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Flying club software, compared on the two things clubs actually decide on
Price, and where the books end up. Everything else in this category looks broadly alike from the outside, so those are the two questions worth answering before a demo call eats an evening.
Prices and features here were read on each vendor's own public pages on 18 August 2026. Vendors change both. If something below has gone out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
What a three-aircraft club pays
Three aircraft is a common club, so it makes a fair yardstick. Where a vendor does not publish a price, that is what the table says, because "request a quote" is itself information about how a company sells.
| Platform | Published price? | Three aircraft, per month | Charges per person? | Where the books live |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FlightWay | Yes | $79.00 | No, members unlimited | Inside, double entry |
| Coflyt (Plus) | Yes | $63.00 | No on Plus, yes on the base plan | Flight billing and payments; no ledger described |
| AircraftClubs (Full-Throttle) | Yes | $54.00 | Instructors and equipment $6 each | Accounting module plus QuickBooks integration |
| Flight Circle | No | Not published | Not published | QuickBooks sync |
| Flight Schedule Pro | No | Not published | Not published | QuickBooks Online integration |
Coflyt Plus is $43 a month plus $10 a month for each aircraft after the first. AircraftClubs Full-Throttle is $18 per aircraft per month for the first six. FlightWay is $69 a month for the first two aircraft and $10 for each after that.
FlightWay is not the cheapest, and that is the honest answer
On sticker price for a three-aircraft club, Coflyt Plus and AircraftClubs Full-Throttle both come in under FlightWay. If the club's requirement is a scheduler with flight billing attached and the treasurer is content keeping the books somewhere else, they are reasonable products and you should look at them.
The case for the difference is narrow and specific: FlightWay keeps the club’s accounts itself, as an append-only double-entry ledger with a balance sheet, a profit and loss and A/R aging built from the same entries that billed the flights. Every other platform in this table either hands that job to QuickBooks or does not describe having it at all. If your club is paying for an accounting subscription alongside its scheduler, or the treasurer is maintaining a spreadsheet in the gap between the two, that is where the difference is spent.
Where they win
Lower monthly price. Longer track record and more clubs. Training and flight-school features that a pure club does not need but a school does.
Where we win
The books are inside, not synced. Members are unlimited at every size. The price is on the website. Schedule and flight history migration is free.
Where it is a draw
Scheduling, squawks, maintenance intervals and flight logging. Everyone does these, and any of them will run a club’s calendar competently.
What each platform takes out of what your members pay
The subscription is the cost everybody compares. The other one, which clubs discover later, is what the platform takes from the money flowing through it, and whether members can pay by bank transfer at all. On a $2,000 statement, Stripe’s ACH fee is capped at $5 while a card costs about $58, so "card only" is a real annual cost, not a detail.
| Platform | Its own cut of collections | Bank transfer (ACH)? |
|---|---|---|
| FlightWay | None. Stripe’s fee is the only one | Yes, and never gated behind cards |
| Coflyt | Not published | Its published material describes credit and debit cards |
| AircraftClubs | Not published | Not published |
| Flight Circle | Not published | Yes, ACH is advertised |
| Flight Schedule Pro | Not published | Not published |
None of the four publishes what it takes from collected payments, so ask in writing before signing. FlightWay’s answer is on its pricing page: nothing, because the money moves through the club’s own Stripe account into the club’s own bank account and never touches ours.
The individual comparisons
How to actually evaluate one of these
Four questions get you further than any feature grid. Ask them of us too.
- Show me a member statement with a flight, dues and a credit on it, and then show me the accounting entry behind one of those lines.
- What happens, exactly, when a critical squawk is raised on the aeroplane somebody has booked for tomorrow?
- What does it cost for our fleet, with our member count, in writing, before a call?
- If we leave in two years, what comes with us, and in what format?
Ask us the awkward one first
We would rather answer the hard question by email today than book a demo and answer it in three weeks.
Last updated 18 August 2026.