Best court booking software for sports clubs in Australia (2026)
Member rates, casual hire, lessons on courts and the money, for clubs that control their own courts
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TL;DR
Running court hire on a wall calendar and an honesty box, versus court booking software
- CourtReserve is the deepest court scheduler here, priced by 8-court block in US dollars, which suits big venues and overcharges small clubs.
- ClubSpark is the Tennis Australia platform with Book a Court built in and no public price; it is the default for affiliated tennis clubs and not an option for other sports.
- SportLogic (inTennis) covers court booking for Australian tennis clubs on quote-only pricing.
- PlayByPoint, Playtomic, PodPlay and EZFacility are fact rows only: none publishes a price this page could verify, and none is on the compare list.
- AllSquads runs court hire with member and casual rates, coach blocks and lights alongside coaching programs and memberships, in Australian dollars with processing included and one Monday payout.
Court booking software matters when the club controls the courts and sells time on them: members at one rate, casual players at another, coaches holding blocks for lessons, and lights that cost money after dark. That is a different problem from a gate system the association provides, and from a class timetable. The platforms below range from a US racquet-club specialist to the Australian association platform to an Australian club system that runs court hire alongside coaching and memberships. Four get a full read; four more appear as fact rows because they turn up in searches but are outside the list this page compares in depth.
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2 months free. A card is required to start, and nothing is charged until your 2 free months end. The free profile and free tiers never need one.
How most clubs hire out courts today
A laminated timetable on the clubhouse wall, or a shared calendar the secretary controls. Members text to book, casuals pay cash into a box or transfer to the club account, and the coach has a standing claim on court one every weekday afternoon that nobody wrote down. Lights are a key in a lockbox and a code that has not changed since 2019.
- Bookings by text to whoever holds the calendar this year
- Casual hire paid by honesty box or bank transfer with no reference
- Member rate applied by memory of who is a member
- Coach blocks and social play clashing because neither is in the same place
Where the wall calendar breaks
It breaks the first summer the club gets busy. Every line below is money or goodwill the club is currently losing.
- Two groups arrive for the same court at the same time and the argument happens in front of members
- Casual players use the court and the honesty box is light, and nobody can prove it
- A lapsed member keeps paying the member rate because the calendar-holder does not know
- The coach's block is overwritten by a social booking and a lesson is lost
- Lights run all evening for a booking that was cancelled by text to the wrong person
- The calendar-holder moves away and the club's booking history goes with them
The comparison at a glance
Currency first, then the court-hire and member-pricing columns. Four rows are fact rows only, with no section below: PlayByPoint's pricing page could not be opened at write time, and Playtomic, PodPlay and EZFacility publish no figure this page could verify.
| Product | Best for | Starting price and currency | AU pricing | Court hire | Memberships | Payouts | Capterra score and count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AllSquads | Australian clubs selling court time alongside coaching and memberships | Monthly tiers in AUD on allsquads.com.au/pricing, Stripe processing included in the fee | Yes (AUD) | Yes | Yes, with member pricing | One payout every Monday, platform fee already netted off | Not listed on Capterra yet |
| CourtReserve | Large racquet venues with 8 or more courts and paid staff | US$199 Launch (8 courts) / US$369 Advance (16) / US$549 Momentum (32) per month, USD (courtreserve.com/pricing, checked 2026-09-11) | No (USD) | Yes, per-court pricing | Yes | Through your own processor | Not checked |
| ClubSpark | Tennis Australia affiliated clubs on Book a Court | Not published | Not published | Yes (Book a Court) | Yes | Not published | Not checked |
| SportLogic (inTennis) | Established Australian tennis clubs with a manager | Quote only (no public price) | Quote only | Yes | Yes | Not published | Not checked |
| PlayByPoint | Price-led US court booking, pricing not published here | Not published (pricing page could not be opened at write time) | Not published | Yes | Not published | Not published | Not checked |
| Playtomic | Venue marketplace listing | Not published | Not published | Yes | Not published | Not published | Not checked |
| PodPlay | Multi-sport venues | Not published | Not published | Yes | Not published | Not published | Not checked |
| EZFacility | Multi-purpose facilities | Not published | Not published | Yes | Yes | Not published | Not checked |
CourtReserve
On court scheduling alone CourtReserve is the strongest product on this page: court blocks by type and surface, member and non-member rules, lesson booking on courts, events, waitlists on courts and memberships. The pricing is by court count in US dollars, US$199 a month for 8 courts, US$369 for 16, US$549 for 32, with lower annual rates and custom pricing above that. An Australian club with four courts is paying for 8 in a currency that moves, plus card foreign-transaction fees. Its player app, which is where members meet the product, draws weaker reviews than its admin tools.
