Friendly Manager 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Friendly Manager

4.6

(13)

Pricing

Starting at NZ$29.00 per month

About Friendly Manager

Friendly Manager dramatically reduces your admin time. Great for Sports Clubs (team sports, swimming, surf lifesaving, gymnastics clubs, and alike), Associations, Class-based Studios or Groups, Competition Organisers, and similar entities.

The cloud-based platform seamlessly handles registrations, member management, communication, payments, facility operations, events, qualifications, awards, uniform management, drag-and-drop scheduler, attendance management in one place, and so much more.

Enjoy a wide range of integrated add-ons, secure data storage, and a support team of real club/member admins with years of grassroots experience.

Join 400+ progressive clubs and 1M+ satisfied users who trust Friendly Manager today.

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Friendly Manager Pricing and Plans

Starting price: NZ$29.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

NZ$29.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Up to 50 members

Up to 100 members

NZ$59.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Up to 100 members

Up to 150 members

NZ$99.00

flat rate, per month

No plan information available

Up to 250 members

NZ$129.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Up to 250 members

Up to 500 members

NZ$189.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Up to 500 members

Up to 1000 members

NZ$259.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Up to 1000 members

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Friendly Manager Features

Popular features found in Club Management
Billing & Invoicing
Calendar Management
Event Management
Inventory Management
Marketing Automation
Member Portal
Mobile Access
Online Booking
Payment Processing
Registration Management
Team Management
Visitor Management
More features of Friendly Manager
Access Controls/Permissions
Accounting Integration
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
Application Management
Appointment Management
Assignment Management
Attendance Management
Attendance Tracking
Automated Scheduling
Availability Management
Booking Management
Chapter Management
Chat/Messaging
Class Scheduling
Client Portal
Communication Management
Contact Database
Content Management
Credit Card Processing
Customer Database
Customizable Branding
Customizable Fields
Customizable Forms
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Data Import/Export
Drag & Drop
Dues Management
Electronic Payments
Email Management
Email Marketing
Email Reminders
Email Templates
Employee Management
Enrollments/Onboarding
Event Calendar
Event Scheduling
Event Tracking
Facility Scheduling
Forms Management
Group Scheduling
In-Game Analytics
Instructor Management
Invoice Management
Member Accounts
Member Communication
Member Database
Member Directory
Membership Management
Membership Renewals
Member Types
Newsletter Management
Personalization
Recurring/Subscription Billing
Reminders
Reporting & Statistics
Scheduling
Search/Filter
Self Service Portal
Team Calendars
Third-Party Integrations
Volunteer Management
Wait List Management
Website Integration
Website Management

Friendly Manager Integrations

Stripe

Xero

Friendly Manager User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

85%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.4

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.4

Have you used Friendly Manager and would like to share your experience with others?

Jo M.

Verified reviewer

Sports

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed April 2022

Friendly Manager

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use over having to deal directly with Comet

Cons:

I find it frustrating that you cannot "order uniform" directly from a persons profile (from admin view)

Reasons for switching to Friendly Manager

ease of use of FM

Vendor Response

Hi Jo. Thanks for the review! We greatly appreciate it and know you are utilising many features of the platform which is fantastic! Thanks for bringing that up in regards to having the ability to directly order uniforms form the persons profile (in admin view). We will discuss with our product team about this feature request!

Replied April 2022

Julie J.

Verified reviewer

Sports

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed April 2022

Use Friendly - Friendly Manager

FM has worked very well for us compared to our last software. Our club has grown dramatically so it's great to have a system that is quick and easy to mange membership reducing admin time.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ability for customers to book and pay directly is awesome. We were also able to ingrate with our accounts software. We struggled before with credits on accounts and over or under payments but FM is a breeze. It was reasonably easy to set up FM but of course we lost our club history with the previous software so it is worth saving as much history as you can. Customer support is very responsive. The website is also a nice feature and reasonably easy to update.

Cons:

FM comes with a host of features like holiday programmes, venues and bookings, etc. Some do not exactly fit what we want to do but we have so far managed to find work arounds.

Reasons for switching to Friendly Manager

A requirement of our governing body, but glad we had to switch

Vendor Response

Hi Julie, thank you for your kind words! It seems you are making the most of our fees feature and Xero integration which is great to see! We love to see the many different ways customers utilise all our features. Watch this space as there are upgrades coming to Events and Bookings shortly!

Replied April 2022

Dan F.

Verified reviewer

Sports

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

Never use this company! Keep looking for another soltuon.

Wost experience you can possibly have

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It has failed twice now with the automatic payment function costing our organisation over $20 000 in lost revenue and all they said was sorry, sorry does not pay the bills

Cons:

No accountability and will leave you in the dark

Reasons for choosing Friendly Manager

I was told it was oooo Friendly, newsflash, if they says friendly, its not.

Maggie B.

Verified reviewer

Sports

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed April 2022

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The customer support has been great! Always quick, and very helpful.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is easy to use and allows us to keep track of the wide range of programmes we run at our football club. It is also easy to keep track of registrations, and outstanding invoices. Useful to have all this information in one place.

