Meetings
Board meetings and committee meetings. One platform.
Agendas, minutes, action tracking, and secure document access — built for the boards and committees that run community sport, associations, and non-profits. No more emailing sensitive documents. No more losing institutional knowledge when volunteers change.
Sound familiar?
Running meetings shouldn't be the hardest part of running your club.
Minutes lost in email threads
Last month's minutes are in somebody's inbox. Or was it a Google Doc? Or the shared drive? Nobody's sure — and the AGM is next week.
Actions that disappear
Somebody was supposed to get three quotes. It was in the minutes. Nobody followed up. It's still in the minutes three months later.
Hours of volunteer time wasted
The secretary spends Sunday night typing up minutes, formatting agendas, and chasing RSVPs. They didn't sign up for this.
How it works
Three steps. Zero Word docs.
From blank agenda to approved minutes without switching tools or reformatting anything.
Build the agenda in minutes, not hours
Start from scratch or duplicate a previous meeting. Drag items into order, attach supporting documents, and send the agenda to attendees — all before the kettle's boiled.
- Duplicate past meetings as templates for recurring committees
- Attach files directly to agenda items — no separate board pack
- Invite attendees and track RSVPs automatically
Start the meeting. Minutes write themselves.
Hit "Start Meeting" and your agenda becomes your minutes template. Record notes, decisions, and actions against each item as you go. The whole committee sees what's being captured — live.
- Agenda items become minutes structure — no reformatting
- Real-time collaborative editing — multiple people, one document
- Record attendance with a single click
- Assign tasks to members directly from the minutes
Lock the minutes. Track every action.
Finish the meeting, lock the minutes so they can't be edited, and share them with members. Every action item lives in a task list that follows people around until it's done.
- Lock minutes to create a permanent, auditable record
- Tasks assigned in meetings appear in each member's task list
- Make minutes public for transparency — or keep them private
- Full searchable history of every meeting and decision
Collaborative Meetings — built for committees that work together
We rebuilt Tidy Meetings from the ground up. A fresh interface with real-time collaboration so your whole committee can contribute to minutes simultaneously.
Real-time co-editing
Multiple people can write minutes at the same time. No more "send me your notes and I'll compile them."
Rich text formatting
Headings, bold, italic, lists, and links. Minutes that look professional without fighting a Word template.
Inline attachments
Drop files directly onto agenda items. Treasurer's report, quotes, policies — right where they're discussed.
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Collaborative editing interface
Who it's for
From board chairs to secretaries — built for every seat at the table.
For the Board Chair
Secure board papers. Clear decisions. Complete audit trail.
- Board papers accessed through the portal — not emailed to personal inboxes
- Role-based access ensures directors only see board materials, committee members only see theirs
- When a director steps down, access transfers to the role — not the person
- Complete audit trail of every meeting, decision, and action for governance compliance
For the Secretary
Stop typing minutes on Sunday night.
- Record minutes during the meeting, not from memory two days later
- Agendas build from templates — no formatting from scratch each month
- Share minutes with one click the moment the meeting ends
- Every agenda, every set of minutes, searchable and permanent
For the President
See every outstanding action before the next meeting.
- Dashboard shows all open action items, who owns them, and what's overdue
- Meeting history provides an auditable record of every decision
- Agendas sent in advance so everyone arrives prepared
- Meetings finish on time because the agenda keeps discussion on track
For the Treasurer
Attach your report directly to the agenda item.
- Financial reports sit alongside the agenda item where they're discussed
- No separate email with attachments — everything in context
- Budget decisions recorded in the minutes with the supporting data
- Action items from finance discussions become tracked tasks
Everything your committee needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Purpose-built for clubs and associations — not enterprise boards with six-figure budgets.
Agenda builder
Structured agendas with items, descriptions, and attachments. Duplicate previous meetings for recurring committees.
Action tracking
Assign tasks during the meeting with an owner and due date. Each task follows the person until it's done.
