Empower your club with revenue predictability and payment flexibility thanks to Uplifter’s new auto-renew fees. Using auto-renew fees, your club can easily create a new class and charge your members a monthly fee to stay enrolled.
Just like our other feature enhancements, our auto-renew fees come with built-in time-saving features that can help streamline operations for your club.
Let’s look at some business use-cases to understand how powerful this new tool is.
One monthly fee for different classes
What happens if your club or school wants to offer a class multiple times per week, but one of your weekly classes is shorter than the rest?
Using Uplifter’s auto-renew fees, you can easily set per class pricing and bundle it into one monthly fee. This means your club won’t be locked into generic time blocks. Instead, you can maximize your schedule and availability to serve your members best.
Plus, your administrators won’t have to perform any tedious manual calculations or adjustments based on how many classes are offered each month. Whether you’re offering classes during a month with 31 days or 28, you can be confident Uplifter will automatically adjust charges to reflect the exact classes offered each month.
Unlimited monthly classes
At Uplifter we also understand that not every business wants to charge exact billing for their classes.
What if you want to offer your members unlimited classes for a flat monthly fee?
Using our auto-renew fees, charging a flat monthly fee is easy and comes with some added flexibility.
Let’s say you run a yoga studio and you want to offer unlimited classes for a flat monthly fee. Using Uplifter’s auto-renew features, you can create options for members to enroll in an unlimited class membership for various intervals, like 3 months, 6 months or ongoing.
If a member chooses to enroll for a limited interval like 6 months, Uplifter will automatically stop billing them once their term is up and reopen their spot in your class so that new members can enroll.
Just like our other automated features, there’s no need for an administrator to intervene. With our automated registration, the spot that comes available after 6 months can easily be filled from your automated waitlist or through a brand new registration on your Uplifter site.
Added flexibility during lockdowns
During uncertain times, when health and safety protocols may require you to reduce class sizes or temporarily shut down your club, auto-renewing fees give you more flexibility.
If your club is required to temporarily shutdown, you can easily delay your next monthly charge and set it to resume charging at a later date. In this way, your administrators can eliminate having to reverse charges or issue mass refunds to your members.
Furthermore, during uncertain times your members are less likely to want to commit to paying a full-season of fees upfront. By using our auto-renew fees, members will feel more comfortable committing to a shorter timeframe.
Lastly, these auto-renew fees also help your club establish a sense of predictable revenue and financial health.
Instead of collecting full-season fees and being uncertain about how much revenue you can spend to cover expenses, recurring monthly revenue provides a crystal clear picture.
Auto-renew fees with built-in intelligence
Uplifter’s auto-renew fees come with built-in intelligence to save time for your administrators so they can spend their efforts generating new revenue.
Some of these additional built-in intelligence features include the following.
Automated prorating
With Uplifter’s software, your club, school or academy no longer needs to rely on limited registration times. With our automated prorating calculations, you can accept registration any day of the week, any time of day.
If a new member registers partway through the month or season, our system will automatically prorate fees so that they only pay for the classes they’re going to take.
Automated holiday skips
Uplifter automatically excludes holidays from your monthly programming by default. This means administrators won’t need to comb through your class schedules and manually block-out holidays from regular programming.
More importantly, it means you don’t have to worry about your gym accidentally charging for a class when your facility is closed!
Plus, you can easily add additional skip days to your schedule at any time.
Family account tracking
Eliminate unnecessary phone calls from members who want to review their billing. Members will find their complete billing history (including auto-renew fees) directly in their family account.
In their family account, they’ll also see all of the auto-renew fees they’ve signed up for and when their next fee is going to be charged.
Easy membership holds
As we alluded to above, it’s easy to delay billing for your members. This doesn’t just come in handy during health and safety lockdowns. It’s also useful in case of injuries, family vacations or planned absences.
Using our auto-renew fees you can easily put a membership on hold and set a specific date to resume regular billing.
Have questions about auto-renew fees?
Uplifter supports a huge variety of business models and pricing structures with our robust and flexible software. Do you want to experiment with auto-renew fees? Or do you have questions about how you can implement this new feature?
Contact us today! We’re always happy to learn more about your business and help you find the right solution.
