Members play more
A box gives everybody five or six matches to arrange this month, against people of their own standard, and a ladder always has somebody to challenge.
Compared with LTA ClubSpark
LTA ClubSpark alternative: Clayside compared
Clayside is club management software for racket clubs: your competitions, your teams, your members and their subs on one record, for a flat fee and no cut of anything you collect. LTA ClubSpark is free software that takes a cut of every payment. If you are weighing up a ClubSpark alternative, this is what each one can and cannot do, and what each really costs.
No card, no password · Competitions free for ever up to 15 members
By Daniel Byrne, who builds Clayside · ClubSpark facts checked on · Sources
LTA ClubSpark and Clayside in short
- LTA ClubSpark is not free once money moves. It takes 1.4% + 5p of every card payment and 0.8% of every Direct Debit, with no cap, out of your club's money and on top of Stripe's or GoCardless's own fee. The example club in the calculator below hands ClubSpark about £370 a year on its membership subs alone, and the figure rises with every new member and every price rise.
- It cannot run your club's competitions. No box leagues, no ladders, no draws for your championships, and no way for a captain to ask who can play. Those jobs end up in spreadsheets, WhatsApp polls and on the noticeboard.
- Clayside is one system for the whole club. Competitions, teams, members and subs, the court sheet, the AGM figures and a website that fills itself in, all on one member record.
- Clayside takes nothing from what your members pay. Competitions are free for ever up to 15 members, and the whole club is £265 a year.
- Where ClubSpark is ahead: visitors booking and paying for courts, card payments, and gates and floodlights that follow the bookings, which cost thousands of pounds more to install. When LTA ClubSpark is the better choice.
Side by side
What LTA ClubSpark and Clayside can each do
YesPartly, by hand, or at extra costNo
| The job | LTA ClubSpark | Clayside |
|---|---|---|
| Members and money | ||
| What the software costs | Yes: Free to an LTA-registered venue[1] | Yes: Free for ever for competitions, up to 15 members. The whole club is £265 a year, or £550 with the website |
| Its cut of what members pay you | No: 1.4% + 5p on a card payment, 0.8% on a Direct Debit with no cap, on top of Stripe's or GoCardless's own fee[1] | Yes: Nothing. GoCardless's own fee on a Direct Debit, and nothing at all on a bank transfer or cash |
| Membership register, categories and families | Yes: Yes | Yes: Yes, on the Club plan. Your own categories, and households with one payer |
| Renewing for next year | Partly: An admin copies last year's package and imports the members into it. They arrive "Not Paid / Pending"[3] | Yes: Everybody renews unless they say they are not coming back, on a link of their own |
| Direct Debit that carries on each year | Yes: Yes, for members already paying by Direct Debit[16] | Yes: Yes, into your club's own GoCardless account (early access while our partner application is approved) |
| Card payments | Yes: Yes, through Stripe[1] | No: Not yet. Direct Debit, bank transfer and cash |
| Merging two records for one person | Partly: Two at a time, and it cannot be undone[5] | Yes: Shows what moves before it moves, and it cannot be undone. Likely duplicates are flagged before renewals go out |
| Spotting juniors who have turned 18 | No: The member hits an error at renewal and contacts you. You move them by hand[4] | Yes: Worked out from the date of birth, and listed for you before the year's subscriptions go out |
| Juniors with a sign-in of their own | No: No. A junior's emails go to the parent's address[7] | Yes: From 13, while the parent keeps acting for them and gets the receipts |
| Figures for the AGM | Partly: Member and booking lists to export and count yourself | Yes: Counted for you, year by year: members, who came back, who played, the money, where new members came from |
| Competitions | ||
| Box leagues with promotion and relegation | No: No. The LTA's Box League Manager is a separate free tool with its own sign-in[14] | Yes: Players enter scores, the opponent confirms, the table updates, and moves are drafted from the final standings |
| All-year club ladders | No: No | Yes: Rated, for singles, doubles or rotating partners |
