Comparison
Caddyio vs Intelligent Golf
Intelligent Golf is a capable UK club-admin system. But its member app wraps the club website and is being merged into the shared HowDidiDo app — owned by the network, not your club. Here's how Caddyio compares, and where it goes further.
Credit where it's due
Where Intelligent Golf is strong
Solid, well-established UK club administration: online tee-time booking, membership and subscriptions, WHS/CONGU handicapping, EPOS, integrated payments and Xero accounting, used by hundreds of clubs. If you need deep back-office admin — EPOS, integrated payments and accounting — that's its home ground.
Where Caddyio goes further
The modern member experience Intelligent Golf doesn't own
Intelligent Golf (and its sister product ClubV1) is owned by ClearCourse and is folding its member apps into one shared, ad-supported HowDidiDo app. Caddyio takes the opposite path: a branded member experience on your club's own domain, plus a live on-course layer — GPS wallboard, service requests, pace-of-play — and coaching, none of which Intelligent Golf offers.
Caddyio vs Intelligent Golf, feature by feature
| Capability | Caddyio | Intelligent Golf |
|---|---|---|
White-label member app on your own domain igMember wraps the club website and is merging into the shared HowDidiDo app. | Yes | No |
Club owns the member relationship (no shared network app) | Yes | No |
Members free with no ads The HowDidiDo network the member app is merging into is ad-supported. | Yes | Limited |
No-install live scoring & real-time leaderboards Reviewers report IG competition results are harder to view. | 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 |
Societies & groups | Yes | Limited |
Orders of Merit & Eclectics Caddyio publishes season-long OoM and Eclectic standings to members. | Yes | Limited |
Play Together group scoring (members & guests) Live shared fourball cards, including name-only guests. | Yes | No |
Performance stats & scoring trends | Yes | No |
Club news feed & member engagement Engagement flows through the shared HowDidiDo network, not the club's own app. | Yes | Limited |
Member notifications (Web Push, no native app) | Yes | Limited |
Multi-club membership & visitor mode | Yes | No |
Membership dues & member purse IG bills subscriptions; Caddyio adds a member purse. Card via Stripe on request; offline 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 IG 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; 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 Intelligent Golf integrates with the range ball machine — their EGM feature sets ball quantities and pricing. That is the dispenser, not the diary: a bookable bay with slot lengths, a per-slot price and a staff day view isn't a documented IG module. Caddyio books the bay; it doesn't drive your ball machine. | Yes | Limited |
Buckets of balls bought with the bay booking IG prices balls at the machine and runs a range card top-up. In Caddyio the club's buckets are a price list attached to the range, and the member picks one while booking the bay — one basket, one total. | Yes | Limited |
EPOS & integrated card payments Intelligent Golf 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.
A member app that's actually yours
igMember largely renders the club website and is merging into a single shared app across thousands of clubs. Caddyio gives your club a native, branded member experience on your own domain — not a wrapper, not a network.
A live on-course layer they don't have
Caddyio shows players moving over a satellite map of your real course, tracks pace of play, and lets members request refreshments or help from the hole they're on. Intelligent Golf has no equivalent.
Coaching built in
Caddyio gives your pros student management and shareable lesson notes connected to members' real rounds. Intelligent Golf has no coaching module.
Frequently asked
- Is Caddyio an Intelligent Golf alternative?
- Yes — for the member experience, and Caddyio now includes an online tee sheet too. It offers a white-label member app on your own domain, live scoring, a GPS wallboard, tee-time booking, on-course service and coaching. It doesn't replace EPOS, which Intelligent Golf provides.
- Are Intelligent Golf and ClubV1 the same company?
- Both are owned by ClearCourse, and their member apps are being consolidated into the shared HowDidiDo app. Caddyio keeps each club's member experience branded and owned by the club.
- Does Caddyio do tee-time booking?
- Yes. Caddyio includes an online tee sheet — members book their own slots from the app, and staff manage the diary, blackouts and manual bookings — alongside the member experience, competitions and the on-course layer.