Most charity golf outings have plenty of volunteers, but only one or two of them can actually collect money at any given moment, because only one or two of them are standing at the cash box. That's not a volunteer problem. It's a bottleneck built into cash itself.
The Old Bottleneck
With a traditional cash box (or even a single card reader), collecting payment only happens in one place. It doesn't matter if you have five volunteers or fifteen. If there's one register, there's one line, and everyone else is just standing around, unable to help with the thing that actually matters most: bringing in money.
Traditional Cash Box
One collection point, no matter how many volunteers showed up to help
Every Volunteer's iPhone
As many collection points as you have volunteers willing to help
What Changes When Every iPhone Is a Register
Golfund doesn't require any special hardware. It runs on the iPhone a volunteer already has in their pocket. That one shift means every volunteer at your outing can independently collect money, at the same time, in different places, without ever needing to hand anything back to a central table.
In practice, this shows up everywhere across your event:
- Registration: instead of one line at check-in, run three or four tables at once, each collecting entry fees and packages independently
- Raffle sales: volunteers walking the course or the clubhouse each sell and collect on their own, rather than funneling buyers back to one ticket table
- Auction checkout: the end-of-event rush gets split across several volunteers instead of backing up behind one register
- Putting green add-ons: whoever's staffing the green can collect on the spot, without needing to radio for "the person with the cash box"
This Also Means Less Waiting, More Selling
A volunteer standing next to an empty cash box isn't raising money. They're just present. Once every volunteer can collect payment themselves, that same person becomes someone actively selling mulligans, raffle tickets, or contest entries wherever they happen to be standing, instead of directing people toward a bottleneck somewhere else on the course.
- of adults go cashless on a weekly basis
- 41%Pew Research Center
- say they prefer cards over cash
- 78%Capital One Research
- higher gifts when digital wallets are offered
- 1.5xBloomerang
Getting Every Volunteer Set Up
Register your outing once
Set up your organization's profile ahead of time. This only needs to happen once, not per volunteer.
Open the app on each volunteer's own iPhone
No hardware to distribute and no separate merchant accounts. Each volunteer signs in on their own iPhone, and once you add them to your event as staff, they can start collecting right away.
Spread volunteers wherever golfers are
Registration, the course, the putting green, the reception: each one becomes an independent point of sale, all logging to the same event total.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does every volunteer need their own login or account?
Each volunteer signs in to Golfund on their own iPhone, and you add them to your event as staff by email (anyone who doesn't have Golfund yet gets an invite link). They don't need their own Stripe or merchant account: every payment goes to your organization's account.
Do we need to buy anything for each volunteer to use it?
No. It runs on the volunteer's own iPhone: no card reader, terminal, or other hardware to purchase or distribute.
How do we track who collected what if many people are using it at once?
Every transaction is logged automatically by category and time, so you get a full picture of the day's totals regardless of how many volunteers were collecting simultaneously.
Is it secure to have that many iPhones collecting payments?
Yes. Every transaction runs through Stripe, which is PCI DSS Level 1 compliant, and no card data is stored on any individual device.
Is there a limit to how many volunteers can use it at once?
No. There's no cap on how many volunteers can be collecting payments simultaneously across your event.
Stop limiting collection to one table
Free for nonprofits. Every volunteer's iPhone is a checkout station.