Looking for a Pitchero alternative?

Most comparison pages pit two products that were never really trying to do the same job. This one does not. Pitchero, out of Leeds, is the closest product-shape match to ClubHelix anywhere in the world: a club website, a branded app, membership and payments, and the team and match data behind it, all from one admin. We build the same shape of thing. So this page has to be more careful than most, because the honest answer to "which one" turns on a small number of real differences rather than a long list of things one side simply does not have.

If you are reading this from a UK grassroots club that is deep in Pitchero's league feeds and stats, you probably already have your answer, and it is not us. The comparison gets genuinely interesting somewhere else: for clubs in Australia and New Zealand, for clubs that want more of the club's money — shop, raffles, donations, sponsors, court hire, term programs — running through one platform, and for governing bodies who need a structure above the individual club.

Everything below about Pitchero comes from public sources and was checked on 24 July 2026. We build one of these two products, so weigh our conclusions accordingly, and verify anything you are about to sign.

What Pitchero is genuinely good at

Pitchero made club websites normal in UK grassroots sport. It has been doing this for more than fifteen years, it hosts on the order of ten thousand club sites, and that scale is not a vanity number — it means a mature product and, if you are a UK club, a network of clubs in your league already using it. Products that survive that long in community sport are rarely lucky.

Two things it does that we do not. It ships native branded apps in the app stores — for a club whose members expect to find it by searching the App Store, that matters. And its governing-body fixture and league feeds, with FA and RFU heritage behind them, mean the draw appears on the club site because the league published it, with nobody at the club retyping anything. Its team statistics run deeper than ours. If those three are the centre of your club's week, be honest with yourself about it before you read any further.

Feature by feature

Here is the side by side, ordered the way our own feature list is ordered so you can scan to the part you care about. Pitchero details were checked on 24 July 2026 from public sources; where our research did not record something, the cell says so rather than guessing.

One note on that price row, because it is easy to compare wrongly. Pitchero publishes monthly figures. We do not bill monthly — ClubHelix bills every 28 days, which is thirteen cycles in a year rather than twelve, or you can pay for a year up front at a discount. So a headline monthly number and a headline ClubHelix number are not like for like, and we are not going to pretend otherwise by converting pounds into dollars at a rate that will have moved by the time you read this. Compare the annual totals in each currency, and put the payment percentages next to them.

What you get with ClubHelix that you would otherwise bolt on

The website itself. The canvas editor is drag-and-drop on the live site with autosaved recovery drafts, backed by a theme system that takes your colours, fonts, corner radii and button styles. News, events with iCal feeds, venue pages with interactive maps, and search-engine indexing with sitemaps are part of the same site, not add-ons.

Everything the money touches. Registrations and renewals, event tickets with member pricing, a club shop with variants and per-order tax snapshots, raffles with permit details on record, donations with a fee-cover option, discount codes with redemption caps, and a sponsorship CRM with a ready-made sponsor wall. One platform, one payout, one set of treasurer exports.

The six days a week nobody looks at the website. Facility booking for courts, pitches and rooms on a drawable venue map. Programs and term enrolment with capacity, waitlists and session attendance. Volunteer rostering with self-serve sign-up. Match officials with availability, appointments and fees.

The things that protect the committee. An incident register for injuries and near-misses. Accreditations tracking working-with-children checks, first aid and coaching tickets with expiry reminders before they lapse, not after. Digital waivers versioned and retained. Governance and meetings with agendas, lockable minutes, motions and votes. An audit log recording every admin action.

Structure above the club. If you are a state or national body, federations and regions gives every level its own site and admin, with affiliation applications, standard positions your affiliates fill themselves, network news, and reporting rolled up across every club. Configuration flows down; operational control does not.

Where Pitchero may still be the better call

Three cases, and they are not small ones.

You need an app-store app. We ship an installable progressive web app with push notifications, and it is a good one, but it is not in the App Store or Google Play. If your committee has decided that a listed app is non-negotiable, that decision points at Pitchero.

Your league publishes to their feeds. If your fixtures, results and league tables arrive automatically because your governing body pushes them into Pitchero, moving means someone at your club enters that data instead — or your body publishes a feed we can consume. Ask before you move, not after.

