Built in Nova Scotia

A modern club platform, built locally.

Canadian payments first. Mobile first. Moorings treated as the core feature they actually are.

iOS + Android member app  ·  Interac debit, native  ·  Support in your time zone

Good morning,
The MacKenzie Family
Balance — $640.00 due Jul 1
Mooring — Ball #23, July$310.00
Junior Sail Wk 2 — Emma$245.00
Wed Night Races$85.00
Total$640.00
Quick actions
⚓ Book a transient ball
⛵ Register for a race
The Problem

Club software wasn't built for clubs like yours.

The incumbents were built for golf resorts and hotels somewhere else. A mooring ball gets treated like a hotel room, a member statement reads like a hotel folio, and Canadian debit gets charged like a US credit card.

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Platforms built for Canadian yacht clubs

No native Interac. No real mobile app. No support in your time zone. Clubs make do with workarounds and spreadsheets.

Statements nobody can read

Confusing line items pile up until members call the office to decode their own bill. Staff burn hours explaining and correcting.

A surcharge on Canadian money

Members reaching for debit get charged like they're swiping a US Visa. The fee is structural, and it compounds on every transaction.

Moorings booked like hotel rooms

A 2,000 lb ball can't hold a 12,000 lb boat, but the software doesn't know that. So online booking stays turned off and the phone keeps ringing.

What We Build

The whole club, one system.

Purpose-built for the way a Canadian yacht club actually runs, starting with the things that hurt the most.

The Difference

Before and after.

If the left column sounds familiar, you already know why we built this.

Life right now

  • Members squint at statements and call the office to decode them
  • One report pulls in charges you didn't ask for, then it's spreadsheet cleanup
  • Two staff pull the same numbers and get two different answers
  • Debit charged like credit, roughly 3% every time
  • Paying means logging into your bank and hunting for an e-transfer email
  • Transient moorings booked by phone tag and manual math
  • Support is in another country, hours behind your morning

Life on Helm

  • Invoices in plain language, readable on a phone at the wharf
  • Filter a report, get exactly that, export it clean
  • One ledger behind everything, so every report agrees
  • Debit processed as debit, on Canadian rails
  • One tap to pay, reconciled automatically against the right line
  • Boats matched to safe balls online, price calculated for you
  • Support in your time zone, from people who know your harbour
Built Local

Canadian dollars, Canadian rails, Canadian hours.

Subscription fees and US payment processing shouldn't flow south every year. Helm is built in Halifax and runs on Canadian payment infrastructure.

CAD

Billed in Canadian dollars

No USD-anchored pricing, no FX surprises on the club's statement.

2 taps

From invoice to paid

Push notification, Apple Pay or Interac debit, reconciled automatically.

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Support on Atlantic time

Halifax-built. Same neighbourhood, same harbour. Calls answered same day.

Your data stays yours: full export rights, no lock-in. A platform should earn your renewal, not trap it.

Next Step

Let's sit down and scope it.

A walkthrough takes about thirty minutes. Bring your hardest reporting question and your most confusing member statement, and we'll show you both fixed.

Book a walkthrough

Dave Hamilton · Halifax, NS