Gold Player payment plan is now open to BASL players!
BASL is introducing the ability for a player to do a monthly payment in order to play in as many team divisions as they would like!
There are many advantages to the Gold Player payment status that we will outline to potentital members interested down the road, but for now here are just the main points:
- With this plan you can play on any team wanting you to play on their team. Of course you will need to follow the regular team rostering and team captain approvals.
- The idea here is NOT to just show up and play for a team unless you have those prior approvals in place and the league has had a chance to approve you on that teams roster. There are some limitations like you can’t play on a Women’s Division team if you are a Male, and you can’t play in Open Division Flight A and Flight B.
- Gold members will find that their bodies will define what they can and can’t do. For those who are already dedicated to play on a couple of teams on different divisions, this will be a great advantage for you. eg. All those Women playing in both Women’s Division and Coed in the same season!
- Your cashflow will be eased by spreading registration fees across a single monthly payment.
- and yes, it is available to all BASL venues......indoors and outdoors
Click on the button to begin the payment process for a 12 month payment plan.
BASL has partnered with Arbrid Management Inc. to manage these payments so that we can take advantage of their low fees already established with high volume transaction processor contracts. If there are any questions or difficulties during your initial payment process, contact:
Daniel Pillipow, BASL Financial Director - 904-327-2503 and he will be happy to establish the payments with you.
The sign up date for the payment plan affects either one of 2 recurring transaction processing dates of the 13th of the month or the 26th of the month.
eg. If I sign up on Feb. 3rd, my first $35 is recorded for Feb. 3rd, and my next payment is processed on March 13th, April 13th, May 13th etc.
If I sign up on Feb. 15th, my first $35 is recorded for Feb. 15th, and my next payment is processed on March 26th, April 26th, May 26th etc.
Q. What if I get injured?
A. Just give the Financial Director a call, and let him know for how long your recovery will take. We will work with you to on how long you want to pause the recurring payment and when they will initiate again. (1 or 2 months)
Q. What if I need to get out of the agreed payment plan (eg. deployed overseas with Military, or moving away)
A. Just give the Financial Director a call, and he will review how many teams you played with up until that point in time. We will transact a single transaction based on the number of teams and regular registration fees and adjust out your payments received up until that point. After the transaction has cleared we we will discontinue your recurring payment.
Q. What happens if I fall behind....my credit card maxes out.....or the bank reduces my credit available putting me in default.
A. We will be contacting you (hopefully you would contact us beforehand). We will work with you to utilize a different card that you have credit room, if you want to continue playing. If we can’t come to reparations or just can’t communicate with you prior to your next game, your name will be removed from all teams you are registered with, and your name will be logged on the game sheets as not-eligible to play.
Q. What if I defaulted, time has gone by, and I would now like to play in the league again.
A. The Gold Player payment plan would no longer be available to you. We would expect reparations to any past amounts due to be honored. We would only accept your registration and reparation by cash.
Q. What happens at the end of the 12 months of payments? and Why only 12 months?
A. We will be in contact with you at an appropriate time to find out what you think of our 12 month payment program. We would offer 12 month renewals and program promotions at that time. BASL has calculated the 12 month payment program using currently agreed upon costs to run the league. (referees/fields/administration) Extending our seasonal forecasts to a yearly forecast is something BASL has a pretty good handle on. Offering a longer term payment plan term just wouldn’t be prudent as many of our significant cost factors just don’t make their pricing relationships available to us longer than than 3 months in advance (seasonal)
Q. I just paid my membership for this season, but now I want to be apart of this program, or do I have to wait?
A. Just pass us a note when you register up within the "Special Notes & Instructions" area. We will get your message, initiate either a full or partial refund of your regular registration payment (depending on how far you are into the season). We will then let the initial $35 charge and the recurring monthly charges occur as appropriate. As soon as we receive your request for Gold Player, we can apply you on any additional teams.
Q. If I become a Gold Player, can I play on several venues right away.
A. Yes, but keep in mind you can’t be approved for teams just for playoffs, you must be approved and played on at least 1 regular season scheduled game on the approved team.
Q. I am interested, but I only want to play on 1 venue/Division per season. Can I get a payment plan for a reduced monthly plan rate?
A. At this time BASL, is not offering that kind of multi-tiered payment plan. We weighed the additional administrative cost requirements vs. the benefits and we are not there yet. We will continue to look at this as an option depending on the success of the Gold Player initiative. We decided to go with the plan that was more administratively executable first.
Q. Can I register for a Competitive flight in Open Division and also a Recreational flight in the Open Division?
A. No. Not within the same venue. Eg. You can't play for the flight-A in outdoors and also for a flight-C outdoors all under Mens Open (same division and same venue). You can play for Open outdoors in flight- A and Open Indoors in flight-C (same division but different venues). You can play Coed Indoors and Open Indoors (different divisions but same venue). Basically it is quite simple, we do not want teams to think they can stack their team. Choose the teams you want to play with on a regular basis in the venues that match your ability. Remember the league has to approve you on a team's roster. If it doesn't make sense, you won't be approved to play on that team/venue, it is that simple.
In summary,
BASL is a non-profit organization and we are very mindful of balancing our efforts at providing the best possible soccer venues using a cost structure our membership values and yet allow us to grow.
Allowing players to use a payment plan is nothing new to sports clubs of any type, but you will be hard pressed to find any Soccer League offering it. Our league can do this because we have the financial accuracy reflective of sound operations and a strong administration, This initiative is actually at a cost structure less expensive than the traditional methods of handling cash/checks. We can do this for 50 members or 50,000 members as administratively it scales.
The Gold Player payment plan initiative is a possitive step forward and once again proves we are the most progressive soccer league in all of Florida and infact leaders in our growing region of Amateur Adult soccer.
Review the Q/A section above to see if your initial questions are answered there, as we think we have covered most of the general questions and situations that might arise.
Just press the "BASL Gold $35/Month" button below to start it up.
Sincerely,
BASL Management
