Bury & District Angling Society

Provided a means of collecting payments online, now able to offer online joining and ticket sales, enabled the club to go cashless.

Bury District Angling Society currently consists of six different waters within the club for our members to enjoy. These waters consist of Crompton’s Lodge, Big and Little Carcass, Field Lodge, Island Lodge and Cartwheel. We’re currently in the middle of a major redevelopment of our club waters, introducing new pegs and pathways along as well as a new fishery management plan.

Before introducing Clubmate at the club, I found it hard to keep up to date with membership numbers and figures from each of our different categories. We didn’t want to handle cash anymore due to security and workload reasons and storing cash at the club isn’t ideal; I didn’t have time to keep collecting the cash and run down to the bank to deposit it.

Cash payments also made it difficult to keep track of who had bought memberships, who had bought tickets and which anglers were still left to pay since I had to manually reconcile everything. I realised quickly that selling memberships online was the way to move forward, but there were no resources available to us at the time to make it happen.

They showed us how to collect payments online in our demo of the software and the fact that everything is automatically reconciled would save us so much time. There’s the ability to create multiple different types of memberships and tickets online, meaning we’d be able to get accurate figures for the different angler groups every time.

I had no reservations about signing up since there’s no setup fee and their pay-as-you-go plan means we were only charged per member added. Even just based on our initial conversation, I felt that BDAS was in good hands with Clubmate.