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If you have a small gym with under 500 members you can handle the eft drafting yourself, all you need to do is go to the bank and tell them you want to set up a EFT account to do gym membership drafts.

Be sure to ask about ease of use and security of the online banking system, and fees they charge for ech batch and non-sufficient funds returns.

The bank will require several things however. You have to have good credit and most of the time you will have to have a relationship with the bank, that way they know you won’t draft people’s accounts and leave town with them holding the bag, it happens.

They will have a lot of paper work for you to fill out, and then you will have to wait a few weeks to a month for them to set it all up, but for the control you have over the account is worth it.

The other option if you have more than 500 members is using a professional company to do the drafts for you. They take a percentage of each draft and they take care of sending out all the notices and phone calls to members that had non-sufficient funds or closed their accounts down to cancel their memberships.

Be sure if you use a gym account management company that you have an attorney read all the paper work to insure that you know exactly what your doing and what they are doing.

Also ask for references of gyms that you can call and ask what they think about the company and what problems they have with them.

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When i swapped over to a 24 hour club I went through a computer crash and had to reinstall (Aphelion) my gym software again. come to find out, it wouldn’t come out of demo mode. I tried the website for them and called them, only to find out they shutdown or sold out to someone else.

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I researched gym software to find out it cost upwards of $10,000. So i decided to ask the guy fixing my computer what software he thought would work? To my surprise he said “Quick books Customer Manager”.

I rsearched the program and decided to try it. I got it off ebay for $25

It has taken some time to learn what to put in the program as far as, How to customize the fields for all the member info i needed to accurately keep track of the members. But after a few months of small changes i had it.

I can now enter everything about a member that i need from, contract dates, PIN #’s, birthdays, how they pay, address, and contact info. I even have the program set up to Alert me, upon starting the program, to expiration’s of contracts for mail outs and any other alerts i want to type in. The only drawback is that i have to sync it to the front desk computer manually, the makers somehow forgot to put that automated part in the software.

All in all, we love it.

I will say that i also do alerts on Google Calendar and set that as my home page in my browser and we really love that feature of google.

So if you don’t have several computers that have to auto sync, and you want a very cheap alternative to gym software, Quick books Customer Manager is great. Also it syncs with the  Quickbooks main program if you use that for accounting which i do.

I hope this helps.

Please leave a comment if this helps

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Shannon Cook can be reached at fitnessmarketing@comcast.net for questions about hiring for marketing your gym or turning your gym into a 24 hour fully automated gym.