The club management app Canadian rowing clubs actually use
Row HQ is the rowing club management app that handles boat booking, on-water and erg sessions, member dues, and crew lineups in one place - installable on any phone or desktop straight from the browser, no app-store gatekeeper. Rowers, coaches, and club executives all covered.
No credit card. Setup in a day. Free data migration from spreadsheets or WhatsApp.
What is a rowing club management app?
A rowing club management app is a mobile and web platform that runs the day-to-day operations of a rowing club - boat booking, training sessions, crew lineups, membership records, regatta entries, and club finance - from a single login on any device. Rowers book shells and confirm attendance from their phone. Coaches manage attendance and crew selection. The executive handles membership, fleet, and finance for everything from the Royal Canadian Henley at Martindale Pond to your club's weekly outing off Elk Lake. Row HQ is purpose-built for that job, replacing the WhatsApp groups, spreadsheets, and email chains that most Canadian clubs limp along with. See exactly how that compares to running on spreadsheets.
Who uses the app?
Three views, one club. Each role gets the screen they need, not a watered-down version of someone else's.
Rowers
From their phone, members can:
- Confirm or decline training sessions in one tap
- See which shells are available and reserve one
- Check who is in their crew for the next outing
- Read club notices and event details
- Pay dues and regatta entry fees
Coaches
From the same app, coaches can:
- See live availability before crew selection
- Build and publish crew lineups
- Take attendance with a single tap per rower
- Log erg scores and training data
- Push announcements to a squad or the whole club
Executive & Admins
On phone or desktop, the executive can:
- Manage membership, new joiners, and departures
- Track boat maintenance and damage logs
- Handle regatta entries and event payments
- Pull attendance, finance, and safe sport reports
- Hand the system over cleanly each AGM
A real club management app, not a workaround
Most clubs stitch together three or four tools that nearly work. Row HQ is one app, designed for rowing operations from day one.
Important distinction. Apps like Concept2, Hydrow, Ergatta, or Kinomap are fitness apps for individual rowers and indoor machines. They don't run a club. Row HQ is the club app. The two sit alongside each other on a rower's phone, doing completely different jobs.
What is in the app?
Every feature is built for the way Canadian rowing clubs actually work - from the Royal Canadian Henley through to your local masters program - and they all live in one app.
Training sessions
Schedule on-water and erg sessions, send reminders, take attendance through the long indoor winter.
Boat booking
Live fleet view, real-time reservations, no double bookings, damage flags.
Crew selection
Build crew lineups from live availability, save preferred combinations, publish in one tap.
Member portal
Self-service profiles, attendance history, emergency contacts, in-app notifications.
Regattas & events
Regatta entries, training camps, club socials, payments, results.
Admin dashboard
Membership, finance, fleet maintenance, safe sport and Rowing Canada Aviron-style reporting.
Built by rowers, used by Canadian clubs that are tired of running operations through WhatsApp threads and shared spreadsheets. Designed for the full season - from provincial regattas through to the Royal Canadian Henley at St. Catharines, and the long indoor erg months in between - with junior safe sport and Rowing Canada Aviron-aligned structure built in from the start.
Rowing club management app FAQs
What is a rowing club management app?
How is this different from a Concept2 or Hydrow app?
Do members need to install anything?
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Is Row HQ really free?
Get your club running on the app, free
No credit card. Setup in a day. Your members on the app within a week.