Memberships are steady money — until a card expires or a customer moves away. Escape handles both ends without your office playing bill collector.
When a member's payment fails
Cards expire, get reissued, get maxed. When a membership payment fails:
- The customer is notified automatically and asked to update their payment — most failed payments are an expired card, and most customers fix it in a minute when asked.
- The membership is flagged so your team can see the plan isn't in good standing before quoting member pricing or booking a member visit.
- If it never gets fixed, the membership ends cleanly rather than limping along unpaid.
CONFIRM: retry/grace window specifics to state here, if any should be public
When a customer cancels
It happens — people move, budgets change. When a membership is cancelled:
- Benefits end cleanly. The member tag comes off, member pricing stops applying, and their reminders switch back to the non-member track — no half-member limbo where nobody's sure what rate to quote.
- Their history stays. They're still your customer, with every job and conversation intact. Cancelled members are some of the easiest win-backs in the book — they already know your work.
What your team should do
- Glance before you quote. The contact record shows membership standing — see Your maintenance plans.
- Don't hound a flagged member about their card. The system already asked, nicely. If they mention it, your office can take an updated card and get them squared away.
- Cancellation requests — route them through Escape support or your office's normal process. CONFIRM: exact cancellation path — does office cancel directly, or go through support?