Attendance tracking
Track who's coming, who attended, and who sent apologies. One click to mark — the record lives with the minutes.
Meeting templates
Same agenda every month? Create it once, duplicate it. Standing items, recurring reports — set and forget.
Permissions and privacy
Control who creates, views, and edits meetings. Public minutes for transparency or private for the committee.
Searchable archive
Every meeting stored and searchable. Find what was decided about the pavilion refurb in March — two clicks.
Role-based access
Assign roles to positions, not people. When a secretary steps down, their successor inherits the role — and the access that comes with it.
Secure document portal
Board papers and sensitive documents stay in the platform. No email attachments landing on personal inboxes with unknown security.
Meeting templates
Governing bodies can share approved templates down to member organisations. AGM templates, monthly committee meetings, policy meetings — all standardised.
Zoom & Teams integration
Connect your meetings to Microsoft Teams or Zoom. Multi-factor authentication and passkeys supported.
Committees that switched never looked back.
75 min
average committee meeting
Meetings with agendas sent in advance finish on time. Everyone arrives prepared. Discussion stays on track because the agenda is on screen.
48 hrs
to publish AGM minutes
Motions, votes, and outcomes recorded in real time. Minutes approved and distributed the same week — not three weeks later.
40% → 85%
action item completion
Every action item becomes a tracked task with an owner and due date. The president checks the dashboard before the next meeting.
Honest comparison
Board portals are built for ASX companies. TidyHQ is built for community organisations.
Enterprise board portals like Diligent cost $5,000+ per year and assume you have a paid company secretary. TidyHQ gives you the governance features that matter — agendas, minutes, role-based access, secure document sharing — at a price that works for volunteer-run organisations.
| Feature | TidyHQ Free — $890/yr AUD | Our Cat Herder From $595/yr AUD | BoardPro From $1,650/yr USD | Boardable From $21/user/mo | Diligent From $5,000+/yr | Google Docs + Email Free |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agenda builder | × | |||||
| Agenda converts to minutes | × | |||||
| Real-time collaborative editing | × | × | × | |||
| Action/task tracking from meetings | × | |||||
| Tasks integrated across the whole org | × | × | × | × | × | |
| Attendance tracking & invitations | Manual | |||||
| File attachments on items | Separate | |||||
| Meeting templates & duplication | Copy/paste | |||||
| Digital voting & polls | × | Premium | × | |||
| eSignatures | × | × | Premium | Pro+ | × | |
| AI meeting minutes | × | × | × | Pro+ | × | |
| Built-in video conferencing | × | × | × | Pro+ | × | × |
| Board pack builder | × | × | ||||
| Role-based access control | × | × | ||||
| Portal-only document access (no email) | × | × | ||||
| Multi-factor authentication | × | |||||
| Template sharing (governing body → clubs) | × | × | × | × | × | |
| Succession-ready (roles, not people) | × | × | × | × | × | |
| Organisation pricing (not per-seat) | × | × | × | |||
| Memberships + events + meetings in one | × | × | × | × | × | |
| Contact database & CRM | × | × | × | × | × | |
| Financial tracking | × | × | × | × | × | |
| Built for community organisations | Boards | Boards | × |
A note on honesty
If your organisation is ASX-listed, has a paid company secretary, and needs formal compliance registers, skills matrices, and board assessments — Diligent or BoardPro are built for that. TidyHQ is the better choice when your board is volunteers, your committees change every year, and you need governance tools that sit alongside memberships, events, and communications instead of replacing them. Per-seat pricing penalises good governance — it encourages shared logins, which is exactly what you don't want for board security.
Customer story
“Your minutes are virtually ready as soon as the meeting is concluded and can be shared straight away. No more last-minute or late-night, minute typing!”
Mark Thornhill
Club Secretary, Emmanuel South Oakleigh Cricket Club
Read the full story →Stop emailing board papers. Start governing properly.
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