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Here is everything ClubHelix does — all 127 capabilities across 11 areas of club life — beside what clubs usually find when they shop around. Then, platform by platform, an honest comparison with every competitor fact dated.

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Everything ClubHelix does, and how that compares

Most club platforms are genuinely good at one part of this list — registration, or team messaging, or a website. The gap a committee feels is everything else: the shop on a second platform, the roster in a sign-up tool, the newsletter in a mailing product, the fixtures in a spreadsheet, and a member list that disagrees with all four.

This table is the whole of ClubHelix, area by area. The right-hand column describes what clubs typically find elsewhere in the market rather than naming any one platform — those claims belong on the individual comparison pages below, where each one carries a date and a source.

Website & publishing

Capability	In ClubHelix	Typically elsewhere
Canvas page editor	Edit your site on the site itself — 45 drag-and-drop section types (FAQs, training times, committee roles with vacancies, membership prices, coaches, and live lists of upcoming classes, fixtures and results, test days and raffles that fill themselves in), sidebars of up to 8 sections a side, and autosaved recovery drafts.	Varies by platformClub platforms that grew out of registration or team apps tend to offer fixed page types rather than a layout you edit yourself.
Themes & branding	A theme library plus full control of colours, fonts, corner radii and button styles.	Varies by platformA logo and a colour are usual. Full control of fonts, corner radii and button styles is less so.
Site templates	Ready-made club site layouts to start from, previewed before you apply one.	Commonly includedMost website-first platforms ship starting layouts of some kind.
News	Announcements and match reports with scheduling, featured posts and RSS feeds.	Commonly includedAnnouncements and match reports are close to universal; scheduling and RSS less so.
Events & calendar feeds	One-off and recurring events with exclusion dates and iCal subscription.	Varies by platformEvents are common. Recurring series with exclusion dates, and a calendar members can subscribe to, are the parts that often go missing.
Locations & venue maps	Venue pages with interactive maps, directions and facility details.	Varies by platformOften just an address field rather than a venue page with a map and directions.
Navigation menus	Mega menus, top bars and per-page header and footer pins, with four header layouts, four header backgrounds and four footer layouts to choose from.	Varies by platformEditable navigation is common; per-page header and footer control is not.
Scheduled publishing	Set a time for a page, news post or event to go live, and optionally a time for it to come down, in your organisation’s time zone.	Varies by platformGeneral site builders usually schedule blog posts. Scheduling a whole page, or a time for it to come down, is less common.
Version history & restore	Every saved version of a page, theme and menu, with restore; pages also show what changed between any two versions.	Varies by platformSome builders keep page history; many club platforms keep none, so a bad edit is fixed by retyping.
Section styles	Give a section a hero, accent band, narrow, two-column or full-width image style.	Commonly includedWebsite-first platforms generally offer a few section backgrounds or layouts.
Custom CSS	Your own stylesheet, up to 20 KB site-wide and 2 KB per section, checked on every save and every page view, and applied to the public site only.	Varies by platformGeneral site builders often allow custom code, usually on a paid plan. Platforms built around fixed club pages rarely do.
Hosted fonts	Twenty open-licence font families served from our own servers, so every visitor sees the font you chose, plus the system fonts.	Varies by platformGeneral site builders usually offer a font library. Club platforms often offer one or two fonts, or a list of names that only load where the font is installed.
Upload your own fonts	Your club’s own WOFF2 font files, up to 500 KB each, once you confirm the licence allows web use.	Varies by platformUsually a paid-plan feature on general site builders, and uncommon on club platforms.
Design settings & style book	Space between sections, card shadows and borders, and heading and body sizes that scale from phone to desktop, previewed on every section type before you save.	Rarely includedSpacing and card presets appear on some builders; a preview of every section type in an unsaved theme is seldom offered.
Section visibility	Show a section to everyone, to members only or to signed-out visitors, or hide it. Members-only content is never sent to anyone else.	Varies by platformMembers-only pages are common on club platforms. Hiding one section of a public page from non-members, with the content withheld rather than just hidden, is less so.
