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Raklet vs Friendly Manager: Which is a better fit?

Updated on September 15th, 2024
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 4,714 reviews from Membership Management users.
% Fit
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Feature ratings
Member Database
4.3
Payment Processing
4.7
Credit Card Processing
4.9
Registration Management
4.7
Electronic Payments
4.5
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Member Database
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Payment Processing
3.8
Credit Card Processing
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Registration Management
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Electronic Payments
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User satisfaction
4.7
User reviews74
Ease of use
4.5
Functionality
4.5
Value for money
4.6
Customer support
4.8
4.6
User reviews13
Ease of use
4.5
Functionality
4.4
Value for money
4.4
Customer support
4.6
Price starts from
Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
Best for

Raklet empowers all kinds of organizations, regardless of their industries. Our platform heavily focuses on contacts, messages, and payment solutions.

Designed for Sports Clubs, National/Regional Sports Bodies, Class-based Studios or Groups, and Competition Organisers.

User reviews
pros & cons
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Video reviews
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David W
Founder and Principal
5.0

Dave: Hi, I'm Dave. I'm the founder and principal at Watermark Business Partners, and I'm using Raklet to put together a community for my clients and partners. I give these guys five stars, because the functionality is really, really strong for such a cost-effective and reasonable entry-level platform. I'm excited to get this in place and really impressed and encouraged by what I've seen so far. So as far as other alternatives, I think the one piece that I'm using elsewhere is the learning and online course digital content component. So for that right now, I am looking at Easy Course. Also, I use sessions for my online meetings and bookings, webinars, all that kind of stuff. So I think there's an opportunity here to maybe bring some of these tools together into one place, but for me right now, from a directories and community component, I think Raklet's a really good, easy to implement, robustly solutioned starting point, and I like what I see. So for me, I chose Raklet because I'm new to this. I've never built something like this before. I'm not someone with a tech background. I come from a big corporate, a former banker who is new at the entrepreneurship thing and is even worse at technology. So as a newbie, I couldn't justify a big investment, but at the same time, I didn't want to go with something half-baked to the market. So I thought their pricing approach and value proposition was really reasonable. I don't mind commission payment on payment processing. I think that's fair. But some of the other bigger guys out there, like Brilliant Directories is another example that I considered, some of them are quite expensive, and I need to get comfortable before I can justify that investment. And right now with Raklet, I think it's a great place to start and really, really reasonable. I'm not fully. I haven't deployed the tool yet, but from an onboarding perspective, they do have fairly strong community supports and resources available online, so I've been impressed by that. Some maybe take a little bit of digging to find online, but that's, I think, often the case with just put anything. There's more than I probably expected and perhaps more meaningful, the tool is sufficiently easy to use, that I haven't found myself looking for help very often in the first place, which is really the key. So my number one recommendation for others considering Raklet would just be to really go through all the learning material first, and I think the onboarding process will be a lot smoother. There's a lot of great content there, and I found that even though I was able to figure things out for myself as I went, I think it would have gone a lot faster if I had taken the time to look at their resources, because they're really impressive and shouldn't be taken for granted.

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Access Controls/Permissions
207
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Activity Dashboard
388
Important

Raklet

Top Features
37/41
  • Membership Signup
  • Mobile App
  • Resource Scheduling
  • Wait List Management
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Application Management
  • Attendance Tracking
  • Committee Management
  • Communication Management
  • Credit Card Processing
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Forms
  • Data Import/Export
  • Discount Management
  • Dues Management
  • Electronic Payments
  • Email Marketing
  • Email Templates
  • Enrollments/Onboarding
  • Event Calendar
  • Event Management
  • Invoice Management
  • Member Communication
  • Member Database
  • Member Directory
  • Member Portal
  • Membership Renewals
  • Member Types
  • Payment Processing
  • Promotions Management
  • Recurring/Subscription Billing
  • Registration Management
  • Reminders
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Search/Filter
  • Self Service Portal
  • Surveys & Feedback
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Website Management
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Friendly Manager

19/41
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Raklet
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Friendly Manager
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Raklet
  • By Raklet
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2014
Friendly Manager
  • By Frello
  • Located in New Zealand
  • Founded in 2015
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