Opening or renewing an Anytime Fitness franchise location in Arkansas requires a $25,000 health club bond — ours is $250 flat, and the price you see is the checkout price. The application includes a credit consent, but it authorizes a soft pull only — never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score.
















A franchise health club bond is about the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details, your Anytime Fitness contract date, and an effective date. That's the application.
This bond is among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with your franchise opening or renewal packet. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
This is the $25,000 health club bond the Anytime Fitness franchise system requires of a franchisee opening or renewing a location — including in Arkansas. It guarantees the franchisee's obligations to members: refunds, prepaid dues, and the club's compliance with its own membership contracts.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the franchisee, the principal), the surety carrier, and the party the bond protects — members and, depending on the filing, Anytime Fitness Franchising, LLC as the named obligee. If a covered claim arises — a member denied a refund the contract owes them, for example — the harmed party can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Arkansas's own Health Spa Consumer Protection Act (Ark. Code § 4-94-101 et seq.) requires a health spa to file a registration statement with the Secretary of State naming its ownership and facilities, but that statute does not itself mandate a surety bond — the $25,000 bond requirement here comes from the Anytime Fitness franchise agreement, not a state bonding statute. Confirm the exact obligee and filing requirement your franchise packet names before applying — we'll issue to match it.
These are the actual issuing fields, including your Anytime Fitness contract date — the credit section is a soft-pull consent only.
Start the application →$250 flat, soft pull only, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.