One directory for every scout, adult, and parent — with guided joining, clean offboarding, family logins, and the compliance flags that keep you covered. Nothing is ever deleted.
| Job | Scoutbook (a real session) | TroopPlanner |
|---|---|---|
| Load the unit roster (youth) | ~1.0 s | 260 ms |
| Load the adult roster | ~855 ms | 240 ms |
| Load the dashboard | ~720 ms | 91 ms |
Scoutbook figures are observed server response times from a real advancements.scouting.org session; TroopPlanner figures are p95 from its nightly load test on the production server.
Every member in one searchable place, printable however you need it.
In Scoutbook: roster views are slow to load and awkward to print.
The details you need in an emergency, seen by the right people.
In Scoutbook: parent access and family relationships are fiddly to manage.
Structure that keeps its own history.
In Scoutbook: patrol and position history isn't really tracked.
New families set themselves up; you just watch it happen.
In Scoutbook: adding a new family is a manual, leader-driven chore.
A departing member is closed out properly — and their record kept forever.
In Scoutbook: no structured exit — records just go stale or vanish.
Change many members at once; manage logins without the runaround.
In Scoutbook: bulk edits and login troubleshooting mean a lot of clicking.
Every adult's Scouting America course completions are tracked with current / expired status. Safeguarding Youth Training currency is derived automatically and enforced across the app — leaders with expired training are flagged on the dashboard, blocked from broadcasting to youth families, and surfaced in campout compliance checks.
Bringing your troop in is a single upload — a Scoutbook CSV or TroopMaster export, duplicate-safe, with a dry-run preview.