Can Caddyio replace ClubV1?

For the member experience, yes — a branded member app on your own domain, live scoring, a GPS wallboard, an online tee sheet, on-course service, coaching, stats, feed and membership tools. Caddyio is not your official WHS record or your EPOS/till: keep your union-connected handicap provider and card-payment till, and let Caddyio be the modern engagement layer on top. Many clubs run both.

There's a free member tier, but it's ad-supported; going ad-free is a paid upgrade, and clubs can pay an annual fee for a branded presence within the network. With Caddyio every member is free with no ads, inside your club's own branded app rather than a shared network one.

Are ClubV1, Intelligent Golf and HowDidiDo related?

Yes — all are ClearCourse products, and their member apps are being consolidated into the shared HowDidiDo app. Caddyio deliberately keeps each club's member experience separate, branded and owned by the club.

Do we lose our official handicaps by using Caddyio?

No. Your official WHS record stays exactly where it is with your union-connected provider. Caddyio tracks an indicative Handicap Index for engagement and can export scores to your handicap secretary — it never claims to be the official record.

Comparison

Caddyio vs Club Systems (ClubV1 + HowDidiDo)

Club Systems is the golf incumbent: ClubV1 for club administration and HowDidiDo as the member network millions of golfers already know. It's mature and well-connected. But the member relationship lives in a shared, ad-supported network app — not your club's own. Caddyio takes the other path: one modern platform for the member experience, branded to your club, with a live on-course layer the incumbent doesn't have. Here's the honest comparison.

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Credit where it's due

Where Club Systems is strong

Four decades of incumbency and well over a thousand UK clubs: ClubV1 covers the tee sheet, membership, subscriptions, EPOS, integrated card payments and a club website, while HowDidiDo carries official WHS handicap publication and a member network golfers already recognise. As a union-connected system of record with deep back-office breadth, it's a genuinely capable option — and switching a whole club off it is a real decision, not a light one.

Where Caddyio goes further

One modern platform for the member experience — owned by your club

Caddyio isn't trying to be your union-connected handicap record or your till. It's the member experience the incumbent bolts on last: a white-label app on your own domain with live scoring, a real-time GPS wallboard of your course, an online tee sheet members book from their phone, on-course service, coaching, Play Together group scoring, a club news feed, performance stats, Orders of Merit and membership tools — all with members free and no ads. HowDidiDo's standard member tier is ad-supported, with a paid ad-free upgrade and an annual club fee for a branded slice; Caddyio gives every member the branded, ad-free experience as standard.

