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Middletwin Keeps Getting Better: New Tools for Car Clubs and Car Shows

Since launching the new Middletwin platform, we’ve continued listening to administrators and turning their feedback into meaningful improvements.

Middletwin is built specifically for car clubs and car shows. Every new capability is designed to simplify club operations, improve the member experience, and reduce the manual work involved in organizing successful events.

The latest Middletwin improvements

Member Rides reporting and photo downloads

Club administrators can now review the vehicles members have added through the member portal.

The new Member Rides report allows authorized administrators to:

  • Search and filter member-entered vehicle information
  • Sort rides by member, year, make, or model
  • Download the visible results as a CSV file
  • Download photos for an individual ride
  • Download all Member Rides photos together in a ZIP file

This makes it easier to understand the vehicles represented within a club, organize member information, and use ride photos for authorized club activities.

A full-year activities calendar

Clubs can now view an entire year of activities on one screen.

The annual calendar makes it easier to review meetings, cruises, events, and other activities without moving through the calendar one month at a time. It can also be printed or saved as a PDF for sharing with members.

Better email-template editing

We’ve made several improvements to the email-template editor:

  • Template images can be resized to the desired width
  • Formatting controls more clearly show when options such as strike-through are active
  • Paragraph and signature spacing in delivered emails more closely matches the editor
  • Copied templates receive a new creation date, making them easier to find when sorting by newest

These changes make it easier for administrators to create polished emails without needing specialized design or HTML experience.

Online club elections

Clubs with elected officers can now conduct elections through the Middletwin member portal.

Administrators can create an election, define its voting period, add positions and candidates, and optionally allow write-in votes. Eligible adult members receive their ballot in the member portal and can vote securely online.

AI-powered administrator assistance

The Middletwin administrator portal now includes an AI-powered help assistant.

Administrators can ask questions about Middletwin features and receive guidance based on the platform’s administrator documentation. This provides help directly inside Middletwin without requiring administrators to search through a traditional knowledge base.

Built-in support tickets and administrator notifications

Administrators can now report defects and request features from within Middletwin.

The support workspace allows customers to create and follow tickets, add comments, and privately attach screenshots. System notifications also provide administrators with information about new features, important updates, scheduled maintenance, and required actions.

Reliability improvements

We have also continued improving the reliability of essential workflows, including:

  • Event and ticket purchase completion
  • Purchase confirmation emails
  • New-account provisioning
  • Tenant database validation
  • Member and administrator portal behavior

Purpose-built for car clubs and car shows

Many clubs still manage their shows and day-to-day operations using spreadsheets, disconnected services, paper forms, and repetitive manual processes.

Middletwin brings those responsibilities together in one platform designed specifically for the automotive community.

Depending on the club’s needs, Middletwin can help manage:

  • Car-show registration
  • Participant and vehicle records
  • Dash cards and packing slips
  • Ticket and merchandise sales
  • Judging and voting
  • Club memberships and renewals
  • Member portals and directories
  • Activities and recurring meetings
  • Email campaigns and automated message flows
  • Online elections
  • Club stores, files, pages, and communications

Middletwin isn’t generic membership software adapted for car clubs. It is a complete club and car-show management platform built around the way automotive organizations actually operate.

Take another look at Middletwin

If your club is preparing for its next show—or looking for a better way to manage memberships, communications, activities, and member services—it may be time to take another look at Middletwin.

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The New Middletwin Arrives with Powerful Upgrades

Middletwin has reached a major milestone: our completely modernized platform is now live.

This update is more than a redesign. Middletwin has been rebuilt on a modern application and hosting foundation to improve security, reliability, and performance. These changes position us to deliver new features more quickly. They also reduce risk and support ongoing maintenance.

This upgrade to car club management software enhances security and reliability for our community. We improved performance and scalability to support more members and clubs. The changes empower faster updates and better service through a modern infrastructure. Ongoing maintenance is easier, and security monitoring is more effective.