| Club championships | Partly: Takes entries and fees. The draw is not made in ClubSpark[8] | Yes: Draws, seeds and byes as the LTA publishes them, a plate, groups into a knockout, and an order of play |
| Club nights | No: No | Yes: Americano, mexicano or fixed pairs, dealt round by round and scored at the desk |
| A playing level for every member | Partly: World Tennis Number comes from LTA competitions, not from club play[14] | Yes: One club level from every box, ladder, championship and club night. It does not feed WTN |
| Teams | ||
| Asking who can play, and picking the side | No: No | Yes: A month of availability in one ask, answered with one tap, then fill the side from the yeses |
| Courts and coaching | ||
| Members booking courts | Yes: Yes | Yes: Yes, on the Club plan. A double booking cannot happen |
| Visitors booking and paying | Yes: Yes | No: No. No money is taken for a court |
| Gate entry and floodlights tied to bookings | Partly: SmartAccess, at extra cost: about £4,500 a gate, plus about £380 a year maintenance and £156 + VAT a year for the service. Floodlights need Premium, about £6,100 a gate plus about £700 a year[20] | No: No |
| A court booking that knows which match it is for | No: No | Yes: Agree a time, book the court, and the booking names the fixture and who is playing |
| Coaching | Yes: Courses, camps and sessions, paid online | Partly: Lessons, blocks and groups with your coaches. No camps, and no money moves through it |
| Website | ||
| A club website | Yes: Yes, at a clubspark.lta.org.uk address. Your own domain is £99 a year more[10] | Yes: On Club and website, at yourclub.clayside.app. No custom domain |
| The website keeps itself up to date | Partly: Booking, membership and coaching pages are live. The home page is edited by hand, and there are no tables or results to show[9] | Yes: Prices, free courts, what is on and how to join, all read from the club |
| Data and help | ||
| Where your members' data is kept | Yes: Microsoft Azure, "generally" in the EEA. ISO 27001 certified[13] | Yes: A database of your club's own, held in the EU |
| Apps | Yes: Booker app. A branded club app is a new add-on, price on request | Partly: Installs to the home screen from the browser and opens with no signal. Not in the app stores |
| Support | Yes: Live chat 10am to 4pm and email 9am to 5pm on weekdays, over 300 help articles[12] | Yes: Ask in the app and a person answers by email: the person who builds it |
The money
LTA ClubSpark fees: what it takes from every payment
"Free to LTA-registered venues" is true of the software. ClubSpark makes its money a different way: a transaction fee on every payment that goes through it.[1] ClubSpark calls it a platform fee, and your club's Stripe dashboard lists it under Platform Fees.[17]
| How the member pays | The payment company takes | ClubSpark takes |
|---|---|---|
| Card: subs, court bookings, courses, events | Stripe 1.5% + 20p | 1.4% + 5p |
| Card, in monthly instalments | Stripe 1.5% + 20p, plus 0.5% | 1.4% + 5p on every instalment |
| Direct Debit (memberships only) | GoCardless 1% + 20p + VAT, capped at £4 | 0.8%, with no cap |
| A refund | GoCardless charges | Nothing |
It comes out of the club's money
In ClubSpark's own words, "the fees will be deducted from the player's/ member's payment at source". The member pays the full price and the club receives it minus the fees.
It has no ceiling on Direct Debit
GoCardless stops charging at £4 a payment. ClubSpark's 0.8% does not stop: on a £400 family membership it is £3.20.
The pence bite on small payments
On a £6 guest fee paid by card, about 42p goes in fees, which is 7% of the payment. On a £15 court booking it is about 69p.
What comes out of a £100 subscription
The payment companyClubSpark's cut
So the real choice is not free against paid. It is a percentage that rises with every new member and every price rise, against a fixed price that does not. A club collecting £40,000 a year in subs online pays ClubSpark £320 if every member pays by Direct Debit, or £560 plus 5p a payment if they all pay by card, every year.
Clayside takes none of it. On the Club plan, members pay by Direct Debit straight into your club's own GoCardless account, so the only deduction is GoCardless's own fee. A member who pays by bank transfer or in cash costs nothing at all. Direct Debit is in early access while our partner application is approved.
