Gym Membership Cards Printing
CP Cards have been supplying Gym membership cards to UK Gyms for over 30 years.
Every card is printed here in England, no overseas production and delays.
Orders start from just 25 cards, free delivery is included as standard, and we'll email you a photorealistic proof before anything goes to print.
Gyms and leisure clubs typically use membership cards for entry control, whether that's a staffed reception check or an automated turnstile or barcode scanner. Cards commonly indicate membership tier — off-peak, full access, or family — so staff and access systems can apply the correct restrictions, and some clubs link the card to locker allocation or class booking privileges. Clubs offering group exercise classes sometimes print the current class timetable on the reverse as a handy reference.
About our Plastic Gym Membership Cards
Example Gym Membership Card Prices 760 microns thick
| Quantity | Price from |
|---|---|
| 25 | £75.00 |
| 50 | £79.00 |
| 100 | £85.00 |
| 200 | £99.00 | 250 | £109.00 |
| 500Popular | £175.00 |
| 1000 | £245.00 |
Prices include free UK delivery & for one design to be printed from your print ready artwork sent to the correct specifications, see our artwork guide.
Prices exclude VAT & optional extras.
Need a different quantity? Contact us for a quote.
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Gym Membership Cards printed
Gyms and leisure clubs issue more cards than any other club type on this site, and they issue them continuously. That makes the card a rolling product rather than an annual order, and it changes what a sensible arrangement looks like.
Solid PVC, full colour on both sides, free delivery within Great Britain, from 25 cards, with entry credentials matched to whatever your turnstile already reads.
There are gym and leisure club membership card examples below, and the full specification is on our membership card printing page.
What to Put on a Gym or Leisure Club Membership Card
Club name, member name, membership number and tier cover the front — and tiers in leisure tend to be the most granular of any club sector: off-peak, peak, full, family, corporate, student, concession, and often a separate class-only or pool-only option. The date the current term runs to belongs there too.
If the card carries a barcode for a turnstile, give some thought to where it sits. Put it towards an edge where a scanner can reach it easily, rather than in the centre where a member’s thumb naturally lands when they hold the card up.
The reverse is worth using properly. Staffed hours against unstaffed access hours is the most useful thing you can print for any club running extended or 24-hour entry, followed by how to book classes, the lost-card policy and what happens if a membership is frozen. For family memberships, giving each person their own card against a shared account number saves reception a great deal of explaining.
The Hardest-Working Card Any Club Issues
A gym membership card is handled more often than any other kind of club card. Three or four visits a week adds up to something like a hundred and fifty to two hundred trips out of a bag or a wallet in a year, and a good proportion of those happen in a changing room that is warm, wet and, if there is a pool, full of chlorine vapour.
That combination is what finishes laminated cards. Warmth and humidity work the seal loose at a corner, chlorine gets behind it, and within a few months the card is peeling. Printed paper does not even get that far.
Our gym and leisure club cards are 760-micron solid PVC, exactly like a bank card, with the design sealed beneath the surface rather than laminated on top. There is no film to lift. They wipe clean, they scan reliably at the end of the year as well as at the start, and they still look like your club’s card rather than something rescued from the bottom of a kit bag.
Entry Systems, Timetables and Rolling Sign-Ups
Three technologies will open a door, and they suit different setups. Barcodes — Code39, Code128 or EAN5 — work with most membership software; ask your provider which they read. Magnetic strips suit clubs with existing swipe readers, and we can encode them for you or supply them blank for you to encode yourself. RFID cards come as 1K or 4K Mifare or Fudan for contactless turnstiles, and are supplied unencoded, so you write your own data to them.
For class timetables, resist the urge to print them. They change every term. A QR code — square, minimum 15mm — pointing at your own timetable page gives members the current version forever, and means a schedule change does not cost you a print run.
The service that matters most to gyms, though, is bureau personalisation, because gyms sign people up continuously rather than once a year. We print your card stock and hold it here. When you have new joiners, you email us a list, and we print their details onto cards and post them out, normally within three working days. You get personalised cards without having to run a printer at reception or order in batches of five hundred.
Gym Membership Card Examples
The gym and leisure club cards below are mostly
built around tier and access, because that is what reception and the turnstile both
need.
The ones worth studying are those that keep the tier readable while still looking
like a brand rather than a badge. Send us your logo and tier list and we will aim
for the same balance.
Get your Quotation Now!
For a leisure club the quote is driven by the entry credential and the tier count,
not by the printing.
Tell us what your turnstile or reception scanner reads — barcode, magnetic
stripe or RFID — and how many tiers you run. Also say whether you want to go
down the bureau route, because that changes the shape of the order entirely.
Quotes emailed within 10 minutes,
Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.
Design Service
Brand guidelines to work inside?
Send them over. Our Design Service
works to them for just £29 +vat
Leisure clubs usually have a defined identity already, so this is a fitting job
rather than an inventing one. We will build both sides inside your palette, keep the
tier legible for reception, and place the barcode where a scanner can reach it and
a thumb cannot cover it.
Proof by email before printing.
Artwork Fixing Service
The problem we see most on leisure club cards is the barcode fighting the brand.
Designers place it for balance; scanners need it near an edge with light space
around it.
We will move it and tell you why, and correct sizing, bleed, alignment and
colour-mode issues under our artwork fixing service for
just £10 +vat.
Free Photorealistic Email Proof
To give you complete confidence before we go to print, we’ll email you a
free, high-quality, computer-generated photorealistic proof of your full colour plastic Gym membership cards.
This realistic mock-up shows how your finished Gym membership cards will look, so you can check and approve the layout, text and overall design before production begins.
