Early accessFor cheer and gymnastics gyms
Every uniform, comp and meet fee. One balance per family. On autopay.
Bows, choreography, music, entry fees, memberships, hotel blocks: each with its own deadline and payment plan, rolled into one balance parents actually understand. Keep your class software for classes. Let Mat Dues run the team money.
- Flat pricing, never per athlete
- Works alongside Jackrabbit, iClassPro and the rest
- Built on Fee-Lion invoicing and payments
- Uniform, bow + warm-upsPlan 2 of 3 · Nov 15 $195.00
- Regional comp entryDue Dec 1 $165.00
- Choreography + music mixPaid Aug 1 $425.00
- Winter meet entries (2)Plan 1 of 2 · Nov 15 $90.00
- Competition leoDue Jan 5 $189.00
Who it’s for
Gyms where tuition is the easy part
If your athletes compete, travel or wear a uniform you order in spring, you bill far more than a monthly class fee. Owners and program directors run it, parents pay it, athletes feel it when it goes wrong.
- Cheer
All-star cheer gyms
Several competitive teams per season, from Tiny to Senior and Open, each with its own uniform, choreography, music and travel schedule.
- Cheer
School and rec cheer programs
Sideline and competition squads, often run by a coach and a booster treasurer collecting camp, uniform and comp money by hand.
- Gymnastics
Competitive gymnastics teams
Development and Xcel programs, with memberships, meet entries, competition leos and travel meets on top of monthly tuition.
- Gym + tumbling
Recreational gymnastics and tumbling
Class gyms adding a tumbling team, a showcase or summer camps, where one-off fees start piling up next to tuition.
- Ninja
Ninja gyms
Competitive ninja teams with league memberships, competition entries and travel, plus parties, camps and clinics.
Everything beyond tuition
Tuition is one bill. A competitive season is fourteen kinds.
Every one of these has its own amount, its own deadline and often its own payment plan. Multiply by every athlete on every team.
Uniforms
Ordered months ahead, often with a deposit and a balance before the order deadline.
Bows
Competition bows and practice bows, re-ordered when a team changes look.
Warm-ups and practice wear
Jackets, practice outfits, team bags, competition leos.
Choreography
A choreographer fee per routine, split across every athlete on the team.
Music mixing
Custom mixes and voice-overs per routine, plus licensing, also split per athlete.
Competition entry fees
Per athlete, per event, due weeks before each event.
Meet entry fees
Per gymnast, per meet, through the season.
Travel and hotel blocks
Stay-to-play hotel rooms, deposits and the balance months later.
Memberships
USASF, USA Gymnastics, AAU or league memberships, due before the first event.
Coach travel fees
Coaches’ flights, rooms and per diem, shared by the families on the trip.
Camps and clinics
Choreography camp, tumbling clinics, summer camps, guest coaches.
Privates
Private lessons by the half hour, often paid in cash at the door.
Showcases
Showcase and exhibition fees, tickets and the outfit that goes with it.
Team dues
A monthly team fee on top of class tuition, for gym time and coaching.
A year at one gym
One season at Ridgeline All-Stars, today and with Mat Dues
A made-up gym with very real problems: 128 athletes, 8 competitive teams, a tumbling program and a summer camp.
- May
Tryouts and team placements
TodayRidgeline All-Stars places 128 athletes on 8 teams. Commitment fees and uniform deposits arrive by Google Form, Venmo and a check bin, and the owner, Tasha, reconciles it on Sunday night.
With Mat DuesSet the season’s fees once, assign each to a team, and every family gets its full schedule the day placements go out.
- Jul
Choreography and music
TodaySenior Black’s choreographer costs $3,600 plus travel, and the mix $1,150. Divided by 24 athletes, then re-divided when two athletes quit, and three different numbers end up in the group chat.
With Mat DuesBuilt to turn one team cost into per-athlete shares, and to re-figure the open shares when the roster changes.
- Aug
Memberships before the first event
TodayEvery athlete needs a current USASF or USA Gymnastics membership. Coaches chase screenshots, and the gym quietly pays for the stragglers.
With Mat DuesA membership fee on every athlete’s account with a due date and reminders, so the gym isn’t the backstop.
- Oct–Feb
Comps and meets
TodayEntry fees are due weeks before each event, so the gym puts $18,400 on its card in October and spends the winter collecting it back.
With Mat DuesFamilies pay in installments on autopay, scheduled to land before each entry deadline. The gym stops being the bank.
- Jan
Travel season
TodayA parent volunteer, Kim, collects stay-to-play hotel money in a shared spreadsheet, while coach travel gets split by hand per family.
With Mat DuesHotel blocks and coach travel go on the family balance as fees with their own payment plans, paid by card or bank.
