We gathered the top 2026 membership-based industry trends so you don’t have to. Explore what they mean for your studio.
Mary-Margaret Bennett
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The membership-based business industry isn’t slowing down (and neither are the opportunities!).
Member Solutions' billing team recovers failed payments, contacts banks, and handles collections — so you can focus on running your school.
An honest head-to-head between the two most similar billing partners in fitness. The real difference: a human team doing recovery vs. automated retries plus a strong support team.
Billing software gives you tools to collect payments — you run it. A billing service gives you a team that runs it for you, including human follow-up on failed payments.
Martial arts billing runs ~$99/mo for software-plus-service up to a percentage of revenue. The real cost most owners miss: revenue lost to unrecovered failed payments.