New HDID App

[kp17]

Got to be better than the clubs that have to go between V1 and HDID apps all the time

 

[nickjdavis]

So you could get a strange situation of a club not purchasing this for all members and the member refusing to pay £2.99 a year. How would a member be able to put money on their card etc if the club uses V1 for that kind of thing? I guess since you are not paying the £3 a year you won't have an account.

Not sure how it works on V1 but i have an auto top-up set up on our IG system....which I set up via the club IG website. You dont need the app (in the IG world) to have an account.

I do use the app to view my account status, current course conditions, as a reminder as to what tee times have been booked etc etc.....but 90% of my interactions with the clubs IG system are done through the website, I've never booked a tee time through the app for example. For a couple of quid a year the app serves a purpose....but it is not the life support machine that many think it is/should be...we have members that still don't possess a mobile phone...they get by OK.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

You don’t need an App to use for IG

Everything you need is on the website which is pretty good and works well on mobiles

The IG app has always been a bit basic

 

[moogie]

Just had email this afternoon, that my home club has pre-purchased new app version for every member. Stating we can download from Monday onwards.

 

[IanMcC]

Surprising good news from our Director Of Golf today. Club has paid the £1400 to let members download the non ad version free of charge.

 

[sjw]

It's £2.99 with ads.
The ad-free version is £9.99, but there's a club subscription option that works out a lot cheaper than that for the vast majority of clubs.

Charging for an app that has ads on is very poor form

 

[rulefan]

We already used HDID and our club has paid for the new app.

 

[wjemather]

Charging for an app that has ads on is very poor form

It's fairly common for products to have a basic option with ads and a premium option that removes them; and for the basic with ads option to be non-free.

 

[Yorkhacker]

My club has told us that we have to pay for it themselves, which I think is absolutely disgraceful, but not unsurprising!

 

[Crazyface]

My place ditched it a while ago to save money, I'm not sure it was used to it's fullest coz the people who run it are scared of technology. We are now on BRS, and they don't know how to use this either. And for that reason, plus a few others, I'm off again.

 

[sjw]

It's fairly common for products to have a basic option with ads and a premium option that removes them; and for the basic with ads option to be non-free.

Maybe so - but that doesn't make it right

Edit: I also don't think it's that common with apps, and if I'd paid for an app and it still had ads I'd be getting a refund

 

[NearHull]

We have not been happy with ClubV1/HowDidIDo for some time now - from the perspective of managing competitions and membership. We like BRS as it has an easy data gathering capability. Club Systems International ( owners of ClubV1/HowDidIDo) have recently been very aggressive in their pricing structure; the introduction of App pricing is just one example.
We have installed Golf Genius because they have contracted with BRS to link their products and a lot lower cost. The main a benefits are seen in the management activities but we are getting positive feedback from members since we put our competitions ( 4 a week) onto the Golf Genius system.
The club info email going out on Monday informs members that , for our club, they can delete the HowDidIDo App.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

It's fairly common for products to have a basic option with ads and a premium option that removes them; and for the basic with ads option to be non-free.

Not sure how common it is to pay for an App and still have it full of adverts