The register
Opens only on a night that class actually runs, so it can never be given a register for a night you do not teach. Tap a name, they are in. Tap again to undo, and the money follows the correction.
無為 Effortless action
Teach.
The rest takes
care of itself.
Wu Wei is the club app for the instructor who runs their own classes, and the system an organisation rolls out to every instructor in it. It takes the register in two taps, prices the night as you go, and writes to a student at the moment that matters — so the admin happens while you are on the floor, not after it. One club or twenty, it is the same system: each instructor runs their own, and the organisation sees them all.
There is no self-serve signup, and there is not going to be one. Tell us who you are and what you teach; a person reads it and opens your account — you get a link, set your own password, and build your club from there. Nobody phones you.
上善若水
The highest excellence is like that of water.
Tao Te Ching · Chapter 8
Every register opens on a line, and each class draws its own from the classic you give it. A different one each day, for the few minutes before anyone arrives.
The commitment funnel
You set the number. It counts the visits.
A newcomer trains as a visitor for however many classes you allow, and then you ask them to join. Wu Wei counts attendance to get there — never a calendar month, never separately per art, so a student who trains twice a week arrives at the question twice as fast, which is right. Four is the default and it is a setting on your club, not a rule in the software.
Whose membership it is, is yours to decide. Some clubs run their own. Some are affiliated to an association and it is the association's, so a student who joined at another club walks into yours already a member. Plenty of good clubs have no association at all. Wu Wei records that somebody has joined and watches the date it runs out — it has no opinion about which of those you are, and joining is never a subscription to us.
It writes three letters and no others. Two of the moments below send one; the rest of the time it says nothing at all, which is the part most systems get wrong.
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Their first class
They arrive
Added at the door in the time it takes to say their name. Nothing for them to fill in, and no account for them to make.
Writes the welcome — in your club's name, from your address, saying what the club is and what a class costs.
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The ones in between
They keep coming
Each night is priced as they sign in, and what they owe is one figure on their record with a link they can pay it from.
Writes nothing, deliberately. Someone three classes in has not decided yet, and a reminder at that point reads as a sales pitch.
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The last one you allow
The ask
A deadline, not a gate. Nobody is turned away at the door by software — the register still opens, and what happens next is between you and them.
Writes the one that matters — an invitation to join, in your words. A lower class fee may come with it, and you can say so; it is simply not the only thing the letter has to offer.
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A year or two later
It runs out
Memberships lapse on a date, not on a visit — so nothing that counts classes can ever notice. This does, on the first night they train after it goes by.
Writes the renewal, once per lapse and once only. Never the newcomer's welcome — somebody five years in is not a newcomer. A date went by, that is all that happened.
What it does
Everything a club night actually needs.
The door
Turn the tablet round and students sign themselves in. It locks behind a PIN you choose — while it is locked there is no route back into the rest of your club, whatever anyone taps.
The money
You state your rates — member and visitor, single class and more than one — and the app reads them off the screen rather than working them out. The evening is the priced unit, so a student who trains twice in a night gets one bill, one reference and one code to pay it.
The letters
Three, and only three: welcome, time to join, time to renew. Each goes out in your club's name with your own address on the reply, so a student answers a person — and the words are yours, because an invitation to join something is not a sales email. They never see "Wu Wei": the product is yours to use, not to advertise.
The stock
Whatever you hand over on credit and settle later — suits, weapons, books, pads. What is on the shelf, who has what, and what is still owed for it, without keeping a second spreadsheet none of it agrees with.
The year
Your terms, your hall's real closures, the bank holidays already in. It works out every night you actually teach and prints the list, so students can plan a year the day term opens.
Before your next term starts.
If you are still taking the register on paper, an evening is enough to have this running by your first night back — your classes, your rates, your year. Tell us about your club and we will tell you what it costs; there is no price list to decode.