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How to Add Ranks and Custom Belt Graphics

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Ranks are your curriculum’s ladder. Kicksite draws each one as a belt graphic that appears on profiles, the check-in screen, and the Member Portal.

i Note: If your school belongs to an association that controls its rank structure, you may not be able to change these. Email support@kicksite.net and Support can help.

Where ranks live

Ranks belong to a program. Click Quick Links in the left panel, then Settings, then Program & Rank Settings, then click the program name.

From the program’s page you can:

  • Edit the program — kebab, then Edit.
  • Delete the program — kebab, then Delete. Only possible with no students attached.
  • Reorder ranks — drag the six-dot gripper.
  • Edit or delete a single rank — kebab on the rank row.
i Note: Order is promotion order. The rank at the top is lowest, the one at the bottom highest. Promoting moves a student to the next one down the list, so if your ranks are in the wrong order, promotions go to the wrong belt.

Adding ranks

Click Configure Ranks, then Add New Rank + at the bottom of the list.

  1. Title — “White Belt”, “Green Belt”, “1st Degree Black Belt”.
  2. Abbreviation (optional) — shown in tight spaces.
  3. Promotion Requirements (optional) — Days at Rank, Classes at Rank, and a Testing Fee. These can also be set in bulk from Testing Eligibility.
i Note: The testing fee goes on the rank the student currently holds, not the one they’re earning. $75 to test from Brown to Red means 75 on the Brown Belt row.

Building the belt graphic

Click the pencil icon on a rank.

  • Insignia 2 (optional) — a second marking, with its own color and quantity.
  • Color — the main belt color.
  • Color 2 (optional) — for a stripe down the middle or a two-tone belt.
  • Camo (optional) — camouflage pattern.
  • Insignia (optional) — a tip, star, or stripe at the end. Choose Vertical Stripe, I, X, Star, or V. Set its Color and Qty.
  • Vertical Stripe is what you want for a taped tip — it draws a thick band.

Add and copy belt ranks on the Configure Ranks page.

The fast way to build a striped series

Don’t build each stripe level from scratch.

  1. Create White Belt and get the colour right.
  2. Click the Copy icon.
  3. On the copy, change the title to White Belt – 1 Stripe and set Insignia Qty to 1.
  4. Copy again, change to 2 stripes, set Qty to 2.
  5. Repeat.

A ten-rank striped program takes a few minutes this way instead of an hour.

Ranks without belts

Not everything has a belt. Yoga, conditioning, and cardio kickboxing programs are legitimately rankless — leave the graphic blank, or set the program’s ranks to N/A when creating it. No graphic simply means no belt is drawn.

Saving

Click Save to save the ranks you’ve created.

Troubleshooting

The graphic isn’t showing. No colour was set. Open the rank and pick one.

Promotions go to the wrong belt. The ranks are in the wrong order. Drag them so the lowest rank is at the top of the list.

I can’t delete a rank. A student holds it. Find them by filtering the Student List to that rank and move them to a new belt first.

The belt doesn’t look like ours. Two colours plus two insignia is the limit. Approximate it and use the title to carry the detail.

Two ranks are called the same thing. Ranks are per program, so “White Belt” can exist in Karate and in Judo. Within one program, keep them distinct.

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