Saved & synced sections	Reuse a section as a copy, or sync it so one edit updates every page. A governing body can ask the organisations below it to place one, and sees only how many have.	Varies by platformReusable blocks are common on general site builders. A governing body asking its clubs to place one, without editing their sites, is rare.
Section locking	Admins can stop a section being moved, removed or edited, and the lock holds for the Helix Assistant and connected agents too.	Rarely includedMost builders lock by role or page, not one section at a time.
Templates & regions	Sections before and after every news post, event, team and programme, on the page-not-found screen, in a shared sidebar beside single items and in a band above the footer.	Varies by platformBlog-style platforms often have site-wide widget areas; club platforms usually render news and event pages with no room for your own sections.
Row layouts & backgrounds	Rows of two, three or four columns, spacing above and below, link names for in-page links, and a background photo or gradient with an overlay and a readability check.	Commonly includedGeneral site builders have columns and cover images; a readability check on the background is less common.
Landing & password-protected pages	A landing page with no header, menu or footer; a page behind a password that never sends its content to anyone without it; and a hidden title that screen readers still hear.	Varies by platformGeneral site builders usually offer both; club platforms often have neither.
Page templates	Save a page as a template and start new pages from it. A governing body can share its templates with the organisations below it, and sees only how many pages were made.	Varies by platformPage templates are common on general site builders. Sharing them down to affiliated clubs is rare.
Media library	Every image uploaded to your site in one list, with its description, size and the pages that use it. An image still in use can’t be deleted, and a focal point keeps banners framed on a phone.	Varies by platformGeneral site builders keep an image library; club platforms often store each image only with the page it was uploaded to.
Custom fields	Your own fields on events, teams and programs, such as what to bring or a training night. Public ones show under “Details” on your site; the rest stay with your staff.	Varies by platformCustom fields on members are common in club software; your own public fields on events and teams are less so.
Page health check	Advice on the draft as you edit: image descriptions, heading order, broken links, search title and description length and hard-to-read backgrounds, with a search result preview.	Rarely includedSEO and accessibility checkers are usually a separate plugin or service, not part of the page editor.
Admin command palette	Press ⌘K to jump to any admin page, website page, news post, event or email template, or start something new. It offers only what your sidebar offers.	Rarely includedA keyboard jump-to-anything search is uncommon in club admin screens.
Categories & tags	One category and up to ten tags on each news post and event, with filtered public lists.	Varies by platformCommon on blogging tools; club news modules often have a single list with no filters.
Helix Assistant	Plain-English site editing, documentation-grounded answers and in-admin navigation.	Rarely includedAn assistant that answers questions about your own club and its admin is new to this category.
Assistant admin operations	The assistant drafts broadcasts and news posts and answers reporting questions.	Rarely includedHaving the assistant carry out admin work for you is rarer still.
AI writing tools	AI Studio and "Draft with Helix" buttons: news posts, match reports, descriptions, alt text, search snippets, emails, social posts, minutes and translation, drafted from your notes for you to check and save.	Rarely includedA few platforms offer AI website copy or stand-alone AI writing tools; drafting match reports, minutes and grant answers inside the club admin is uncommon.
Custom domain	Bring your own domain, with certificates issued automatically once DNS verifies. A Free organisation holding one of 200 founding places can connect one too.	Commonly includedWidely supported, though sometimes only on a paid tier — and some platforms keep your club on a subdomain of theirs.
Multiple custom domains	Run more than one domain against the same site.	Rarely includedRunning several domains onto one club site is unusual outside enterprise plans.
Search-engine indexing	Your public site indexed by search engines, with sitemaps managed for you. A Free organisation holding one of 200 founding places is indexed on its own verified domain.	Varies by platformSites get indexed; deliberate control over sitemaps, metadata and Search Console is less common.

