Spark Membership
Spark Membership combines CRM, membership management, billing, online booking, point of sale, email and SMS automation, landing pages, and task management fo…
What Spark Membership is
Spark Membership combines CRM, membership management, billing, online booking, point of sale, email and SMS automation, landing pages, and task management for local membership businesses. Its stated audiences include martial arts, dance, gymnastics, yoga, CrossFit, and kickboxing organizations. The CRM stores student profiles, belt history, family accounts, attendance trends, and trial pipelines. Spark Payments handles billing, checkout, and reporting, while Spark SMS supports two-way texts for lead replies, class reminders, and rescheduling. Automated email and SMS campaigns support lead generation and sales. The $199 a month plan includes CRM, online booking and scheduling, payments and attendance, email and SMS automation, and a member mobile app. The app is available for iPhone, iPad, Android phones, and Android tablets; owners manage payments, schedules, and communication, while members book, pay, check in, message staff, and view profiles. Multi-location use is included, and every account receives a dedicated setup representative.
Good
- Combines CRM, booking, billing, and marketing
- Two-way SMS messaging
- Member app included with subscription
- Supports multiple locations
- Digital waivers available
Watch out
- No free plan
- Costs $199 a month
- Fully white-labeled app costs extra
- Other direct integrations require confirmation
Who it suits
Spark Membership suits local membership businesses running classes, recurring payments, and member communications. It is specifically positioned for martial arts, dance, gymnastics, yoga, CrossFit, and kickboxing organizations.
Verdict
Spark Membership brings operational, payment, scheduling, and communication tools together for class-based membership businesses. Its included mobile app and multi-location support extend management to owners and members, while full white labeling costs extra.
Plans and prices
From Spark Membership's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Ignite trial | $1, paid once | trial offer for Ignite · first 30 days |
| Ignite Membership | $199 a month | first location $199/month · additional locations $49.75/month · monthly |
| Spark Membership | $199 a month | all features included · no usage caps · free student data migration · monthly after an 8-week free trial |
| Spark Membership | $249 a month | optional SMS credits and merchant fees · Spark Ignite add-on available · monthly |
| Ignite Plus Bundle | $399 a month | includes Ignite My Rank · Ignite My Presence · IntroBoost AI · monthly |
The facts
Each one read from Spark Membership's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API documentation
- GetApp lists an API feature but shows zero user ratings for it; the public Help Center pages reviewed do not provide API or SDK documentation.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Attendance
- The system supports online scheduling, attendance tracking, class rosters and kiosk check-in.checked 15 Oct 2026
- CRM
- The CRM stores student profiles, belt history, family accounts and attendance trends.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Customer count
- Spark says more than 2,000 local member-based businesses use the platform worldwide.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The Help Center provides setup and troubleshooting articles covering payments, attendance, kiosks, integrations and member apps.checked 15 Oct 2026
- External merchants
- Using another payment processor requires manually recording payments and disables Spark checkout pages, auto-charge and POS payment processing.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The Help Center documents website integrations for Squarespace and Relentless/Go High Level.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Intended businesses
- The site says Spark serves martial arts schools, dance studios, gymnastics schools, yoga studios, CrossFit gyms, and kickboxing gyms.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Lead automation
- Landing pages and funnels capture leads and trigger automated email and SMS follow-up.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: bugs
- Reviewers report occasional freezing and payment bugs, plus grammatical errors in some automations.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: learning curve
- A reviewer says the large number of functions makes initial navigation difficult and recommends using onboarding.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Marketing
- The platform offers automated marketing campaigns through email and SMS to generate leads and sales.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Messaging
- Spark SMS supports two-way texting, including lead replies, class reminders, and rescheduling messages.checked 5 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- App capabilities
- Owners can manage payments, schedules, and member communication in the app, while members can book classes, pay, check in, message staff, and view their profiles.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Limit: mobile app
- App Store reviewers report unexpected sign-outs, password-reset failures, slow or nonresponsive behavior and uncertainty about stored card data.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Member app
- The free member app supports event registration, program enrollment, messaging, curriculum, payment/rank/attendance history, referrals and class scheduling.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Mobile app
- The Spark Member App is available for iPhone, iPad, Android phones, and Android tablets, and is included with a Spark subscription.checked 5 Oct 2026
Money
- Billing
- Spark Payments handles billing, checkout and reporting inside the platform.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Nochecked 21 Sep 2026
The company
- Company facts
- LinkedIn lists Spark Membership as privately held, founded in 2017, headquartered in Miami, Florida, with 51–200 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company history
- The about page says Ron Sell and Cheong Park teamed up in 2017, and that Spark launched in 2019.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Crunchbase lists the legal name as Spark Membership LLC.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2017checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Miami Beach, Florida, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
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