- Pros: the deepest court-rules engine here, lessons and events on courts, memberships
- Pros: waitlists on court time
- Cons: priced per 8-court block in US dollars
- Cons: player-app reviews weaker than admin reviews
- Best for: a venue with 8 or more courts, staff and a US-dollar-tolerant budget
ClubSpark
For a Tennis Australia affiliated club, ClubSpark's Book a Court is the court booking system that comes with the affiliation: online booking, gate access codes and the membership register. It is only for tennis, it publishes no pricing, and the coaching side is thinner than the court side, so a club that also runs programs usually adds a second platform for that. If you are an affiliated tennis club and the association covers it, start here and add coaching software beside it.
- Pros: gate access and court booking built into the affiliation
- Pros: the register the association recognises
- Cons: tennis only, no public pricing
- Cons: coaching programs, waitlists and pro-rata are not its strength
- Best for: an affiliated tennis club whose main need is court access
SportLogic (inTennis)
SportLogic's inTennis includes court booking alongside memberships, coaching and a club website, built for Australian tennis clubs. Pricing is by quote, so there is no figure to put in the table, and the product assumes a club manager rather than a rotating volunteer. For an established tennis club with staff it is a credible Australian option; for a pickleball or padel club it is the wrong sport.
- Pros: Australian, tennis-specific, court booking with memberships and coaching
- Pros: long history with established clubs
- Cons: quote-only pricing
- Cons: tennis only, manager-shaped admin
- Best for: an established Australian tennis club with a manager and a budget line
AllSquads
AllSquads runs court hire as one part of a club account rather than the whole product: courts with member and casual rates, coach blocks, lights, and casual players booking and paying online, sitting next to the club's coaching programs, camps, memberships and social sessions on one member list. A member's rate applies at checkout from the membership itself and stops when it lapses. Court hire, class fees and memberships all land in one payout every Monday with the platform fee netted off, and Stripe processing is included in the flat monthly fee shown in Australian dollars on the pricing page. It works for any court sport, not just tennis. The honest gap is depth: CourtReserve's court-rules engine is deeper, and AllSquads has no draws, ladders or fixtures.
- Pros: court hire with member and casual rates on the same member list as coaching and memberships
- Pros: AUD pricing, processing included, one Monday payout, any court sport
- Pros: two AI agents included, waitlists and reminders
- Cons: a shallower court-rules engine than CourtReserve
- Cons: draws, ladders and fixtures are not built, and there is no Capterra listing yet
- Best for: an Australian club that sells court time and also runs programs, on a volunteer budget
Buyer's guide: the court-specific questions
Court booking has a short list of things that go wrong. Ask each vendor to show you these, not describe them.
- Member and casual rates: does the membership set the rate automatically, and does it stop when the membership lapses?
- Coach blocks: can a coach hold recurring court time that social bookings cannot overwrite?
- Lights and extras: can a booking add lights or a ball machine with the cost attached?
- Currency: is the price in Australian dollars, and does it scale by court count?
- The money: does casual hire land in the same payout as memberships, and is processing inside the fee?
- Other sports: if the club adds pickleball lines to a tennis court, does the software care?
Where the wall calendar is fine
A two-court club where every member has a key, nobody pays for court time and the only rule is that the coach has Thursday afternoons, does not need booking software. The moment the club charges for courts or has a clash it cannot resolve by chat, it does.
Which court setup fits your club?
We are an affiliated tennis club with Book a Court and nothing else.
