TidyHQ vs Snap! Raise
Last reviewed August 2026
Snap! Raise is a rep-led fundraising campaign, not software you run yourself. A Snap! rep sets up a 28-day drive, coaches your team through the outreach, and the platform takes a share of what comes in — Snap! Mobile's own materials say programs keep 80% or more. For a US high school program with no admin capacity, that trade can make sense. It is not a membership system, it is not priced publicly, and it doesn't operate outside the United States. TidyHQ is the other thing entirely: flat-priced software you run yourself, all year.
Where TidyHQ wins
A published price and a system of record. TidyHQ Pro is $890 AUD/year flat regardless of how much you raise — Snap! Raise takes a percentage of every campaign and quotes it per program through a rep. Membership and registration records with renewal tracking. Financial reporting across subs, gate, canteen, events, grants and sponsorship with Xero sync coming soon. Governance: agendas, minutes with action items, committee tasks, 25 GB of document storage. Email and SMS to your list. Event ticketing with member pricing. Unlimited admin seats. And it works in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
Where Snap! Raise wins
Snap! Raise sells effort, not software, and for a lot of US school programs that is the actual constraint. A rep runs the campaign, the outreach is built and coached rather than left to a volunteer coordinator, and the company reports 125,000+ teams across every US state. Snap! Mobile's wider stack — Snap! Manage for schedules, sites and registration, Snap! Store for team gear, Snap! Spend for budgets — covers real jobs for a school athletics department. If your program has nobody to run a fundraiser and money up front matters more than the percentage, that is a defensible trade.
Best for
Clubs, teams and associations that want to own their member data and run on a published flat price — and any organisation outside the United States, where Snap! Raise doesn't operate.
Feature comparison
Available to AU / NZ / UK organisations
TidyHQ
Snap! Raise
✗ US programs onlyPublished pricing
TidyHQ
$890 AUD/year flatSnap! Raise
✗ Quoted per program by a repCost model
TidyHQ
Flat subscription + 1% + 20c service feeSnap! Raise
Share of funds raised — programs keep 80%+Self-serve setup
TidyHQ
Sign up and startSnap! Raise
Rep-led onboardingMembership management & renewals
TidyHQ
Tiers, auto-renewals, familySnap! Raise
✗ (registration via Snap! Manage)Campaign fundraising
TidyHQ
Categorised fundraising income onlySnap! Raise
28-day rep-led campaignsFinancial reporting by income category
TidyHQ
Subs, events, shop, gate, grantsSnap! Raise
Campaign reporting; Snap! Spend for budgetsAccounting integration (Xero)
TidyHQ
Coming soonSnap! Raise
Meeting minutes & governance
TidyHQ
Agendas, minutes, action itemsSnap! Raise
Task management
TidyHQ
Assigned to committee rolesSnap! Raise
Document storage
TidyHQ
25 GBSnap! Raise
Event ticketing with member pricing
TidyHQ
Members see their priceSnap! Raise
Online shop
TidyHQ
With member pricingSnap! Raise
Snap! Store (separate product)Email & SMS communications
TidyHQ
email; SMS available AU/NZ/UK (credit packs)Snap! Raise
Campaign outreach onlyFree tier
TidyHQ
Free forever, unlimited contactsSnap! Raise
*Approximate conversion: 1 AUD ≈ 0.65 USD ≈ 0.50 GBP. Actual rates may vary.
Key differences
You can see the price before you talk to anyone
Snap! Raise doesn't publish pricing — it is tailored per program and quoted by a rep, and the share taken depends on how the campaign performs. TidyHQ Pro is $890 AUD/year, published, flat, and unchanged whether your club raises $5,000 or $50,000.
A percentage of a good year is a lot of money
Snap! Mobile states programs keep 80% or more of what they raise. On a $30,000 campaign, the platform's share is at least $6,000 — several times TidyHQ's entire annual subscription. That can still be worth it if the alternative is no campaign at all, but it is worth doing the arithmetic before the rep does.
The club exists between campaigns
Snap! Raise is a 28-day drive. Registrations, subs, committee meetings, budgets and the AGM run all year. TidyHQ keeps one record per member across seasons, with renewal tracking, categorised income and governance — the parts that persist after the campaign closes.