Moving in from another platform

Capability	In ClubHelix	Typically elsewhere
Build alongside your current site	Your new site lives at its own ClubHelix address until you point your domain at it, so nothing goes public before you say so.	Varies by platformMost platforms give you a working address before you point your domain at it. Whether the half-built site is quietly indexed while you work on it is the part worth checking.
Website import from your current site	Give us the address of your current website and we build draft pages from what it publishes — words, structure, images, contact details and colours — for a volunteer to review.	Rarely includedMoving in is usually re-typing, or a paid onboarding service. Building draft pages automatically from what your current site already publishes is unusual in this category.
Imported news archive	Your old news posts arrive as real posts carrying their real publication dates, not as one flattened page.	Rarely includedWhere a migration service exists it tends to carry the main pages across. Old posts, and the real dates they were published on, are the part that most often arrives flattened or not at all.
Redirects from your old web addresses	Every address on the old site mapped to where it now lives, so search results and links in old emails keep working.	Rarely includedSeldom handled by the platform. Clubs are usually left to set redirects up at their own domain host, or to accept that old links and search results stop working.

Members & membership

Capability	In ClubHelix	Typically elsewhere
Member roster	Applications, approvals, dues status and CSV export in one place, with an optional date of birth and gender for age-group eligibility and funding returns.	Commonly includedThe core of every membership product.
Self-serve registration	Members join on your branded site with your questions and your terms.	Commonly includedStandard in membership and registration platforms; absent from most team apps.
Membership types	Distinct membership offerings — junior, senior, social, life member.	Commonly includedJunior, senior, social and life categories are well covered across the category.
Custom member fields	Extra roster fields for whatever your committee needs to record.	Varies by platformCommon in membership products, uncommon in team-first ones.
Digital membership cards	Cards with live QR verification, including Google Wallet on every plan.	Varies by platformOffered by some platforms, often as a paid add-on.
Apple Wallet passes	Membership cards added straight to Apple Wallet.	Rarely includedA real Wallet pass, rather than a card image, is uncommon in club software.
Custom membership card designs	A distinct card design per membership type.	Rarely includedWhere cards exist, the design is usually fixed.
Member directory	A searchable directory, members-only or public — your choice.	Varies by platformDepends heavily on how the platform thinks about member privacy.
Automatic renewal reminders	Members are reminded before their membership lapses.	Commonly includedWidely available wherever memberships are paid for online.
Offline payment recording	Record cash, cheque and bank-transfer payments against members.	Varies by platformPlatforms built around their own payment rails sometimes have nowhere sensible to record cash or a bank transfer.
Online membership payments	Card payments and auto-renewal through your own payment account.	Commonly includedNear-universal — the difference is usually the transaction fee and who holds the money.
Paid registrations & instalments	Registration fees collected online, with instalment plans.	Varies by platformPaying fees in instalments is offered by some platforms and not others.
Family & sibling pricing	Set a reduced rate from the second or third child, or a maximum any one family pays — worked out at checkout with no code to type.	Varies by platformA sibling discount is often a discount CODE somebody has to remember to hand out, or a second price list kept by hand. Working it out from the household at checkout is the part that varies.
Bulk CSV import	Bring an existing roster across, with duplicate detection and a dry-run preview.	Commonly includedExpected of anything you are meant to migrate onto.
Roles, positions & permissions	Council positions and per-person permission overrides on top of built-in roles.	Varies by platformAdmin and member is common. Committee positions with their own permissions, so the treasurer sees finances and the registrar sees applications, is much rarer.
Forms & surveys	A custom form builder with conditional fields and a shared responses inbox.	Varies by platformOften solved by sending members to a separate form or survey tool.
Digital waivers	Versioned waivers with typed-name acceptances retained permanently.	Usually a separate subscriptionFrequently a dedicated waiver product with its own subscription.

