Built in New Zealand, for New Zealand clubs
Octave was built alongside Clubs New Zealand and three pioneering NZ clubs starting in 2020. Five years later, the same platform — with adjourn workflows, NZ GST, and member-first POS — is the only club software on the market designed in Aotearoa, for Aotearoa.
Every kind of NZ club — from the city RSA to the small-town bowls green
Whether you run a 2,000-member RSA in Wellington or a 180-member bowls club in the Wairarapa, Octave fits the workflows your committee already runs — not the ones a generic Aussie POS vendor wants you to learn.
RSAs & Returned Services
Older membership, ANZAC events, raffle traditions, volunteer staff — software that respects all of it instead of forcing a kiosk on the bar.
Bowls Clubs
Green bookings, Saturday comp draws, afternoon tea and treasurer reports — all in one platform sized to a 200-member club’s reality.
Working Men’s & Cosmopolitan Clubs
The neighbourhood social club — bar, pool tables, members’ lounge, weekly draws and a kitchen on event nights, all run by a small committee.
Sports & Golf Clubs
Rugby, cricket, sailing, golf — the after-match bar, the comp draws and the season subs, all on one member-aware platform.
Real NZ club workflows — not adapted from a Sydney pub POS
Most club software in NZ is rebadged Australian retail or hospitality POS that never knew what an adjourn was. Octave was built around the workflows your bar manager actually runs.
Adjourn management
The real NZ club-floor workflow — adjourn, re-open, reconcile — that no generic POS understands. Built into Octave from day one.
15% GST & member pricing
NZ GST handling and mixed member / non-member pricing baked in. No spreadsheets, no manual overrides at the till.
Volunteer-led front of house
Bar staff are often volunteers giving a few hours a week. The system has to be obvious on day one — not a week of training.
Patchy regional connectivity
Internet drops out on a Friday night in a small-town clubhouse and the whole bar stops. Octave was built offline-safe so you keep trading.
Weekly draws & raffles
Friday meat raffle, Saturday housie, members’ draw — long-standing club traditions that need a clean audit trail without disrupting the routine.
Reports the committee trusts
NZ club committees need accurate financial reports for the AGM. Pulling them from a non-club system takes hours every month.
Designed in NZ, with NZ clubs — from the start
Every workflow was shaped by real NZ clubs running it in production for years. Not a feature on a roadmap, not a checkbox on a sales sheet.
Native adjourn workflows
The club-floor pattern Octave was literally designed around — not a workaround, not a custom field.
NZ GST & member pricing
15% GST handled properly. Member and visitor pricing applied automatically based on the swiped member.
Volunteer-friendly UI
Big buttons, plain language, no menu diving. New volunteers serve confidently inside their first shift.
Offline-safe by design
Run a whole shift without the internet. Reconciles automatically when the connection is back.
Bar inventory in NZ units
Handles, jugs, kegs, nips — club-grade unit conversions that retail POS systems never had to deal with.
Treasurer-friendly reporting
Monthly reports your treasurer can hand to the committee — or the auditor — without a Sunday afternoon of spreadsheet cleanup.