Your numbers
A year of membership fees, worked out for your club
Put your own members and prices in. It counts membership subscriptions only, so ClubSpark's cut of court bookings, courses and events would come on top.
LTA ClubSpark…paid to ClubSpark a year
Clayside…paid to Clayside a year
Change a number to see your club's year.
- Subscriptions you collect online
- ClubSpark's cut of them
- Stripe and GoCardless fees, on ClubSpark
- GoCardless fees, on Clayside
- Everything, on ClubSpark
- Everything, on Clayside
ClubSpark's software is free at an LTA-registered venue, so its whole cost here is its cut and the payment companies' fees. A member who pays by card on ClubSpark is counted as paying by Direct Debit on Clayside, because Clayside does not take cards. Direct Debit on Clayside is in early access.
Membership
Renewals, duplicates and juniors
The membership year is where a volunteer's evenings go. These are the three jobs that take longest, on each.
Renewals
LTA ClubSpark
To renew a fixed-date membership, an admin copies last year's package, puts its dates right by hand, imports last year's members into it and sends payment requests. Imported members arrive as "Not Paid / Pending", and anyone still unpaid when the grace period ends lapses and cannot book.[3] A member already paying by Direct Debit can renew automatically.[16] Everyone else pays again from scratch.
Clayside
Everybody renews unless they say they are not coming back. Each member gets a renewal link of their own, with their category carried over and their household renewing together, and last year's Direct Debit collects again. Before a single notice goes out, the renewal check lists who has no email address, who is on a junior membership but is not a junior any more, whose Direct Debit has stopped, and who looks like the same person twice. You still press each step, so nothing goes out by surprise, but you only deal with the exceptions.
Duplicates
LTA ClubSpark
Merges two contacts at a time, and a merge cannot be undone.[5] Duplicates keep arriving, because a member can sign in through more than one LTA, ClubSpark, Google or Microsoft account, each with a record of its own. A junior's LTA account can end up merged with a parent's login, and the parent then has to ask the LTA to separate them.[6]
Clayside
There is no LTA sign-in to tangle. A member signs in with a code sent to their own email, so one person stays one record. A likely duplicate is flagged on the renewal check, and the merge shows you what moves before it moves: matches, ladder places, draws and tags.
Juniors who turn 18
LTA ClubSpark
A junior who has outgrown their age band gets an error when they try to renew and has to contact you. You move them across with Move Member, make them their own main contact, and usually invite them to register.[4] A junior has no sign-in of their own: their emails go to the parent.[7]
Clayside
Junior or adult is worked out from the date of birth every time it is read, so nothing has to run on a birthday. Before you issue the year's subscriptions, Home lists everybody on a junior membership who is not a junior any more, and the register marks who has just turned 18. You pick their new membership, and nobody finds out at the checkout. From 13, a junior can sign in to see their own matches, while their parent keeps acting for them and still gets the receipts.
For the AGM
AGM figures, counted for you
Every year somebody spends the week before the AGM with the members list, the bank statement and last year's list side by side, trying to say how the club did. In LTA ClubSpark you export the member and booking lists and count them yourself.
In Clayside, the Stats screen counts it for you from your own register and subscriptions, every year, in seven sections:
The club over the yearsMembers at the end of each year, and who joined and left.
Who staysHow many came back the next year, and what happened to the ones who did not.
Who playsMembers who played a match in a box, on a ladder, in a tournament or at a club night.
Who the members areAges and gender, as far as the register knows them.
The moneySubscriptions charged and collected, year by year.
Who found usWhere this year’s new subscriptions came from.
The courtsWhat the courts have been used for.
- It goes straight into the meeting papers. Download it as a spreadsheet, one tab per section, with no member's name in it.
- The whole committee can read it before the meeting. The secretary, the treasurer and committee members all see it, and a committee seat costs nothing.
- It works from your first year. Years before you started on Clayside are worked out from the joining dates on your register, and the screen marks them as a good shape rather than an exact count.
- Nothing on it can be changed. It is a record of what happened, so the figure read out at the AGM is the figure.
