What perpetual enrolment is
Perpetual enrolment keeps a learner enrolled and billed on a rolling basis until they choose to cancel. Rather than the enrolment ending at the close of each term and having to be renewed, the learner holds their place continuously and is billed on a recurring cycle.
The model is common in ongoing programs such as learn-to-swim, where a family wants their child to keep their class and time slot from one term to the next without re-enrolling. It reduces the administrative work of renewing every learner each term, and it gives the operator more predictable recurring revenue, because a place stays filled and billed until someone actively cancels.
The trade is that cancellation has to be clear and easy, since the learner stays billed by default rather than rolling off automatically at term end.
Perpetual enrolment in the Cohiva platform
Cohiva Complex handles class enrolments, recurring billing and bookings, which are the pieces perpetual enrolment needs. A learner is placed in a class, billed on a recurring cycle, and keeps their place until the enrolment is cancelled. Because enrolment and billing sit in one platform, the place a learner holds and the fee they are charged stay aligned, rather than tracked in separate systems.