I do not require auto-pay for my students. But I collaborate with another competition studio (we are a ballet studio) and their students come to us for ballet class. It is harder to get payment from this group - I would like to require auto-pay for just these classes.
I have a similar situation - we do not require auto pay, but we have some families who opt out and we are having trouble collecting funds. If we could require auto pay for specific families (it wouldn't work for me to have it for a class or season), it would be super helpful. Barring that, it would be great to have an option that they have to contact us before they can register/enroll for any classes.