Competitions
Box leagues, ladders and championships: what ClubSpark does not run
LTA ClubSpark
Its Events module takes the entries, the fee and a capacity limit for a club competition. The draw is not made in ClubSpark.[8] It has no box leagues, no ladders and no club nights.
The LTA offers Box League Manager, a separate free tool with its own sign-in, and its results count towards a player's World Tennis Number.[14] If WTN matters to your players, that is a real reason to use it. Clayside cannot feed WTN.
Clayside
- Box leagues. Players enter their own scores, the opponent confirms (or it confirms itself after three days), the table updates, and promotion and relegation are drafted from the final standings.
- Ladders all year, rated, for singles, doubles or rotating partners.
- Club championships with seeds and byes as the LTA publishes them, a plate for first-round losers, and an order of play.
- Club nights: americano, mexicano or fixed pairs, scored at the desk.
- A level for every member from everything they play, so a new member goes in the right box.
Why it matters
What club competitions do for a club
A member with a match next Tuesday has a reason to come down on Tuesday. That is most of the argument, and the rest follows from it.
Members stay
A ladder runs all year, so the winter is not a gap in which people quietly decide not to renew. Somebody halfway up a ladder in March renews in April.
New members settle in
In their first month a new member plays five or six people they had never met, rather than waiting to be asked. A club night pairs people up as it goes, so you can turn up on your own.
New members find you
A stranger looking at your website sees what is on, how to enter and what it costs to join, all from the same place.
At the AGM, the Stats screen shows how many members played a match each year, so the committee can watch the programme grow. If you are happy on LTA ClubSpark for everything else, keep it and add the competitions for nothing.
One system
One system for the whole club
Most clubs run four or five things that do not talk to each other: a booking system, a spreadsheet for the box league, a poll for the team, and a website somebody updates when they remember. Every handover between them is a job for a volunteer, and every one is a place for the members list to drift out of date. Clubs feel it. When Maidenhead LTC moved its members onto ClubSpark, the first reason it gave was to "reduce the number of logins and systems members need to use".[21] Even then, its competitions have to live somewhere else.
A club on LTA ClubSpark
- Court bookingClubSpark
- MembershipsClubSpark
- Coaching coursesClubSpark
- WebsiteClubSpark, by hand
- Box leagueLTA tool, or a spreadsheet
- Ladderspreadsheet or noticeboard
- Championship drawby hand
- Team availabilitypoll or form
- AGM figuresexports and a spreadsheet
- Results on the websitetyped in
A club on Clayside
One member recordwho they are, what they pay, what they play, where they are booked
- Subs and renewals
- Court sheet
- Box leagues
- Ladders
- Championships
- Club nights
- Team sheets
- Lessons
- Website
- Levels
- AGM figures
Arranging a match and booking the court, in one go
Two players in the same box need to play. One of them taps Suggest times and picks a few. The times on offer are ones the court sheet says are free, so when the other player says yes, there is a court to book. Book it, and the booking names the match and who is playing. The fixture, the court sheet and both players' Home screens all show the same court. No phone numbers change hands, and nobody types the match into a second system.
If the two of you later move the match to a different time, the court booking does not move with it. Clayside asks whether to release the old court rather than guessing.
What else one system gives you
- The website fills itself in. Prices come from this year's memberships, free courts from the sheet, what is on from the competitions, and the joining form sets up the Direct Debit. In LTA ClubSpark the booking, membership and coaching pages are live, but the home page is edited by hand,[9] and with no league in it, tables and results have to be typed in or linked to.
- The register knows who plays. When somebody last played and at what level, so a committee can see who has gone quiet before renewal time, not after.
- A level comes from everything. Box, ladder, championship and club night all count, so the level is there when you seed a draw or welcome a new member.
- The AGM figures add up. Members, money, who played and what the courts were used for are counted from the same record, so the numbers agree with each other.
Teams
Team availability and picking the side
LTA ClubSpark has no way for a captain to ask who is free or to pick a team, so captains run it on WhatsApp polls, shared documents and separate apps.
