For lawn bowls clubs
Pennant Saturday, barefoot Friday, and everything in between.
ClubHelix gives lawn bowls clubs one platform for memberships, pennant fixtures and selections, rink bookings, social bowls, barefoot nights, function bookings and the sponsor visibility that funds the year.
Pennant season · Saturday · Updated 10 Aug 2026
Why committees of bowls clubs come to us
The same problems show up in every committee meeting. ClubHelix is built to retire each one for good.
- Member renewals chased via paper letters every July.
- Barefoot bowls bookings on a clipboard at the front bar.
- Pennant teams selected on Thursday night and missed by half the side by Saturday.
- Jackpot night entries collected in cash with no record.
- Sponsor signage going up and never coming down.
What ClubHelix does for bowls clubs
The platform mapped onto the moments your season actually runs on.
Member renewals
Self-serve renewal with full, social and associate categories — Stripe Connect for the payment, automatic reminders before the renewal cliff, and a clean list of who's paid.
Pennant fixtures and selections
Recurring events for pennant rounds with rink allocations and side composition. Selection pages with member-only visibility until you publish — then a one-click broadcast to the selected side.
Barefoot bowls bookings
Paid ticketing for barefoot bowls — capacity-capped slots, family or group tickets, and a printable door list scanned on a phone at the green.
Rink and green bookings
Draw your rinks and greens onto a venue map and take bookings online — clash-proof slots, member and casual pricing, opening hours enforced automatically. Corporate barefoot groups book and pay without ringing the bar.
Social bowls and jackpot nights
Native ticketing for jackpot nights, club championships and special events — assigned seating optional, partner tickets, dietary fields, all on your own site.
Functions and clubhouse hire
Paid forms for clubhouse hire enquiries with conditional logic for catering and bar packages — the booking comes through with a deposit already taken via Stripe.
Sponsor management
Tiered sponsor blocks with start- and end-date metadata, click-through tracking, and automatic rolloff when a sponsor doesn't renew.
The annual return and the bar
Bowls Australia counts playing and social members separately, and the licensed club needs its own trading position. Membership by type and the income summary by source keep those two sets of numbers apart without keeping two sets of books.
What is bowls club management software?
Bowls club management software takes the jobs currently spread across a clipboard at the front bar, a renewal letter run every July and a Thursday-night phone-around, and puts them on one platform. In ClubHelix that means self-serve member renewals across full, social and associate categories, pennant rounds and jackpot nights on one events calendar, rink and green bookings that cannot double-book, selection broadcasts that actually reach the side, and a public bowls club website the whole district can find. The bar's point-of-sale stays with your hospitality system — ClubHelix runs the membership, events, bookings and sponsor side of the club.
Selections published Thursday, known by Friday
The oldest problem in pennant: teams picked Thursday night, and half the side finds out Saturday morning. Selection pages stay member-only until you publish, then a one-click broadcast goes to the selected players — with last week's selection kept in version history when someone disputes who was in the fours. Pennant rounds run as recurring events with rink allocations and side composition attached, so every bowler can check the draw from home instead of ringing the club.
Barefoot Friday, rink bookings and the clubhouse
Barefoot bowls is the revenue night, and it deserves better than a clipboard. Sell capacity-capped slots as paid ticketed events — family and group tickets, paid online, with a door list scanned on a phone at the green. Draw your rinks and greens onto a venue map and take bookings in clash-proof slots with member and casual pricing and opening hours enforced automatically; corporate barefoot groups book and pay without ever ringing the bar. Jackpot nights and club championships get native ticketing so entries stop being cash in a tin with no record, and clubhouse hire runs through paid enquiry forms with conditional logic for catering and bar packages — the booking arrives with the deposit already taken. Sponsor blocks carry start and end dates, click-through tracking, and automatic rolloff, so signage never outlives the deal that paid for it.
A bowls club website past the noticeboard
Results, selections, greens notices and the barefoot booking button all live on your own site, built with the page editor by whoever on the committee draws the short straw — no web person required. Browse the template gallery to start from a working layout, or open the live demo to see what members and casual visitors get.
Free bowls club management software to start
Every ClubHelix club starts on the free plan — your bowls club website and core admin at no cost, for as long as you like, with no time limit. Paid plans carry a 14-day free trial and bill on a 28-day cycle you can cancel any time; current tiers are on the pricing page. Renewals, barefoot tickets and hire deposits settle directly to the club's own Stripe account — ClubHelix never holds your funds, and the platform fee is never surcharged to your members.
Retiring the clipboard
Bring over the member list, set up this season's pennant rounds and your first barefoot night, and let one renewal cycle prove the system before you commit the lot. ClubHelix runs bowls clubs in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the US, Canada, Ireland and South Africa — payments settle in your local currency through your own account. Questions before you start? Talk to us, or read the full guide to running a lawn bowls club — greens maintenance, committee structure and the membership calendar included. The croquet club sharing your precinct is covered too.
Features in your plan
Every plan starts free and includes the whole platform below — browse all features or compare plans.
Canvas page editor
A no-code, drag-and-drop club website editor. Your page, exactly as it publishes — click a section to edit it, drag to reorder, add new ones right where you want them.
Self-registration
Club membership software that handles the joining for you: online registration and season sign-ups on your own branded site, with email verification and optional admin approval.
Events
A club events calendar with one-off and recurring events — and ticket sales built in, so you never send members off to an external ticketing site.
Competitions
Leagues and divisions with published fixtures and game schedules, entered-once results, and ladders (standings) that compute themselves.
Team management
Team rosters with captains and jersey numbers, training sessions and practices with availability, and scoped access for coaches.
Broadcasts
Send a message to everyone, a role, or a custom segment of members.
Club shop
Run a club shop or team store: take uniform, kit and spirit wear orders online with variants, carts and order management — with GST handled properly on every sale.
Mobile app
A club app of your own — install-to-home-screen with your branding, push notifications and digital membership cards, no app store required.
Frequently asked questions
The questions bowls club committees ask before signing up.
- No — POS at the bar stays with your hospitality system. ClubHelix runs the membership, events, function bookings, ticketing and sponsor side of the club.
- A public paid event with capacity caps — non-members buy a slot through your branded site, pay via Stripe, and you get a clean door list for the night.
- Yes — district sits one tier above clubs, with cascading branding, a cross-club member directory and centralised reporting.
- Yes. Selections are pages with member-only visibility until you publish, with a one-click broadcast to the selected side. Last week's selection is kept in version history.
Can ClubHelix replace our point-of-sale at the bar?
How do we take barefoot bowls bookings from non-members?
Can our district association run on the same platform?
Do you handle pennant team selections that change weekly?
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