Add disciplines & venues

Disciplines and venues are the foundation of your club in Omoplata. Plans, classes, schedules, and graduations all build on them -- so you set these two up right at the start, immediately after configuring your club. This guide walks you through both.

Why these steps come first

Before you schedule classes or invite members, Omoplata needs to know what your club offers and where training happens:

• Disciplines describe the martial arts you teach -- for example Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, or Judo. Every class is assigned to a discipline, and graduations (belts and promotions) hang off the discipline too.
• Venues are your physical training locations. Classes are assigned to venues, and the timetable can be filtered by venue.

Setting these two up first means they are ready to pick from when you create plans and classes later.

Step 1: Add your disciplines

Navigate to Settings > Disciplines in the sidebar. This is where you manage every martial art your club offers.

1. Click the Create new discipline button in the top right.
2. Enter the discipline name (for example "Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu", "Muay Thai", or "Kickboxing").
3. Use the Graduations toggle to decide whether this discipline manages belts and promotions. Leave it on if your discipline uses a belt or grading system -- you will define the exact belt levels later in the graduation settings. Turn it off for disciplines that have no graduations.
4. Save the discipline.
5. Repeat for every other discipline you teach.

Once a discipline is created, its summary card shows how many classes are assigned to it. Until you have created any classes, it simply notes that no classes are assigned yet -- which is completely normal at this stage.

Step 2: Add your venues

Switch to Settings > Venues. Add each physical location where your club trains.

1. Click the button in the top right to create a new venue.
2. Enter the venue name (for example "Main Academy", "Downtown Annex", or "Outdoor Area").
3. Fill in the address -- street, postal code, and city.
4. Save the venue.
5. Repeat for each additional training location.

Each venue automatically gets an initial facility -- named "Main facility" by default. A facility is a training surface within a venue, such as a mat, a ring, or a hall.

Step 3: Manage facilities per venue

On the venue overview, you can adjust the facilities of each venue. Facilities are useful when a single location has more than one training surface in use at the same time.

1. Find the card for the venue you want to edit.
2. Hover over a facility and click the pencil icon to rename it -- for example "Mat 1", "Mat 2", or "Boxing ring".
3. Click Add facility to give the venue another training surface.
4. Use the trash icon to remove a facility. The last remaining facility of a venue cannot be deleted -- every venue needs at least one.

When you create classes later, you can assign them to a specific facility, keeping parallel classes at the same venue cleanly separated.

Step 4: Set the venue restriction (optional)

Once your club has two or more venues, a Member venue restriction setting appears at the top of the venues page. It controls whether members are limited to specific venues.

Choose one of the three options:

Your choice is saved immediately. When you enable a restriction, members only see the classes and schedules for the venues assigned to them.

What to do next

With your disciplines and venues in place, the foundation is set. Now you can build on top of it:

• Set up plans and pricing -- create the membership plans your members will sign up for.
• Set up classes -- assign your classes to the disciplines and venues you just created.
• Invite your team -- create accounts for your trainers and staff and assign the right roles.