A golf course has to fit tee times eight minutes apart, two pricing schemes, a golf school and weekend competitions into the same day. BetterSport brings scheduling, booking, memberships and payments together in a single management software.
Tee times packed close together, members and visitors, a practice range, a school and events: all on one grid.
The booking interval and the number of players per tee time are both configurable, course by course. The grid finally looks like the one reception keeps by hand.
Payment goes through with the booking, by Stripe, for a single tee time as much as for an annual membership. No more chasing up the weekend's takings.
Every player has a record: current plan, history, lesson group, session card. You know who is up to date before the question reaches the counter.
A block of tee times is held back, entries open, places are limited. Confirmations and reminders go out without anyone having to think about it.
Members pay a subscription and book earlier; visitors pay a green fee and take what is left. Both entitlements have to live in the same calendar, otherwise reception ends up arbitrating by hand, on the phone, at the busiest moment of the day.
In the software, it is the plan that carries the booking window and the price. Players see what they are entitled to, nothing more, and the club keeps control of its grid without endless discussion.
A tee time booked at 10 p.m. the night before is a tee time sold. Slots stay open when the office is closed, and payment comes with the request instead of trailing behind it.
What is left is what no calendar does on its own: the waiting list that fills a cancellation, the day-before reminder, the follow-up on a subscription about to expire. Over a full season, these are the automations that count.
A course does not sell hours, it sells tee times. Four players, eight minutes apart, then four players again: the capacity of a day is bounded by the clock. A tee time that goes out empty is never recovered, and a club's revenue is decided exactly there, slot by slot.
General-purpose tools always come unstuck at the same points. The missing features are well known: an adjustable interval, a number of players per line, a separate booking window for members and for visitors. Golf management software is therefore judged first on its schedule, and only then on everything else.
Yet it all begins with one very simple sequence on the golf side: booking the tee time, payment, email confirmation. When that sequence runs on its own, the morning phone calls drop away and reception gets time back for the players who are actually there. That is the first thing a booking system designed for a course brings you.
Useful golf club software shows itself quickly: it covers the whole day, from the tee time booked the night before to Wednesday afternoon's lesson. For complete management, every building block counts.
Online booking works around the clock, from the club website or from a phone. People sometimes call it golf tee time booking: it is the same move, a tee time picked on a sheet and held immediately. Places are limited per tee time, and the waiting list takes over when the sheet is full.
Member records bring together contact details, the current membership, the golf school groups and the history of rounds played. That base acts as a CRM on a club's scale: you spot the visitor who came only once and invite them back. Memberships renew with no retyping, and session cards work on the driving range as much as in lessons.
Payment is taken at booking, by Stripe, for a passing visitor as much as for a member. Billing a range card and billing an annual subscription do not follow the same rhythm: they are two separate sales, tracked separately. The money reaches your account without passing through a ledger.
Confirmations, tee time reminders, a trophy announcement, a subscription follow-up: the emails go out by themselves. A campaign also warns of a closure for works or of entries opening. You write once; the sending and the tracking then happen without you.
Group lessons, individual lessons and supervised range practice share neither the same length nor the same capacity. Each activity gets its own slot, its own teaching pro and its own capacity, including an indoor simulator or a driving range bay bookable by the hour. Events are handled the same way: a block of time held back, entries opened, a tee time allocated.
A private club and a public course do not have the same needs. The first protects access for its members and opens few tee times to visitors; the second lives off visitors and has to fill every morning. A resort adds hotel guests and a clientele travelling from far away, and with them pages in several languages on the golf club website.
When the estate has two courses, a compact course and a driving range, each keeps its own sheet and its own rhythm inside a single schedule. Your team — reception, teaching pros, greenkeeping — works from the same base, each with their own login, and entry is controlled by QR code. For the other sports on the estate, all the software by activity rests on the same foundation.
The platform is a cloud solution: nothing to install, everything runs in a browser, and an iOS and Android mobile app under your own brand goes with your players. Integration into an existing site goes through a widget. Rather than wiring up third-party APIs at random, we build the modules your organisation is missing, so you are not forced to change the way you work.
You are here to run a club, not to feed a tool. That is the whole point of an all-in-one platform: bringing the schedule, the members, the payments and the emails together in one place, so your operation holds without a parallel ring binder. You win back the hours that phone calls, chasing and manual re-entry take up today.
Setting up always follows the same order: the tee sheet, the memberships, the prices, then the school and the competitions. Our templates do most of the work, you adjust what is specific to your course, and we import your files so nothing has to be entered twice. Before you decide, read our blog articles: activity by activity, they compare what a schedule needs to be able to do — no white paper required.
You need no complicated reports to see a Saturday morning coming: watching the sheet fill up is enough to open one more tee time or move a competition. That is how occupancy improves, how quiet hours fill up and how you keep your customers without forcing anything.
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Yes: the interval between two tee times and the number of players per tee time are both configurable, course by course.
Yes, the booking window opens per plan, which gives the subscription a concrete advantage.
Yes, Stripe payment is triggered the moment the booking is made, for a one-off round or on a subscription.
Yes: a booking widget can be added to your existing site, or we can design a bespoke site for the course.
You hold back the block of tee times you need, you open entries with a capacity limit, then you allocate the tee times. Entrants receive their confirmation and their reminder automatically.
The tee time goes back up for booking and the waiting list notifies interested players. A slot that frees up then stands a real chance of being taken.
Yes: reception and the teaching pros work in multi-coach mode on the same sheet, each seeing what concerns them. Changes are visible to everyone immediately.
No, everything is reachable from a browser or from the mobile app. A computer at reception and a phone at the first tee are enough.
