Everything a thriving community runs on
From the first RSVP to the last court booking of the season, Gather Commons handles the details so your volunteers can focus on bringing people together.
Start free trialEvents, RSVPs, potlucks & contests
Publish events, collect RSVPs and payments, and organize volunteer sign-ups. Run potlucks where neighbors sign up for what to bring, and contests like a chili cook-off — the gatherings that build a real community.
Court & facility reservations
Members reserve tennis and pickleball courts, the pool pavilion, and clubhouses with rules, approvals, and conflict-free scheduling. The shared amenities are what bring people together — make them easy to use.
Clubhouse rentals, charged properly
Rent the clubhouse or pavilion for a flat fee or an hourly rate, with an optional refundable deposit. Take payment by card at the time of booking, or hold the request until an admin has the cash or the check in hand — a booking with money owing never confirms itself.
Waiting lists that fill the empty seatPremium
When an event is full or a court is taken, members join a list instead of giving up. A place given back two weeks out moves to the next person straight away, and the place is held for them while they confirm — nobody loses it to someone refreshing faster.
Member directory & households
A private, searchable directory with households, roles, and leadership so neighbors can find and connect with each other. Families are one household with one bill, and an adult can be given their own login when they need one.
Announcements, segments & texts
Reach everyone, or just the households who still owe, or just the families with a child under twelve. Send by email, or by text message on Premium — for the pool closing at two hours' notice, which nobody reads an email about.
Online dues, payments & reminders
Collect membership dues and event payments with Stripe or Square, with due dates, discount codes and cash tracking — funds go straight to your community. Reminders run themselves on a schedule you set, from two months ahead to a month past due, and stop the moment someone pays.
A ledger that keeps itself
Every dues payment, event fee and court rental posts to the books the moment it is received, filed to the right account and the right fiscal year, and attributed to the household rather than whoever happened to be holding the phone. What a treasurer types is the other half of the year — the pool contract, the power bill, the check written at a board meeting. A nightly check compares the books against the payments they came from, in both directions.
Budget by account, and what actually happened
Set a figure for the fifteen lines that matter and leave the rest, with a month by month spread for the ones that are seasonal. Variance names the account rather than the category, and spending on something nobody budgeted for shows up rather than hiding. Next year can be built from this year’s figures with an uplift, which is the two hours every autumn nobody enjoys.
Whether the money lasts the year
Months that have happened use what happened; months ahead use the budget. It says the month the balance falls below the line you set, and the month it runs out — once each, with the date, not a warning repeated nine times.
The parking lot you will need to reseal
Work that comes round every five to seven years outlasts the board that last paid for it, so the knowledge leaves with them. Track the cycle, the last cost and the next window, alongside the things bought once that are quietly wearing out — and the figure nobody calculates: what to set aside each year for both.
Close the year, and open the next
Carries the closing balance forward as next year’s opening figure, says what it will do before doing it, and warns about the entries dated after the year ended that would otherwise sit outside the numbers your board is about to vote on. Reopening is possible, because a missing invoice turns up in November.
The figures your accountant asks for
Income split between members and non-members, spending split between the association and everything else, gross receipts, capital placed in service, and every account with how it was treated. For a 501(c)(7) or an association electing 1120-H it works out the percentages the filing turns on — and tells you when you are close to a line, while there is still a season left to act on it. It is a package for a tax professional, not a return.
Documents & rules
Share bylaws, meeting minutes, pool rules, and forms in one organized, permissioned place.
Analytics your board will actually usePremium
What proportion of dues has come in, which courts get used and when, which events people turn up to — and which nobody did. Plus the number that settles the renewal argument: how much of your community used any of it at all.
An audit log that settles argumentsPremium
Who approved that reservation, who removed that member, who changed the dues date. Recorded permanently and impossible to edit, including by the person who did it.
Your own branded website
A public homepage with your colors, logo, and custom domain — set up in an afternoon, no web designer required.
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