Gym refusing to take DD on a different day

[cheaperthebetter]

Hi

Posting for traffic and this is not my direct debit but a friends and looking for advice;

So gym member ship comes out 1st of every month, when friend signed up this was ok.
Recently changed jobs and has changed several of her DD to her pay day date (let's say she gets paid 16th of every month)
So friend contacts gym asks to pay on 16th , Gym says no has to be the 1st , friend uses gym daily never missed payments .

Does she have a right to change the date?

Gym says they will try on 1st and then again on 15th, friend explains doesn't get paid till 16th, gym says they will terminate membership.

Can they do this?

Thanks for any advice

*If she has the money on the 1st of the month, she’ll have it on the 16th surely?

That’s just called budgeting*

Yes, this^

The payment date is probably in her contract.

Just tell her not to spend the money before the 16th? She hasn't been used to having it as extra anyway if she's been paying the DD.

Perhaps, if her financial situation is this much of a worry, a gym membership is not one of the things she should be paying for? Reevaluating her whole budget may help.

She’ll have 1 right month, where she pays out effectively twice before she’s paid again, but after that it should be ok.

As PP says - have a bills account and a spending account, then you don’t get into trouble.