AllSquads vs CourtReserve
American court-operations software for racquet and paddle clubs, priced in US dollars by how many courts you have
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TL;DR
CourtReserve vs AllSquads, the short version
- CourtReserve is court-operations software for racquet and paddle clubs, and on courts specifically it is deeper than we are.
- It prices in US dollars, by court count, with US sales tax added where it applies. Ours is Australian dollars with GST already inside the figure.
- The figure compared here is its ENTRY plan on its cheapest billing, converted at the RBA rate, and it still lands above our club tier.
- Its plans are sized by how many courts you have. Ours is one flat rate whatever your court count.
- Both run coaching programs. What we could not find is one class taking a term enrolment and a casual drop-in together.
- Its player app is rated poorly on both stores. We publish no app rating of our own, so treat that comparison as one-sided.
CourtReserve is the deepest court-operations product on this site. It was built in 2016 by people who run racquet clubs, it is used by thousands of them, and if your problem is thirty-two courts, leagues, ratings integrations and a gate that has to open for a member at six in the morning, it is very good at exactly that. It is also an American product sold in US dollars with US sales tax added, priced by how many courts you have, and its player app is rated poorly by the people who use it. This page compares the two on what each publishes, and it credits the court depth plainly because that is where it wins.
What is CourtReserve?
CourtReserve is club management software built specifically for racquet and paddle sports. It was founded in 2016 in St. Augustine, Florida by two people who play, its own site puts it at more than two thousand three hundred clubs and six million players, and its community includes the USTA, the PTR and the PPR. If a product on this site was written by people who have actually stood at a front desk on a Saturday, it is this one.
The published plans are sized by courts: the entry plan includes eight, the middle plan sixteen and the top plan thirty-two, with custom pricing above that or for multiple locations. Every plan carries unlimited players, staff, reservations, lessons and events, membership management, program and clinic management, public booking, a reporting suite, integrated payments, point of sale, batch billing and invoicing, packages and promo codes.
The depth is in the court operations. Reserve with Google, a player match-maker, electronic waivers, push notifications and text alerts, access control for gates and lights as an add-on, a stringing module, leagues and flex leagues, and integrations with the rating systems clubs here are starting to care about, including DUPR, World Padel Rating and USTA Connect. A branded member app is available with a one-time setup fee on a year's contract, and on the entry plan the member app carries CourtReserve's own co-branding.
The question for an Australian club is what happens around those courts. The invoice is in US dollars with sales tax language attached, the plan is sized by a number that has nothing to do with how much you sell, and the coaching season that pays for the year has to fit inside a product whose centre of gravity is the booking sheet.
Why clubs look for a CourtReserve alternative
These are not complaints about the software, which is good at what it was built for. They are the specific frictions an Australian club runs into, each checkable on CourtReserve's own pages.
The invoice is in US dollars
No currency code is printed on their pricing page, but their prices exclude sales tax added in applicable jurisdictions, which is American tax language, and their ratings live on the US stores. A club paying in US dollars carries an exchange rate it cannot control into a budget it set in March, and a card that may add its own conversion charge. Ours is published in Australian dollars with GST already inside the figure.
The plan is sized by court count, not by what you sell
Their tiers include eight, sixteen and thirty-two courts. A club with a lot of courts and a modest program pays for the courts; a club with four courts and a large coaching business pays the entry plan and then finds the coaching side is not where the product is deepest. AllSquads charges one flat tier rate whatever your court count, because the number of surfaces is not a good proxy for how much software you need.
There is nothing to try by yourself
No trial is listed anywhere on their pricing page: every button is a start-here form or a contact-sales link. For a volunteer committee comparing options over a month, that is a real obstacle. AllSquads is self-serve, so you can publish a term class and take a real booking the same evening without speaking to anybody.
The player app is rated poorly and yours may carry their brand
On both app stores their player app sits well below the other products compared on this site, from samples in the hundreds. On the entry plan the member portal and mobile app also carry a Powered by CourtReserve line, and removing it means the branded app, which is a one-time setup fee on a year's contract. For a club whose members are the ones who have to use it daily, that is worth checking before signing.
