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# What is a membership coverage gap?

> The daily check that flags athletes whose required membership for a gated program has lapsed.

<Note>
  **Must know**

  * A coverage gap is an athlete committed to a **membership-gated program** whose required membership has ended, with **no other membership** on file that covers it.
  * Uplifter runs a **daily scan** and sends a coverage-gap notification for each gap it finds.
  * The scan **skips members who are mid-retry** on a failed payment, so they aren't flagged before their payment has had a chance to recover.
</Note>

Some programs require an athlete to hold a membership before they can register. A **coverage gap** is what happens when that requirement stops being met after the fact: the athlete is still enrolled in the program, but the membership that qualified them has ended — cancelled, lapsed, or completed — and they don't hold any other accepted membership in its place.

Each day, Uplifter scans your membership-gated programs and, for every athlete now sitting in a gap, fires a **coverage-gap notification** to the athlete's guardian. Notifications are deduplicated, so a single ongoing gap doesn't nag the same family day after day — but if the athlete lapses again after being covered, a fresh notice can go out.

Two nuances keep the alerts accurate:

* **Cancelled-but-still-covered doesn't count.** A member who's cancelled still counts as covered until their coverage end date, so they aren't flagged early.
* **Mid-payment retries are skipped.** If a member's renewal charge is being retried, they're left out of the scan until that retry window is done — otherwise a card that's about to go through would trigger a false alarm.

Coverage gaps are a monitoring signal, not an automatic removal — the athlete stays enrolled, and it's up to you (or the family) to renew the membership or sort out the program registration. How the gating requirement itself is configured on a program is covered separately.

**Related:** [How do I cancel a member's membership?](/club/memberships/how-do-i-cancel-a-members-membership) · [How do I find overdue or lapsing members?](/club/memberships/how-do-i-find-overdue-or-lapsing-members) · [Require a membership to register for a program](/club/programs-classes/restrict-level-gender-membership)