Purpose-built for car clubs and car shows

Car clubs and car shows have needs that generic membership and event platforms frequently overlook.

A club may need to manage memberships, renewals, family members, and member communications. It also handles activities, files, merchandise, classifieds, and member vehicles across volunteers and staff. Car club management software can simplify these tasks and improve member engagement for everyone involved.

Additionally, a car show may need participant registration, classes, judging, voting, tickets, vendors, and volunteers. It also requires merchandise, dash cards, confirmation materials, and show-day operations. This helps coordinate these elements and deliver a smooth event. Additionally, this adds efficiency and reduces errors.

Middletwin brings those functions together in one connected platform built specifically for the automotive community.

What’s new?

AI-powered help

Administrators can use the new AI Help Assistant directly within the admin portal. It can explain Middletwin features, permissions, setup options, and common workflows without requiring administrators to search through pages of documentation.

Contextual “What is this?” help can also explain a feature while an administrator is using it.

Integrated support tickets

Administrators can now report defects, request features, attach screenshots, receive responses, and follow the complete conversation from within Middletwin.

The ticket system of car club management software also lets customers see previously reported requests. Additionally, it does so without exposing the identity, club, comments, or screenshots of another customer.

A better email experience

The updated car club management software tools include a visual template builder with inline editing and drag-and-drop content blocks.

They offer formatting controls, image uploads, and personalized fields, along with test emails and sender validation.

A safety feature protects against leaving the page with unsaved changes.

Middletwin also supports message flows: automated sequences that welcome a new member and then send information over time, such as instructions for accessing the member portal. These sequences can be tailored to member status and timing to improve engagement and retention.

Moreover, this capability can be part of car club management software to coordinate onboarding and ongoing education. By automating messages about portal access and club benefits, the platform saves staff time and keeps members informed. Consistency reduces confusion and improves participation.

A modern member portal

The updated member portal provides members with access to club posts, rides, activities, and events. They can view announcements, join activities, and track upcoming gatherings in one secure place. This streamlined access supports member engagement and simplifies participation for everyone.

It also offers files, store products, classifieds, roster and membership details, payments, and renewal options. All features are organized to save time and improve club coordination. Automatic reminders help members stay current with dues and events. The portal’s clear structure makes navigation intuitive across devices.

These features are powered by car club management software. It integrates with payments, memberships, and communications to streamline operations. Admins gain better visibility and control over member data. Overall, the portal shows how modern solutions support operational needs. This alignment with best practices helps clubs attract members and reduce administrative overhead.

Uploaded images are resized and stored efficiently, and portal moderators can help manage member-submitted content.

Expanded event and car show tools

Middletwin supports far more than basic ticket sales. Clubs and organizers can manage:

  • Participant and vehicle registration
  • Registration classes and options
  • Tickets, dinners, merchandise, and event add-ons
  • Vendor and swap spaces
  • Volunteers and worker assignments
  • Maps and event information
  • People’s Choice and judged voting
  • Dash cards, packing slips, orders, and printable results
  • Purchase verification and additional purchases after an initial order

Events can also appear on the member activity calendar, allowing members to move naturally from a club activity to event registration.

Improved reporting and administration with car club management software

The new platform includes improved financial views, downloadable data, deployment version visibility, stronger error monitoring, administrator security, multi-factor authentication, guided account setup, and automated background services.

Built for what comes next

The modernized architecture gives Middletwin a stronger foundation for continued development. It allows us to improve the platform more safely, test critical workflows more thoroughly, monitor production more effectively, and introduce features that were difficult to support in the previous system.

Most importantly, Middletwin remains focused on the people doing the work: club officers, membership coordinators, event organizers, volunteers, and members.

Take another look at Middletwin

If your organization evaluated Middletwin in the past, the platform has changed substantially. We invite you to take another look.

If your car club or car show is still piecing together spreadsheets, email tools, payment systems, forms, and generic event software, Middletwin offers a connected alternative created specifically for you.

