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# How does rate-card billing charge families?

> One charge per athlete, split into per-class invoice lines, billed in advance on your monthly billing day.

<Note>
  **Must know**

  * Tuition is **one charge per athlete per club**, not one per program. The athlete's active enrollments are grouped by rate card; each card resolves its own tier from its own summed weekly minutes, and the charge is the total of those tiers.
  * That amount is split back into **one invoice line per class**, proportional to each class's weekly minutes, so each line lands on its own GL code and is taxed at its own facility. The shares reconcile exactly to the tier total.
  * Billing is anchored to your **monthly billing day** (**Settings → Financials → Payment Schedule**; the 1st when unset) and charged **in advance** for the cycle it starts. Month-end anchors are clamped, so a 31st anchor doesn't drift after a short month.
  * Nothing is stored per athlete: every bill re-resolves the tier from the card's live rows and the athlete's live enrollments, so card edits, schedule edits, and drops all apply next cycle.
  * Rate cards are available on plans that include **Rate Cards** — if you don't see them under **Settings → Financials**, ask your Uplifter contact.
</Note>

**Where weekly minutes come from.** A program's weekly minutes are the sum of its schedule-slot durations. Change the schedule and the athlete's minutes — and possibly their tier — change at the next bill.

**Athletes on more than one card.** Each card is resolved on its own, so the monthly total is the **sum** of those tiers — still one charge.

**The first charge.** The first recurring charge lands on the billing day strictly *after* registration. A family registering on the billing day itself funds that cycle at checkout, and recurring picks up the next one.

**Mid-cycle adds.** Adding classes part-way through a cycle charges only the **difference** — the new tier minus what the family already paid toward that card's tuition this cycle, floored at zero. (Drop-ins and cancelled lines don't count as paid.) Recurring then bills the full new tier each cycle.

**What doesn't apply.** Rate-card tuition ignores pass and membership price overrides and per-program discounts tied to a fixed price — the tier is the price.

**When a charge fails.** A failed rate-card charge is treated like an enrollment charge: the family gets the plain payment-failed notice and the enrollment is **not** revoked. Admins are alerted once it terminally fails.

**Related:** [What is a rate card, and when would my club use one?](/club/rate-cards/what-is-a-rate-card) · [How do I refund rate-card tuition?](/club/rate-cards/refund-rate-card-tuition) · [What happens when a recurring charge fails?](/club/payments-checkout/what-happens-when-a-recurring-charge-fails)