In Clayside you paste the fixture list in once. You ask everyone for a month of availability in one go, and they answer yes, no or maybe with one tap, straight from the email. You see the answers in a grid, fill the side from the strongest yeses, hold a court for a home fixture and send a reminder. Players see "You are playing" on their Home screen, with the meeting time. How team selection works.
Privacy
Your members' data
- Your club has a database of its own. Your members are not rows in a table shared with every other club, so there is no filter that can be got wrong and show them to somebody else.
- It is held in the EU.
- Nobody has a password. A member signs in with a link or a six-digit code sent to them, so there is no password to leak, forget or reset.
- Members' names stay out of search engines. Tables, draws, the court sheet and the register are never indexed, and the club website shows no member's name.
- No adverts and no trackers in the app, so there is nothing extra for a phone to load at the courts.
- When Clayside support opens your club to help you, it is a visit of an hour at most, recorded in your club's own audit trail, and it cannot download your data.
To be fair to ClubSpark: it is hosted on Microsoft Azure, its privacy policy says data is "generally stored within the EEA",[13] and it holds ISO 27001 certification, which Clayside does not.
Support
Support from the person who builds it
ClubSpark offers live chat on weekdays from 10am to 4pm, email from 9am to 5pm, over 300 help articles, webinars, a Facebook group and a portal where clubs vote on features. There is no phone line.[12]
In Clayside, Ask Clayside support in the app reaches a person, and the reply comes by email with a reference number. The person answering is the person who builds it, so when your club needs something Clayside does not do, you are having a conversation rather than casting a vote. Features clubs have asked for have been built and shipped, and the club that asked heard first.
What people say
What clubs and players say about LTA ClubSpark
Most public feedback is about the Booker app, which members and the public both use to book courts, council park courts included. So plenty of reviewers are pay-and-play players rather than club committees. These were read on .
4.75Booker, Apple App Store (UK)14,291 ratings4.39Booker, Google Play2,626 ratings3.75ClubSpark LTA Coaching, Apple393 ratings
The star ratings are high. The written reviews are harsher: about half of the most recent written reviews on both stores give one star. Booking a court is rarely the problem. These are the areas that come up again and again, in reviews and in clubs' own help pages.
Accounts and logins
the most common complaintOne person, several accounts, and a membership that only follows one of them. Much of it dates from the switch to LTA sign-in, and clubs now write their own help pages about it.
"This occurs because you have more than one clubspark account. It is possible to have multiple accounts created directly through Clubspark or using LTA, Microsoft log-ins etc."Bowdon Bowling and LTC, renewal guide, 2026
"Unless the log in is the same, this will not have membership assigned to it and therefore courts costs will still apply."Tennis in the Park Cheltenham, membership FAQ, 2026
"It is possible to have multiple Clubspark accounts with the same email address. Just log out each time."Hambleden Tennis Club, membership FAQ, 2026
"I belong to 2 different clubs and the app refuses to let me swap between the 2 as the LTA have created 2 different accounts despite me being only 1 person."Google Play review, 8 September 2025
Renewals and paying again
clubs' own pagesMembers who expected their membership to roll on, and found it had not.
"If you do nothing the direct debit is automatically cancelled."Tennis in the Park Cheltenham, membership FAQ, 2026
"Court bookings seem to work fine, but the membership side has lots of problems."Capterra reviewer, 2020
Families and juniors
app reviewsParents paying for several family members, then struggling to book for the right one.
"Doesn't support a child account."Apple review titled "Can't book my son into things", 21 August 2026
"When you pay multiple subscriptions for your family members you are not able to select which family member is going to the court."Apple review, 28 July 2024
The app
app reviewsSessions that drop, bookings that say they failed after taking payment, and an iPhone app that lags the website.
"Always happy to take my money, however very often will tell me that the booking hasn't worked, despite taking my money!"Apple review, 27 March 2025
"The app will lose your Auth session if you don't use it for a few days, meaning you can still see existing bookings and check availability of courts, but are unable to book with no details/errors."Google Play review, 7 March 2025
"I'm shocked that the Apple app is so much worse compared to the website and the google play store version."Apple review, 12 May 2026
Getting help
reviewsBeing passed between ClubSpark and the LTA, and a volunteer's evenings going on the software.