Structure & federation

Capability	In ClubHelix	Typically elsewhere
Multi-level hierarchy	Federation, regions, sub-regions and clubs — each with its own site and admin.	Rarely includedOnly platforms built for governing bodies model a federation, region and club properly. Most treat every club as an island.
Public club directory	Every affiliated organisation, searchable from one place.	Varies by platformUsually a governing-body feature rather than something a club gets.
Affiliation applications	Clubs apply to join your network; approvals, leaves and removals keep a history.	Rarely includedClubs applying to affiliate with their parent body is a governing-body-scale feature.
Standard positions for affiliates	Define a position once at the governing body — every affiliate appoints its own people to it.	Rarely includedPushing a standard committee structure down to affiliated clubs is unusual.
Network news, events & venues	Publish news and events to every affiliate, and share one canonical venue list.	Rarely includedSharing content down a hierarchy needs the hierarchy to exist first.
External data feeds	Show a governing body’s ladder and fixtures on your club site, refreshed automatically.	Varies by platformPulling fixtures or results in from an association system depends on the platform.
Standard forms across your group	Publish the questions every affiliated organisation has to ask. They adopt the form, add their own questions after yours, and cannot edit or remove one of yours — while you see the answers to your questions added up across the group, and never theirs.	Rarely includedA governing body can usually send a form around. Owning the questions, so an affiliated club cannot quietly reword or drop one, is another thing entirely.
Governing-body registrations	Send your governing body the members you want registered, and load its answer back per person: the body’s own number, whether it took, and how long it lasts. Your roster then shows who is actually cleared to play and whose registration runs out next month — and a body that sends back a word we cannot read is flagged, never guessed at.	Rarely includedWhere a platform runs the governing body itself, registration is native to it. What a club is usually left with is the other half: an emailed spreadsheet of who was registered and until when, kept by whoever volunteered to keep it.
Funding body return	The participation return a government funder asks for: participants, new participants, age bands, gender split and fees, club by club — with an honest "not recorded" column instead of a nought.	Rarely includedParticipation returns are typically assembled by hand from spreadsheets each club sends in, which is why they take a season to chase and a week to reconcile.
HQ roll-up reporting	Membership and revenue rolled up across all your member organisations.	Rarely includedReporting across every club in a network is a governing-body capability.
Admin users	How many people can run the admin.	Commonly includedEvery platform has admins; the limits and the granularity differ.

Communication & engagement

Capability	In ClubHelix	Typically elsewhere
Transactional email	Verifications, receipts and confirmations, branded to match your site and wired up from day one.	Commonly includedReceipts and confirmations are table stakes.
Email broadcasts	Targeted member email with drafts, test sends, scheduling, consent tracking and unsubscribes.	Varies by platformMany clubs end up paying for a separate email marketing tool and keeping its list in sync by hand.
Custom sending domain	Send member broadcasts from your own domain, with the DKIM records generated and checked for you.	Rarely includedSending as your own club domain, with the DNS records set up for you, is uncommon — most platforms send as themselves.
Multiple sending domains	More than one verified sending domain on the same organisation.	Rarely includedMore than one verified sending identity is rarer again.
Member chat	Team, committee and event channels with built-in moderation, emoji reactions, pinned messages and editing your own posts — and deliberately no private member-to-member messaging.	Varies by platformClubs commonly fall back to a consumer messaging app, which puts club conversations somewhere the committee cannot moderate or retain.
SMS messagingComing soon	Urgent word out in seconds — consent-first, with per-message delivery status.	Usually a separate subscriptionUsually a separate service with its own account and credit balance.
Mobile app & push notifications	Install-to-home-screen app with lock-screen notifications, no app store needed.	Varies by platformApp-first platforms do this well with native apps. Website-first ones often have nothing.
RSVPs & guest counts	Going, maybe or can't make it — with guests and dependants counted.	Commonly includedWell covered by team apps in particular.
QR & kiosk check-in	Tick people off on the day and the attendance record writes itself.	Varies by platformOffered by some platforms, often on higher tiers.
Event & venue follows	Members follow the events and venues they care about and get notified.	Rarely includedLetting a member follow a team or venue for updates is uncommon.