Cons:

It would be useful to be able to customise membership reports i.e., filter out values in a given column without first downloading to CSV. Possibly there is a way to do this, but I haven't been able to do so myself.

Vendor Response

Hi Maggie. It is fantastic that you are able have all the many aspects of your club under control by using Friendly Manager! And thanks for your kind words about our support team. They are amazing and strive to be of as much assistance to all customers as possible! Please get in touch with our spport team in regards to your question about filtering reports. They will definitely be able to help you get the correct data you are looking to download!

Replied April 2022

Jo J.

Verified reviewer

Sports

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed April 2022

Great Software

Overall our experience with Friendly Manager has been a good one. We have not had any major problems and the staff are always very helpful and friendly.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is very user friendly for our members. It has specific reporting features that we need for our governing body and also for us to track our membership. Fees and invoicing are quick and easy.

Cons:

The syncing with Xero can be a little frustrating as it only syncs on the hour. Emails often go to members 'junk'.

Reasons for switching to Friendly Manager

The product we were using was a US based one and it was too complicated.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review Jo! We are really happy you are enjoying our product, especially the quick and easy fees and invoicing. Please get in touch with our support team in regards to the emails going to junk so we can help troubleshoot and offer advice.

Replied April 2022

Brendon M.

Verified reviewer

Sports

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed April 2022

Volunteer Saviour

Great experience. We were an early adopter and provided general feedback on what could be improved. The team listened and then have keep developing the product. We would't be able to run our club now without it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

So easy to use and has reduced the amount of admin we do.

Cons:

No app for members yet. We're really looking forward to having an app that can replace the likes of Heja

Reasons for choosing Friendly Manager

While the Sporty product was probably more advanced, we didn't like the look and feel. We also felt that Friendly Manager was a company we could partner with and it was willing to work with us in developing the application further.

Vendor Response

Hi Brendon, Thanks so much for the review! Your feedback and input has helped us immensely to develop the product we have today, and are so glad it works well for you. The app is on our radar and we look forward to offering it to you and all clubs in the near future!

Replied April 2022

Kate B.

Verified reviewer

Sports

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Everything you need to run your club

Friendly Manager is a fantastic club management product. Mobile responsiveness is really important when you are pool side and Friendly Manager delivers this perfectly. Attendance, communication and contact details are all at my coaches finger tips, on their phones. The FM team really understand the sport and club space and helped us through every step of the setup.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love how Friendly Manager makes a small club look professional without much effort or software knowledge. Jobs can be easily shared between volunteers, with correct access to up to date information. The attendance tracking, segmented email communications and easy timetabling are features I could not live without now. The integration with Xero makes finance easy and the parents can login to FM at anytime to check their balance and make payments, which stops the phone calls!

Cons:

It would benefit from a communication app that provides push notifications for quick communication.

Michael d.

Verified reviewer

Sports

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed April 2022

Great software!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The ease of how to use it. I like that you can assign different rankings to different users and can send emails to groups, parents, etc with ease.

Cons:

When emailing, some users can only set the reply email to the main organisation email, only the Admin can set their personal email as the reply email. It would be nice to have this changed (unless it has already been changed).

Vendor Response

Hi Michael, thank you for the review! And great to see you making full use of the Mailer function! Please get in touch with our support team who will help you ensure you are getting replies to coaches. They will be more than happy to help

Replied April 2022

Cameron G.

Verified reviewer

Sports

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed April 2022

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Really easy to navigate & positive feedback from other coaches.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Navigating through team management & recording attendance Mailer for team use & history of mailer

Cons:

Difficult to send multiple documents (exceeding 10mb) on mail option. An increase to 15 0r 20mb would be ideal for me individually.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review Cameron. Very happy to see you making use of two key features being attendance and mailer. It is great that other coaches are delivering positive feedback as well. We appreciate you flagging the mailer feature request you have in increasing size of attachments. We will explore the ability to achieve this.

Replied April 2022

Claire P.

Verified reviewer

Sports

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2020

Thank you Friendly Manager

Currently all of them, as we have not been using the system to our advantage until recently, it is already accurately tracking our member numbers and invoicing and fee's is next on our list.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This software allows all aspects of a Sports Club's business to run smoothly and with transparency. Instant invoicing and fee tracking is wonderful, as well as tracking membership, easily adding and removing members. It does away with paper membership, and has easily accessible member information at all times.

Cons:

At this point we are in the fledgling steps of using the programme for my organisation, though I am experienced with it through another Club. Currently no issues, but if any eventuate I will be in contact with the team.

Reasons for choosing Friendly Manager

Although Gymnastics New Zealand made the recommendation, I would still choose Friendly Manager over all other products at this stage as I have seen it used to it's full capacity at another club. I love that it creates easy tracking of all areas of necessity and interest, from retention, fee's owing, uniforms, bookings etc.

Reasons for switching to Friendly Manager

Gymnastics New Zealand recommendation.

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