What GliderOps costs

One price for the whole club. Every feature in every plan. A 60-day trial with your own gliders and members loaded, before you decide anything.

Per club, not per member

Signing up a new student costs you nothing. Neither does a good recruiting year. Charging per head seemed backwards for an organisation whose hardest problem is finding and keeping members.

Every feature, every plan

There is no gated tier and nothing held back to sell you later. A twelve-member club runs the same software a two-hundred-member club does.

No contract, no setup fee

Annual or monthly, your choice, and you can switch. Loading your roster, rates and fleet is part of setting you up — not a line item.

What moves the number

Two things, and you already know both of them about your own club:

  • How many members you have. Not exactly — a band. A fifty-member club and a sixty-member club pay the same.
  • Whether you're a member-run club or a commercial operation. Commercial operations and soaring schools have different needs around invoicing, intro flights and staff, and are quoted separately.

So why isn't there a table here?

Honestly? Because every time we drafted one, it was wrong for somebody. Clubs are shaped very differently — a winch-only club with eighty members and a two-glider aerotow operation with thirty are not the same problem, and a pricing grid flattens that into a number that either overcharges you or fails to describe what you actually get.

So we ask instead. It takes about ten minutes, there is no qualification script, and nobody will chase you afterwards. You will have a real number the same day, in writing, that you can take to a committee.

60-day trial

Long enough to actually fly a season on it

Most trials give you two weeks and an empty database, which tells you nothing. Ours runs sixty days and starts with your gliders, your tow rates, your membership types and your roster already in it — because the only real test is whether it survives contact with a busy Saturday.

We set it up with you rather than handing you a login and walking away. If it turns out not to fit your club, you will know inside a month and we would rather you found that out on a trial than after a purchase order.

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What's included, whatever you pay

All of it. This is the whole product, not a starter tier:

Flight dispatch and live logging
Automatic flight cost calculation
Flying-day calendar and volunteer rosters
Member self-service booking and waitlists
Instructor records and flight debriefs
Student progress and currency tracking
Glider and towplane maintenance status
Towplane engine and fuel logs
Member records and role permissions
Dues, charges and batch invoicing
PDF invoices and flight logs
Excel reporting and exports
Automated club emails and digests
Configurable rates, rules and settings

The full breakdown is on the features section.

Questions treasurers actually ask

Because the honest answer depends on things a table cannot ask you about: how many members you have, whether you are a member-run club or a commercial operation, and whether you want to be billed once a year or every month. We would rather spend ten minutes learning how your club works and give you a number that holds than publish one that turns out to be wrong for you. Ask, and you will have it the same day — there is no qualification gauntlet in front of it.
Per club. Signing up a new student does not cost you anything, and neither does a good recruiting year. We think charging per member is backwards for an organisation whose entire problem is recruiting and keeping members.
All of them, in all of them. Dispatch, scheduling, booking and waitlists, instruction records, maintenance, billing and invoicing, reporting and the automated emails are in every plan. A twelve-member club gets the same software a two-hundred-member club does. The tier only reflects size and operation type.
No. Getting your roster, rates and fleet loaded is part of setting you up, not a line item. If you are coming off a spreadsheet or another system, that import is included too.
No. There is no multi-year commitment and no cancellation penalty. Annual billing is cheaper than monthly and most clubs prefer it because it matches how their own budget year works, but monthly is available and you can switch.
Nothing breaks. Roles are assigned inside the software, so an outgoing treasurer hands over by changing a permission rather than by handing over a laptop and a password. This is a real problem in volunteer-run clubs and it is one of the things the system was designed around.
Sometimes the honest answer is not yet. If you fly a dozen weekends a year with fifteen members and one glider, a well-kept spreadsheet may genuinely be enough, and we would rather tell you that than sell you something. The point at which this usually starts paying for itself is when one volunteer is holding the whole operation together in their own head — because that is the thing that ends badly when they step down.

Tell us about your club

How many members, how you launch, what you're running on now. We'll come back the same day with a number and, if you want it, a trial with your own data in it.

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