BMABA CRM V4 is live 🎉

Hi there,

Our biggest update to the BMABA Club Management Platform is now available.

V4 introduces major improvements to payments, memberships, student administration, attendance, grading and self-service, all designed to reduce admin and make running your club easier.

Direct Debit is here

You can now connect your own GoCardless account directly to BMABA CRM and collect membership payments by Direct Debit.

Once a member has set up their mandate, future payments can be collected automatically, giving clubs a simple and affordable way to manage recurring payments.

New members can make their first payment immediately while their Direct Debit is established in the background.

Stripe remains fully supported too, including the ability to bring existing Stripe subscriptions into BMABA CRM and link them to the correct student or family.

Let new members sign themselves up

V4 introduces self-registration and self-service membership sign-up.

You can create your own club registration link and share it on your website, social media, QR codes or anywhere else you promote your club.

New students and parents can register, add family members, choose an available membership and set up payment themselves in one automated process.

You remain in control of which memberships can be selected online and which stay admin-only.

More flexible memberships

Memberships can now be:

• Upgraded or downgraded without cancelling and starting again
• Paused when a student needs a break
• Started from a chosen date
• Set to run for a fixed number of billing cycles
• Charged weekly
• Offered completely free of charge
• Used with new flat-rate family discounts

The addition of free memberships also means clubs can use the membership system without integrating payments at all.

Faster student management

We’ve made major improvements to day-to-day student admin too.

V4 includes:

• Quick Add for creating a student with just a name
• Parent and student creation in one process
• No requirement for students to have their own email address
• Parent self-service for adding children
• A new spreadsheet-style Bulk Editor
• Broader CSV imports and exports
• Customisable student registers
• Faster bulk updates across students and Next of Kin records

Smarter attendance and grading

Attendance now stays with the student when they move between classes, so their grading progress is not lost.

You can also set default attendance statuses, move students while keeping their class history, add starting attendance figures when migrating from another system and automatically update progression when class belt groups change.

Documents and custom fields

There’s also a brand new Documents area, allowing clubs to share policies, forms and handbooks and see who has read and acknowledged them.

Custom fields can now be locked, made subject to administrator approval or kept private for club administrators.

Plus dozens of improvements

V4 also includes a large number of smaller fixes, refinements and quality-of-life improvements across BMABA CRM, including clearer payment setup, improved invitations, better progression calculations, certificate improvements and refreshed login and registration pages.

BMABA CRM V4 is available now.

Have a look around, try the new functionality and let us know what you think.

If you spot anything that doesn’t behave as expected, please send us a bug report too. Your feedback helps us keep improving the platform for every BMABA club.