Competitions & matchday

Capability	In ClubHelix	Typically elsewhere
Competitions & fixtures	Divisions, published fixtures and ladders that compute themselves.	Varies by platformAssociation-scale platforms do this at league level. Club-level platforms often have nothing, and internal competitions go into a spreadsheet.
Test sessions & gradings	Grade individuals, not just teams: publish a test day with a deadline and online entry, check what each person has already passed, and build the running order when entries close.	Usually a separate subscriptionGrading individuals against a ladder — with eligibility from what they have already passed, a panel and a running order — is a separate product wherever it exists at all.
Team nominations	Affiliated clubs nominate teams through their own login.	Varies by platformTeams nominating into a competition is usually an association-side workflow.
Team management	Rosters, training availability and attendance, with coach access scoped to the team.	Commonly includedThe core strength of the team-app end of the category.
Finals series	Ladder-seeded knockout and page-playoff brackets that advance automatically.	Rarely includedFinals brackets generated from a ladder are uncommon at club level.
Live match centre	Live scores, lineups published once locked, and match reports.	Rarely includedLive scoring published to the club website is unusual outside association systems.
Match stream embeds	Embed an allowlisted broadcast stream directly on the match page.	Varies by platformSome platforms sell a full streaming and analysis product; embedding a stream you already have is simpler and less common.
Match officials	An officials register with availability, appointments and confirmations, plus rate cards setting what each grade and role is paid.	Rarely includedAppointing and notifying umpires and referees is usually a separate system entirely.
Ground status & wet-weather calls	Put an Open, Wet-weather call or Closed band across your site, set by a person rather than a forecast and stamped with when it was set.	Rarely includedMost clubs answer the Saturday-morning question on social media, because their website has nowhere to put the answer.

Commerce & fundraising

Capability	In ClubHelix	Typically elsewhere
Online payments	Take card payments through your own connected payment account.	Commonly includedUniversal. What differs is the rate, and whether the club or the platform is the merchant of record.
Event tickets & member pricing	Member-only tickets and automatic member pricing on paid events.	Usually a separate subscriptionClubs very often send buyers to an external ticketing site, and pay its fees.
Club shop	Products with variants, categories, carts and a confirm-before-pay checkout.	Usually a separate subscriptionMerchandise usually means a second storefront on a separate platform.
Order management	Order statuses from Received to Sent, with per-order tax snapshots.	Usually a separate subscriptionLives wherever the shop lives, which is rarely alongside the member list.
Donations	One-off and recurring giving with a fee-cover option and its own ledger.	Usually a separate subscriptionCommonly a separate fundraising page with its own fee.
Discount codes	Percent or fixed discounts with windows, redemption caps and minimum spend.	Varies by platformDepends on how developed the platform commerce side is.
Waitlists	Capacity-capped events and products queue demand instead of losing it.	Varies by platformOffered where capacity limits exist; often absent otherwise.
Raffles	Ticketed raffles with permit details on record and draws recorded permanently.	Usually a separate subscriptionUsually a specialist product, and in several markets a regulated one.
Sponsorship CRM	Sponsor tiers, slots and expiry dates, with a ready-made sponsor wall.	Rarely includedTracking sponsor agreements, values and renewal dates is nearly always a spreadsheet job.
Treasurer exports	CSV and accounting-ready payment exports for reconciliation.	Varies by platformExport exists almost everywhere; a format the treasurer can actually reconcile varies.

