How Much Does Pickleball Court Management Software Cost?
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Court management software is priced in a few different ways, and the cheapest-looking option isn't always the cheapest for your venue. What matters is how the cost behaves as your bookings grow — and in your slow months. Here are the models you'll see and how to compare them.
Model 1: monthly subscription
The most common model internationally: a fixed monthly fee, often in tiers by number of courts or features, sometimes with a setup fee on top. It's predictable, but you pay the same in your quietest month as your busiest, and features you need may sit in a higher tier.
Model 2: a percentage of each payment
Some platforms take a percentage of every booking paid through them. It scales with use, but it also scales with your prices — raise your court rate and the platform's cut rises too — and it usually requires all payments to go through their gateway.
Model 3: a flat fee per booking or court-hour
A flat fee per court-hour booked scales with how busy you are, not with what you charge. A new venue still building its player base pays little; the cost only rises when bookings do. Often the venue can pass the fee to players at checkout, as cinemas and event sites do with a convenience fee.
Costs that aren't on the pricing page
Whatever the headline model, check for:
- Setup or onboarding fees
- Payment gateway fees, and whether you must use theirs
- Charges for extra locations, courts or staff accounts
- Features like Open Play, memberships or reports held back for a higher tier
- Whether your players need to download a separate app
How to compare for your venue
Take your court-hours sold in a slow month and a busy month, and work out each option's cost for both. Add any gateway fees on top. The right model is the one whose cost you're comfortable with in both months — not just the one with the smallest number on the pricing page.
What HomeCourt charges
HomeCourt uses the third model: ₱0 monthly, ₱0 setup, and a small flat Web Admin Fee per court-hour booked, drawn from a prepaid balance. It's never a percentage, it isn't charged on top of Open Play signup fees, coach fees, memberships or POS sales, and you choose whether players pay it at checkout. Manual GCash and bank-transfer collection needs no gateway at all.