Practical reads for clubs that take themselves seriously.
Your first 30 days on Yacht Clubs Manager
A suggested first-month plan for a new club: what to decide first, what our team sets up, and what your committee configures in which order.
Joining Your Sailing Club Online: Step by Step
From the application form to your first login, here is what happens when you join a club that runs its membership online.
Membership secretary's guide to applications
How to design your club's application form, review and accept applicants, and tailor the sign-up steps for each membership type.
Moving your club's members off spreadsheets
How to clean your old member list, invite everyone with a three-column spreadsheet, and chase the people who haven't signed up yet.
Paying Your Club Subscription Online
Where to find your club invoices, how to pay by card, and what to do when you have paid by bank transfer instead.
Setting up the club crane, hoist and boats for booking
How to set up bookable resources such as the crane, hoist, club boats and rooms, and manage the bookings through the season.
Booking the Club Crane or a Club Boat Online
How members book club resources online: choosing a slot, approval, paying by card and managing or cancelling your bookings.
Choosing your club's membership renewal settings
Fixed club date or joining anniversary, grace periods, pro-rata and which renewal automation to switch on in your first year.
A sailing club newsletter guide for comms officers
How to build a club newsletter from news, noticeboard posts and documents, respect members' email choices, and follow up bounces.
Swapping a Sailing Club Duty: A Member's Guide
Where to see your duties, which reminders you will get, and how to swap a duty with another member in a few clicks.
Committee roles and admin permissions for your club
Why shared admin passwords are a risk, how to give each committee role only the access it needs, and how to hand over at the AGM.
Entering a Club Event or Regatta Online
How members and visiting sailors enter a club event online, from choosing days and prices to paying and what happens if plans change.
GDPR for sailing club committees, in plain English
The data protection principles volunteer committees need day to day, and how the platform helps with access, deletion, retention and permissions.
Stripe and Xero: a guide for club treasurers
How to connect the club's Stripe account and, if you use it, Xero: category mapping, what syncs, and what you still reconcile.
Keeping Your Club Profile Up to Date
Family, emergency contacts, qualifications, boats and email preferences: a member's guide to the profile and account pages.
Taking card payments at a sailing club
How card payments work through your club's own Stripe account, what members see, and how bank transfers, refunds and fees are handled.
Choosing Sailing Club Software: Questions to Ask
A vendor-neutral guide for committees: what to decide first, how to run demos, and the questions to put to any sailing club software supplier.
Crew Finder: How Skippers and Crew Find Each Other
How to post a crew request, apply with a note, accept or decline, and keep your plans up to date using your club's crew finder.
How to Build a Yacht Club Website Members Use
What brings members back to a club website, what visitors need from it, and how the committee can keep it current without a webmaster.
Modernising an Established Yacht Club, Step by Step
How to win over the committee, phase the change, bring existing members across and keep the old ways of paying while your club moves online.
A Yacht Club Treasurer's Guide to Online Invoicing
Batch invoices, card payments, bank transfers, overdue reminders, refunds, VAT and year-end figures, explained for volunteer treasurers.
From Notice of Race to Published Results
An events secretary's walk-through: publish the Notice of Race, open paid entries, manage the entry list and put results on your website.
Running a Club Shop Online: Click and Collect
How to run a click-and-collect club shop: sizes and colours, personalisation, VAT, guest checkout and orders from paid to collected.
The Club Membership Renewal Checklist
A before, during and after checklist for the membership secretary and treasurer, using real renewal settings you switch on only when ready.
How to Run a Sailing Club Duty Roster
A practical guide for duty co-ordinators: duty types, assigning members and helpers, automatic reminders, member-to-member swaps and PDF export.
Moving Your Club to One Platform: What Changes by Role
What one platform takes over at a yacht club, and what changes afterwards for the commodore, secretaries, treasurer and duty co-ordinator.