Be honest
What is running your family right now
If one of these is doing the job, you already know where it breaks.
The family group text
Ninety messages deep, four people said yes, two said "maybe", and one asked what the date was again. Nothing is a record.
Nobody can say who agreed to do what, so the same three people do all of it.
A spreadsheet
One person owns it, one person understands it, and it lives on their laptop. Dues paid in cash get remembered rather than recorded.
When that person steps down, the family’s financial history steps down with them.
A social media group
Your family’s photographs, addresses and children’s names sit on a platform whose business is advertising, mixed in with everyone’s politics.
You cannot restrict the treasury to the treasurer, because there is no treasury.
A generic event tool
Built for strangers buying tickets to one event. It has no idea who is related to whom, and it forgets your family the day after.
Per-ticket fees on your own relatives, and nothing left behind afterwards.
The difference
Six reasons families move and stay
Every one of these is checkable inside the product on the day you sign up.
It is one place, not five
The reunion, the dues, the directory, the photographs and the family tree are the same account, so the person you hand a job to is already on the tree and the payment already knows which fund it belongs to. Nothing is exported and re-imported.
Built for a hundred and fifty relatives, not a team of eight
Every list that names family members is designed for a family that size: search that matches first name, last name and nickname, handles accents and apostrophes, and tells two Martha Allens apart. Most tools are built for a small team and quietly fall apart at scale.
One family cannot see another. Enforced, not configured
Family separation is applied by the database on every single query, and every action that touches family data carries a test that tries to break in from another family and must fail. It is not a checkbox somebody can leave unticked.
A treasury a treasurer will accept
Dues plans payable in installments, funds with real ledgers, automatic routing so each dollar lands where it belongs, and a profit and loss you can hand to the board. Not a payment button and a hope.
Permissions per job, not one admin switch
Record dues without being able to pay money out. See the directory without seeing the accounts. Approve new members without touching the treasury. Basic separation of duties, which one blunt "admin" flag cannot express.
It is for families, and only families
Not a CRM with a family skin on it. Every screen assumes relatives, generations, branches and the person who has been organising this reunion for twenty years — because that is the only thing it is built to do.
And switching costs you an evening
There is no migration project, because you are not migrating anything. You create the family, share one short code, and your relatives sign themselves up — which is the part that would otherwise take you a weekend of typing. You approve who belongs. The reunion goes up. That is it.
In their words
Families who are not going back
Ask us for a reference before you move your family — we would rather you talked to one than took our word for it.