1.85NATIONAL

€350.00 a year, plus the price of 1 national postage stamp per member

Not “about the price of a stamp”. We peg the member fee to the actual price of an An Post national stamp — €1.85 today.

250members
25250typical club750
Platform fee€350.00
250 members × €1.85one national stamp each€462.50
Your club pays€812.50 / year

€3.25 per member, per year

And it leaves your club roughly

€898.00

better off every year than running it on paper — and countless thankless hours nobody has to spend on it.

Here is the itemised sum

Day permits are not charged for. Sell fifty or five thousand — the price above does not move, and we take no percentage of a single one.

No setup fees. No per-transaction platform cut. Cancel any year.

Where that saving comes from

The same 250-member club, costed both ways.

Running it on paper

Your likely costs today

Postage3 letters × 250 members × €1.85€1,387.50
Printing those letters€90.00
Membership cards€300.00
Day permit books€140.00
Bank lodgement fees€80.00
Current softwareIf you already pay for a membership system, add it€0.00
Committee timeHours every week — chasing, stuffing, reconcilingnot counted
Total€1,997.50

Running it on Tadpole

Same club, same year

Tadpole€350.00 + 250 × €1.85€812.50
Card processingStripe, 1.5% + €0.25 per payment — paid to Stripe, not to us+€287.50
Postage€0.00
Printing€0.00
Committee timeRenewals, payments and reminders run themselvesmostly given back
Total€1,100.00

€1,997.50 €1,100.00 = €898.00

back in club funds every year — plus the countless thankless hours that never appear on any balance sheet

Why price it in stamps?

Because it is the cost we remove.A club that posts membership cards spends a stamp on every member before it has printed anything, stuffed an envelope, or chased the members whose cards never arrived. Tadpole's member fee is that same stamp — except the card is already on their phone.

Because it keeps us honest about inflation. Our costs rise the way every Irish business's costs rise. Rather than announce arbitrary increases, we track a public, independently-set benchmark. An Post moved the national rate to €1.85 on 3 February 2026. So did we. If it never moves again, neither do we.

It also means you can check our pricing without taking our word for it. The rate is published on anpost.com.

Everything is in the price

Full platform access — members, applications, renewals, payments
Day permit sales — unlimited, and we take no cut of any of them
Digital wallet passes for Apple and Google, per member
Member card pages that work offline at the riverbank
Admin dashboard, reporting and committee accounts
Platform updates and new features as they ship
Email support

Card payments are handled by your own Stripe account — their fees go to Stripe, not to us, and we never take a cut of your members' money.

Early adopter pricing

These are early adopter prices

Set your club up now to grab this deal. Clubs that join at this stage keep these prices — all we ask in return is that you tell us what is working and what is not.

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