Run your booster club without the spreadsheet and the group text.
Band, football, theater, robotics. Kannect gives your booster club one place for parent communication, trip payments, fundraising, volunteer signups, and the roster, and it all survives the handoff to next year's board.
7-day free trial. A card is required, which keeps Kannect spam-free. Cancel anytime.
What Kannect commits to your club
100%
Reach. A schedule change reaches every parent who opted in, not the ones who happen to check Facebook.
2%
On payments. Trip payments, uniform fees, and dues at 2%, not 10–14%.
0%
On donations. Nonprofit donations processed at 0% platform fee, plus standard Stripe fees.
1
Handoff. One account the club owns, passed to next year's board without losing anything.
One platform instead of four
Most clubs run on a Facebook group and a text chain for parents, a ticketing site for the concert, a fundraising page for the trip, and a spreadsheet holding who paid what. Kannect retires all of it.
Parent communication
Schedule changes and volunteer calls that reach every parent, not a fraction.
Concerts & competitions
Ticketed events at 2%, with reminders and check-in built in.
Fundraising & donations
Campaigns for trips and equipment, with donations at 0%.
Roster & who paid
One connected record per family across dues, trips, and volunteering.
Every August the club starts over from nothing
Booster boards turn over every year. The treasurer graduates out, the login lives in someone's personal email, and the new board rebuilds the roster, the payment tracker, and the parent list from scratch. Meanwhile the season has already started.
The annual handoff loses everything
Last year's roster, payment records, and vendor contacts sat in a volunteer's personal accounts. Nobody can find them and nobody wants to ask.
Parents who never got the message
Call time moved, the bus left at seven, and the post reached the parents who were already paying attention. The rest are calling you.
Chasing payments by hand
Trip balances, uniform fees, and fundraiser totals tracked across a spreadsheet, a payment app, and a shoebox. Reconciling it takes a weekend.
Bookkeeping software is not community software
Most booster club tools are accounting products with a club bolted on. They balance the books, and the books were never the reason parents stopped answering.
What bookkeeping software does
Tracks the ledger, categorises income and expense, and produces the report your treasurer needs. Real work, and if that is your bottleneck you should have a tool for it.
What Kannect does
Gets the call time to every parent, fills the volunteer slots, collects the trip payment without a reminder text, and hands the whole club to next year's board intact.
Weighing us against a specific tool? See Kannect vs BoosterHub →
Everything a booster club actually runs on
One platform for parents, payments, fundraising, volunteers, and the records that need to outlive this year's board.
Parent communication
Push notifications and email for call times, weather calls, and last-minute changes. Delivered to every parent who opted in.
Trip and fee payments
Collect trip balances, uniform fees, and dues online. Every payment lands on the family's record automatically.
Fundraising campaigns
Run the trip fund, the equipment drive, and the annual campaign with donations processed at 0% platform fee.
Volunteer signups
Concessions, chaperones, pit crew, uniform fittings. Post the slots, let parents claim them, and send the reminder automatically.
The season calendar
Rehearsals, games, competitions, and fundraisers in one calendar every family can see and subscribe to.
Records the club owns
Roster, payment history, documents, and contacts held by the club, not by whoever happened to set it up.
Built to survive next year's board
Booster clubs do not churn because the software was bad. They churn because the person who set it up graduated and took the login with them. Kannect is set up so the club owns the account and the handoff takes minutes.
The club owns the account
Add next year's president and treasurer as admins, remove the outgoing board, and everything stays in place. No password shared over text, no personal Gmail holding the club's history.
Last season is still there
Payment history, vendor contacts, bylaws, meeting minutes, and the parent list carry forward. The new board starts from what the last one built instead of from an empty spreadsheet.
Three steps to a season that runs itself
Set up your club
Start a 7-day free trial and build your club's home in under five minutes. Add the season calendar and your fee structure.
Bring in your families
Import the roster, invite parents, and organize them by section, team, or grade so messages go to the right people.
Run the season
Collect payments, fill volunteer slots, and send updates. Parents get everything in the Kannect Community Hub app.
Independent. Verified. Built for you.
Two things make Kannect different from the tools booster clubs usually settle for.
Independent and founder-run
Bending Spoons, a holding company known for buying consumer apps, raising prices, and cutting support, now owns both Meetup and Eventbrite. Kannect is independent and answers to the communities it serves, not to an acquirer.
Verified and spam-free
Every organization joins through a credit-card-verified trial that stops bots and fake listings. Parents know the club asking for a payment is the real one.
A club that does not restart every August
Of parents reached
Every schedule change reaches every parent who opted in. No algorithm decides who gets the call time.
On paid events
Trip payments, fees, and ticketed events at 2%, not the 10 to 14% a ticketing site takes.
To launch
Most clubs set up their home and import their roster in under five minutes.
Booster club questions, answered
What happens when our board changes each year?
The club owns the account, not the volunteer. Hand off admin access to next year's board and the roster, payment history, calendar, and documents stay exactly where they are.
Can we collect trip payments and fundraiser money?
Yes. Collect trip payments, uniform fees, dues, and fundraiser contributions through Kannect. Paid events and programs carry a 2% platform fee, and nonprofit donations are processed at 0%, plus standard Stripe fees.
Do parents need to download an app?
No. Parents can take part on the web, and they can also use the Kannect Community Hub app to get schedule changes, volunteer requests, and payment reminders as push notifications.
How much does Kannect cost?
Plans start at $23/mo billed yearly, or $29/mo month to month. Every plan includes a 7-day free trial, and a credit card is required to start it, which keeps Kannect verified and spam-free.
Start the season with everything in one place
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