Set up your school

This video walks you through setting up your school in QuickKicks. You don't have to do it all in one sitting. The checklist keeps track of what's done.

Setup lives under Admin. Click Admin, then Setup. The number beside it counts the required steps you've finished.

At the top, how many required steps are done. Continue setup always opens the next one.

Until setup is finished, this banner sits across the top of every page. Finish setup brings you back here.

Start with the setup questions. Your answers decide which steps you need, so the checklist only shows those.

There are six short sections. We'll answer the first one, Your school.

What do you teach? Martial arts. That sets the words QuickKicks uses everywhere: belts, students and disciplines.

Then which arts you teach. Summit teaches karate.

Next, how you teach. Summit runs group classes.

How many members you have. Summit isn't open yet.

How many locations. Just the one.

And who else signs in. For now, it's just the owner.

These answers matter. With more than one location, adding your locations becomes required. With a team, so does inviting them.

Click Save and continue. Each section saves on its own, so you can stop and come back.

Notice the new look. Martial arts schools get a matching theme. You can change it any time under Theme.

The other five cover the system you're leaving, what you need, payments, your website and timing. Moving from another system adds an import step. If you only take payment by hand, Stripe becomes optional.

Back on Setup, the Required list is in the order to do them. Each row opens the page where it's done.

Because you said you teach karate, Setup offers to add it for you, with a starter belt ladder. We'll go step by step instead.

One: Make it look like yours. It opens Appearance and branding. Upload your logo here, set the name your emails come from, and under Theme, change the look.

Two: Pick your styles. This is where you add each discipline you teach, such as karate. Every belt and class belongs to one, so this comes first.

Three: your belt ladder. Once you have a discipline, starter content can fill the ladder in one go. Video four covers belts in detail.

Four: Connect Stripe, so families can pay by card and the money reaches your bank. The button takes you to Stripe's own pages to set up your account. Do it before programs, so their prices are made on your account.

Five: Create your first program. Programs are the membership plans families sign up for, with their prices. There is a video on programs.

Six: Put a class on the schedule. Classes are what you take attendance in, and each belongs to a discipline. Click New class to add one.

Seven: Pick your sign-up gate. It decides how families join. Open lets anyone sign up. Review queue holds each family for you to approve. Invite-only hides the sign-up form. Even if Open suits you, click Save, so the step is ticked.

The optional steps can wait. Add your locations only if you run more than one site. Invite a teammate gives your front desk and instructors their own sign-in.

Publish a waiver, and families are asked to sign it after they sign up. Submit a test enrollment opens the sign-up form with test details filled in, so you can try it before families do.

Publish your website and Set up text messaging are here too.

Below that: your school details, like the time zone; the parent app's features; email notifications; and Product areas, to turn whole sections of QuickKicks on or off.

Want the banner gone? Hide the setup banner, or skip setup altogether. Setup stays here under Admin either way.

That's setup. Next, we'll build your belt ladder.