Part one
Website & bookings
Your events, memberships and area pages, with Stripe checkout.
- Event pages with live seats left
- Stripe checkout, with member prices
- Yearly or quarterly memberships
- Pages written for Google and AI search
For local business clubs and networking groups
Your club’s website, members’ area and dashboard. Set up for you.
Guestfolk is for business clubs, supper clubs, networking groups and event companies. Your members book and pay online, and carry their membership card on their phone. You run events, people and emails from one dashboard. We do the setup.
Your Stripe, your Mailchimp, your members’ data.
The tour
Guestfolk in under a minute.
The website, the members’ area, the dashboard and the marketing, start to finish. It has music but no talking, so it works with the sound off.
Read the words in the film
- Guestfolk. Your club, online. Set up for you.
- Running a club shouldn’t mean running six systems: a ticketing site, a membership spreadsheet, a mailing list, payments, a website and social posts.
- Guestfolk puts it all in one place.
- Your club’s website: your brand, your domain. Stripe checkout. Members’ price, automatically.
- Your members’ area: a venue scans their card. No app to download.
- One dashboard: your pipeline, with its value. Know when an event makes money. Everyone in one list. Mailchimp, kept in step.
- Marketing for LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram: draft this week’s posts. ChatGPT or Claude make drafts. Nothing goes out until you say.
- Yours to keep: your Stripe, your Mailchimp, your members’ data.
- Set up for you: live in 2 to 3 weeks. A first call, your basics, we set it up, a test booking, and you go live.
- Guestfolk. Book a demo at guestfolk.com.
What’s included
Three parts, made to work together.
Your members get a website and a members’ area in your club’s colours. You get the dashboard that runs it all.
Part two
Members’ area
Their card, points, bookings and offers, on their phone.
- A membership card with a QR code
- Points to earn and spend
- Member offers with codes
- A forum and a member directory
Part three
Organiser’s dashboard
Events, people, members and emails, in one place.
- Guest lists, check-in and takings
- A planner that shows break-even
- Everyone in one list, with filters
- Mailchimp kept in step
Bookings
Seats, payments and member prices, handled.
Every event gets its own page, with the seats left shown live and Stripe checkout. Members get their discount automatically.
Sold out, members-only and invitation-only events all work, and guests can add the date to their calendar.
The website and bookings
The members’ area
Membership that lives on their phone.
Members open their card from a link, with no app to download. A venue scans its QR code to check they’re a member.
Their points, bookings and member offers are there too, with a forum for asks and offers, and a member directory.
The members’ areaThe planner
Know when an event makes money.
Put in the costs and the ticket price, and the planner shows how many seats you need to sell to break even. Then try a few what-ifs before you commit.
Guest lists, dietary needs, check-in, takings and emails to guests are all in the same dashboard.
People
Everyone, in one list.
Members, guests, enquiries, prospects and your mailing list, together, with filters. Group them by place or by what they like, and when you need to write to a group, “Email these people” drafts it with Claude.
Mailchimp stays in step, with tags for places and likes and a fresh copy of your list every 3 hours. Using something else, like Brevo, HubSpot or Klaviyo? We’ll connect it as part of your setup.
Who it’s for
Not just for clubs.
Business clubs first, but it suits anyone who runs events and looks after people: members, guests, supporters or regulars.
Societies
Local, professional and alumni societies: talks, dinners and the AGM, with members’ prices.
Private members’ clubs
Membership tiers, the card on members’ phones, members-only events and offers.
Business networks
Breakfasts, lunches and networking events, with guests and introductions.
Supper and dining clubs
Seats, dietary needs and the guest list for the kitchen.
Wellbeing and retreats
Sound baths, yoga, retreats and workshops: book a place, or ask for a time.
Classes and workshops
Cookery schools, craft workshops and courses: dates, seats and private bookings.
Charities and community groups
Fundraising dinners, supporters and volunteers, all in one list.
Sports and social clubs
Golf societies, running and cycling clubs: socials, trips and memberships.
And associations, alumni groups, choirs, venues and event series. Running something small? There’s a smaller price, too.
Done for you
We set it up. You go live.
We put in your brand, words and colours, connect your domain, Stripe and Mailchimp (or the email platform you already use), and add your first events and membership tiers. Then we make a test booking with you.
A first call
We talk about your club and show you the demo.
You send us the basics
Your logo, colours, words, first events and tiers.
We set it all up
Your brand, domain, Stripe, Mailchimp, events and tiers.
A test booking
We make a booking together, start to finish.
You go live
Your site goes live on your own domain.
How setup works
Typically 2 to 3 weeks from the first call to going live.
It stays yours
Your club, your accounts.
We connect your accounts; we don’t take them over. Your club owns its Stripe and Mailchimp accounts, and its members’ data.
Your Stripe account
Payments go to your club’s own Stripe account.
Your Mailchimp account
Your mailing list stays in your own Mailchimp account, or on the email platform you already use.
Your members’ data
It belongs to your club.
Built on Astro and Netlify, with Stripe for payments and Mailchimp for email, or the email platform you already use. Fast static pages, cookie consent before any analytics, and a backup every night.
Coming soon
Connect ChatGPT or Claude to your dashboard.
Your club will be able to connect ChatGPT, Claude or any AI assistant that supports MCP to its dashboard. The assistant can read your events, bookings and People, and make drafts for you to check.
MCP is the open standard for connecting AI assistants to other apps, so it works with others too, such as Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Cursor. An app that can’t use the usual sign-in can connect with an access key instead.
It will be an add-on at £29 a month, ex VAT.
Drafts only
Events, plans, emails and social posts, for you to check.
It never publishes, sends or deletes
Those stay with you.
Contact details stay hidden
Unless your club switches them on.
Everything is logged
And you can revoke any connection at any time.
Free for club organisers
Will your next event make money?
Our free break-even calculator shows how many seats you need to sell to cover your costs, and what you make at 20, 40 or 60 guests.
Giving back
A free build, every year, for a charity.
Each year we give one charity a free build: the website, the supporters’ area and the dashboard, set up for it. Tell us about yours.
Pricing
From £149 a month
Plus £2,500 for setup. Ex VAT. Stripe’s own fees and your email plan (Mailchimp or another) are paid separately.
See it working.
We’ll show you The Lantern Club, our demo club: its website, its members’ area and its dashboard. Then we’ll answer your questions.