 Hey coach, welcome back to the channel. You haven't yet, make sure you subscribe to stay up to date with all the latest content. So today I want to talk about a billing system or how to implement a billing system into your training business that works. So every single day I get asked questions from coaches all around the world who are in this industry and they ask me, Leo, how can I set up a secure, successful, consistent billing system with my clients? So I'm getting paid every single week by them. Okay, now, the way we work in our company is we help coaches to set up these systems where parents are either paying upfront for a certain amount of months or their coaches are setting up online subscriptions where they are getting paid every single month by these clients. Okay, so there's two secure ways, okay, of setting up billing with parents, right? And this is only going to work if you have an online payment system that allows you to charge your clients online for your services. There's a lot of softwares, a lot of services out there that allow you to set up an online billing system for your training business. A very common one we use with the coaches that we work with is called SAMCUT, right? SAMCUT is great because you can create landing pages, you can set up recurring billing, you can set up, I believe, weekly billing, a monthly billing, yearly billing. So SAMCUT is definitely one to check out, okay? And if you need more help with this, we've been working with SAMCUT for quite a long time now so we can give you more help and advice on how to set this up. But if you can't afford SAMCUT because SAMCUT is a bit of a big investment for someone that is just simply starting up or has a few clients, then there's other softwares. I remember when I started my business, the software I used was a program called GoCardless. So basically GoCardless, you can set up direct debits, you can set up payments, one-off payments, and all of that is then linked into your business account. So you aren't physically dealing with any of the money, all the billing, all the payments are being done online while you, as the trainer and as the coach, can focus solely on the coaching, which is essentially what we want you to be doing, right? Because if you're at 110% with your coaching, if you're an energetic, enthusiastic, and you put on a really good service for your clients, your clientele is just gonna grow more and more, okay? So what we want to do is we want to set up a system where you are fully set up with your clients online and you aren't receiving any payments in cash, okay? Your customers are all online, your customers have all signed your terms and agreements or your contract, whatever you wanna call it, and they all understand that all payments must be made online into your business account, okay? So how do you set up this successful, shall we say, billing system, right? It's very simple. There's a couple of things I look at, right? For it to work, for it to be a success, you need to first of all have a system or a model, shall we say, a model in place where your clients are committing for a certain amount of time. So if, for example, you bring in a new client and that client is, you know, you want them to be with you for three, six, nine or 12 months, then that is your model, right? Any new client that comes in, that is the commitment. That's the first thing. The second one is now we've got to have contracts in place that customers and clients are signing to make sure that they're sticking in the program and also that they agree to your terms and conditions in terms of payment, okay? So what we want to then do is once the parent has agreed to your terms and conditions, we then send them over the details online for them to make payment, okay? And then it's up to you how you wanna sell it, how you wanna set it up, sorry. If you wanna set it up as a month to month subscription, then there's coaches that do that. If you wanna set it up quarterly, then you can do that. If you wanna set up where it's an upfront one of payment, you can do that as well, okay? So there's a lot of systems of billing that you can set up so that your clients are paying you and you are receiving the money for your services. Now, what I don't want you to do is follow down the old route of working with cash, okay? Now, the problem you wanna avoid cash is because it's kinda like the old way of doing business, right? When you let your customers pay you in cash or show up when they want or when they're available, essentially, you aren't really building a business, you're more than anything building a hobby, right? Building a business is where you have terms and conditions in place, you have a set-day-set time you're doing your training session so parents know, right, I need to be available this day, this time for my child to go and train with Leo. And also, all the payments are online, okay? That way you aren't dealing with cash physically because when you do, and this has happened to me, I remember at the beginning as well, I used to do everything by cash, but there was a camp that I ran once, it was a one-day camp, it was a nine-to-three, okay? We included a lot of different types of training in there, we'd done some conditioning, some strength work, we did fitness, we did technical training, did loads of different trainings, it was a really good camp, I had about 25 players show up to this camp and they all paid me cash, right? So they all showed up, they all came, paid on the gate and it was a really good day until, right, towards the end of the session, a huge storm came past, it started to rain really hard and obviously I just wanted to get out of there before I get soaked and what ended up happening is I lost half of the money I made on that camp. And that was because so much was going on on the day, I was taking cash, putting it in my pocket and I lost some of it because storm came in, you know, my pockets weren't secure, winter grabbed my stuff, left quickly and I didn't even realize some of the money had dropped out onto the pitch and I just got in my car, drove off, when I got home, I'd go and check and I remember I checked it three or four times to make sure that what I'm counting was correct and then I thought to myself, do you know what, I'm missing money here and then when I went back, because obviously I was missing a good amount of money, I went back to the field and obviously the money had either flown away or someone had taken it. So I lost half of the amount I made on that day, simply because I was getting cash, right? I was receiving cash, putting it in my pocket, I had a long day of training with my clients, I was obviously really tired towards the end and to that point where big storm came, I wasn't thinking straight, all I was thinking was right, I need to grab my stuff, get out of here because I don't want to get wet and I dropped the majority of the, well, half of the money that I had made from that camp, okay? So half of the day, I pretty much done for free because when I got home, I didn't have that money, right? So I wanna encourage you, make sure you move everything online, have a really good secure payments billing system in place so you can take all the payments online and you don't have to worry about what happened to me, losing money at the field, okay? So if you want more help with your business, right? Get in contact with me as a number, as you can do that, but visit the links below this video in the description, you can book a free 15 to 20 minute call with me, I currently do this every day, I speak with coaches, I respond to emails, I respond to WhatsApp messages, so I connect with coaches on a daily basis. So if you wanna do that, you can do that or if you just wanna send me a question, you can do that as well, okay? So thank you for watching and I'll see you on the next video.