A Pitchero alternative with no monthly bill
Pitchero charges £38 or £99 a month before any transaction fee, and its free tier cannot take payments. ClubPal has no subscription at any club size, no advertising on your club site, and returns the fee when you refund.
The difference is the subscription
Pitchero has been running since 2007 and does a lot well. The structural difference is that Pitchero is a subscription product and ClubPal is not. Pitchero's free tier covers one team, carries third-party advertising and cannot take payments at all, so any club that runs more than one side and collects money online is on Standard at £38 a month or Pro at £99 a month. That is £456 or £1,188 a year before a single transaction fee.
ClubPal has no subscription at any club size. The only charge is a fee on money the club actually collects, and nothing at all in a month where it collects none. That is the whole comparison, and whether it favours you depends almost entirely on how much your club turns over.
The other difference worth knowing about before you sign anything: Pitchero places third-party advertising on club sites on the free and Standard plans, and removing it means the Pro plan. ClubPal does not put advertising on a club site on any plan, because there is only one plan.
ClubPal and Pitchero, point by point
| ClubPal | Pitchero | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly subscription | None, at any club size | £38 Standard, £99 Pro. Free tier is one team |
| Team limit | None | 1 free, 20 on Standard then £2.50 each, unlimited on Pro |
| Advertising on your club site | None, on any plan | Third-party ads on Free, limited on Standard, none on Pro |
| Online payments on the free tier | Yes, there is only one tier | Not available on Free |
| Per-transaction fee | 20p + 3.5% | From 2.42% + 17p Standard, from 1.67% + 15p Pro |
| Fee when you refund a member | Returned, in proportion to the amount refunded | Not published |
| Club lottery and fundraising | No equivalent | Built in, on every plan |
| Competitions and league fixtures | No equivalent | Built in |
| Facility and pitch hire | Built in, with availability rules and online booking | Not in the published feature list |
| Session passes and bundles | Built in, with usage tracking and expiry | Not in the published feature list |
| Email accounts on your domain | No equivalent | 10 on Standard, 50 on Pro |
| Safeguarding and DBS tracking | DBS, PVG and coaching credentials with expiry dates, and coach eligibility rules enforced at the point a coach is added | Not in the published feature list |
| Club chat | On the session or event, plus channels sourced from your member groups, with a moderation queue | Instant app messages to teams, parents or volunteers |
| Contract | None, and no notice period | 30-day trial, cancel anytime |
| AI assistant (MCP) | Official MCP server: ask ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini about your club, read-only and limited to your own permissions | No official equivalent |
What Pitchero costs, side by side with ClubPal
Annual totals for a club paying Pitchero Standard at £38 a month, which is £456 a year, plus their published Standard processing rate of 2.42% + 17p. ClubPal has no subscription, so its column is the transaction fee alone. Payments are assumed to average £50. The crossover sits at roughly £40,000 collected a year: below it ClubPal costs less, above it Pitchero does.
| Money collected per year | ClubPal | Pitchero Standard |
|---|---|---|
| £5,000 across 100 payments | £195 (cheaper) | £594 |
| £15,000 across 300 payments | £585 (cheaper) | £870 |
| £35,000 across 700 payments | £1,365 (cheaper) | £1,422 |
| £60,000 across 1,200 payments | £2,340 | £2,112 (cheaper) |
A club collecting £60,000 a year pays Pitchero £228 less than it pays us, because our 3.5% outweighs their subscription at that volume. The exact crossover is close to £40,000 collected a year at an average payment of £50, where the two come out level to the pound. Below it we cost less, above it they do. Two things push the comparison back our way and are not in the table: Pitchero quote their processing rates as "from", so a club may be offered a higher one, and the £456 assumes 20 teams or fewer, with extra teams at £2.50 a month each on top. Neither column includes VAT.
Pitchero pricing checked against their published rates on 28 August 2026. Rates change, so verify before making a decision on cost alone.
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Get started freeIf any of these is what your club needs most, Pitchero is a good choice.
No subscription and no advertising, against a higher percentage on payments. Below about £40,000 collected a year, that trade lands in ClubPal's favour.
What switching actually involves
Pitchero competes for the same clubs we do. If you run one of these, the sport page covers the admin in more detail: football club management software, rugby club management software, cricket club management software, hockey club management software, and netball club management software.
More detail on the process is on the switching page, or talk to us about your club before you decide.
Moving from Pitchero
How much does Pitchero cost?
Pitchero Free covers one team, carries third-party advertising and cannot take payments. Standard is £38 a month for up to 20 teams, then £2.50 a month per extra team, with processing from 2.42% + 17p. Pro is £99 a month with unlimited teams, no advertising and processing from 1.67% + 15p. Checked against Pitchero's pricing page on 28 August 2026.
Is there a Pitchero alternative with no monthly fee?
ClubPal has no subscription at any club size or team count. The only charge is 20p + 3.5% per transaction, card processing included, and nothing in a month the club collects nothing. There is no advertising on a ClubPal club site and no team limit.
Does Pitchero put adverts on club websites?
Yes, on two of its three plans. Pitchero Free carries third-party advertising, Standard carries limited advertising, and only Pro at £99 a month removes it. ClubPal does not put advertising on a club site on any plan.
Is ClubPal cheaper than Pitchero?
For a club collecting under about £40,000 a year, yes. Against Pitchero Standard, a club taking £15,000 across 300 payments pays £585 a year on ClubPal and £870 on Pitchero. Above about £40,000 a year Pitchero's lower percentage outweighs its subscription, and at £60,000 Pitchero costs £228 less.
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Work out what your club actually turns over
The comparison comes down to one number: what your club collects in a year. Set up a free ClubPal site and run your own figures through it. No card required, and nothing to cancel.