Everything a bowls club runs — members, fixtures, rinks, competitions, leagues and subs — connected and organised, from availability request to league table, on any device. No more chasing across group chats and spreadsheets.
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£420 collected
Rink 3 · 2:00pm
From the membership list to the trophy presentation, Bowlside connects every part of your club so nothing falls through the cracks.
Your full membership directory in one place. Import from CSV or a BIAS export, send email invites, track handicaps — members self-onboard from the link.
Open availability to your squad, track responses, build the team rink by rink, and publish the team sheet — all without a single email attachment.
Members book rinks themselves from any phone. Roll-ups, friendlies, club nights. You see everything in one shared calendar — no calls, no crossed wires.
Knockout with seeding, round-robin, open sections, and one-day events. Generate draws in seconds — or run a live reveal in front of your members.
Run your club's own leagues: generate the season's fixtures, let players mark availability from a link, pick sides in the squad planner — the table keeps itself.
A public sign-up link for the poster by the green or the club's Facebook page. Applications land in a queue; approving one raises the joining fee and sends the invite.
Track who's paid their annual subs, send reminders to non-payers, and record competition entry fees — all linked to your membership list. Replace the spreadsheet for good.
A kiosk for reception, a display board for the bar TV, printed scorecards and rink sheets, and links that need no login — built for the members who'll never sign in.
Recruitment at a bowls club is a poster by the green, an open day, a line in the parish newsletter. Put one link behind all of it: your club's own public sign-up page, opened from any phone, no app and no account needed.
Share one link anywhere
bowlside.com/apply/your-club — on a poster QR code, the club website, or a Facebook post. Applicants fill in a short form from whatever phone is in their pocket.
Applications land in a queue
Your membership secretary is emailed the moment one arrives, and a badge shows how many are waiting. A human approves or declines every application.
Approve — and the rest just happens
Approval sends the welcome invite and raises the joining fee against their account, with new-member and late-season rates handled automatically.
Riverside Bowls Club
Dorothy Palmer
Ken Osborne
Priya Shah
Bill Rutherford
Tuesday Triples · 2026 season
The Jack Rabbits
Woodside Wanderers (your team)
The Short Enders
Green Baize Crew
Generate the whole season's fixtures in minutes — skipping the club's closed dates and booking a rink for every game. Players answer availability from a link, captains pick the side in the squad planner, and the table keeps itself.
Fixtures that generate themselves
Set the playing evening, start time and green; the season appears with a rink reserved for every fixture.
One availability link per player
Each player gets a single link covering their whole season — no login, one tap per game. Weekly reminders nudge the forgetful.
A table that looks after itself
Shots or sets scoring, half points, tie-break rules, and automatic penalties for short-handed teams. Roll the season over with a promotion preview.
Ways in for new members
What's on shows every member what they could be playing in, and an interest pool lets captains invite players who know nobody yet.
Send one invitation — members declare availability directly from the link in their email. Then build your team rink by rink and publish the team sheet in seconds. No spreadsheet, no group chat, no chasing.
Email invitations go out automatically
Members get a personalised link and answer available or unavailable in one tap — no login required. Automated reminders chase the stragglers for you.
See availability at a glance
The availability board shows every response in real time. Sort, filter, search by name, and pick your strongest team.
Build the team sheet rink by rink
Tap to assign players to lead, two, three and skip on any phone or tablet — or drag and drop on a computer. Set reserves in order and name the match captain.
Publish and notify in one click
Selected, reserve and not-needed players are all told automatically — no email to compose, no PDF to attach. Withdrawals promote the reserve and tell them too.
County Semi-Final · vs Moorland BC
Margaret Thornton
James Whitfield
Patricia Greene
Alan Pemberton
Susan Bentley
Colin Fletcher
Members book rinks directly from their phone. You get a shared calendar that updates in real time — no calls, no crossed wires, no double-bookings.
Members self-book online
Roll-ups, friendlies, and more — from any phone or tablet. No phone calls, no paper book. Your club decides which membership categories can book what.
Real-time shared calendar
Everyone sees what's booked the moment it's confirmed. Week, day, and month views — and fixtures reserve their own rinks when the team sheet is published.
Approval mode, if you want it
Clubs that like a human check can have every booking wait for an admin — with a queue, a badge, and a nudge if one is left too long.
Recurring bookings
Set up a standing weekly roll-up once. Cancel the whole series or from a specific date onwards.
Riverside Bowls Club
Roll-up
Morning ladies
Summer Open · R16
Evening roll-up
Plenty of bowlers want nothing to do with apps, and Bowlside is built for them too: screens in the clubhouse, paper on the noticeboard, and links that work without an account.
A screen by the door shows today's rinks all day. Nobody logs in; an optional member PIN keeps it honest.
Fixtures, duties, bookings and league tables rotating on the bar TV, with type sized to read across the room.
A locked-down clubhouse tablet where a steward books a rink or enters a member into a competition on their behalf.
Scorecards four to a sheet with cut marks, rink allocation sheets, team sheets, duty rotas and a weekly noticeboard pack.
The volunteer treasurer gets a proper tool at last. Bowlside shows exactly who's paid, who hasn't, and lets you send reminders to everyone outstanding in one click — all linked directly to your membership list.
Membership categories with different rates
Define Full, Social, Junior, Life — or whatever your club uses. Set the annual fee for each. Social and non-playing members are automatically blocked from booking rinks or entering competitions.
See every member's status at a glance
The treasurer dashboard shows who's paid, who's outstanding, and the total collected for the season — no cross-referencing a spreadsheet with the member list.
Competition entry fees tracked automatically
Set an entry fee on any competition. When a member enters, an obligation is created immediately. Withdrawals cancel it.
Reminders in one click
Select all outstanding members and send a payment reminder email in seconds. The system throttles to one reminder per member per week so you don't look like spam.
2025/26 Annual Subscriptions
£2,225
£545
80%
Robert Ashford
Patricia Greene
Norman Blackwood
Wilfred Pearce
Hilda Marsh
Margaret Thornton
Bowlside is built alongside real bowls clubs, and it shows: 153 improvements, new features and fixes published since June. Members see every one of them, in plain English, in the app as it goes live.
No migration project, no training days. You can have your members added, rink booking open, and a competition live within the hour.
Import your membership list or invite people by email. Members create their own account — you stay in control of who's in.
Schedule fixtures and open availability to your squad. Launch rink booking. Create competitions and let members enter online.
Members declare availability, book rinks, enter competitions, and confirm results — without needing you in the middle of every step.
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