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How do refunds work when a customer removes themselves from a class?

This guide explains what customers get back when they cancel a class booking, whether they booked with a membership or a drop-in, and how late cancellations work.

Written by Costa Bontioti

📝 Overview

What a customer gets back when they remove themselves from a class depends on how they paid for the booking, and on whether they cancelled before or after your cancellation cutoff time. This guide covers memberships, drop-ins, and late cancellations.


📚 Memberships

If a customer pays for a membership (e.g. 5 classes) and cancels a class before the cancellation cutoff time, an option you can control in Settings ➜ Registrations, then the customer will be credited back one of their classes, i.e. a non-monetary refund.

💡 A credit refers to the usage/number of classes of the membership they have. For example, if they have 5 classes, and they book a class, they will have 4 credits left. If they cancel in time, the credit will be returned, and they will thus have 5 credits once again.


⬇️ Drop-Ins

If the customer paid for that individual class via a drop-in (non-member price), and they cancel, they will receive the payment back via the same method they made the initial payment with, i.e. a monetary refund.


🚩 Late Cancellations

If in either case the cancellation is after the cutoff time, no refund of the membership credit or payment will be made. The customer will appear on a late cancellation list on the class attendance report.

Once here, change the filter to Late CancelledApply Filter.

If you wish, you can forgive their late cancellation and return their credit by heading to Calendarclick the classclick Refundmark as a regular cancel and save.

If you wish to refund someone the monetary value, you can action this manually from the customer's 'Payments' tab on their profile. For help with this, see the guide here.

💡 For more on how membership usage is deducted and refunded, see the guide here.


❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Find answers to common questions or additional details that may not be covered in the main instructions.

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Does a customer get money back when they cancel a class booked with a membership?

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No, it is a non-monetary refund. If they cancel before the cutoff time, the membership credit (usage) is returned to their membership.

How is a drop-in payment refunded?

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If a customer paid the drop-in (non-member) price and cancels before the cutoff, they receive the payment back via the same method they made the initial payment with, i.e. a monetary refund.

Where can I see who cancelled late?

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Head to ReportsEventsAll AttendancesRecent No-Shows and Late Cancels, then change the filter to Late Cancelled and apply.

Can I forgive a late cancellation?

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Yes. Head to Calendarclick the classclick Refundmark as a regular cancel and save, and the customer's credit is returned.

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