Purchasing Client Memberships Online

Modified on Fri, 14 Nov at 1:47 PM

Once your widget is configured to include memberships, your clients will be able to access your booking page using the booking URL or the "Book" button on your website to purchase a membership. This article will provide step-by-step instructions on how clients can purchase memberships on the booking widget.


Things to know:

  • To configure your account for membership purchases, learn more here

  • If a client is not signed into their account during checkout to complete a purchase, they will be prompted to log in. If they do not have an account, they can click the "Sign Up" link to create one.

  • When checking out on the booking widget, if the "Store Clients' Credit Cards?" setting is set to "Yes, but don't require them to schedule appointments," selecting the "how we use your payment information" hyperlink will display the following reason: "This makes it easier to manage your active membership by automatically processing recurring membership charges."

  • When clients purchase memberships online through the booking widget, express checkout page, or your custom guest app and enter their card details, the option to save their card on their profile in-store and in their online user account will automatically be checked and cannot be unchecked.

  • The ability for your clients to select a membership start date and determine if the start date should be the same as the billing date is controlled by a hidden setting that only MyTime can enable. To enable this setting, please contact our Support Team at support@mytime.com.
  • Purchasing memberships online can also be paid for using a bank account. This option is controlled by the “Enable ACH Payments” hidden setting, which can only be activated by the MyTime team. To enable this feature, please contact support@mytime.com. Learn more here


Contents:


Purchasing Memberships Online


Depending on how you configured the widget, your memberships will be a stand-alone item or your clients will have to:


  1. Navigate to your booking widget
  2. Select the desired location (if the account has multiple locations)Screenshot 2024-08-28 162807.png
  3. Select the Memberships tab, then click the "More" hyperlink to view the credits available with the membership.
  4. Click on the "Buy" button next to desired membership
  5. Sign in using the "Sign In" hyperlink or log in using a Facebook or Apple account, or create a new account.   
  6. The membership will be added to the client's cart and they will be redirected to the Checkout page.
  7.  The membership information such as membership name, billing frequency, start date, end date, and price will be displayed for review. If the client wishes to use a promotion or gift card, it can be applied to the "Apply Gift Card / Promo Code" and the promotion will discount the purchase based on the promotion benefits.
  8. Next, enter their card details and select the “Complete Purchase” button


Effects of the Purchasing Memberships Online with the Hidden Setting Enabled vs Disabled


When clients attempt to purchase memberships through the booking widget, the following will happen if the hidden setting is enabled:


Hidden Setting Enabled

Scenarios

If the billing cycle is set to a specific day of the month, that date will be the start and billing date. Clients will not be able to edit the start date.  

  • If membership billing day is set to 1st of the month
  • Today is July 15th, the client purchases membership and gets charged today
  • The start date will not be editable on the widget
  • Membership will be in a pending state and will not be active until August 1st
  • Billing day will be the 1st of the month
  • The next time the client will be charged is September 1st  
If the billing cycle is based on the date of sign-up, users can choose any date from now to any future date to start the membership, and the billing day will be the same as the start date.
  • If today is July 15, the client purchases membership and gets charged today
  • The client selects July 25th as the start date
  • Membership will be in a pending state and will not be active until July 25th
  • Billing day will be the 25th of the month
  • The next time the client will be charged is August 25th 


When clients go to purchase memberships on the booking widget, the following will happen if the hidden setting is disabled:


Hidden Setting Disabled

Scenarios

If the billing cycle is set, users can choose any date from now to any future date to start the membership. Billing day is shown in the preview AND the next 12 billing dates are highlighted in the date picker. 
  • If membership billing day is set to 1st of the month
  • Today is July 15th, the client purchases membership and gets charged today
  • The client selects July 25th as the start date
  • Membership will be in a pending state and will not be active until July 25th
  • Billing day will be the 1st of the month
  • The next time the client will be charged is August 1st  

If the billing cycle is based on the date of sign-up, users can choose any date from now to any future date to start the membership, and the billing day will be a month from the date of purchase. 

  • Today is the 15th, the client purchases membership and gets charged today
  • The client selects July 25th as the start date
  • Membership will be in a pending state and will not be active until July 25th
  • Billing day will be the 25th of the month
  • The next charge will be August 25th


For more information contact us at support@mytime.com.


Related Articles:

Was this article helpful?

That’s Great!

Thank you for your feedback

Sorry! We couldn't be helpful

Thank you for your feedback

Let us know how can we improve this article!

Select at least one of the reasons
CAPTCHA verification is required.

Feedback sent

We appreciate your effort and will try to fix the article