"Though I asked clubspark for assistance, they asked me to get in touch with the LTA (they are not helping at all)."Apple review, 31 July 2023
"I spend more time sorting issues with the software than any other part of my volunteer role at the club."Capterra reviewer, about 2021
The cost
reviewsThe fee is taken from the club's payout rather than added for the member, so members rarely see it. Treasurers do.
"They say it's free but it's not, you pay transaction fees."Capterra reviewer, about 2021
What people like
reviews and clubsBooking a court is quick, it costs a small club nothing to start, and it takes membership fees.
"Easy process, fast, and linked to ApplePay is a great time saver. Good job."Apple review, 24 September 2026
"It's free and I think it's great for smaller clubs."Karl Stowell, Sutton Tennis and Squash Club, Tennis Coach Blog, 2020
"The major bug with the system not keeping you logged in has now been resolved."Google Play review, 28 March 2026
"It has been useful for taking membership fees."Capterra reviewer, about 2021
Clubs have moved both ways. Sutton Tennis and Squash Club moved its membership off ClubSpark in 2020, saying it did not suit a bigger club as well. Maidenhead LTC moved onto it, to cut down the number of systems its members use. Capterra has only two reviews, both several years old, so we have not leaned on its score.
Being fair
When LTA ClubSpark is the better choice
Stay on LTA ClubSpark, or keep it alongside Clayside, if any of these matter to your club:
- Visitors book and pay for courts. Clayside's court sheet is for members only and takes no money.
- The gate opens with a PIN and the floodlights follow the bookings. That is ClubSpark's SmartAccess. Budget for it: the LTA puts a SmartAccess gate at about £4,500, or about £6,100 for the Premium gate that runs floodlights, plus several hundred pounds a year in maintenance and service.[20] Clayside has nothing like it.
- You sell coaching courses and camps online. Clayside books lessons with your coaches, but no money moves through it.
- Members want to pay their subs by card. Clayside takes Direct Debit, bank transfer and cash, not cards.
- Your players want results counted towards WTN. That needs the LTA's own tools.
- You want an app in the app stores, or the website at your own domain.
Plenty of clubs will do both: keep LTA ClubSpark for court booking, and run the box leagues, ladders and championships on Clayside. The two need nothing from each other, and the competitions cost nothing.
Moving across
Moving from ClubSpark to Clayside
Moving is simple, and you do not do it on your own.
- Start with the competitions. They need nothing from ClubSpark. Type your boxes in and send each box its link. One person can decide on a Sunday and change their mind the week after.
- Export your members from ClubSpark as a spreadsheet, and drop it into Clayside's import, or paste the rows straight in.
- The import matches the columns for you: name, email, phone, date of birth, the parent's email, when they joined and the membership type. It recognises people already on your register and updates them rather than adding them twice. Map the membership type and this year's subscriptions are issued at your own prices, with anyone marked as paid recorded as paid.
- You see exactly what will happen before anything is written, row by row, with any row it cannot use and why. It warns you if juniors are arriving with no parent's email to write to, and it will not take a medical column, so allergies never land in a notes field the whole committee can read.
- If it is not right, undo it in one press, mend the file and go again.
- Members do very little. For the competitions they tap a link. For the membership, each sets up their Direct Debit on a link of their own.
And help when you want it
Ask in the app and the person who builds Clayside will help you with your file, whatever state it is in. If you would rather it was done for you, managed setup moves your club across for you: it is on the pricing page.
Your data comes back out whenever you like, too. One Everything workbook holds the members, results, subscriptions, court bookings and lessons.
Questions
Questions about LTA ClubSpark and Clayside
Is LTA ClubSpark free?
The software is free to LTA-registered venues and LTA Accredited coaches. The payments are not. ClubSpark takes a fee from each online payment: 1.4% + 5p on a card payment and 0.8% on a Direct Debit, with no cap, on top of Stripe's or GoCardless's own fee. The fee comes out of what your club receives. Gate and floodlight control costs extra, and a club that is not LTA-registered pays a monthly plan as well.