Learn more at https://www.middletwin.com/ or contact us to discuss what Middletwin can do for your organization.

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Take the Stress Out of Judged Car Shows with Middletwin’s New Judging Tools

Running a judged car show can be a logistical headache. Paper judging forms get lost, score calculations take hours, and volunteers end up buried in spreadsheets. That’s why we’re excited to introduce a powerful new feature in Middletwin: Digital Judging Tools—built to make judging smoother, faster, and completely stress-free.

With Middletwin’s new judging feature, car show organizers can:

  • Create custom judging forms tailored to your show’s scoring system
  • Assign judges to specific classes or vehicle types
  • Collect scores securely in real-time from mobile devices
  • View instant results—no more waiting for manual calculations

Judges simply log in on their phones, select the car they’re scoring, and enter their results. The system does the rest. No clipboards, no handwriting, no miscalculations.

By eliminating paper and automating score tabulation, Middletwin saves organizers hours of time and prevents scoring mistakes. Whether you have 20 cars or 200, our system keeps judging organized and on track.

This new feature isn’t just convenient—it’s secure, fast, and designed specifically for the unique needs of car shows.

See a video of how Judging works in Middletwin: https://youtu.be/mZO98MMemGQ

Signup for a 1 on 1 demo of Middletwin now

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Chaos is not a strategy

Car shows can be stressful for those of us who are managing them. There seems to be an endless list of things that need to get done before the show even starts, and missing just one item can lead to unintended chaos.

In order to help our customers maintain order and ensure success in their car shows, we are introducing the simple, yet effective, todo list. Each list is part of the car show, so you build out your todo lists to the needs of your specific car show.

Every item that you add to the list will have a due date that you define. Helping you to ensure that you are completing items on time. You will also receive an email reminder on any todo items that are not completed the day before they are due.

Middletwin is built by people that run car car clubs and car shows for people that run car clubs and car show. Come find out why Middletwin has become the software of choice for car clubs and car show organizers across the country.

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Planning a Car Show This Summer? Here’s How Middletwin Can Help—Starting Today

Summer is almost here, and if you’re gearing up to host a car show, you know there’s a lot that goes into making it a success. From registrations and vehicle tracking to day-of logistics and communication, it’s easy to get overwhelmed—especially if you’re doing it all manually or juggling spreadsheets.

That’s where Middletwin comes in.

Middletwin is a software solution designed specifically for car clubs and car show organizers. It’s built to work with you, not get in your way. Whether your event is weeks or just days away, you can start using Middletwin anytime to bring order to the chaos.

Here’s how Middletwin helps:

  • Streamlined Vehicle Registration: Collect entries online, track details, and cut down on paperwork.
  • Real-Time Organization: Need to adjust classes or categories? Done. Need to check who paid? Easy.
  • Simple Communication: Send updates to participants and volunteers all in one place.
  • No Tech Overload: You don’t need to be a web expert. Middletwin is ready to use out of the box.

Our goal is simple: help you run a successful show without the stress.

So whether you’re putting together your first event or your fiftieth, Middletwin is ready to jump in and support your team right now.

Or reach out—we’d love to show you how it works. sales@middletwin.com

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Running a car show is easy…

…but preparing for a car show, that’s a whole different story. Starting out with the idea of putting on a car show sounds like a fun idea, and it is, but putting together all the pieces of actually running a successful car show is where the rubber meets the road and where solutions like Middletwin can really help to save the day.

  • Participant car pre-registrations
  • Car classes
  • Car numbering
  • Balloting
  • Managing voting results
  • Selling swap spaces
  • Selling vendor spaces
  • Ticket sales
  • Accepting credit cards
  • Mailing out confirmation letters
  • Creating maps
  • Finding volunteers/workers
  • Designing and printing dash cards
  • Day of show registrations
  • Sending emails to participants
  • Selling merchandise

This is a partial list of the tasks that you need to consider when running a car show, and it looks like a lot because it is! Fortunately Middletwin can help with all of these tasks.

