# Friendly Manager Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026

> Review of Friendly Manager Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs.

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# Friendly Manager 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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On this page

-   Overview
    
-   User Interface
    
-   Popular Alternatives
    
-   Pricing and Plans
    
-   Features
    
-   Integrations
    
-   User Reviews
    

## Overview

Friendly Manager

4.6

[(13)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/membership-management/friendly-manager-profile/#reviews)

Pricing

Starting at NZ$39.00 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.

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## Friendly Manager User Interface

## Popular Friendly Manager Alternatives

Main Product

Friendly Manager

4.6

[(13)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/membership-management/friendly-manager-profile/#reviews)

Ratings Breakdown

-   4.54Ease of use
-   4.36Value for money
-   4.60Customer support
-   4.38Functionality

Pricing

Starting at NZ$39.00 per month

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## Friendly Manager Pricing and Plans

Starting price: NZ$39.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

NZ$39.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

-   Up to 50 members

Up to 100 members

NZ$69.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

-   Up to 100 members

Up to 150 members

NZ$109.00

flat rate, per month

No plan information available

Up to 250 members

NZ$139.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

-   Up to 250 members

Up to 500 members

NZ$199.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

-   Up to 500 members

Up to 1000 members

NZ$269.00

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

Integration rated undefined from -1 review

Xero

Integration rated undefined from -1 review

## Friendly Manager User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

5

85%

4

8%

3

0%

2

0%

1

8%

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

5

Ratings Breakdown

5

Ease of use

3

Value for money

5

Customer support

3

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

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JJ

Julie J.

Verified reviewer

Sports

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed April 2022

Use Friendly - Friendly Manager

5

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

5

Ease of use

5

Value for money

5

Customer support

4

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

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DF

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.

1

Wost experience you can possibly have

Ratings Breakdown

3

Ease of use

1

Value for money

1

Customer support

3

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.

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Maggie B.

Verified reviewer

Sports

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed April 2022

WKAFC - Friendly Manager Review

5

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

Ratings Breakdown

4

Ease of use

5

Value for money

5

Customer support

5

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

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JJ

Jo J.

Verified reviewer

Sports

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed April 2022

Great Software

4

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

4

Ease of use

4

Value for money

5

Customer support

4

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

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BM

Brendon M.

Verified reviewer

Sports

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed April 2022

Volunteer Saviour

5

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

5

Ease of use

5

Value for money

5

Customer support

4

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

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KB

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

5

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

5

Ease of use

5

Value for money

5

Customer support

5

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.

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Md

Michael d.

Verified reviewer

Sports

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed April 2022

Great software!

5

Ratings Breakdown

4

Ease of use

4

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

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Cameron G.

Verified reviewer

Sports

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed April 2022

Friendly Manager Review

5

Really easy to navigate & positive feedback from other coaches.

Ratings Breakdown

4

Ease of use

5

Value for money

5

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

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CP

Claire P.

Verified reviewer

Sports

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2020

Thank you Friendly Manager

5

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

5

Ease of use

5

Value for money

5

Customer support

5

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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