Liz M.
They suck a little until you want to cancel. Then, they suck a lot.
We used Upper Hand for our fencing club for over 4 years. During that time it mostly worked OK. The biggest issues we had were: - As a coach, checking people in for classes was more steps than it needed to be. It would also not warn you if you'd checked someone in more than once, so sometimes we accidentally took too many credits from someone's account - Many members struggled to sign themselves up for private lessons and group classes. This process was really not intuitive so the whole time we were with them we had a video pinned to our social media pages explaining how to book yourself in without being double-charged for it. In late 2024, they added a feature that would let customers request to cancel their account. We never got these emails because I'd disabled the "feature" where I got an email every time we ran a transaction. If you don't want 50-100 emails cluttering your inbox every month for every single transaction, membership renewal, etc, you are also unable to see customers requesting to cancel their membership. This led to some very unhappy customers and Upper Hand seemed totally unmoved by the fact that grouping those customer communications together was ridiculous. Canceling this software has turned into a year-long nightmare. You have to give *six months* notice to cancel your contract. We happened to find this out a week before that date, so we asked to cancel. From that point forward, support was almost nonexistent. We never got a confirmation of the cancellation and they continued to charge us for two months past what should have been the end of the contract. We ended up having to do a chargeback on the final months. We also just learned that they never notified their payment processor that we were moving away, so the payment processor is charging us fees for being out of PCI compliance on an account that hasn't run transactions since May. This software was just-ok for the time we were using it; not super user friendly but workable. But my advice is to stay far away, because if you ever start using them it will cost you a fortune to stop.