You are a UK club, deep in the ecosystem. Fifteen years and roughly ten thousand club sites is a lot of UK grassroots gravity, and clubs in your league are likely already there. Being Australian-built is a real advantage in Australia and a neutral fact in Yorkshire. We also do not support GoCardless direct debit, which is how a lot of UK clubs collect subs — we work with Stripe and Square only — and we have no Zapier connector, no background-check integrations, and the admin, your club's public site and member accounts are in English only today; only our own marketing site has Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese previews.

Where ClubHelix fits

ClubHelix is the better choice when the website is only part of what you need and the rest of the club's admin currently lives in four other places. If your club sells merchandise, runs a raffle, hires out courts, takes donations, enrols kids in a term program, rosters the canteen, tracks working-with-children expiries and minutes its committee meetings — and each of those is a separate tool, a form or a spreadsheet today — then consolidating is worth more to you than league-feed integration is.

It is also the better choice if you are in Australia or New Zealand, and here is what that actually means rather than a flag on a page: pricing and receipts in Australian dollars, a shop that handles GST on every order, records and backups kept in-region, product language that says ladders and canteen rosters and sign-on day, and a supplier in your own time zone rather than eleven hours away. None of that makes Pitchero a worse product for a club in Leeds. It makes us a better fit for a club in Launceston.

And it is the clear choice if you are a governing body rather than a single club. Pitchero is built around the club. ClubHelix runs the whole tree.

Switching from Pitchero

Get your data out first. Export your member list from your current platform to a spreadsheet before you do anything else, along with your payment history. If you cannot produce those two files unassisted, that is worth knowing about any supplier.

Import the members. Our bulk CSV import has duplicate detection and a dry-run preview, so you can see exactly what will happen before it happens.

Rebuild the site. Start from a site template, then move your pages across in the canvas editor. Most clubs find this is the enjoyable part — it is the first time in years anyone has looked properly at what is on the site.

Point the domain last. Keep the old site live until the new one is ready, then connect your domain and let the certificate issue automatically. If your current site sits on a supplier's subdomain rather than a domain you own, register one in the club's name first — that is worth doing whoever you end up with.

Or do not do it yourself. Our done-for-you service handles the whole migration, website content included, and hands you a finished site.

Before the first evening, read what happens to your old club website — the cancellation order is how clubs lose a domain they had for a decade — and keeping your Google rankings when you change club website for the redirects that carry your existing search results over.

Frequently asked questions

Does ClubHelix have a branded mobile app like Pitchero?

Not in the app stores. ClubHelix ships as an installable progressive web app with push notifications — members add it to their home screen in seconds and it always matches your website. If an app-store listing is essential to your club, Pitchero has that today and we do not.

Can we bring our fixtures and results across?

You can run your own competitions in ClubHelix with fixtures, self-computing ladders and finals series, and you can display a governing body's ladder and fixtures on your site as an external feed. What we cannot do is receive a feed from a body that only publishes into another platform, so check who publishes your draw before you switch.

How does the pricing really compare?

Pitchero publishes Free, £38 a month and £99 a month, with payment fees from 2.42% + 17p down to 1.67% + 15p and no payments on the free plan, as at July 2026. ClubHelix has a free tier and publishes its prices on a 28-day cycle — thirteen cycles a year, not twelve — or yearly at a discount. Compare the annual totals, and remember the payment percentage usually matters more than the subscription.

Do we have to pay to try it?

There is a free tier you can use for as long as you like. The free trial of a paid plan does require a card, which we mention plainly because plenty of comparison pages do not.

Is the comparison on this page current?

Pitchero details were last checked on 24 July 2026 from public sources, and that date is shown on this page rather than quietly refreshed. Pricing pages move constantly. If something here is out of date or unfair, tell us and we will correct it.

Ready to see it for yourself?

Have a look at the canvas page editor and themes if the website is what you care about, or competitions if it is the matchday side. When you are ready, start free and build a site before you decide anything — or read the pricing first if you would rather see the numbers.