Broadcast, GoCardless, a Smarter Membership View, and More

Hi there,

We have been listening. Over recent weeks we have gathered a huge amount of feedback from clubs using our Club Manager (BMABA CRM), and we wanted to share a clear picture of where the platform is heading next.

Here is what is coming.

GoCardless Direct Debit Integration

This is the headline update.

GoCardless will be fully integrated into Club Manager, giving you a straightforward, reliable way to collect membership payments by direct debit. The flow is simple: you set up a membership, the system sends a digital mandate to the parent or student by email, they authorise it once, and the direct debit runs automatically from that point forward.

No chasing payments. No manual renewals. No awkward conversations at the door.

You will be able to stack line items within a single agreement, covering membership fees, sign-up costs, and any additional products. Everything is managed from one place, and the same 1% commission structure that applies to Stripe applies here too. That contribution is what keeps BMABA's Club Manager free for every club on the platform.

Stripe is not going anywhere either. The Stripe integration is being improved at the same time, with better handling of failed payments, proper notifications when something needs attention, and the ability to modify a subscription without having to cancel and recreate it from scratch.

A Complete Rethink of the Membership View

Alongside GoCardless, we are overhauling the way memberships are displayed and managed. The new approach is built around a single, unified overview per student or NOK. Everything in one place: what they are subscribed to, what they owe, what is active, and what needs attention.

From that view you will be able to add or remove items, apply discounts, pause a subscription, set a future start date, and manage the whole picture without jumping between screens. The goal is to make it immediately obvious what each member has, and to give you direct, simple controls over it.

Usability Improvements Across the Board

The next release also brings a range of improvements that should make day-to-day use significantly faster and less frustrating.

Mass editing is coming. You will be able to select multiple students and update a field across all of them in a single action, which makes bulk changes to belt groups, class assignments, and other common fields far less painful.

Custom register views are on the way too. You will be able to choose which columns show on your attendance registers and sort by any of them. When you exit a student record, the system will return you to where you were in the list rather than dropping you back at the top.

The whole interface is getting a visual refresh to bring it in line with the rest of the MyBMABA ecosystem. Same functionality, sharper and more consistent presentation throughout.

Import and export via CSV, a simpler student creation process, attendance that carries across classes for unified grade progression, and a range of other fixes are all part of the same release.

BroadcastbyBMABA: Coming Very Soon

Alongside the Club Manager update, we are in the final stages of preparing BroadcastbyBMABA for launch.

BroadcastbyBMABA is a powerful broadcast and communication system built directly into the MyBMABA platform. It draws on the student and NOK data already held in your CRM, meaning no extra setup, no duplicate records, and no manual list building.

From launch you will be able to send email and push notification broadcasts to your whole club, individual classes, belt groups, or specific members. Whether you are sending a training update, a newsletter, a licence expiry reminder, or a marketing campaign, BroadcastbyBMABA handles it with your club branding applied automatically.

Automated sequences are part of the system too, so you can set up date and event triggered emails that run in the background without any manual effort on your part.

More detail on BroadcastbyBMABA will follow as we approach launch.

More to Come

The full roadmap for this release also includes a lead management funnel, a handbook builder, an analytics dashboard, policy document acknowledgement tracking, and more. We will be covering each of these in more detail as the release gets closer.

As always, if you have questions or feedback, the team is here.

Thank you for being part of building this.