Your club runs on people who already have jobs
Sympodial holds the roster, the dues, the renewals, and the pages everyone sees so that the handful of overworked volunteers that work to keep your club going can get back to doing what they actually signed up for.
Sooner or later, none of you will be running this club.
For most clubs it is somewhere between eighteen months and three years. A new secretary inherits a login, a spreadsheet nobody understands, and a shrug. Whatever you are running on now was hard to learn once. It will be hard to learn again, for the next person, and the one after her. That cost never appears on the invoice, and it is the largest thing your club actually pays. Sympodial is built to be handed over. Things are called what they are. Dues are dues, renewal is renewal, a household is a household. Nothing important lives in one volunteer's memory, and nobody needs a training session to find the roster.
What you're actually here for
Nobody joined your club to received administration. This is the stretch where the software's entire job is to stay out of the way and make things possible.
The quiet stuff gets handled automatically
Nobody joined your club to do these tasks, and all of them keep someone up at 11:00pm on a Tuesday. We solve them for you as much as possible so that you can still enjoy the club you administrate.
Renewals chase themselves
We'll send notes at 30, 14, and 7 days out from renewal deadlines by default. Add as many scheduled reminders as you like. We'll also build a report that gets emailed to admins automatically for whose renewals are still outstanding.
Members never have to learn anything new
No passwords. No accounts. No reset request landing in your inbox on a Sunday night. Everyone logs in with passwordless magic links, oAuth protocols you allow, or passkeys.
Roles and Permissions Made Easy
We've spent a lot of time ensuring that members, contributors, editors, and administration roles are easy to set up and easy to apply. Security isn't an afterthought.
Bring your existing roster
We'll guide you through exporting your existing roster, settings, and minutiae from your old system without requiring anyone to map data. Currently supporting a variety of systems including ClubExpress, MemberDay, and many others.
On our roadmap
Accepting Payment
Online payments by card or payment service. We're working on it, but we're not going to rush this.
Document Library
We have a (lovely) media library for images and videos now, but documents are on the way.
Event registration
This is critical for Sympodial to be useful, but as with payments, we are making sure we get it exactly right. Most of the interfaces out there aren't very good.
Newsletter delivery
Phase 1 will be integrating into existing mailing providers: Mailchimp, Amazon SES, Resend, etc.
Your domain
We won't launch without this (because nobody would buy this -- but we're putting it here to explain where we are in the roadmap)
Nobody volunteers to run the website
Your public pages should take no more than 20 minutes to create, and automatically look like your club. Home, about, join, etc., are all automatic, in your colors and with your logo, and not on a page designed in 2004.
Send us your roster. We'll send back your club.
Not a demo full of somebody else's members. Your actual people, your membership types, your renewal dates, loaded and waiting, so that your board can look at the real thing and decide.