Describe your organization and membership plans. Makeform creates a signup journey for member details, plan selection, permissions, and a GoCardless direct-debit mandate handoff.
Route membership records to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, and your payment workflow.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a brief, adapt it, or send it to the Makeform builder. Examples show form structure, not a live payment result.
Audience
Adults joining a local gym on a monthly plan
Format
Mobile signup with plan choice and billing handoff
Prompt size
392 chars
Example form structure
Mobile signup with plan choice and billing handoff
Member details and home address
Which monthly plan do you want?
Preferred membership start date
Emergency contact
I accept the membership terms
Suggested routing tags
New applications
Payment setup pending
Ready for review
Keep membership acceptance separate from payment status. A submitted form is not proof that a GoCardless mandate has been created or a payment collected.
Step 1
Apply
member, plan, and contact details
Step 2
Review
admin checks eligibility and pricing
Step 3
Set up
applicant completes the GoCardless mandate flow
Step 4
Activate
membership and payment statuses are reconciled
One joined-up intake
Collect what admins need to approve members and start direct-debit setup without confusing an application with a completed mandate.
Reveal family, concession, activity, or renewal fields only when the selected plan needs them.
Pass the approved member reference, amount, and schedule to GoCardless; the payer enters bank details there.
Track application review and mandate setup separately to expose pending follow-up.
Membership models
Start with the closest model, then replace its sample plans, fees, and collection dates.
Capture a primary payer once, then branch to additional household members.
Show monthly tiers, joining options, classes, add-ons, and a choice-based fee summary.
State the annual amount and collection timing, then tag the application for review.
Separate matched renewals from members who need fresh payment setup.
Signup workflow
Build the intake, test every branch, then connect accepted submissions to your GoCardless process.
Specify who can join, plan frequency, required details, and when payment setup begins.
Replace sample fees and terms, then test every membership route.
Map a member reference and plan to GoCardless. Keep bank-detail entry in its mandate experience.
Send the next step, flag exceptions, and update membership after receiving payment status.
Choose the right setup
A membership workflow must connect recurring-plan context, approval, mandate setup, and status reconciliation.
Field guide
Use six sections to produce clear member records and a reliable payment reference.
Member identity
Capture structured identity and contact details. For renewals, use a member number to match records.
Plan selection
Use one plan field with its price, frequency, start conditions, and add-ons. Hide irrelevant follow-ups.
Household and guardian
The payer may not be the participant. Label the payer, guardian, and each member clearly.
Terms and choices
Place your terms near the acknowledgment, summarize charges, and separate optional choices.
Payment handoff
After review, route the applicant to mandate setup with a unique reference and plan. Submission is not mandate completion.
Admin tracking
Tag every response by plan and state. Explicit statuses expose review and payment exceptions.
Related tools
Create supporting applications, registrations, cancellations, and payment forms.
FAQ
Practical answers for club and gym admins planning member intake and direct-debit setup.
It collects member, plan, billing-contact, and acknowledgment details before GoCardless mandate setup. The form organizes intake; your connected payment process handles mandate and payment statuses.
The generated form can define fields, references, routing, and the handoff. Mandate creation requires your configured GoCardless integration or automation. Test its return path and failure handling.
Keep bank-detail entry in the payment provider's mandate experience. The membership form usually needs payer contact details, the selected plan, a stable reference, and a mandate-setup route.
Track membership and payment separately. Application states might be submitted, under review, accepted, and declined; payment states might be setup pending, active, failed, and cancelled. Match statuses to events your workflow receives.
Yes. Conditional logic can reveal household fields for family plans and guardian or emergency contacts for junior plans while sharing a payer section and admin queue.
Ask for a member reference and stated mandate status, then verify it in your records. Route matched renewals through the existing workflow and unmatched or inactive records to fresh setup.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect membership applications without an artificial response cap. The paid tier only removes the Makeform badge.
Submit every plan branch on mobile and desktop. Check required fields, fees, conditional logic, messages, notifications, references, duplicate handling, mandate returns, and failed or abandoned setup.
Turn membership interest into an organized signup path.