It has to work where your club is
Snap! Raise operates with US school programs — 125,000+ teams across every state, with no international offering. Australian, New Zealand and UK clubs can't use it. TidyHQ is Australian-built and works wherever Stripe pays out.
What Snap! Raise does well
Snap! Raise sells effort, not software, and for a lot of US school programs that is the actual constraint. A rep runs the campaign, the outreach is built and coached rather than left to a volunteer coordinator, and the company reports 125,000+ teams across every US state. Snap! Mobile's wider stack — Snap! Manage for schedules, sites and registration, Snap! Store for team gear, Snap! Spend for budgets — covers real jobs for a school athletics department. If your program has nobody to run a fundraiser and money up front matters more than the percentage, that is a defensible trade.
We think honest comparisons build more trust than pretending competitors don’t exist. Try both and see which one your committee actually uses.
Ongoing development
We have shipped every month since 2008.
The software you pick now is a bet on where it will be in three years, and no feature table tells you that. We have been building TidyHQ for eighteen years, across more than 30,000 commits. The public record is dated and checkable: 15 new features and 52 updates since November 2025 alone, the most recent on 24 July 2026.
Some of what landed
We have not tried to summarise Snap! Raise’s release history here, because we do not have reliable data on it and would rather not guess. Go and look for their changelog too. If a vendor cannot show you what they shipped last quarter, that is worth knowing before you sign anything.
Is TidyHQ right for you?
TidyHQ is the better choice if…
- Your club is in Australia, New Zealand or the UK — Snap! Raise doesn't operate there
- You want a published, flat price rather than a share of what you raise
- You need membership records, subs collection and renewal tracking
- You need governance — meeting minutes, committee tasks, document storage
- You want to run your own fundraising rather than hand it to a rep
Snap! Raise might be better if…
- •You are a US school program with nobody available to run a fundraiser
- •A coached, rep-led campaign is worth more to you than the percentage taken
- •You need funds raised quickly in a fixed 28-day window
- •You already use Snap! Manage, Snap! Store or Snap! Spend across your athletics department
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about using Snap! Raise vs TidyHQ for membership organisations.
Snap! Raise does not publish pricing. Campaigns are quoted per program through a Snap! rep, and the company's own materials state that programs keep 80% or more of what they raise — so the platform's share comes out of the campaign rather than being billed as a subscription. TidyHQ Pro is $890 AUD/year flat, published on the pricing page, with a permanent free plan.
No. Snap! Raise works with US school programs and describes serving 125,000+ teams across every US state, with no international offering. TidyHQ is Australian-built and used by clubs, associations and federations in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US.
Not in the club sense. Snap! Raise is a fundraising campaign; registration sits in a separate Snap! Mobile product, Snap! Manage. There is no membership tier, renewal date, financial-member status or subs collection in Snap! Raise itself. TidyHQ handles memberships, renewals, subs, finances and governance in one place.
It depends on what the alternative is. If your program has no volunteer capacity to run a fundraiser and a coached 28-day campaign raises money that otherwise wouldn't exist, paying a share of it is a reasonable trade. If you already have a committee that can run a raffle or an a-thon, that same money buys a lot of software — TidyHQ's entire annual subscription is a fraction of the platform share on a mid-sized campaign.
No. Snap! Raise is a fundraising campaign product with no agendas, minutes, action items, committee tasks or document storage. TidyHQ includes all of them on every paid plan, with 25 GB of storage for constitutions, policies and AGM records.
If you want to keep more of what you raise and can run the campaign yourself, 99Pledges charges no platform fee for a-thons, Givebutter runs at 0% with donor tipping, and RallyUp covers auctions and raffles. All three are self-serve rather than rep-led, which is the real trade — Snap! Raise is selling the effort, not the software. Outside the United States, Snap! Raise is not available at all; RallyUp, Zeffy and TidyHQ all operate in Australia and the UK.
Sources
Claims in this comparison are based on publicly available information. Verify current pricing and features directly with each provider.
- 1Snap! Raise pricing— Confirms pricing is quoted per program by a rep rather than published
- 2Snap! Raise for sports teams— Campaign format, rep-led model and the "keep 80% or more" statement
- 3Snap! Mobile— Product family: Snap! Manage, Snap! Store, Snap! Spend, Snap! Insights
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