Spond 4+

I was told about this app today so downloaded it and set it up with ease. I added all my contacts from my phone address book very quickly.
Creating groups and events is quick. This is a must if you are running a group or team where you need to capture members attendance. I used to use Survey Monkey but this will be the future.

(Things I would change, add some default options at group level like. Visibility of participants list so it’s always set to admins only
And so on for the options.

Send invitations (4 weeks before event plus other options) just to make creating events quicker plus, if you have chosen immediately (but not added members yet) you cannot change it to a time) I added lots of events in advance and was going to add members later because I didn’t want to overload everyone on one night lol

And also a few other options on when to send reminders. 48 hours after sending or 48hrs before the event leaves a big gap between. So. Maybe every week until event, or 2 weeks after sending or 2 weeks before event.

Another suggestion would be to create a list of Reminder messages to select from or set one up at the creation of the event so you can personalise it instead of having the “Be great if you responded to my Spond event” one.

Thanks a lot for your review and feedback, it's much appreciated! Correct me if I misunderstood but if you create an event or series and add the members straight away you will not be overloading them with invitations as they won't receive the invite/notification until the date you have set (X days/weeks ahead of event start) :) They will still be able to see the event in their event overview but will not be notified. I have taken note of your other feedback around more default options as well as the reminders. Great suggestions!

The app is mostly good and has made it much easier to know what’s coming up with my running club. My only complaint is that if you choose to allow the app to send events to your calendar it sends absolutely everything that you are invited to. Being in a running club that has 5 simultaneous events on a Thursday (different pace groups) and similar on a Tuesday my diary was getting spammed with things that are irrelevant to me. A much more logical approach would be to only have events sync over to a user’s calendar after they have clicked on accept. Declined and pending events have no place being synced. This was such a basic seeming feature that I checked with other users in my running club assuming that it was operator error but they all said they are seeing the same. Would love to see an update to this functionality in a future app update. EDIT: I have just seen a 1 year old review saying the same thing with a developer response saying that they would pass on the feedback to the relevant person, so I guess if you’re also hoping for this to be updated don’t expect it anytime soon.

Thank you for your positive review and feedback! At the moment we don’t have this feature but it is registered as a feature request in our system for potential updates. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at support@spond.com
Best regards,
Iris at Spond

We use Spond to manage the Junior section of our cricket club, 4 teams and about 100 kids. The management of groups (members & casuals), events (matches & training), and communications is very good. The support is very responsive when there are issues but the software itself seems very stable.

The whole app is free apart from a 3% fee on payments made via the app. That’s a bit more expensive than other payment solutions but worth it for the integration with all the rest of the functionality. The payment system is a little slow to verify and pay out but otherwise seems reliable so far.

There is a associated web app called Spond Club but I’ve not yet found anything useful it can do that the iOS app can’t do.

Thank you so much for your positive review and feedback. We really appreciate it! Please contact us on support@spond.com if you have any questions or further feedback to our app.