Booster Club Software: What You Actually Need in 2026
Almost every booster club product is sold on an annual contract, somewhere between $299 and $850 a year. The subscription isn’t the number that matters. The number that matters is the cut taken out of every dollar you raise, and four of the ten below don’t publish it.
We read every vendor’s own pricing page on 5 September 2026. A club moving $40,000 a year through concessions, spirit wear, dues and fundraisers can pay anywhere from about $800 to more than $3,000 in fees on identical activity, depending only on which product it signed up for.
Here’s what booster club software really costs, what a booster club actually needs it to do, and how to work out your own number before you commit to a year.
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The five jobs booster club software has to do
Booster clubs aren’t small nonprofits and they aren’t sports teams. They’re volunteer run organizations with real money moving through them, a board that changes every year, and a membership made up of parents who are already overloaded. The software has five jobs.
- Collect money in several shapes. Dues, spirit wear, concessions, event tickets, fundraiser pledges and straight donations are five different transactions, and a lot of tools only do two of them well.
- Tell the treasurer who has paid. Not a payout total. A list, by family, that reconciles.
- Reach every parent. Not post to a group and hope. The parents who most need to see the volunteer request are the ones who never open email.
- Sign people up to do things. Concession shifts, chaperones, setup and teardown, the trailer.
- Hand over cleanly in June. Next year’s board shouldn’t inherit a spreadsheet and a personal Venmo account.
Almost every product below does two or three of these well. Very few do all five, which is why so many booster clubs end up running three tools at once and paying fees on all of them.
The fee is the price
A $650 a year subscription is a fixed, predictable cost. A 7.9% cut of your fundraiser isn’t, and it will be larger. This is the single most common budgeting mistake booster clubs make, so it’s worth putting the published rates side by side before anything else.
| Tool | Platform fee | Card processing | Publishes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Givebacks, store and POS | 1.05% + $0.65 | 2.9% + $0.30 Stripe | Yes, in full |
| Givebacks, percent-model fundraiser | 7.5% | 2.9% + $0.30 Stripe | Yes, in full |
| Givebacks, direct donations | 0% | 1.99% + $0.49 Stripe | Yes, in full |
| Cheddar Up, free plan | Not broken out | 3.95% + $0.95, all-inclusive | Yes |
| Cheddar Up, paid plans | Not broken out | 3.59% + $0.59, all-inclusive | Yes |
| SignUpGenius | Not broken out | 5% + $0.50, composition not stated | Yes |
| PTOffice | Not broken out | 7.9%, or a tip jar option at no cost, composition not stated | Yes |
| Kannect, Starter and Launch | 2% | Stripe standard, 2.9% + $0.30 | Yes |
| Booster Hub | Not published | Not published | No |
| Membership Toolkit | Not published | Not published | No |
| TeamSnap | Not published | Not published | No |
| Sports Connect | $3 per transaction | Not published | Partly |
Bank transfer is the column most clubs never look at and the one that saves the most on big collections. Cheddar Up charges 1.95% with a $1.00 minimum on its paid plans and does not offer eCheck on the free plan at all, and the Stripe ACH rate that applies under Kannect is 0.8% capped at $5.00 per transaction, which on a $200 registration is a dollar sixty instead of six. Most of the other tools here do not publish a bank transfer rate, so ask before you assume you have one.
Two things stand out. Givebacks publishes the most complete fee table in this category, including the uncomfortable one: its percent-model fundraiser takes 7.5% before the card processor takes its share. That’s transparency, and it’s more than most vendors here offer. And the four products that publish nothing are, between them, the ones most heavily marketed to booster clubs.
