A public sign-up link for the poster by the green, an approval queue for the membership secretary, and a member record that finally replaces the spreadsheet.
Your club gets its own application page — bowlside.com/apply/your-club — that works on any phone, with no app to install and no account to create.
A QR code on the noticeboard poster, a button on the club website, a Facebook post before the open day. Anyone curious can apply on the spot.
The membership secretary is emailed the moment an application arrives, and a badge in the app shows how many are waiting. Nobody's form gets lost in a kitchen drawer.
Approving sends the welcome invite and raises the joining fee against their account, with new-member and late-season rates applied automatically. Declining is handled kindly, by email.
Every member the club secretary actually keeps track of — playing and social, juniors and life members — searchable from any device, instead of three spreadsheets and a card index in the clubhouse.
A proper member record
Address, birthday, emergency contact, a second phone number, locker number, handicap — and sensitive notes visible only to admins and the member themselves.
Membership categories with teeth
Full, Social, Junior, Life — or whatever your club uses. Categories carry playing and booking rights, so a social member is politely stopped from entering the club championship.
Bring your list in, in one go
Import from a CSV or straight from a BIAS export — it keeps both phone numbers and creates your membership categories for you.
Know when email stops working
Bounce detection tells you when a member's address goes dead, so nobody quietly misses selection emails all season. A phone directory with a simple opt-out matches the printed-list norm.
Riverside Bowls Club · 142 members
Margaret Thornton
Wilfred Pearce
Dorothy Palmer
Norman Blackwood
A bowls club runs on a handful of volunteers with very different jobs. Bowlside matches that instead of making everyone an admin.
Roles that mirror a real committee
Club Admin owns the club; Committee runs operations without touching money; Treasurer sees money and nothing else; Members run their own bowling.
Club-defined grants
Hand out exactly the rights a job needs — fixtures, competitions, leagues, rink booking, members, newsletters or duties — without making anyone a full admin.
Selection authority where it belongs
Selectors and selection panels can be granted per fixture or per panel, so captains pick teams without the keys to the club.
Member data at a club is a responsibility, and the AGM knows it. Bowlside is built to make the careful answer the easy one.
Deactivate, don't delete
A member taking a season out is made inactive and keeps their history. Nothing precious is thrown away in a tidy-up.
Erasure on request
When someone asks to be forgotten, their personal details are erased while the club's match records stay intact — the GDPR answer, one button.
You can't lock yourselves out
The last club admin can't be demoted or removed, so a spring clean of the committee never strands the club.
Two-step verification
Any member can add an authenticator app to their login — sensible for the treasurer and anyone holding member data.
Bring it over in one go — from a spreadsheet or a BIAS export — and be inviting members the same afternoon. A full year of Club, free, no card needed.