How much does ClubSpark take from each payment?
From ClubSpark's own help centre: by card, Stripe takes 1.5% + 20p and ClubSpark takes 1.4% + 5p. By Direct Debit, GoCardless takes 1% + 20p plus VAT, capped at £4, and ClubSpark takes 0.8% with no cap. ClubSpark takes nothing on a refund. Your club's Stripe dashboard lists ClubSpark's share as Platform Fees.
Does LTA ClubSpark run box leagues?
No. ClubSpark's Events module takes entries for a club competition, and the draw is not made in ClubSpark. It has no box leagues and no ladders. The LTA's Box League Manager is a separate free tool with its own sign-in, and its results count towards World Tennis Number.
Does SmartAccess cost extra?
Yes. The LTA's own guide puts a SmartAccess gate at about £4,500, plus about £380 a year for maintenance and £156 + VAT a year for the access service. That version cannot run floodlights. The Premium gate that can is about £6,100, plus about £700 a year. The LTA calls these prices indicative, and they vary by venue.
Can Clayside replace LTA ClubSpark?
For most clubs, yes. The Club plan keeps the register, collects subs by Direct Debit into your own account (in early access while our partner application is approved), holds the court sheet, books lessons, runs your team sheets and counts your AGM figures, and the competitions run on top. It does not let visitors book and pay for a court, take card payments, or open gates and switch on floodlights. If you need any of those, keep ClubSpark for them.
Do we have to leave ClubSpark to use Clayside?
No. The competitions need nothing from ClubSpark, so you can run your box leagues, ladders and championships on Clayside and leave everything else where it is. Up to 15 members, that costs nothing, for ever.
How hard is it to move our members off ClubSpark?
Not hard. Export them as a spreadsheet and drop it into the import. The columns are matched for you, people already on your register are recognised, you see what will happen before it happens, and the whole import can be undone in one press. Ask in the app and a person will help you with the file, or pay once for managed setup and it is done for you.
What about LTA Box League Manager?
It is free, it is the LTA's own, and its results count towards a player's World Tennis Number, which Clayside cannot do. It holds no ladders, club nights, membership or court sheet, and it sits behind a separate sign-in from ClubSpark.
Sources
Where every fact came from
Everything above about LTA ClubSpark was read on , on these pages:
- ClubSpark help centre: What are the costs of Clubspark? (updated 22 April 2026)
- ClubSpark help centre: How to collect online payments via GoCardless (4 February 2026)
- ClubSpark help centre: Membership renewal process for fixed date packages (16 February 2026)
- ClubSpark help centre: Membership renewals FAQs (16 February 2026)
- ClubSpark help centre: Merging contacts (23 April 2025)
- ClubSpark help centre: Issues with the LTA merging process (11 March 2026)
- ClubSpark help centre: Adding a junior member (26 November 2025)
- ClubSpark help centre: Creating LTA custom competitions (23 August 2024)
- ClubSpark help centre: Your website home page (7 September 2026)
- ClubSpark: Custom domains
- ClubSpark help centre: SmartAccess Premium
- ClubSpark help centre: Clubspark customer service (5 June 2026)
- ClubSpark privacy policy (updated 6 August 2025)
- LTA: Competition management system, including Box League Manager
- LTA: ClubSpark for venues
- ClubSpark help centre: Membership auto-payments, fixed date packages (26 November 2025)
- ClubSpark help centre: How to view your Clubspark platform and Stripe fees (14 September 2026)
- Stripe: UK pricing
- GoCardless: pricing
- LTA: Gate access technology, SmartAccess Entry and Premium (indicative prices)
- Maidenhead LTC: club news on moving to ClubSpark (spring 2026)
Fees change: the rates above are what ClubSpark's own support site published on the date at the top of this page, and your club's own Stripe dashboard and GoCardless statement are the things to check them against. The SmartAccess prices are the LTA's, which it calls indicative.
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