Clubessential Holdings provides a full suite of membership and club management Software as a Service solutions to private clubs, public golf courses, health & fitness clubs, spas, municipalities, camps, military organizations, and college athletic programs.

Across nine brands - CampBrain, Clubessential, ClubReady, Exerp, foreUP, Innovatise, PrestoSports, TAC, and Vermont Systems - the company offers a variety of progressive technology and services which help more than 20,000 customers attract, engage, and retain over 100 million club members, patrons, and sports fans for life.

Our Story

Camp Management Technology 

Streamlines every aspect of camp operations, registrations, and payments to delight and satisfy parents and staff. 

Enable efficient management of key areas including camps, staff, attendance medical information, camp stores, conference centers, and fundraising. 

Club Technology

Improves member retention through increased engagement and utilization of club offerings

Improves member prospecting

Allows club operators to manage payments, costs, and ensure operational efficiency

Course Technology

Delivers solutions that make it easier for golf course, club, and pro shop managers to run and market their business.

Integrated SaaS tools include payments, point of sale, tee sheet management, online booking, billing, text/email marketing, kitchen services, employees, reporting, and others.

Fitness Technology

Streamline and automate business operations for fitness brands

Attract and retain members through increased engagement tools from payments to registration

Gym Technology

Provides enterprise-class membership-management software systems to large, global fitness brands.

A centralized information source and member database for payment collection, bookings reporting, business analytics and customer-relations management.

Mobile Fitness Technology

Streamlines mobile marketing experiences for gym owners and managers.


Creates exceptional and intuitive member experiences that increase engagement.


Increase revenue with in-app purchases and consolidated lead management.

Sports Technology

Providing technology to professional and minor leagues, colleges, high schools, and conferences.

Solutions include mobile apps, fundraising, streaming, websites, digital ticketing and social graphics.

Recreation Technology

Provides a suite of software applications for the management of recreation operations

Platforms provide clients full operational management, payment management and experience management capabilities

Specialized Hospitality Technology

Drives exceptional user experiences for spas, resorts, golf clubs, and health resorts.


Supports total fitness club membership management for single or multi-property businesses.


Delivers secure access control across a digitally networked integrated guest solution.

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Acquired
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Our Leadership Team

Randy Eckels
CEO

Brian Carley
CFO

Jason House
CTO

Amy Huff
CMO

Sarah Haucke
CPO

Gerri Jones
General Counsel

Scott Strong
Clubessential and foreUp Software President

Darol Lain
ClubReady President

Stephan Rasp
CE Holdings Europe GmbH
Managing Director

Marilyn Cox
PrestoSports President

Patrick Hayden
Vermont Systems President