial arts academies, strength gyms, boutique studios. Martial arts is one of four verticals it tries to serve at once, bolted onto a platform built for box WODs and barbell classes.
Roll Payments was built for the mat from day one. No retrofitting a CrossFit leaderboard into a stripe and belt system. No guessing how a martial arts academy actually runs its classes, its promotions, or its members.
Built exclusively for martial arts academies. Every feature exists because a BJJ or martial arts gym needed it.
Built for independent gyms broadly, CrossFit boxes first, martial arts academies as one of several verticals served.
What’s actually in the price
| Feature | Roll Payments | PushPress |
|---|---|---|
| CRMLead and member relationship tracking | ✓ | ✕ Sold separately as Grow, $329/mo |
| Membership Management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fully Custom WebsiteHosted, built for the gym | ✓ | ✕ |
| Billing ManagementActive recovery on failed or bounced payments, kept-current card info | ✓ | ✕ |
| Waiver Storage | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dual Pricing Payment ProcessingNo cost credit card processing for the gym | ✓ | ✕ 2.75% to 4.99% + $0.30 charged to the gym |
| Contract Terms | Month to month | Month to month |
| Built for Martial Arts | Purpose built | One of several gym types served |
Billing management, actually done
We chase the bounced payment. You don’t have to.
Most gym software processes a payment and stops there. If a card expires or a charge fails, that’s the gym owner’s problem to track down, follow up on, and hope the member responds to.
Roll Payments handles this as a built-in service, not an afterthought. When a payment bounces, we chase it down: reaching out to update card information, retrying the charge, and keeping membership status current automatically. No collections email templates. No spreadsheet of “who still owes us money.”
PushPress and the rest of the martial arts payment processing field don’t offer this at all. It’s one of the clearest reasons a Jiu Jitsu gym management software comparison should never come down to price alone.
Everything Roll Payments does here runs on the same platform
Dual pricing payment processing keeps card fees off your P&L, while a managed billing team handles the follow-up that PushPress leaves to you. It’s not two add-ons bolted onto core software. It’s one system.