Signup for a demo today and see how Middletwin works.

Or see a video of Middletwin in action

When you are ready to talk, send an email to sales@middletwin.com, we can set you up with a trial account and help with setting up your car show in Middletwin.

Oh, and spoiler alert, running a car show is a lot of work too, but it’s also a lot of fun.

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All your customers in one view

Managing a car show is not all that easy. Especially as the car show grows. Middletwin understands this, after all Middletwin is built for managing car shows. Because of this Middletwin is constantly learning, constantly growing, and the Middletwin customers are also constantly giving great suggestions as they use Middletwin too.

This feature comes directly from one of Middletwin’s customers, and it is by far one of the best suggestions ever.

The Customers view.

Because Middletwin is so easy to setup and use for pre-registrations, pre-ticket sales, pre-swap meet sales, and so much more, our customers end up pre-selling hundreds of these items well in advance of their show. And even though Middletwin greatly simplified the show pre-sales and balloting processes, as well as other processes, show administrators had to go to multiple screens to get all their customers purchase details and had to manually tie the purchases together… well as the saying goes, it’s 2024 and we can put a man on the moon, why can’t we put all the show customers into one view… and so we did.

This is an actual screen shot of the customers view in action.

Car show administrators can now use Middletwin to see all their customers in one place, they can manage registrations, ticket sales, and vendor/swap space sales from a single screen.

There is no doubt about it, Middletwin is hands down the best software for managing a car show or a car club. Come see why you want Middletwin for your car show, sign up for a demo today.

Seeing a demo is free, but not knowing what Middletwin can do for you is costing you time and money.

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Meet Middletwin creator Wade Girard

Learn about Wade Girard, the creator of Middletwin, but also the director of Midwest Mopars, the Minnesota based Mopar club that hosts the Mopars in the Park National Car Show and Swap Meet, one of the nations largest all Mopar car shows. In this video Wade discusses how Middletwin started from its humble beginnings back in the 2010 and has become the best software for managing car clubs and car shows.

After learning about Wade and why he started Middletwin, learn how Middletwin can help you and your car show or car club by signing up for a demo with Wade today.

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Spring is coming! Preparing your members for the year

As the Spring season approaches you and the members of your club will start to get excited about the upcoming year and all the upcoming cruises and car shows. To help you and your members out with planning out the upcoming year, take some time to plan out your car clubs membership meetings. Your members will appreciate the planning more than you will ever know because they have a lot of activities competing for their time, so the sooner they know when car club activities are, the more likely they are to put them on their calendars.

Reminders help

Don’t forget to send reminders. Your members will forget about meetings, that is natural, you can help them remember by sending out reminders. A great way to remind members is with emails, and with Middletwin you can easily create a custom email and send it to all members with a few clicks, and you can schedule the reminder for the future, helping you out in case you forget to send the reminder… irony is funny sometimes.

Find out what makes Middletwin the #1 software for car clubs and car shows, schedule a demo today.

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Access your whole car club in one spot

Not only does Middletwin take away the need for your car club to setup and manage multiple accounts with multiple vendors to accomplish multiple tasks by giving you all the tools you need in one easy to use system, Middletwin now also consolidates all those functions into one easy to find and use interface.

We are constantly taking feedback from our amazing customers and learning what works and what doesn’t. We are not afraid to say we can make things better and to take the steps to make them better. We are also constantly looking for ways to help our customers out.

Perfection is a journey, and we will continue to strive toward for nothing less, and we mean it. Just ask any of our customers.

Find out why Middletwin is the #1 choice of software for car clubs and car shows, schedule a demo today

Or check out our new youtube videos of Middletwin demos

And you can even signup for a trial account and try it out yourself

Don’t get stuck using multiple tools our manual processes that can hold you and your car club or car show back, use Middletwin.

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