Rank tracking and promotions

Rank tracking adds belts to Shindo: each member gets a rank, Shindo counts their classes since their last promotion, and you promote them with one tap. A new gym starts with it on. If yours is off, turn it on in Settings. It's free.

Turn it on

1. Open Settings and find Rank Tracking.
2. Tap the switch. The card now says Rank Tracking is active. Rank Tracking appears in the menu once you open another page.

Turning it off asks Disable Rank Tracking? first. Belts and promotions are hidden, not deleted.

Set up your belts

1. Open Rank Tracking from the menu.
2. Under Rank System, tap Generate Default Ranks for White, Yellow, Orange, Green, Blue, Purple, Brown and Black. The button shows only while you have no ranks.
3. To add your own, type a Rank Name, pick a colour from the dot beside it, and tap Add.
4. On a computer, drag ranks into order, lowest first. Use Edit to rename one and Del to remove one.

Set how many classes come before a test

Under Promotion Settings, type a number in Threshold (classes) and tap Save. It starts at 40.

Promote a member

1. On Members, the Promote column shows how many classes each active member still needs (to go), or a Promote button once they've reached the threshold.
2. Tap Promote, there or on the member's page. The member moves up one rank (a member with no rank gets your first one), and their class count starts again from zero.

The Promote button on a member's page works whether or not they've reached the threshold. A member on the top rank can't go further: Shindo says Already at the highest rank.

Set a rank by hand

On the member's page tap Edit, choose a Rank and tap Save Changes. Use this to enter belts for students who join you already ranked.

What it doesn't do

• Promoting doesn't email the member or record a test result: it changes the rank and the Last Promotion date.
• There are no stripes or other steps within a rank.

Related: A member's page, Take attendance yourself.