Worth knowingKeep Book a Court for court access. Add AllSquads when the coaching programs, memberships and payments need a home, and decide then whether court hire moves across so the member list is shared. Both arrangements work; the tradeoff is one list against one gate system.
We are a padel or pickleball venue that sells court time by the hour.
Good fitAllSquads runs court hire for any court sport with member and casual rates, online payment and one Monday payout, and the club's clinics and memberships sit beside it. Set the courts up in the trial and take a test booking.
We have twelve courts, a front desk and complex court rules.
Worth knowingAt that scale CourtReserve's court-rules depth is worth a serious look, and its per-court pricing stops hurting. AllSquads will run the venue; the honest tradeoff is a shallower rules engine against Australian-dollar pricing with processing included and one weekly payout.
We want members to pay less for courts and casuals to pay online.
Good fitThat is the core court-hire flow on AllSquads: the membership sets the member rate, casuals book and pay online at the casual rate, and both land in the same Monday payout.
Choose the court system for the club you run
Choose AllSquads if
- You sell court time and also run coaching or memberships and want one member list
- Member and casual rates should apply themselves at checkout
- You want Australian-dollar pricing with processing included and one weekly payout
- The club is tennis, pickleball, padel, squash or badminton, or several of them
- Volunteers run it and nobody wants to be the calendar-holder
Stick with WhatsApp if
- Every member has a key and nobody pays for court time
- You have 8 or more courts, staff, and need the deepest court-rules engine
- The association's gate system is all the club needs
Rather have it walked through?
A free 30-minute call. Two minutes to book, no pitch.
What to try in your first week on AllSquads
Set these up in the trial in this order and check each result on the court calendar.
Create two courts with a member rate and a casual rate
A member sees one price at checkout and a casual player sees the other
Hold a recurring coach block on court one
The block shows on the court calendar and cannot be booked over
Take a test casual booking and a test membership payment
Both appear in one payout summary with the fee netted off
Let a test membership lapse
The member rate stops applying on the next court booking
Add a clinic on the same club page
The clinic and the court hire share one member list
Got a question right now?
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What AllSquads is
AllSquads is booking, payments and admin software for sports coaches and clubs. Players find your classes, book and pay online, and get reminded before every session. You get the roster, the money and the contact record in one place, with a payout to your bank every week. It runs term programs, casual classes, camps, private lessons and court hire side by side, so the whole operation is in one system rather than a booking tool plus a spreadsheet plus a payment app.
- Over ten thousand
- bookings taken
- Thousands
- of players
- Hundreds
- of classes live
- A growing group
- of Australian clubs
Less admin
Automated booking confirmations, 24hr and 1hr reminders, waitlists, credits, and cancellation management. Stop chasing people.
Get paid weekly
Players pay online at booking, via payment links, or you manage payments manually. Weekly payouts direct to your bank account, every Monday.
Player contacts & CRM
Every booking adds a player to your contacts automatically. Import your existing list via CSV. Track membership, booking history, and notes.
Messaging & group chats
Message players one-on-one or in groups. Class group chats created automatically. Broadcast announcements to all followers.
Analytics built in
Track revenue, bookings, and player retention over time. Coach view, club view, and court hire stats — all in one dashboard.
Court hire management
Day-view calendar with one column per court. Member and non-member pricing. Peak and off-peak rates. Your cancellation policy.
“I had all of term 1 paid in the first week. 75% less admin, 100% fewer late cancellations, and 80% fewer emails and phone calls.”
Talk to a person
Two minutes, no pitch.
Founding rate locked for life
First 100 paying signups lock the founding rate, no matter what we change later.
Frequently asked questions
Where this comes from
- CourtReserve's Launch, Advance and Momentum USD pricing by court count
- CourtReserve pricing
- How court hire, member rates and coach blocks work on AllSquads
- Help centre: Court hire
- AllSquads' pricing page, AUD, processing inside the fee
- Pricing page
- Memberships and member pricing on AllSquads
- Help centre: Club guide
- What the Monday payout contains and what is deducted
- Help centre: Payments
- The two AI agents included in every paid tier
- AllSquads AI agents
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