Jon Layton, systems and membership manager at Halo Leisure, explains: "Legend offers a fully integrated service, offering Direct Debit collections, representations, tailored CRM platform including automated customer journeys, and credit control for debtors."

Lee Wood, commercial director and deputy chief executive of Active Tameside, adds: "We started using Legend BACS Bureau in 2012 and from a pre-Legend collection rate of 87 per cent, we’ve now risen to 96 per cent, which is absolutely fantastic. We have one very happy FD!"

With Legend, you can design a payments calendar to suit your preferred submission timetable by adjusting the timing and/or the frequency of collections.

Claire Turnbull, business development manager at Abbeycroft Leisure, adds: Legend has changed the way in which we collect our Direct Debits.

"Historically, we had one monthly collection for our membership fees, now we do four collections a month, offering a choice of four different dates to our customers.

"The great benefit for us is that we’re able to take a month’s membership fees in advance for every single member, so it’s uplifted our income. For customers and for staff, it’s a much simpler and more flexible way of joining."

Legend’s integrated approach is designed to retain members and maximise revenue, freeing up time for your team and enabling them to focus on what they do best – providing an exceptional customer experience.

Benefits operators have seen include improved customer retention, reduced business administration and overheads, and increased profitability.

Online joining and digital agreements let customers join anytime through a digital payments process, capturing vital demographic information and creating a platform to increase revenue from membership, pay and play, bookings, marketing campaigns and online sales.

Layton says: "Legend has transformed the way we interact with our customers. We originally started with a new member journey, where all new members get an automated email welcoming them to our centres. This has helped increase engagement rates; retention rates are better and our customers are better informed." 

Legend’s retention and recovery services proactively re-engage and win back members, extending the life of customers.

Unlike a pure payment gateway, our processes ensure that if a payment becomes overdue, the Legend team is in immediate contact, to notify and attempt to resolve and retain the customer.

Layton says: "We’ve introduced credit control journeys that have helped increase the amount of revenue we get back from people who have defaulted on Direct Debits." 

 Andrew Hetherington, from Inverclyde Leisure, adds: "Inverclyde has seen great improvement since the introduction of the Legend BACS Bureau. It has helped not only our debt recovery in terms of financial, but also the management processes and the automated systems behind the scenes that help to maintain that debt control."

Hetherington continues, saying: "Since utilising the bureau, not only have we increased our uplift percentage to well over 98 per cent, we’ve also found efficiencies with staff time. Automated processes have freed up our employees to focus on duties in other areas, which adds to overall customer satisfaction." 

Legend’s integrated membership payments and services solve complex challenges, increase revenue, drive retention and maximise profitability, without leaving the work to you.

Now more than ever, it is imperative you can unlock the full value of your leisure management solutions. Legend is here to help.

Find out more: www.legendware.co.uk