Friendly Manager

RATING:

4.6

(13)

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.

Friendly Manager Pricing

Friendly Manager's pricing starts at $25 per month with a free trial.

Starting price: 

NZ$29.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

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Friendly Manager Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Friendly Manager

1 - 5 of 13 Reviews

User Profile

Jo

Verified reviewer

Sports, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed April 2022

Friendly Manager

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

Sports, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

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.

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

Sports, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

1

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed June 2022

Never use this company! Keep looking for another soltuon.

Wost experience you can possibly have

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

Reason for choosing Friendly Manager

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

Kate

Sports, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

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.

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.

Brendon

Sports, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

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.

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

Reason 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