Built for Australian community clubs

Your club's engine room — not just another website

GroupDesk is the admin platform your committee actually needs. Bookkeeping, members, inventory, minutes, events, communications and calendar — all in one place. Everything survives the AGM.

No credit card required  ·  No transaction fees  ·  Australian data  ·  Cancel anytime
GroupDesk — Your Cricket Club
Bookkeeping
📊 Transactions
📋 Accounts
✅ Reconcile
Members
👥 Member List
🔄 Renewals
Minutes
📅 Meetings
☑️ Actions
Events
📆 All Events
Income
$12,450
Expenses
$8,320
Balance
$4,130
Description
Account
Amount
Membership fees
Members
+$2,400
Ground hire
Venue
-$850
Fundraising BBQ
Fundraising
+$1,200
Equipment purchase
Equipment
-$420
Sports clubs & associations
Community & cultural groups
RSL & service clubs
School P&C committees
Not-for-profits & charities
Sound familiar?

The treasurer's nightmare, every year

Most community clubs manage their finances and records with a patchwork of spreadsheets, Word documents and email chains. It works — until it doesn't.

The treasurer quits mid-year

They take the password with them. The new treasurer inherits a folder of Excel files nobody can decipher.

Nobody knows what was decided

Minutes are in someone's personal email. Action items from six months ago were never followed up.

Equipment goes missing

Nobody tracked who borrowed the marquee. The club insures equipment nobody can find an asset register for.

Renewals fall through the cracks

Half the membership list is out of date. The AGM membership count is anyone's guess.

The AGM P&L takes days to prepare

Reconciling three bank accounts, a petty cash tin and a fundraising account in Excel the night before the AGM.

You're paying for software you don't need

Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks are built for businesses. Your bowls club doesn't need payroll and inventory management.

Everything in one place

Eight modules. One platform. One price.

GroupDesk covers every administrative job a community club committee needs to do — without the complexity of enterprise software or the cost of a spreadsheet gone wrong.

Bookkeeping

Simple income and expense tracking designed for volunteer treasurers, not accountants.

  • Multiple bank accounts & petty cash
  • Bank reconciliation
  • Budget vs actual tracking
  • GST summary for BAS
  • P&L report for AGM
  • Financial year rollover
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Members

A proper membership register that tracks renewals, fees and committee roles automatically.

  • Full membership register
  • Renewal tracking & reminders
  • Committee role management
  • Membership fee auto-posted to bookkeeping
  • CSV export for mail merge
  • Life & honorary members
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Inventory

Know exactly what your club owns, where it is, who has it and when it's coming back.

  • Asset register with insured values
  • Loan tracking with due dates
  • Overdue loan alerts
  • Maintenance & service log
  • Asset purchase auto-posted to bookkeeping
  • Disposal records
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Minutes

Run better meetings. Committee members auto-loaded, action items tracked, nothing falls through the cracks.

  • Standard agenda auto-generated
  • Committee members auto-added as attendees
  • Motions with outcomes recorded
  • Action items with due dates
  • Matters arising from previous meetings
  • Minutes confirmation workflow
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Events

Plan and run every event from start to finish. Everything documented so next year's organiser starts with a full playbook, not a blank page.

  • Checklist — before, day-of and after tasks with assignees
  • Contacts — emergency services, suppliers, guests and volunteers
  • Run sheet — schedule of the day with who's responsible
  • Licences and permits tracking
  • Post-event debrief — what worked, what to improve, notes for next year
  • PDF briefing pack — printable for volunteers on the day
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Compliance

Track WWCC expiries, office holders and key dates so your club stays on top of its governance obligations — automatically.

  • WWCC, First Aid and Police Check tracking per member
  • Automatic expiry alerts — 60 days warning
  • Office holder register with start dates and history
  • Key dates — AGM, insurance renewal, licence expiry
  • Days-until countdown with overdue alerts
  • Mark dates complete when done
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Communications

Email your members in seconds — everyone, just the committee, a specific class or one individual. No mail merge, no spreadsheets.

  • Email all members, committee or by membership type
  • Email a specific class or age group
  • Email an individual member directly
  • Personalised with each member's name
  • Sent from your club's name, not ours
  • Full history of every message sent
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Calendar

Performances, fixtures, gradings, rehearsals and meetings — with one-click email notifications to the members who need to be there.

  • Events with date, time, location and map link
  • Dress code, program and what to bring
  • Notify all members, committee or a class
  • Professional branded email notifications
  • Upcoming and past event views
  • Works for bands, dance, karate, sport & more
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Who uses GroupDesk

Built for every type of Australian community group

If you have a committee, a treasurer and members — GroupDesk was built for you.