10 booster club software tools at a glance
| Tool | Entry price | Priced by | Platform fee | Free trial | Publishes pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kannect | $29/mo, or $276/yr | People, 500 on the entry plan | 2% | 7 days, card required | Yes, in full |
| Cheddar Up | Free, or $15/mo paid yearly | Flat plans, by feature set | Not broken out, 3.59% + $0.59 all-inclusive on paid plans | Free plan | Yes, in full |
| SignUpGenius | Free, or $107.89/yr | Flat plans, by feature set | 5% + $0.50, composition not stated | Free plan | Yes |
| PTOffice | $299 to $699/yr | Flat plans, by feature set | 7.9%, or a tip jar option at no cost, composition not stated | 30-day money back | Yes |
| Givebacks | $499 to $599/yr | Flat plans, by feature set | 0% to 7.5% by model, plus Stripe, published in full | Not published | Yes, in full |
| Membership Toolkit | $550 to $1,150/yr | Per organization, not by member count | Not published | Yes, length not published | Yes, in full |
| Booster Hub | $650 to $850/yr | Per club, by activity type | Not published | 45 days | Yes, in full |
| TeamSnap | Not published | Not published | Not published | Free to start | No |
| Sports Connect | Not published | Not published | $3 per transaction, card rate not published | Not published | Partly |
| RaiseRight | Free to start | No subscription, gift card rebate model | Not applicable, rebate model | Free | Yes |
Booster club software, one by one
Booster Hub
The only product on this list built for booster clubs and nothing else, which shows in the vocabulary. Standard is $650 a year for a single activity club. Pro is $850 a year and is aimed at athletic booster clubs and large band programs. A Teams module is $250 a year on top, and a Bands inventory module is another $250. SMS is $0.02 a message, with 500 free a month on Pro. The trial is 45 days, which is the longest here.
The gap. No payment processing fee is published anywhere on the pricing or features pages. For a product sold to organizations whose whole reason for existing is moving money, that’s the number you should ask for first, in writing. The onboarding package price is also not published.
Givebacks, formerly MemberHub
Pro is $499 a year and Premium is $599 a year, with a Partner tier for districts. Unlimited email up to 50,000 contacts. There’s no monthly option.
Why it’s worth a look. Givebacks publishes a complete fee table by transaction type, which nobody else in this category does. If you run a tip-model fundraiser the platform takes 0%, and direct donations are 0% platform plus a discounted 1.99% + $0.49 nonprofit Stripe rate. If you run a percent-model fundraiser the platform takes 7.5%. Knowing that in advance lets you choose the fundraiser model deliberately instead of discovering it at payout.
Membership Toolkit
Essential $550 a year, Premium $850, Concierge $1,150 with three professional services and an onboarding conference included. Texting is $2.50 a month plus $0.02 a message, with 250 free texts a year on Essential and 500 on Premium and Concierge. Annual billing only. Aimed at PTAs, PTOs, booster clubs, HOAs, scouts and sports teams.
The gap. Payment processing rates aren’t published. The features page mentions keeping 95% of what’s donated for peer to peer fundraising, which implies 5% there, but no card or ACH rates appear anywhere.
PTOffice
Simple Site $299 a year with one administrator. Shared $499 a year with multiple admins, membership management, email, volunteer sign-ups and directories. Private $699 a year with a dedicated installation and custom domain. Annual only, with a 30 day money back guarantee rather than a trial.
Worth knowing. Payment processing is a flat 7.9% deducted from funds raised, or you can use a tip jar model at no cost. That 7.9% is published plainly, which is more than most competitors do, but it’s high: on $20,000 raised it’s $1,580.
Cheddar Up
The most popular way for a booster club to start collecting money without buying a platform. Free Forever costs nothing, with up to 5 items and 1 form per page and unlimited pages. Pro is $15 a month paid annually and Team is $35 a month paid annually.
Card fees are 3.95% + $0.95 on the free plan and 3.59% + $0.59 on the paid plans, with eCheck at 1.95% and a $1.00 minimum on paid plans only. By default the payer covers the fee, which is why so many clubs like it.
Where it stops. Cheddar Up collects money extremely well and doesn’t do membership, announcements or a directory. It’s a payment page, not an organization.
SignUpGenius
The default for concession shifts and chaperone rosters. Basic is free with unlimited sign-up pages. Silver is $11.99 a month or $107.89 a year, Gold is $29.99 or $269.89 with 10 extra admins and 10,000 emails, Platinum is $59.99 or $539.89 with 20 extra admins.
