Club management software that runs your box leagues and collects your subs

Type your club's name and where to email you at clayside.app/setup, and your league exists, at its own address. No card, no password. Then build the first season: name it, say how many boxes and whether each is singles or doubles, pick the sport, and type the names in. Five minutes is the honest figure.

When it looks right, press Go live and paste each box's link into its group chat. That is the whole job. The first time you sign in it walks you through all of it on practice data and then clears that out, so nothing you learn on is left in your league.

Yes. Your club connects its own GoCardless account, you set your own categories, prices and membership year, and the subs are collected by Direct Debit straight into the club's bank account. The money never passes through us: we are not in the middle of it, and we take no cut of what you collect. You pay a flat annual fee for the software and that is the whole of what we are paid.

The register updates itself as the money lands, so "who has not paid" is a screen rather than an afternoon with two spreadsheets. Bank transfers, cash and cheques are recorded beside the Direct Debits, because most clubs will always have a few. The membership page has the whole of it.

Keep using them for what they are good at. Clayside doesn't replace your club comms, and it takes no money for a court. It runs your box leagues, ladders and tournaments, it keeps your membership register and collects your subs, and on the club plans your members book your courts in the same place, which is the set those tools have never done together.

The ClubSpark question comes up most, so there is a page on it: does Clayside replace ClubSpark?

No. It's a website that works on any phone. They tap the link in their box's group, tap their name, and they're in. No app store, no account, no password. They can add it to their home screen for an app-like icon, but it's the same website either way.

If they can read the grid on the clubhouse noticeboard, they can read this one. It is the same grid, on a phone, and reading it needs no account, no password and no app: they tap the link in the group chat and it opens. Entering a score is typing two numbers. Confirming their opponent's is one tap.

And it is a setting, so you do not have to bet the league on it. Turn player entry off and you or a box admin enter everything, the way the noticeboard always worked, except nobody has to drive to the club to find out what the table says.

No, and that's rather the point. Give every box its own admin: they enter the scores for their box and, if you let them, roster their own players too. They can't touch anyone else's box. Nothing sits waiting on you to come back off holiday.

The club side works the same way. A secretary keeps the register, a treasurer runs the money, and committee members read both without being able to change anything. You can hand over the top job as well: invite a second owner and next year's secretary has the same keys you do, with nothing to rebuild and nothing to email across.

That every plan is priced on how many members the club has, and the competitions are the same on all of them. £120 a year covers a club of up to 125; £220 takes it to 250. Nobody has to model anything: it is one number against another, and your club has already decided a league is worth running.

You do not have to make the case yourself either. The case for your committee is one page, written to be forwarded without editing and to print on one side of A4.

In a box league, a player is a name. That is the whole record: no email address, no phone number, no date of birth, and no password, because Clayside hasn't got any. Your players never make an account. They tap a link, tap their name, and put a score in.

On a club membership plan you hold more, because a club has to: an address to write to, a date of birth for the junior policy, who is in which household. All of it is the club's own record rather than ours, it is behind a permission a committee member does not have, and a child never holds a sign-in address of their own. Your club stays in charge of its own names, under your own safeguarding rules. The safeguarding page has the rest.

Clayside is built and run from the UK by a UK company under UK GDPR, and your club's database is pinned to the EU by a constraint Cloudflare enforces, not a preference we set. No analytics, no trackers, not even a Google font. The privacy policy spells all of it out, including the parts that don't flatter us.

You can export everything, any time, as a file you own: every season, box, player and result, and your membership register with it. Nothing is held hostage.

If a subscription ends, the league drops back to the free One Box plan and stays open. Nothing is deleted: every season, box, player, result and member is still there, and picking a plan up again puts the lot back with nothing retyped.