Caddyio vs Club Systems (ClubV1 + HowDidiDo), feature by feature

Capability	Caddyio	Club Systems (ClubV1 + HowDidiDo)
White-label member app on your own domain Members use the shared, network-branded HowDidiDo app.	Yes	No
Club owns the member relationship (no shared network app)	Yes	No
Members free with no ads HowDidiDo's standard member tier is ad-supported; ad-free is a paid upgrade.	Yes	Limited
No-install live scoring & real-time leaderboards	Yes	Limited
Live GPS clubhouse wallboard (your real course)	Yes	No
Drone-surveyed course imagery & 3D course model No incumbent flies your course; they map from the same public satellite tiles.	Yes	No
Shot-by-shot distances from a surveyed course Caddyio can base member GPS on a real survey of your course, not generic tiles.	Yes	No
On-course service requests	Yes	No
Pace-of-play tracking	Yes	No
Coaching & lesson management	Yes	No
Member shot tracking & coach shot maps Members log shots from the scoring app; the pro gets them on a satellite map of the club's own course, filterable by club for dispersion. No incumbent club system captures shot-level data at all.	Yes	No
Per-club distances from real rounds Average, spread and longest per club, built from the member's own logged shots — no launch monitor or grip sensors.	Yes	No
Lesson effect measured on later rounds Each lesson records a focus area; Caddyio measures the matching statistic across the rounds played since and shows the before and after.	Yes	No
Play Together group scoring (members & guests) Live shared fourball cards, including name-only guests.	Yes	No
Performance stats & scoring trends	Yes	No
Orders of Merit & Eclectics Caddyio publishes season-long OoM and Eclectic standings in the member app.	Yes	Limited
Club news feed & member engagement HowDidiDo has a network feed; Caddyio's runs inside your own branded app.	Yes	Limited
Member notifications (Web Push, no native app)	Yes	Limited
Multi-club membership & visitor mode HowDidiDo spans clubs as one network; Caddyio keeps each club branded while letting members play and check in across Caddyio clubs.	Yes	Limited
Societies & groups	Yes	Limited
Membership dues & member purse ClubV1 bills subscriptions and takes card payments; Caddyio adds a member purse, with card via Stripe on request and offline (bank transfer, cash, standing order) today.	Yes	Limited
Visitor tee bookings with an automatic green fee They take visitor green fees properly, with card payments. Caddyio decides who owes a fee — visitors, and members in arrears — but taking it by card is a demonstration today; the settled routes are pre-paid corporate rounds and payment at the counter.	Limited	Yes
Shared coach/member goals tracked from real rounds A measurable goal agreed at a lesson, filled in automatically from the rounds the member plays.	Yes	No
Member self-serve data export & deletion Every vendor must honour UK GDPR requests somehow; the difference is self-serve. A Caddyio member exports everything the club holds on them, or deletes their account, from their own settings.	Yes	Limited
Pre-paid corporate round balances, drawn down at booking Incumbents support corporate membership categories; Caddyio holds the pre-paid round balance itself and takes rounds off it as the booking is made.	Yes	Limited
Member course-condition reporting & greenkeeping notices Members report from the hole with a photo and GPS, and staff publish notices back to the round screen — not a capability ClubV1 publishes.	Yes	No
Member & visitor broadcasts with growth analytics One composer to members, visitors or prospects across email, push and the club feed, with repeat-visitor and dormant-member targeting.	Yes	Limited
Tournament management	Yes	Yes
Official WHS handicap publication The official record stays with your union-connected provider (HowDidiDo/England Golf); Caddyio tracks an indicative index to export to your handicap secretary.	No	Yes
Indicative Handicap Index for members	Yes	Yes
Online tee-time booking & tee sheet Both offer member self-booking plus a staff-managed tee sheet, diary and blackouts.	Yes	Yes
Driving-range bay & simulator booking Club Systems' published products are ClubV1, Tee Booking, CloudPOS, HowDidiDo, ClearAccept and PSiTouch — the booking module is tee times. Caddyio books range bays and simulators on the same footing: bays, slot lengths, member and visitor prices.	Yes	No
Buckets of balls bought with the bay booking CloudPOS will sell a member a bucket at the counter. In Caddyio the bucket is attached to the bay booking itself, so the member picks their balls and their bay in one go and the club sees both on the diary.	Yes	Limited
EPOS & integrated card payments ClubV1 offers EPOS and card payments; Caddyio's card billing runs via Stripe on request, off by default.	No	Yes

Comparison based on publicly available information, last reviewed August 2026. Competitor features and pricing may change; pricing for these products is not publicly listed. “Limited” indicates a partial or indirect capability.

The member experience, branded to your club — with no ads

ClubV1's members live in the shared HowDidiDo app across thousands of clubs, on an ad-supported standard tier. Caddyio gives your club a branded experience on your own domain, ad-free and free for every member — the relationship and the data are yours, not the network's.

A live on-course layer the incumbent doesn't have

GPS positions on a satellite map of your real course, a clubhouse wallboard, pace-of-play and on-course service requests, plus Play Together group scoring for members and their guests. This is the modern on-course experience ClubV1 and HowDidiDo simply don't provide.

Payments without forcing card fees

ClubV1 pushes clubs toward integrated card payments and their fees. Caddyio lets you run membership dues and a member purse on bank transfer, cash or standing order today, and switch on Stripe cards per club on request — you choose when card fees make sense.

Built for your brand, not ours or a network's

Caddyio is deliberately not the union-connected record or the shared network. It's the engagement layer that sits on top — coaching, stats, feed, group play, notifications — all wearing your club's name, so members feel they belong to your club, not to a platform.

Frequently asked

Can Caddyio replace ClubV1?: For the member experience, yes — a branded member app on your own domain, live scoring, a GPS wallboard, an online tee sheet, on-course service, coaching, stats, feed and membership tools. Caddyio is not your official WHS record or your EPOS/till: keep your union-connected handicap provider and card-payment till, and let Caddyio be the modern engagement layer on top. Many clubs run both.
Is HowDidiDo free?: There's a free member tier, but it's ad-supported; going ad-free is a paid upgrade, and clubs can pay an annual fee for a branded presence within the network. With Caddyio every member is free with no ads, inside your club's own branded app rather than a shared network one.
Are ClubV1, Intelligent Golf and HowDidiDo related?: Yes — all are ClearCourse products, and their member apps are being consolidated into the shared HowDidiDo app. Caddyio deliberately keeps each club's member experience separate, branded and owned by the club.
Do we lose our official handicaps by using Caddyio?: No. Your official WHS record stays exactly where it is with your union-connected provider. Caddyio tracks an indicative Handicap Index for engagement and can export scores to your handicap secretary — it never claims to be the official record.