A family-account ledger the treasurer runs and every parent can see — event fees, reimbursements, fundraiser payouts, and dues, with no payment processor and never a per-transaction fee. Where Scoutbook Plus stops at a manual payment log, this is the whole thing.
TroopPlanner doesn't process payments — families pay by Venmo, cash, or check, and the treasurer records it. What you get is a clean, audit-ready account of who owes what.
One running balance per family, with a history you can trust.
In Scoutbook Plus: balances live in a manual payment log the treasurer maintains by hand — with no self-service view for parents.
Charge a whole event at once instead of family by family.
In Scoutbook Plus: recording a fee means selecting members and typing it in by hand — it isn't tied to who signed up.
Money moving both directions, with a clear approval trail.
In Scoutbook Plus: no reimbursement approval workflow and no one-batch fundraiser payout.
Run annual or periodic dues without a side ledger.
In Scoutbook Plus: dues mean charging each member by hand — no cycle to preview, post, and close.
The numbers a committee asks for, current and exportable.
In Scoutbook Plus: the payment log shows balances, but not filtered, exportable reports.
TroopPlanner records money; it never holds it or takes a cut. Every dollar a family pays reaches the troop.
In Scoutbook Plus: online payments run through the troop's own Stripe account — so every card payment carries a per-transaction processing fee.
The core ledger is built and in use. Free for troops with 15 or fewer Scouts.