Period and Concession Memberships

A difficulty occurs if a person has a period type membership such as a 3 month general gym membership and also purchases a concession based membership for say spin bikes. When a person comes in for a general membership workout, swiping the card will deduct a concession as well. There are some ways to get around this and we would be pleased to receive any other suggestions.

1. If the concession based membership is for classes where the GymMaster booking system is used, GymMaster will identify if that member is booked for the class within the next hour. If the member is booked the concession is deducted. This solution will not work if individual members are not booked into the concession activity in GymMaster.
2. You can have have 2 card readers at reception. One would be clearly labelled as ``Concessions Only'' and a concession would only be deducted if this second reader was used. The problem is that the normal reader will give access to the member and you rely on their honesty or staff checking to make certain they swipe the Concession Reader.
3. If concession activities take place in a specific controlled area, the second concession reader can be set up at the activity area door or gate. This is probably the best solution if there is one concession type activity and an easily controlled area.
4. What is frequently done is that a card is issued for a period based membership and a cardboard concession card is physically ticked off as used for the concessions. This is not needed if the only membership for the member is a concession based one as GymMaster handles this perfectly.