Payment collection is 5% of the money collected plus $0.50 a transaction, with no monthly fee for that feature.
Where it stops. It’s a sign-up tool. It has no membership records and no dues.
TeamSnap
Excellent for a team: rosters, schedules, availability and game day chat. Single teams start free with paid upgrades.
The gap. No prices are published for Clubs and Leagues, and none of the TeamSnap+ plan prices appear on the site either. The payments page describes transparent processing rates without publishing a rate. Everything routes to a conversation.
Worth being clear about. TeamSnap is built around a team, not around a booster club that funds several teams and has its own membership, board and treasury.
Sports Connect, formerly Blue Sombrero
Part of Stack Sports, aimed at youth sports leagues. The only figure published is a $3 service fee per registration transaction, described as per transaction rather than per player per activity. Card processing is paid by the league at a rate that isn’t published, and the full price list is sent to boards rather than posted.
RaiseRight
Gift card fundraising rather than club administration. Free to start, no minimum order. The site says there are nominal transaction fees that vary by how your program orders and pays, and that online shopping, local dining and travel bookings carry no fees. No percentages are published.
It sits alongside whatever you use to run the club rather than replacing it.
8to18
Athletic department software sold to schools rather than to booster clubs. No pricing is published anywhere reachable and the pricing and solutions pages are blocked to automated retrieval. Everything routes to a demo.
A worked example: the $40,000 booster club
Take a booster club with 220 families that moves $40,000 a year: $8,000 in dues, $12,000 in spirit wear and concessions, $14,000 in a fundraiser and $6,000 in donations. Here’s what the published rates do to that, using card payments throughout.
| Scenario | Subscription | Platform fee on $40,000 | Card processing | Approximate total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheddar Up, paid plan | $180 | $1,908, all-inclusive | Included in the rate | $2,088 |
| Kannect, Starter | $276 | $800 | $1,400 Stripe | $2,476 |
| SignUpGenius | $107.89 | $2,400 | Not stated whether included | $2,508 if included, about $3,908 if not |
| PTOffice | $499 | $3,160 | Not stated whether included | $3,659 if included, about $5,059 if not |
| Givebacks, tip-model fundraiser | $499 | 0% on the fundraiser, 1.05% + $0.65 on the store | 2.9% + $0.30 Stripe, published in full | Depends on your mix |
The point isn’t which row wins. It’s that the gap between the top and bottom rows is more than $1,700 a year on identical activity, and none of it’s visible if you compare subscription prices alone. Our free Stack Audit Calculator will run the same arithmetic on whatever you’re using now.
Six booster club software questions to ask before you sign
- What’s the total percentage on a $50 card payment, all in? Platform fee plus processor fee, as one number. Ask for it in writing.
- Is there a cheaper rate for bank transfer, and can families use it? ACH at 1.95% versus a card at 3.95% is real money on a $14,000 fundraiser.
- Can the payer cover the fee? Several products default to this. It changes your economics completely.
- How many board members get admin access at this price? A booster club board is usually six to ten people.
- Is it annual only? Most of this category is. If your board turns over in June, a January renewal is awkward.
- What happens to the data when the treasurer changes? Ask specifically about export format and payment history.
Where Kannect fits
Kannect is our product, so check the pricing page yourself. It’s a community engagement platform for membership organizations, and a booster club is one, even if it doesn’t call itself that.
Memberships, properly. One membership type with multiple pricing tiers on every plan, or multiple membership types each with their own tiers on the higher plans. Custom application forms, manual or automatic approval, and a welcome flow that drops a new member straight into the conversation. Discounts and renewals are built in, so nobody’s tracking who gets the early-bird rate in a spreadsheet.
And the rest of the organization. A member directory with unlimited listings on every plan, and multiple directories side by side on the higher plans for sponsors, alumni, partners or your team. Groups and programs for chapters, committees and cohorts, each with its own conversation and analytics. A people database with statuses for member, alumni, donor, staff, parent and student, which members keep current themselves from the app. Events, broadcast email, a community website and a member app.