Facilities & programs

Capability	In ClubHelix	Typically elsewhere
Facility booking	Courts, pitches, arenas and rooms bookable on a drawable venue map — clash-proof, priced per slot or per head, paid online or at the venue.	Usually a separate subscriptionCourt and arena booking is usually its own software category — a second subscription, often priced per court or space, rather than part of the club platform.
Peak and off-peak rates	Charge more at the hours people want. A booking is priced slot by slot, so one that straddles the change pays both rates rather than whichever end it started at.	Rarely includedMost club booking tools carry one price per resource, which is why clubs with a floodlit court end up running two listings for the same court.
Fair-use caps and cancellation notice	Cap how often one member books — per day, week or month, on one court or across the venue — and require notice before a free cancellation, both enforced in the database rather than just displayed. Mark a no-show, which keeps the slot counted against the allowance.	Varies by platformCancellation windows turn up reasonably often. A per-member booking cap, counted across a whole venue, is much less common.
Bookable coaches and equipment	A coach with their own diary, or a ball machine, books exactly like a court — same clash guard, same checkout, so nobody is booked into two places at once.	Usually a separate subscriptionBooking a person is usually a separate appointment product, bought and run alongside whatever books the courts.
Programs, passes & term enrolment	Clinics and term programs with capacity, waitlists and session attendance — sold as a term fee, a punch card of set sessions, or an unlimited pass for a period. Coaches teaching private lessons at your venue — on a court, in a lane, on the floor or on the ice — are billed for it on the same screen.	Usually a separate subscriptionClass and term enrolment is another established category of its own, and selling access as a punch card or an unlimited pass is usually a third product again.
Levels, skills and progression	Write out your own ladder of levels and the skills under each, then mark them off against each child. A level belongs to the enrolment, so the same child can be at different levels in two programs, and families see the level on the program page.	Usually a separate subscriptionSwim schools and gym clubs typically buy a separate class-management product for this, and then run their memberships somewhere else.
Make-up credits and trial classes	A family reports a missed class from your website and earns a credit they book into another class time. Offer a free or paid trial class to people who have not enrolled, one per child — no account needed.	Usually a separate subscriptionMake-ups are the classic spreadsheet job in a club office. Where software handles them at all, it is usually the same separate class-management product.
Re-enrolment invitations	Build next term’s invitation list from last term’s confirmed enrolments — one per child, with anyone who cancelled or was refunded left out — and send it in batches.	Varies by platformEmailing last term’s families is easy enough anywhere; building the list from confirmed enrolments, one per child, with refunds excluded, is the part that is usually manual.

Reporting & analytics

Capability	In ClubHelix	Typically elsewhere
Report catalogue	Membership, finance, compliance, match day and growth reports, searchable by what you want to know.	Varies by platformMost platforms offer some reports; the depth varies enormously.
CSV & PDF exports	Every report downloads as CSV or PDF, with accounting-shaped exports for the bookkeeper.	Commonly includedExpected, though PDF output is less consistently available.
Saved views	Save a report with its filters and timeframe — stored as "last quarter", so it stays relative.	Varies by platformSaving a filtered report to re-run is a nicety not every platform has.
Report packs	Committee, treasurer, board, end-of-season and membership-officer packs — the same numbers every month.	Rarely includedBundling several reports into one committee-ready document is uncommon.
Scheduled delivery	A pack emailed to the committee on a schedule, as CSV or PDF, in your club’s timezone.	Rarely includedReports that arrive before the meeting, without anyone remembering, are rare.
HQ roll-up reports	Aggregate participation, compliance and affiliation across every affiliated club.	Rarely includedAgain, a governing-body capability rather than a club one.

Operations & compliance

Capability	In ClubHelix	Typically elsewhere
Incident reporting	A structured register for injuries and near-misses, legally retained.	Rarely includedInjury and incident records are usually kept on paper or in a form tool, which makes them hard to find when they matter.
Accreditations	Working-with-children, first aid and coaching credentials with expiry reminders.	Varies by platformTracking coach accreditations and working-with-children checks, with expiry reminders, is patchy across the category.
Credential verification record	Record how each clearance was actually checked — which jurisdiction, against which register, by whom — whether your organisation is linked to the person in the regulator’s system, and a re-check cadence counted from the last check rather than the expiry date.	Rarely includedStoring a clearance number and an expiry date is common. Recording how it was checked, by whom, and whether the club is linked to the person inside the regulator’s system is not.
Volunteer rostering	Duty rosters with capacity and self-serve sign-up.	Usually a separate subscriptionCanteen and duty rosters commonly live in a separate sign-up tool.
Governance & meetings	Agendas, lockable minutes, motions with votes and a document library.	Rarely includedAgendas, minutes and motions attached to the club record are uncommon.
Committee task board	A kanban or list board for committee jobs, with assignees, due dates and email reminders — and an assignment notice the assignee cannot dismiss while the job is still open.	Usually a separate subscriptionCommittees generally track their jobs in a general-purpose task app, separately from the club record the jobs are about.
Complaints register	A permanent conduct register — category, severity, who handled it and the outcome — open to administrators only, and referable upward to your governing body.	Rarely includedInjury registers are reasonably common in club software. A conduct register, with a referral path up to a governing body, is not.

