We will provide Cost-Saving Payment Processing for your Fitness Club.
Recurring Monthly Payments and Retail Sales
Welcome! We receive many calls from people, like yourself, who are opening a new Fitness Club or have an existing club and would like to lower their payment processing fees.
Fitness Clubs are different from traditional retail stores and need the help of a specialist in that field.
- Fitness Clubs accept and process two types of sales.
- You may choose to open one or two merchant accounts.
- First, is a Monthly Membership Billing (EFT) account is the type every club needs.
- Second is a Retail Sales Account, you may or may not need to open this type account.
- Our Client Rep will help you make that decision.
Your Monthly Membership Billing (EFT)
- This will be your largest portion of credit card sales as your club grows.
- This segment will be processed once, twice or more a month depending on how you setup your membership billing cycle.
- Since the card will not be "swiped" for each billing, these sales will go through as Manually Keyed Sales.
- Many banks will just open a Retail Merchant Account and that will cause all these sales to be processed at much higher fees than with SPI. A merchant using a Retail Merchant Account must swipe the cards to get the best rate or Qualified Pricing. The correct category for a Fitness Club's Monthly Membership Merchant Account is the Direct Marketing Category.
- This category is used by Mail Order and Telephone Order businesses where all sales are manually keyed. In this category merchants are required to attempt Address Verification for each sale during the authorization process.
- Don't worry; we'll provide you with the complete information so your sales will qualify at the best possible rates.
- You can easily process your Monthly Membership Billing
using one of these methods:
- We will assist you in exporting and uploading your files
- Software installed on your PC
- Our Secure online Virtual Termnal
- A Service Company that provides this service to many clubs
- We'll be glad
to provide a list of solutions that will meet your needs.
Retail Sales
- This is for in-club sales, such as initial payments, drinks, nutritional items and t-shirts.
- It will be the smallest segment of your credit cards sales.
- Some club owners decide not to open a retail account since this segment is so small.
- One way to process these sales without a Retail account is to add the sale amount to the member's monthly membership billing as a one-time charge.
- If a Retail Merchant Account is opened you'll need one or more of the following items:
- Processing Software, a magnetic card swipe and a receipt printer - purchase available
- Traditional Credit Card Terminal / Printer - purchase, lease or rental is available
Who is SPI ?
- Our Leadership has over 24 years Experience in Payment Processing for the Fitness Club Industry.
- These market segment has always been one of our main focus points.
- We will provide you with Unsurpassed Support and Personalized Service normally not available in our industry.
- This is how we do business everyday.
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