Nothing we could find pays the coach
Payments run through a processor, so money reaches the club's own account on that processor's schedule. What their pages do not describe is a payout that itemises a week's bookings for a treasurer, or paying an independent coach directly for the sessions they ran. In Australia, where a lot of club coaching is delivered by contractors, that second half is the part that takes the time.
Which setup fits your club?
Are the courts the biggest part of your operation?
Worth knowingThen take CourtReserve seriously, because court operations are what it is built around: per-court rules, leagues and flex leagues, a match-maker, ratings integrations and access control for gates and lights. AllSquads keeps courts on the same roster as every coaching format with the member rate applied automatically, which suits a club selling both. If your week is almost entirely court hire and leagues, compare the two on that depth rather than on this page's summary.
Does your year turn on a term program and a holiday camp?
Good fitThen this is where the two products differ most. AllSquads publishes a term with its dates, weekly time, excluded public holidays, capacity and both a term and a casual price on one listing, with drop-in as a toggle on that same class. CourtReserve runs programs and clinics too, so this is not an absence; what its pages do not state is one class carrying a term enrolment and a casual booking together.
Do you want to be billed in Australian dollars with GST inside the figure?
Good fitThen ours is the simpler invoice. Our rates are published in Australian dollars with GST already included and we bill from that same data, so the number in your budget is the number on the statement. CourtReserve publishes in US dollars and adds sales tax where it applies, which for an Australian club means an exchange rate and possibly a card conversion charge on top of a figure that already moves.
Do your independent coaches need paying for their own sessions?
Good fitAllSquads can pay an independent coach directly for the sessions they ran, and the club gets one payment a week for the week just gone, itemised booking by booking so it reconciles without detective work. On CourtReserve's public pages we found integrated payments through a processor and no description of a payout of that kind. If your coaches invoice you every month, that is the chore this removes.
Do you need gate or light access control tied to a booking?
Worth knowingThen note that CourtReserve offers access control as a paid add-on, and we do not offer it at all. An unstaffed venue where the booking has to open a gate or turn on lights is a real requirement and we would rather tell you here than after you have moved. If that is your requirement, this is a genuine reason to choose them.
AllSquads vs CourtReserve
| AllSquads | CourtReserve | |
|---|---|---|
| Getting paid | Players pay by card at the moment they book or enrol, the payment is taken inside the platform, and the place is held only once it clears, so nobody starts a term chasing a transfer. | Integrated payments on every plan through a processor, with point of sale, batch billing and invoicing, packages and promo codes alongside them. |
| The roster | Courts, term classes, camps, private lessons and memberships share one roster, so a clash between a hire and a session is visible the moment it is created. | A deep court booking sheet with unlimited reservations, lessons and events, per-plan court allowances, and Reserve with Google on the public booking side. |
| Term and drop-in on one class | One class takes both: enrol for the term and drop-in is a toggle on that same class, so a casual player and a term family sit on one roster and one attendance sheet. | Program and clinic management and team-based registration are on every plan, so coaching is covered; whether one class carries a term enrolment and a casual booking together is not something its public pages state. |
| Cancellations and credits | A cancelled session issues a credit against the payer automatically under the club's own policy, visible to both sides and spendable on anything the club sells. | Packages and electronic waivers are published features, and how a cancelled session turns into a credit is not described on its public pages. |
| Reminders | Automatic reminders before a session and after a booking, by email and push, with the club choosing which events notify whom rather than anyone remembering to send them. | Push notifications and text alerts on every plan with a monthly SMS allowance and a charge for additional messages, plus email marketing tools with a monthly send allowance. |
| Member pricing | Membership tiers carry their own rates and the member price applies by itself to classes, court hire and a Pro Shop discount, with one tier able to cover a family. | Membership management is on every plan and network memberships are available on a custom plan; how a member rate is applied to a court booking is not detailed publicly. |
| Waitlists | A full class takes a waitlist, and a released place is offered to the next person in order with their contact details already held by the club. | Not something we could find described on its public pages, though a product this deep in court operations may well handle it inside the booking sheet. |
| Payouts | One payment to the club every week for the week just gone, itemised booking by booking, and an independent coach can be paid directly for the sessions they ran. | Money reaches the club through its own payment processor on that processor's schedule. A weekly itemised club payout, or paying an independent coach directly, is not something we could find on its public pages. |
| Court hire | Courts are bookable on the same roster as the coaching with the member rate applied, so one calendar sells both and shows one view of the week. | This is its strongest area: court booking built for racquet and paddle venues, with leagues, flex leagues, a player match-maker and access control for gates and lights as an add-on. |
| Comms and AI | A chat on every session for the coach and the people booked in, announcements filtered by tag or membership, and AI on both sides: a branded AI chat agent the club puts on its own website that answers questions and books from there, plus an Ask AI concierge in the player app. Email enquiries are still answered by a person; our email agent is published as Coming Soon. | Email marketing tools, push notifications and text alerts on every plan. An AI assistant is not something we could find offered on its public product pages. |
| Records | Attendance, payments, credits, memberships and payouts all queryable, with exports a treasurer or an auditor can work from at the end of a season. | A reporting suite on every plan with a dashboard, financial reporting, and API access from the middle plan up for a club that wants its own reporting on top. |
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How AllSquads compares
Seven dimensions where the two differ in ways a club will feel. CourtReserve is strong where it is strong, so several of these are trade-offs rather than gaps.
