Collect club fees without chasing anybody
Session fees and club subscriptions, by card or tracked as cash, paid into the club’s own account. Spike is free to run your club — it earns a share of what moves through it, so it only costs a club that is actually collecting money.
Start collecting feesThe money is the part that makes people quit
Most volleyball clubs collect fees into a volunteer’s personal bank account, reconciled against a spreadsheet and a memory of who handed over a fiver. It works until it doesn’t. The court gets paid for whether or not the players did, the shortfall comes out of someone’s own money, and asking a friend for £6 for the third week running is the job nobody signed up for.
The fix is not a better spreadsheet. It is putting the fee on the session itself, so paying is part of joining rather than a conversation afterwards.
A fee on the event, priced how your club actually charges
Attach a cost to any event and choose how it is split. Require payment before the spot is confirmed and the roster becomes a list of people who have committed, not a list of people who expressed interest. Reminders go out a set number of days before, and a drop-out cut-off decides how late someone can pull out and still free their place.
- Per player — Everyone joining the session pays the same fee
- Per team — One charge per team, split however the team already splits it
- Per event — A single charge for the whole thing — a tournament entry, a hall hire
Card and cash in the same list
Plenty of clubs still take cash at the door, and pretending otherwise would just mean the treasurer keeps a second record. An event can accept card, cash, or both. Card payments are processed; cash is marked off. Either way the outstanding list is one list, and the payment history for a session says who paid, when, and how.
It is the club’s money, in the club’s account
Connect the club to Stripe once and card payments go to the club’s own Stripe account, with payouts to the club’s bank on Stripe’s normal schedule. There is no Spike balance to withdraw from and no float sitting somewhere you cannot see. The Treasurer role exists for exactly this, so the person handling money does not also have to be the person who runs the club.
Subscriptions, for clubs that charge by the month
Not every club bills per session. A club subscription runs alongside event fees, and a member’s subscription covers their sessions automatically rather than charging them twice. Where something genuinely costs extra — a tournament entry, a guest coach — you mark that one event as outside the subscription. Parents can hold a child’s subscription on their own account.
Why free is not a trial
Club management on Spike is free forever — no member cap, no expiry, no card to enter. The business model is the payments: Spike takes a share of what a club collects through it. That means a club that never charges for anything never pays anything, and Spike only does well when clubs are running sessions people turn up to and pay for. It is a deliberately narrow way to make money, and it is why the rest of the product does not need a price.
Who it’s for
Treasurers
One outstanding list covering card and cash, and money that lands in the club's account rather than someone's personal current account.
Organisers who hate asking
Payment can be required before a spot is confirmed, so the awkward reminder is a rule rather than a message you have to send.
Clubs with juniors
Parents pay for their children from their own account and keep the whole household's history in one place.
Common questions
If Spike is free, how does it make money?
Spike takes a share of the payments that move through it — session fees, club subscriptions, fundraising. Running your club is free forever, with no member limit and no trial. A club that never collects a payment through Spike never pays anything.
Where does the money actually go?
Straight to the club's own Stripe account, not into a Spike balance you have to withdraw from. You connect the club to Stripe once, and payouts follow Stripe's normal schedule to the club's bank account. The treasurer keeps the relationship with Stripe; Spike just sends the charges.
We collect cash at the door. Is that supported?
Yes. An event fee can be card, cash, or either. Cash is tracked rather than processed — you mark who has paid and the same outstanding list works for both, so the treasurer has one place to look instead of a card report and a notebook.
Can a parent pay for their child?
Yes. A guardian pays a child's event fees and club subscriptions from their own account, and sees the history for every child in the household in one place.
Can we charge a monthly membership rather than per session?
Yes. Clubs can run subscriptions alongside per-event fees, and a member's subscription covers their session fees automatically — they are not charged twice for something they have already paid for. Where an event genuinely costs extra, a tournament entry or a guest coach, you can mark that one event as outside the subscription.
What if someone drops out?
You set a cut-off in hours before the event. Drop out before it and the spot is released; after it, the place stays committed. Refunds themselves are still issued from Stripe by hand today — doing it from inside Spike in one action is on the roadmap.
The rest of the club, too
Stop fronting the court fee yourself
Connect your club to Stripe, put a fee on next week’s session, and let people pay when they join. Nothing to pay to set it up.
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