Operating an Anytime Fitness location in Montana means your franchise agreement requires a $25,000 surety bond that protects members who paid in advance for a membership or personal training package if the location closes before delivering what they paid for. Ours is $250 flat — the price you see is the checkout price — and the application includes a credit consent, but it authorizes a soft credit pull only, never a hard inquiry.
















A franchise protection bond like this is about the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details, your location, and an effective date. That's the application — plus a one-time consent that authorizes a soft credit pull only.
Bonds like this are 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 submit to Anytime Fitness under your franchise agreement. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
This bond is not a Montana state licensing requirement — Montana has no health-club or physical-fitness-services bonding statute on its books. It's a franchise-agreement requirement: Anytime Fitness, LLC directs its franchisees to carry a $25,000 surety bond, purchased through the franchisor's designated bond program, so members who prepaid dues or personal-training packages have somewhere to turn if a location closes before delivering what they paid for.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal and franchisee), the surety carrier, and the parties the bond protects — your prepaying members, with the franchisor administering the requirement. If a location shuts down owing prepaid fees the bond covers, an affected member can bring a claim against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Keep the bond in force for as long as your franchise agreement requires it; we track your term and remind you before it lapses.
These are the actual issuing fields, including a one-time consent that authorizes a soft credit pull only.
Start the application →$250 flat, soft pull only, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.