- Summer
Camps, clinics, privates, showcase
TodaySeparate texts for camp, a clinic sign-up sheet, privates paid in cash, a showcase fee nobody remembers paying.
With Mat DuesOne-off fees and private-lesson invoices land on the same family balance as everything else, with a receipt every time.
Why nothing covers this today
Team money runs on four tools taped together
None of them is wrong. Each was built for a different job, so the per-athlete, per-event, per-deadline money ends up in the gaps between them.
Class software
Jackrabbit, iClassPro and others
Excellent at what it’s built for: class enrollment, attendance and monthly tuition. A season of per-athlete team fees, each with its own plan and deadline, is a different shape of problem. It’s also often priced by enrollment.
Spreadsheets + Venmo
The real default
Free and flexible, but invisible to parents. No autopay, no reminders, payments into someone’s personal account, and one person who knows how the formulas work.
Team apps and group chats
Messaging, schedules, rosters
Good at telling families what’s due. They don’t keep a running balance per family or take the payment on a schedule.
The booster checkbook
School and rec squads
A volunteer treasurer, a binder and a bank account. Then the volunteer’s athlete graduates and the system leaves with them.
Who it helps
Better for the gym, the families and the athletes
Gym owners and program directors
- Stop fronting entry fees and uniform orders on the gym card
- See who’s behind at a glance, by team or by family
- Flat pricing that doesn’t grow with every athlete you add
Coaches and office staff
- No more chasing payments at practice or in the group chat
- Add a fee to a whole team in one step
- Reminders go out on their own before anything’s due
Parents
- The whole season’s cost up front, not two weeks before a comp
- Big fees split into installments, on autopay
- Siblings on cheer and gym teams? Still one balance
Athletes
- Nobody pulled aside at practice about money
- Coaches spend practice coaching
- Families can plan for the season, so fewer athletes drop mid-year
Parent at a gym still on spreadsheets and Venmo? Join as a parent and tell us the gym. We’ll reach out to them.
How it’s meant to work
Set up the season once. Families see all of it from day one.
This is what we’re building for early access. The gyms on the waitlist decide what comes first.
- 1
Build your season’s fee list
Uniform, bows, choreography, each comp or meet, memberships, travel: an amount, a due date and an optional payment plan for each.
- 2
Assign fees to whole teams
Give all of Senior Black its regional entry at once, or split the choreographer’s fee across the roster, instead of typing it 24 times.
- 3
Each family gets one balance
Split by athlete and listed by due date, so parents see what’s coming months ahead. A cheerleader and a gymnast in one family share one balance.
- 4
Autopay and reminders do the chasing
Parents save a card or bank account once. Installments run on schedule, and reminders go out before anything is due.
Pricing
Flat pricing. No per-athlete fees.
A gym with 40 athletes and a gym with 400 shouldn’t pay different software bills for the same tool.
Fee-Lion plans today are $9 / month (Solo) and $29 / month (Studio). Online payments carry Stripe’s processing fee plus a small platform fee: 2% on Solo, 1% on Studio, with bank payments capped at $10 and $5.
The cheer and gym edition’s price comes out before launch, flat like the rest of Fee-Lion. The waitlist hears it first.
See Fee-Lion pricing →Questions
Is this live?
Not yet. Mat Dues is in early access. It's built on Fee-Lion, which already handles invoices, payment plans, recurring billing, autopay and online card and bank payments for small businesses. The gym-specific parts (family balances across athletes, team rosters, assigning a fee to a whole team at once, splitting a team cost per athlete) are what we're building now, with input from the gyms on the waitlist.
Do we have to leave Jackrabbit or iClassPro?
No. Keep your class software for classes, attendance and tuition. The plan is for this to handle the team, competition and meet money next to it. There’s no live integration today; we plan to start with a roster import from your software’s spreadsheet export.
Does it register athletes with USASF or USA Gymnastics?
No. Memberships and event registrations stay with the governing bodies and event producers. Mat Dues is meant to collect the money for them from families, on time, so the gym isn’t fronting it.
How will it be priced?
Flat monthly pricing, never per athlete. Today Fee-Lion’s plans are $9 and $29 a month, plus payment processing and a small platform fee on online payments. We’ll publish the edition’s price before it opens, and tell the waitlist first.
We’re a school squad with a booster club. Does it fit?
It’s meant to. A booster treasurer or coach can run the same setup: fees per athlete, one balance per family, payments by card or bank instead of cash in an envelope. Tell us about your program on the form.
Who’s behind it?
Media Lion LLC, the small team that makes Fee-Lion. We’re talking to gym owners, coaches and team parents before we build, so the waitlist form asks a few questions. Answering them shapes what ships first.
Early access
Join the waitlist
We’re opening to a small group of gyms first. Tell us a little about yours and we’ll be in touch, usually for a 20-minute call about how you handle team fees today.