Club Caddie Alternative for Private Golf Clubs

Club Caddie is a cloud-based golf course management system built by golf course operators, and it serves daily-fee, semi-private and private facilities from one product. Clubs searching for a Club Caddie alternative are often private or member-owned clubs asking whether a system designed across all three course types fits the way a private club bills, books and competes. This page summarizes what Club Caddie offers, from its own public website, and where Bubs takes a different approach.

What Club Caddie is and who it serves

Club Caddie describes itself as an entirely cloud-based business management system for public, semi-private and country club golf operations, founded by two golf course owner-operators. Its About page says it was acquired by Jonas Software in 2020 and that the product and team stayed the same. Its stated mission is to make cloud-based golf course management software accessible to daily-fee, private and semi-private courses through a monthly fee. The suite is hosted on Microsoft Azure.

On its public pages, Club Caddie covers:

• Tee sheet. Tee times for daily-fee golfers, members, annual pass holders and other player types, booked by phone, in person, online or through third-party distributors such as PGA Tee Times, GolfNow, Supreme Golf, Golfback and Teeoff.com. A group reservations manager handles leagues with automatic tee sheet blocking and alternating nines, plus outings and tournaments.
• Point of sale. One cloud register for the pro shop, bar, restaurant, pool, halfway house and mobile registers for cart attendants, running on Windows PCs with an internet connection, with gift cards, rain checks, tips, membership payments and event deposits.
• Restaurant and bar. Linked tabs, custom floor plans for multiple rooms, tickets sent to the kitchen and bar, and server clock-in with tip reconciliation.
• Member management and billing. Unlimited membership classes and rules, automated monthly, quarterly or annual invoicing, minimums, card and ACH stored in a PCI-compliant vault, and a member portal.
• Accounting and reports. Revenue, inventory, member receivables and golfer spend reports, Excel export, and an IIF export or QuickBooks sync app for point-of-sale data.
• Banquets and events. Event pricing, deposits and payments, function sheets, contracts, and outing invoices that combine golf, merchandise and F&B, with automatic tee sheet blocks.
• Mobile app and marketing. A custom app built from 28 selectable modules, including a GPS rangefinder, tee time booking, on-demand F&B ordering for delivery by cart attendants or pickup at the turn, and contactless payment; plus websites, email and SMS marketing and a managed marketing service.

Club Caddie's strengths are its operator heritage, its tee time distribution for courses that sell public play, an app with a built-in rangefinder, and an approach that serves several course types from one product. A semi-private course that sells tee times to the public and also carries a membership may find that combination hard to beat.

Is there a Club Caddie alternative for private golf clubs?

Yes. Bubs is all-in-one club management software built only for private golf and country clubs. Where Club Caddie serves public and private operations together, Bubs is designed around the member: member classes, booking policy, the statement, the minimum, the member-guest and the club's books.

Where Bubs is different

A tee sheet that enforces private club policy

Bubs's tee sheet models the rules a golf committee writes: booking windows by member class, timed releases, a weighted lottery for peak times, standing times, guest limits by member, month and season, and a waitlist by time window and group size. See the tee time lottery guide and tee time booking policies.

Club accounting on the club chart of accounts

Club Caddie's accounting page describes G/L and revenue reporting, chart-of-accounts mapping for inventory, and a QuickBooks sync. Bubs includes a native club general ledger on a chart aligned with the Uniform System of Financial Reporting for Clubs, with every transaction written once to an append-only ledger that the statement, the F&B minimum and the books all read. A club that prefers to keep its accounting package can take a mapped journal export for each closed period instead.

A register that keeps working offline, on tablets

Club Caddie's register runs on Windows PCs with an internet connection. Bubs registers run on tablets and stations and keep working without a connection for everything except card payments, tell staff plainly whether they're synced, and reconcile on reconnect. Bubs also includes a kitchen display that routes tickets by station and fires by course. See the offline POS guide.

Member-guests, scoring and handicaps

Bubs runs tournaments and live scoring — member-guests including flighted round robins, leagues, match play brackets and side games — beside the tee sheet and the member account. Bubs is an official USGA partner: Handicap Index® values, Course Rating™ and Slope Rating® come from the USGA, and members post scores to the USGA from the app. See handicaps.

A member app built for a membership

Bubs publishes a white-label member app under the club's own name, with tee times, dining, statements and on-course ordering charged to the member account. Members follow their regulars and hear when they book, find a game, and combine two twosomes into a foursome when both groups agree.

Events built for the clubhouse

Bubs events include floor plans, per-seat meal selections, banquet event orders, chef counts, billing on the guaranteed count and a client portal for the planner.

Club Caddie and Bubs, side by side

Entries for Club Caddie reflect its public website as of the date below. "Not listed publicly" means we did not find it on the pages we read; it does not mean Club Caddie lacks it.

Switching from Club Caddie to Bubs

Bubs imports the roster, households, member numbers and opening balances from the files your current system produces, labels each imported balance with its as-of date and prior system, and goes live in stages. A typical plan begins with the member app, ordering and dining, then move the tee sheet, the registers and the books. Bubs gives the club a full data export at any time. See switching to Bubs.

Write your requirements down first. Our club software RFP template and switching guide cover the questions and the sequencing.

Is Club Caddie built for private clubs?

Club Caddie's website says it serves daily-fee, semi-private and private country clubs, and it has a page for semi-private and fully private clubs. Bubs is built only for private golf and country clubs.

Who owns Club Caddie?

Club Caddie's About page says it was acquired by Jonas Software in 2020 and is part of the Jonas and Constellation Software family.

Should a semi-private course consider Bubs?

If a large share of your rounds are sold to the public through tee time marketplaces, Club Caddie's distribution features matter, and Bubs does not offer them. If your course is private or becoming private, and the membership drives the operation, compare Bubs.

Sources

Checked September 27, 2026.

• Club Caddie home page: https://clubcaddie.com/
• About Club Caddie: https://clubcaddie.com/about/
• Semi and Fully Private Clubs: https://clubcaddie.com/semi-fully-private-club/
• Tee Sheet: https://clubcaddie.com/solutions/teesheet/
• Register / Point of Sale: https://clubcaddie.com/solutions/register-point-of-sale/
• Restaurant & Bar: https://clubcaddie.com/solutions/restaurant-bar/
• Member Management: https://clubcaddie.com/solutions/member-management/
• Accounting & Reports: https://clubcaddie.com/solutions/accounting-and-reports/
• Banquet & Event Management: https://clubcaddie.com/solutions/banquet-event-management/
• Mobile App: https://clubcaddie.com/solutions/mobile/
• Partners & Integrations: https://clubcaddie.com/partners-integrations/

Club Caddie is a trademark of its owner. Bubs is not affiliated with Club Caddie or Jonas Software. Product details come from public sources as of the date above and may change — confirm current capabilities with the vendor.