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The degree to which you can integrate ACH (Automatic Clearing House) / EFT (Electronic Fund Transfer) processing into Gym Assistant depends on your bank and what changes you are willing to make. The most seamless methods let you submit ACH/EFT transactions directly in the software. Unlike credit cards, the money from ACH transactions does not get transferred to your account immediately. ACH/EFT transactions usually take from 2-5 days for the money to transfer or for the transaction to be rejected (usually for non-sufficient funds, or NSF).

For monthly billing, Gym Assistant will generate a list of all members that should be charged for a given billing date. The program will then submit the ACH batch (the list of specific bank transactions) in one step, recording the payments and updating records for all members whose charges were approved.

All banks handle the back-end logistics of ACH transactions; after all, this is how all money is moved between banks and between accounts in the first place. Many banks, however, DO NOT handle the front-end logistics of receiving ACH batches from customers.