Sailing

"We want to keep track of all our boat parking spaces."

Resources were developed after feedback from one of our Sailing clubs for exactly this purpose! You can keep track of all your boat parking spaces, including extra information whether it be location, or specifics about the boat being parked. You can use linked Subscriptions to charge members for their boat space, and also make it an optional extra in case they want to store their boat elsewhere.

You can also have multiple Resource sets to accommodate different things, such as different types of boat parking, or other Resources such as lockers or car parking spaces.

"We want to keep track of all our races and social events."

The myClubhouse Events Calendar makes tracking your Events easy! Events can be split into categories for easy filtering, meaning you can separate coaching from races and social events, even working parties. Members can sign themselves up to Events, and sign up can be restricted to certain members if you have a restricted Event, such as a junior Event. Event organisers can even have their own payment methods, plans, and schemes so the treasurer doesn't have to keep getting involved to send the money to the right person from the club account.

Events can also be used to manage the duty rotas for your sailing Events. Pricing Structures allow you to ensure that you don't end up with multiple members signed up to the same duty or confusion on the day of who is doing what.

"I'm tired of having to take cash to the bank!"

You can integrate Stripe, GoCardless, PayPal, SagePay, and even EPOSnow with your myClubhouse site to help your club go completely cashless. Any one or a combination of these online payment methods will allow you to reduce or even completely stop having to take cash in person. This is especially useful for a sailing club as money and water don't mix very well. It also saves you regular trips to the bank to pay them in, which allows you to spend more time on the water.

Testimonials

After looking at many alternatives it was decided to use myClubhouse as the database for our sailing club. We have been using the software for 18 months now and have just completed our second renewal period. Renewal notices were sent out automatically and members renewed noticeably quicker than in the past with 80% of these paying on-line, the fees being automatically credited to the club bank account. Fantastic! Relevant data can now be made available to specified club officers - not only useful for the day to day management of the club but also to provide the committee with valuable information for use in monitoring and planning future developments. During the second year we migrated our website across to myClubhouse. This was very easy to do and has been very successful. We have just used the Event Manager for the first time to enable members to sign up for the Annual Dinner. Once again this was very easy to do. Members were able to pay on-line and during the sign-up process were able to select their menu choices. A terrific help to our Social Secretary. During the coming year we will be piloting the use of the Club Shop for the sale of club merchandise. myClubhouse is extremely flexible and can be adapted to fit any club set up. They really do seem to have thought of everything. I have no reservations whatsoever in recommending myClubhouse.

Easy to use and feature rich. Terrific support from myClubhouse from the initial set-up and importing of historical data to very responsive day to day help. New members can sign up easily on-line Auto renewal and on-line payment means that in most cases the process is automated saving the Membership Secretary a huge amount of time and avoiding the need for club mailings. Included website functionality provides a one stop shop for members. Event Manager with on-line sign-up and payment.

Very user-friendly and is UK based so reinforces a strong connection with the product and a sense that they understand our requirements.

In the space of three years our cruising (sailing) club have migrated all our membership data to MyClubhouse and members can now sign in to their accounts, manage their data and subscriptions, and complete on-line application forms to attend our events. The system is the main conduit of our communications with members and has improved the professional look of our organisation such that we have grown significantly since its introduction. Our events are all now administered through the platform and we can create web content, blogs and discussion forums specifically targeted at event attendees. Far from being centralised around one administrator, we have several committee members contributing to this content. Our next step is to incorporate e-commerce, which is a out of the box feature within the system so should be plain sailing (if you pardon the pun!). The developer team have been excellent in providing support where needed (though we have found the process to so user-friendly they are doing themselves out of a job!).

So far we've not been able to identify any limit to what we might achieve with MyClubhouse. If you are reading this from the perspective of a sailing club and wondering whether this would suit your purpose, I would recommend you contact the developers about the facility for managing berths. It would appear they have developed similar solutions for other bespoke organisations, so I'm sure they will be able to advise on what can be achieved. It would be well worth is as we've not looked back since we signed up for this service.

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