Platform, data & support

Capability	In ClubHelix	Typically elsewhere
How you pay	Bill every 28 days, or pay for a year up front at a discount. Switch either way from your billing page.	Varies by platformPublished pricing, quote-only pricing, per-registration levies and free ad-supported tiers all exist in this market. Read the fee line, not just the plan price.
Audit log	Every admin action recorded in an append-only, exportable trail.	Rarely includedA record of who changed what is unusual outside enterprise tiers.
Daily encrypted backups	Automatic daily encrypted backups, with point-in-time recovery.	Varies by platformBackups usually exist; whether you are told anything about them varies.
Member directory privacy	Your roster and members’ contact details stay private to signed-in members unless you deliberately publish them, and your committee page has a switch of its own.	Varies by platformA members-only area is common. A switch that decides what an anonymous visitor sees on a page that is otherwise public — rather than locking the whole section — is less so.
AI crawler policy & harvest alerts	Tell AI crawlers whether they may read your pages, and be told when we spot your public pages being copied in bulk.	Rarely includedA per-club setting for AI training crawlers, and being told when your public pages look like they are being copied in bulk, are both new to club software.
AI assistant access (MCP)	Connect your own AI assistant to your club over an open standard, with a scoped, expiring token you control. It can never change your subscription.	Varies by platformConnecting your own AI assistant to club data over an open protocol is new ground for club software; where it exists at all, expect it on the dearer plans.
REST API & webhooks	Read your data and react to changes from your own tools.	Varies by platformOften reserved for the highest tier, or absent.
Public read API	Your published news, events, fixtures, sponsors, teams, pages and club details as JSON, with no key needed. Public data only.	Rarely includedAn open, keyless feed of a club’s public content is seldom offered at all.
Accounting & marketing integrationsComing soon	Xero accounting export and audience sync with your email marketing platform.	Varies by platformAccounting integrations are common; the specific packages supported differ.
ClubHelix branding	Where the "Powered by ClubHelix" mark appears on your site.	Varies by platformFree tiers across the category tend to carry the vendor’s branding, and some place advertising in front of your members.
Support	Help from the team, on top of the built-in documentation.	Varies by platformRanges from a help centre alone to named account management on enterprise contracts.
Refer another club	Share your club’s sign-up link. Once a club you referred starts paying, both organisations get a free 28-day cycle, granted after a check by our team.	Varies by platformReferral rewards turn up across the category, though what counts as a qualifying referral, and who decides, is worth reading before you rely on one.
Custom solutions	Custom limits, custom contract and advanced features.	Varies by platformBespoke work is generally available at the enterprise end of any platform.

Plan availability differs by capability — the full feature list shows exactly what each plan includes, and anything marked “Coming soon” above is built but not yet switched on.

Platform-by-platform comparisons

Most platforms are good at something — the question is what your club needs most. Every comparison below says what the other platform is genuinely better at, and where we would not pretend to compete.

Platform by platform

One platform at a time, weighed against ClubHelix on the things a committee actually has to solve.

360Player vs ClubHelix

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Comparing club software?

Everything ClubHelix does, and how that compares

Website & publishing

Moving in from another platform

Members & membership

Structure & federation

Communication & engagement

Competitions & matchday

Commerce & fundraising

Facilities & programs

Reporting & analytics

Operations & compliance

Platform, data & support

Platform-by-platform comparisons

Platform by platform

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PlayHQ vs ClubHelix

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SportsEngine vs ClubHelix

Stack Team App vs ClubHelix

TeamSnap vs ClubHelix

TidyHQ vs ClubHelix

Wild Apricot vs ClubHelix

Head to head

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Comparing approaches

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