Switching
Looking for a ClubV1 alternative
Caddyio is a white-label golf club platform used as an alternative to ClubV1, giving the club a branded, ad-free member app on its own domain from £99 a month with no per-member fees — and it can run alongside ClubV1 rather than replacing it.
ClubV1 and HowDidiDo are the incumbent pairing in UK golf, and clubs rarely go looking for an alternative because the back office is broken. They go looking because the part their members actually touch belongs to somebody else. This page is about that decision — not a feature table, which lives on the comparison page.
Why clubs look for an alternative to ClubV1
Your members are in someone else's app
The member relationship sits in HowDidiDo, a shared network app carrying every club, rather than in anything with your club's name on it. Your members' habit, and the data behind it, belongs to the network. For a club that has spent a century building an identity, handing the everyday touchpoint to a third party is the thing that eventually grates.
The standard member tier carries advertising
HowDidiDo's standard member tier is ad-supported, with an ad-free upgrade a member can pay for and an annual fee a club can pay for a branded slice. Whether that matters is a judgement call — but it is worth knowing that your members are being advertised to inside the app your club sends them to.
The on-course layer simply isn't there
Nothing in ClubV1 shows you players moving over your course in real time, tracks pace of play, takes a drinks order from the twelfth, or lets a member photograph a bunker that needs attention. That is not a criticism of a back-office system — it was never meant to do it — but it is the layer clubs increasingly want.
Two ways forward — and one of them isn’t switching
You do not have to replace ClubV1 to get any of this. Most clubs start by running Caddyio alongside what they already have.
Route one — replace it
Viable for clubs whose use of ClubV1 is essentially membership records, a tee sheet and competitions, and whose handicap secretary is content to keep submitting to the union as they do today. Caddyio becomes the club's system for the member experience and day-to-day operations.
- Membership records, subscriptions and dues move across; Caddyio holds them as the system of record.
- The tee sheet moves, with per-course intervals, party sizes, booking horizon, blackouts and a staff diary.
- Competitions, Orders of Merit and Eclectics run natively, published to members.
- Every member gets a branded app on your own domain, free, with no advertising.
- Handicaps stay indicative in Caddyio and are exported for your handicap secretary to submit — Caddyio is deliberately not the official record.
Route two — keep ClubV1, add Caddyio alongside
Usually the better first move, and the one most clubs should take. You are mid-contract, the handicap record is settled, and the committee will not approve ripping out the back office on the strength of a demonstration. So do not. Leave ClubV1 doing what it does and put Caddyio on top of the part it does not reach.
- Run the clubhouse GPS wallboard on its own, with ClubV1 untouched. It is the single most visible change a member notices, and it needs nothing from your existing system.
- Run one competition on Caddyio — a single open or a club championship — while everything else stays where it is.
- Give members the on-course layer: live scoring, shot tracking, service requests and course reporting, alongside their existing HowDidiDo account.
- Add coaching, so your professional's lessons, goals and shot maps live somewhere the club can see them.
- Decide about the back office later, on evidence, once your members have used the thing for a season.
When you should stay with ClubV1
If your club depends on ClubV1's EPOS and integrated card payments, Caddyio does not replace them — Caddyio does not do EPOS at all. If being union-connected as the handicap system of record is non-negotiable for how your club works, keep it: Caddyio tracks an indicative index for export, not the official record. And four decades of incumbency across well over a thousand clubs is not nothing — it is a mature, capable system, and moving a whole club off it is a real decision, not a light one.
The feature-by-feature comparison
A full side-by-side table lives on the comparison page, including the rows where Club Systems (ClubV1 + HowDidiDo) wins. Last verified against their own published material in August 2026.
Compare Caddyio and Club Systems (ClubV1 + HowDidiDo)Common questions
- What is the best ClubV1 alternative for a UK golf club?
- It depends what you are trying to fix. If the problem is that your members live in a shared, ad-supported network app rather than your club's own, Caddyio is a direct answer: a white-label member experience on your own domain, from £99 a month with no per-member fees, plus a live on-course layer ClubV1 does not have. If the problem is your EPOS or your union handicap connection, Caddyio is not the answer — it does neither.
- Can Caddyio run alongside ClubV1 rather than replacing it?
- Yes, and for most clubs that is the sensible first step. The clubhouse wallboard, a single competition, or the on-course member layer can each run on Caddyio with ClubV1 completely untouched. Nothing has to be migrated to start, and nothing breaks in ClubV1 if you stop.
- What happens to our handicaps if we move?
- They stay where they are. Caddyio deliberately is not the official handicap record: it tracks an indicative Handicap Index from the rounds played and exports it for your handicap secretary to submit through your existing route. Any vendor telling you they will take over your union handicap record should be asked to show you the approval.
- Does Caddyio charge per member?
- No. Pricing is per club from £99 a month, and members are free however many you have. There is no per-member fee and no tee-time commission.
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