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | People | Admins | Emails/mo | Platform fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $29 | $276 | 500 | 3 | 5,000 | 2% |
| Launch | $69 | $660 | 2,000 | 5 | 20,000 | 2% |
| Growth | $149 | $1,428 | 5,000 | 10 | 50,000 | 1.5% |
| Scale | $299 | $2,868 | 15,000 | 25 | 150,000 | 1% |
The part that matters most day to day is reach. Every opted-in member receives every announcement. No algorithm decides who sees it, and there’s no per-contact overage bill for sending it. Payments run on Stripe. You connect your bank once, and money from events, memberships, programs and donations lands in your own account, usually within three business days. Kannect never holds your money. Registered nonprofits pay 0% Kannect fee on donations.
Three things matter for a booster club specifically. There’s a monthly option, so you’re not committing to a year before your first season. Membership tiers handle the thing every club runs into eventually, where a family membership, a business sponsor and a single supporter are three different prices for three different things. And discounts and renewals are built in, so the early-bird rate and the second-child discount aren’t a note in the treasurer’s spreadsheet.
Most organizations start with one job, usually events, payments or the directory, and bring the rest across as they need it. Setup is self-serve at no cost. If you’d rather we build the account for you, that’s an optional one time service starting at $150.
If you also run a PTA or work with the school directly, we write separately for K-12 and PTAs and for nonprofits.
Frequently asked questions
What’s the best booster club software?
It depends on which of the five jobs you most need solved. Booster Hub is the only product built for booster clubs specifically. Cheddar Up is the easiest way to collect money. SignUpGenius is the standard for volunteer shifts. Givebacks publishes the clearest fee table. Kannect covers members, dues, events and announcements in one system with a monthly option.
How much does booster club software cost?
Published prices in 2026 run from free to $1,150 a year. Most dedicated products are annual only and sit between $499 and $850 a year: Givebacks $499 to $599, Membership Toolkit $550 to $1,150, Booster Hub $650 to $850, PTOffice $299 to $699. The subscription is usually smaller than the payment fees, so budget both.
What payment processing fee should a booster club expect?
Published rates in this category range widely. PTOffice publishes 7.9% on funds raised. SignUpGenius publishes 5% plus $0.50. Cheddar Up publishes 3.59% plus $0.59 on paid plans and 1.95% for eCheck. Kannect publishes a 2% platform fee alongside Stripe processing. Several popular products publish no rate at all, so ask for the all-in percentage on a $50 payment in writing.
Is there free booster club software?
Partly. Cheddar Up has a permanently free plan and SignUpGenius has a free Basic tier, but both charge a higher payment fee on the free plan and neither handles membership records or dues. RaiseRight is free to start for gift card fundraising. There’s no free product that covers dues, communication, volunteers and the treasurer’s records together.
Do we need booster club software if we already use TeamSnap?
Usually yes, because they solve different problems. TeamSnap is built around a team: roster, schedule, availability and game day. A booster club has its own membership, board, treasury and fundraising that sit above the teams it funds. TeamSnap also doesn’t publish prices for its Clubs and Leagues product.
Can we switch booster club software mid-year?
You can, but most of this category bills annually with no monthly option, so check your renewal date before you decide. Export your family list, payment history and any open sign-ups while the old account is still active. Where possible, time the change to your season break rather than to the middle of a dues or fundraiser cycle.
Where these booster club software prices came from
Every booster club software price and payment fee above came off the vendor’s own page on 5 September 2026.
- Booster Hub pricing
- Givebacks pricing
- Membership Toolkit pricing
- PTOffice pricing
- Cheddar Up pricing
- TeamSnap pricing
- RaiseRight pricing
- Sports Connect pricing
Related reading
- 12 best community engagement platforms, with verified pricing
- What membership management software costs for nonprofits
- Why members join and then go quiet
- How to recruit and engage volunteers
- Why community engagement fails
- How to run a booster club: the first-year playbook
- How to collect trip payments from parents without chasing them
- The booster club handoff: what to give next year’s board
- What community software actually costs
- The Stack Audit calculator
- Free guides and templates
