The club management app NZ rowing committees actually use
One app for the whole club: boat bookings, session plans, subs and crew lists. Members can install Row HQ from Google Play on Android or open the same account in any phone or desktop browser. It is built for Rowing New Zealand-affiliated clubs, from community sheds to school and university programmes.
No card required. A day to set up. Data brought across free from spreadsheets or WhatsApp.
What is a rowing club management app?
A rowing club management app carries the whole running of a club - bookings, sessions, crews, member records, regatta entries, and finances - on one login. A rower taps to confirm a session, a coach names crews from live availability, and the committee keeps subs and records in order. Row HQ does that for Kiwi clubs, in place of the WhatsApp groups and spreadsheets most rely on. See the spreadsheet comparison in full.
The app and the club admin are two ends of the same Row HQ platform: what a member records on the water is on the committee's screen before the boat is back on the trailer.
Who does the app serve?
Three roles, three screens. A rower, a coach, and a committee member each open the app to a view built for them alone.
Rowers
Members, straight from their phone, can:
- Say yes or no to a session in a tap
- Grab an available boat before someone else does
- Look up their crew for the weekend row
- Keep across notices and regatta information
- Sort their subs and entry payments online
Coaches
For coaches, the app is where they:
- Watch availability firm up before picking crews
- Send finished lineups out to the squad
- Tick off attendance one rower at a time
- Keep erg numbers and training records
- Put a message in front of a squad or the club
Committee & Admins
The committee, on any device, can:
- Look after joins, renewals, and departures
- Record damage and maintenance across the fleet
- Handle regatta entries and the payments behind them
- Draw attendance, financial, and welfare reports
- Hand a complete system to the next committee
Software made for the job, not a stopgap
The usual Kiwi setup is a WhatsApp thread plus a spreadsheet that nearly copes. Row HQ replaces both with one app shaped around rowing.
A distinction that matters. Concept2 ErgData, Hydrow, Ergatta, and Kinomap belong to the individual and the erg. A club is a different problem, and Row HQ is the club's app. Most rowers end up with one of each installed, doing separate work.
What do you get in the app?
Everything follows how NZ club rowing actually works - summer racing on the lakes, school squads building toward the Maadi Cup - and it all sits in a single app.
Training sessions
Set up water and erg sessions, remind everyone, record who came.
Boat booking
The fleet live on screen, no clashing bookings, damage noted.
Crew selection
Crews built from real availability, favourite combinations saved, published in a tap.
Member portal
Members look after their own details, contacts, history, and alerts.
Regattas & events
Entries, camps, prizegivings, payments, and results together.
Admin dashboard
Membership, money, fleet care, welfare, and committee reporting.
Kiwi clubs take up Row HQ to get the season out of chat threads: bookings, crews, subs, and regatta entries in one place, with junior welfare handled properly for school-age rowers. It was written by people who row, for committees that would rather be on the water than in a spreadsheet.
Rowing club management app FAQs
What does a rowing club management app actually cover?
Is Row HQ just another erg app?
Will members need to download something?
Does it suit a small Kiwi club?
How long until the club is live?
Is the free tier genuinely free?
Bring your club onto the app, free
No card. Set up in a day, the whole club aboard within a week.