Fast Production Time
Leisure club card demand is steady all year with two spikes: the January intake and
a smaller one before summer.
Production is 7 working days from proof
approval, with a 4 working day express option,
printed in England.
Get January stock approved before the Christmas shutdown. Everyone in the trade is
under pressure in the last fortnight of December and express capacity disappears
first.
Free Delivery
FREE DELIVERY across Great Britain, whatever the
quantity.
Leisure clubs are the easiest address we deliver to — a staffed reception with
long opening hours, seven days a week. Boxes get signed for first time, every time.
Plain, unbranded packaging with no paperwork inside. Multi-site operators can have
one order split across sites rather than redistributing boxes themselves.
Made in England
For a club issuing cards continuously, English production means every card matches
regardless of when it was printed.
Your members are not all carrying cards from the same run — someone who joined
in 2023 and someone who joined last week are both at the turnstile this evening. Same
press, same material, every time, so tier colours stay meaningful and the brand looks
looked-after.
Artwork stays on file for repeats.
Recyclable Material
Gyms have the highest card turnover of any club type here, because membership churn
is part of the business model. That is a genuine volume of plastic.
Ours are solid PVC and can be recycled
where facilities accept PVC. A
returns box at reception, emptied into recycling in batches, is worth doing at this
scale.
Biodegradable cards encode identically
and change nothing about your readers.
Optional Extras
Three extras earn their keep in a leisure club.
A photoseal attaches a passport photograph, which is the cheapest
identity check for a club without access-control software — and part-attaching
them in advance turns signing up into a thirty-second job. A
QR code pointing at your class timetable keeps the card current
while the timetable changes each term. And a
metallic base card makes an obvious premium tier.
Barcodes, magnetic strips and RFID cover
entry.
Our vast range of optional extras combined with our competitive prices and fast, friendly service makes us a market leader which keeps our customers returning time after time as well as recommending us.
The majority of cards that we print have a signature strip and also a unique number which is usually sequential however you can supply an Excel document and we can print the details from the document onto the cards so each one has unique details. For example, their name, membership number, expiry date, level of membership etc.
Membership Card Specifications
760-micron solid PVC,
Full Colour (CMYK)
on both sides at no extra cost, print
sealed beneath the surface — which is the
reason chlorine and humidity do nothing to it.
Take premium matt. A card handled three or four
times a week collects fingerprints on gloss within weeks.
High gloss is included in the price;
premium matt adds £20 +vat per order.
Bureau Personalisation Service
This is the service designed for you, and for most leisure clubs it is the whole
answer.
We print your card stock and hold it here. When you have new joiners — daily,
weekly, whenever — you email a list and we print their details onto your cards
and post them out
within 3 working days.
No card printer at reception, no ribbons or blanks to buy, no staff training, and no
member waiting because you are holding out for a bigger batch.
A Plastic Card to Approve
Get a physical card and put it through your own turnstile before you print
thousands.
Everything about a leisure club card comes down to whether it works at the gate at
seven on a Monday morning with a queue behind it. An emailed proof cannot tell you
that; a real card tested on your own reader can, in a minute.
We will print one from your artwork and post it to you.
Artwork Specifications & Guides
Two guide points that matter most here.
Barcode placement beats barcode beauty. Near an edge, light space
around it, away from where a thumb naturally rests.
Do not print the timetable. It changes every term. A QR code to your
own page keeps the card in date for its whole life.
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How to Order your Membership Cards
Usually whoever runs the front-desk systems rather than a committee, which makes it
quick.
Send the logo and brand colours, the tier list, and the entry credential you need.
Approve the proof. If you are going the bureau route, that first order becomes your
held stock and everything afterwards is a spreadsheet by email.
Gym Membership card examples
Do you see a design that you like?
A leisure club card below close to your brand?
Tell us which and we will start from it.
Operators generally keep the structure — where the tier sits, where the
barcode goes, how staffed and unstaffed hours are handled on the reverse — and
drop in their own identity. Part of the
Design Service.
Gym and Leisure Club Membership Card FAQs
Can gym and leisure club cards work with our entry turnstile or scanner?
Yes. We fit barcodes in Code39, Code128 and EAN5, magnetic strips encoded by us or left blank, and RFID cards in 1K or 4K Mifare or Fudan. RFID is supplied unencoded for you to write your own data to.
Can cards show membership tier for access control?
Yes. The tier is printed on the front, and can have its own card colour at no extra cost since both sides print in full colour as standard. Your access system applies the actual restriction.
Can the card be linked to locker allocation or class booking?
Yes. A locker number can be printed or written onto a signature strip, and the membership number or barcode is what your class booking system reads.
Can you print our class timetable on the card?
We can, but we usually suggest a QR code instead. Timetables change every term, and a QR code pointing at your own page means members always see the current one without you reprinting cards.
How do gyms handle members who join throughout the year?
With our bureau personalisation service. We print and hold your card stock, then personalise and post cards whenever you email a list of new joiners, normally within three working days — so you are not ordering in batches or running a printer at reception.
Will chlorine and humidity damage the cards?
No. They are solid PVC with the print sealed beneath the surface, with no laminate film for vapour to work behind. This is exactly where laminated cards fail, usually within a few months.
Can we add a member photo?
Yes, with a photoseal, which attaches a passport-sized photograph to the card. It is useful where you have no access control software and reception needs to identify someone at the door.
What's the minimum order for gym membership cards?
25 cards. Combined with bureau personalisation that means a new or small club never has to commit to more stock than it needs.
Gallery of Gym and Leisure Club Membership Cards
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