Your fundraiser should fund your cause, not software.

ChipIn comes out of ten years building reservation technology, systems that handle the entire business for high-volume operators: thousands of bookings, online and entered by hand, the payments behind them, and every email in between, where it all works the first time because there is no second chance. That is the standard we hold, and when we looked at the software behind charity golf events, nothing close to it existed. Dated sites, percentage fees, spreadsheets carrying the whole event, and volunteers doing remarkable work on tools that fight them.

Somewhere along the way, the industry decided nonprofits should choose between enterprise prices, a cut of everything they raise, or "free" platforms that lean on donors for tips. The money is going somewhere in every one of those models, and we think it should go directly to your cause. The best tools in the industry should be the ones every event can afford, and building them that way is a choice, not a compromise.

So that is what ChipIn is: the most complete platform in golf, at a price that leaves the money where it belongs. Our ambitions run past the events already on the calendar. Plenty of organizers have run their tournament the same way for a decade, wary of tools that might complicate a formula that works, and plenty more never start because the work looks impossible.

When the software is this good and this simple, more people say yes, more events get run, and more money reaches the causes that need it. That is what we are building for.