🏏

Cricket Clubs

Manage fees, equipment and committee meetings

🏉

Football Clubs

Track memberships, assets and financials

🏐

Netball Clubs

Renewals, uniforms and meeting minutes

🎯

Bowls Clubs

Treasurer tools built for volunteers

🎵

Music & Arts Groups

Equipment register and member database

🏅

RSL Branches

Committee governance and financial records

🌿

Community Gardens

Membership and volunteer tracking

📚

School P&C

Meeting minutes and fundraising accounts

🦁

Lions & Rotary

Members, projects and committee records

Church Groups

Simple bookkeeping and meeting records

🥾

Hiking & Outdoors

Equipment loans and member register

🎭

Theatre & Dance

Costumes, props and production budgets

Getting started

Up and running in under an hour

No IT department needed. No training course required. If you can use email, you can use GroupDesk.

1

Start your free trial

Fill in your club name and contact details. We set up your account and send you a login within one business day.

2

Set up your modules

Add your chart of accounts, import your member list and set up your first financial year. Takes about 30 minutes.

3

Invite your committee

Add your secretary, equipment officer and any committee members who need access. Each person only sees what they need.

4

Run your club

Enter transactions, track renewals, log your assets and record your meeting minutes. Everything in one place.

Why GroupDesk is different

Other platforms run your club's front door.
GroupDesk runs your engine room.

Platforms like Member Jungle and TidyHQ are built around public-facing websites — event listings, online joining, member portals. GroupDesk is built around your committee — the people who manage the money, run the meetings and keep the club running.

🏛️

Front door platforms

  • Public event listings
  • Online member joining
  • Member self-service portal
  • Club website builder

Great if you need a public presence. Not built for the treasurer at 11pm before the AGM.

⚙️

GroupDesk — engine room

  • Proper double-entry bookkeeping
  • Committee meeting minutes
  • Equipment asset register
  • Year-end rollover with balance carry-forward
  • Everything survives the AGM

Built for the people who keep the club running.

Already have a website? GroupDesk works alongside it — we handle the back office, you keep your front door.

Simple pricing

Only pay for what your club needs.

Start with just the modules you need from $29/month. Or get everything for one flat price. No transaction fees. Ever.

Best value — Full Suite
$75
per month, AUD  ·  or $825/year (1 month free)  ·  cancel anytime
  • Bookkeeping — transactions, reconciliation, reports, GST, year end
  • Members — register, renewals, committee roles, term billing
  • Inventory — asset register, loans, stocktake
  • Minutes — meetings, agendas, motions, action items, PDF export
  • Events — planning, run sheets, contacts, post-event debrief
  • Communications — email members by group, class or individually
  • Calendar — performances, fixtures & events with notifications
  • Compliance — WWCC tracking, office holders, key dates
  • No setup fee
  • Unlimited members
  • 5 user logins — treasurer, secretary, equipment officer & more
  • Australian data storage
  • Email support from real humans in Adelaide
Start free 60-day trial

No credit card required. No setup fee. Cancel anytime.

Compare to TidyHQ: $49–$129/month plus setup fees. Focused on public-facing features.
Compare to Member Jungle: $109–$799/month plus transaction fees of 0.5–1.2%.
GroupDesk: $75 flat. No transaction fees. Your club's engine room.
See modular pricing — start from $29/month →
What clubs are saying

Feedback from our beta clubs

★★★★★

"Finally something built for clubs like ours. The bookkeeping module alone is worth it — I used to spend two days preparing the AGM report. Now it takes ten minutes."

Club Treasurer
Adelaide Community Sports Club — Beta tester
★★★★★

"The minutes module is brilliant. Committee members are automatically added as attendees and action items carry forward to the next meeting. Nothing gets forgotten."

Club Secretary
South Australian Association — Beta tester
★★★★★

"We had no idea what equipment we owned or where it was. The inventory module sorted that out in an afternoon. We even found gear we thought was lost."

Equipment Officer
Adelaide Performing Arts Group — Beta tester
Questions

Frequently asked questions

Your data is stored on Australian servers and is completely private to your organisation. No other club can see your data. All connections are encrypted with SSL. We never sell or share your data with third parties.

Absolutely. Your data is yours. Every module has a CSV export function so you can download your members, transactions and asset register at any time. We don't hold your data hostage.

At the end of your trial we'll contact you to discuss continuing. If you decide to subscribe, a one-off $99 setup fee applies and your monthly subscription begins. If you decide not to continue, we'll help you export your data and close your account. No pressure, no automatic charges.

Not at all. GroupDesk is designed for volunteer treasurers, not accountants. You record money coming in and money going out, GroupDesk handles the rest. A default chart of accounts is set up for you automatically — you just need to add your transactions.

Yes. The treasurer sees everything. The secretary only sees the minutes module. The equipment officer only sees inventory. General committee members get read-only access. You control exactly who can see and do what.

This is exactly what GroupDesk is designed for. The outgoing treasurer's login is deactivated and the new treasurer gets their own login. All data stays in the system — nothing is lost in the handover. We recommend setting up a recovery email (a shared club address) so access can always be restored.

No contract, no lock-in. GroupDesk is month-to-month. Cancel any time by emailing support@groupdesk.com.au. We think you'll stay because it's useful, not because we've trapped you.

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