GuestFirst vs Golfund
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GuestFirst
Access event details and information provided by your host. A unique ID dynamically tailors the content displayed to you, ensuring relevant event information is easily accessible.
- Event information access
- Host-provided details
- Dynamically tailored content
- Unique ID access
- Event details accessibility
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GuestFirst Mobile is provided to guests by their hosts to make event information and details easily accessible. Your event host will provide you a unique ID which allows us to dynamically tailor the event information shown to you.
Golfund
This app transforms an iPhone into a point-of-sale system for charity golf tournaments. It allows for easy acceptance of various payments like entry fees, raffle tickets, and donations directly on the device, streamlining event fundraising.
- Accept entry fees, tickets, and donations
- Tap-to-pay on iPhone (contactless, Apple Pay)
- Real-time event totals and breakdowns
- Multi-staff event support with role management
- Customizable payment categories
- Secure Stripe-backed payments
- CSV data export
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Golfund turns any iPhone into a complete point-of-sale system for charity golf tournaments. Accept entry fees, mulligan packages, raffle tickets, 50/50 sales, putting and hole-in-one contests, auction wins, and donations — all without a separate card reader or extra hardware. BUILT FOR CHARITY GOLF EVENTS Every screen, default category, and report in Golfund is designed for the way charity tournaments actually run. Set up an event in under a minute, hand iPhones to your volunteers, and start collecting at the first tee. TAP TO PAY ON IPHONE Donors tap their contactless card, Apple Pay, or any mobile wallet directly on the back of an iPhone XS or newer running iOS 16.7 or later. The full transaction completes in seconds. If a card won't tap, a manual fallback is one tap away. REAL-TIME EVENT TOTALS Watch the running total climb live as your team sells across the course. Drill into category breakdowns, search every transaction, and export a clean CSV for your accountant the moment the event ends. MULTI-STAFF EVENTS Invite as many volunteers as you need by email. They join your event automatically the first time they sign in — no codes, no shared logins, no waiting at the registration desk. Owners and admins can promote staff, transfer ownership, and remove access at any time. CUSTOM CATEGORIES Eight defaults cover most events out of the box. Need a hat sale, a beat-the-pro challenge, or a sponsor package? Create event-specific categories with your own presets, icons, and golfer-info fields in seconds. SECURE STRIPE-BACKED PAYMENTS Every charge runs through Stripe, the same payments infrastructure used by millions of businesses worldwide. Card data never touches your device or our servers. Funds settle directly to your charity's connected Stripe account, with full PCI compliance handled for you. TRANSPARENT FEES A single 3% platform donation funds the app — no monthly subscription, no per-event charge, no hidden costs. Donors can optionally cover Stripe's processing fee at checkout so 100% of their gift reaches your cause. WHAT YOU CAN DO IN GOLFUND - Set up a tournament with name, date, and course location - Accept tap-to-pay donations across eight built-in categories - Add unlimited custom categories per event - Capture optional golfer name, email, phone, and notes - Issue automatic Stripe email receipts to every donor - Track real-time totals and category breakdowns - Search and filter every transaction - Export full event data to CSV - Invite unlimited volunteer staff by email - Manage owner, admin, and staff roles per event REQUIREMENTS iPhone XS or newer running iOS 16.7 or later. A free Stripe account (created in-app) is required to receive funds. Questions or feedback? Email scott@gopgolf.com. Golfund is operated by Golf Outing Productions, LLC.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Golfund at every 10 days against GuestFirst's every 3 months. GuestFirst's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for GuestFirst against 5.0 for Golfund. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
GuestFirst ships an update every 3 months, Golfund every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GuestFirst | Golfund |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.7 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Spotlight Ticket Management | Humam Al Rubaye |
Customer experience
GuestFirst
Golfund
In-app purchases
GuestFirst
No in-app purchases
Golfund
No in-app purchases
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