The currency on the invoice
CourtReserve publishes in US dollars and states that prices exclude sales tax added in applicable jurisdictions. For an Australian club that is a rate you do not control, on a figure that already moves, possibly with a card conversion charge on top. AllSquads publishes Australian dollars with GST inside the rate and bills from the same data the page is read from, so the budget number and the statement number are the same number.
Priced by courts against priced by tier
Their plans include eight, sixteen or thirty-two courts. A club with many courts pays for them whether or not the coaching program is large; a club with few courts and a big program does not get more program depth by paying more. AllSquads charges one flat tier rate whatever the court count, which makes the bill predictable when a club adds a surface or takes one out of service.
Courts, where they are ahead
This is the honest core of it. Leagues and flex leagues, a player match-maker, ratings integrations including DUPR, World Padel Rating and USTA Connect, electronic waivers, Reserve with Google, a stringing module and access control for gates and lights are all things a large racquet venue actually asks for, and several of them we do not have at all. If courts and leagues are the business, they are ahead of us and this page is not going to pretend otherwise.
The coaching season
An Australian club's year runs on school terms and holiday camps, and the thing that makes those work is one class that takes both a term enrolment and a casual drop-in, with the public holidays already out of the dates. CourtReserve runs programs and clinics, so this is a difference of shape rather than an absence, and the shape is the part that decides how many evenings someone spends rebuilding a spreadsheet.
Getting the money back out
Both take payments well. AllSquads also pays out: one weekly transfer to the club for the previous week, itemised booking by booking so it reconciles against the bank line, and independent coaches paid directly for their own sessions. On CourtReserve's public pages money reaches the club through its own processor, and we found nothing describing an itemised club payout or a coach payment. For a club using contract coaches that is the difference between a Monday and a morning.
The app your members hold
Their player app is rated poorly on both stores, from samples in the hundreds, and on the entry plan the member app carries their own co-branding, with a branded app available for a one-time setup fee on a year's contract. We are not going to claim our app is better rated, because we do not publish an app-store rating at all: the comparison is one-sided and saying so is more useful than implying a win.
The AI, which only one of us appears to have
We could find no AI assistant offered on CourtReserve's public product pages, and we are stating that as what we could not find rather than as a fact about their roadmap. The AllSquads AI is documented in our own public help centre: a branded chat agent a club generates and puts on its own website, where a parent can ask a question and book a class without leaving that site, and an Ask AI concierge in the player app that searches what is on and says when it widened a search. Agent conversations are kept ninety days and are not used to train models. Our email agent is published as Coming Soon and is in no plan today, so an inbox is still answered by a person.
Both products know their own market
CourtReserve was built in Florida for American racquet clubs and it shows in the good ways as well as the awkward ones: USTA integrations, sales tax handling, leagues. AllSquads was built for Australian clubs: Australian dollars with GST in the rate, weekly payouts into an Australian bank account, school terms and public-holiday exclusions as first-class parts of a class, and support in the same timezone. Neither is a criticism of the other; they are different home markets.
Where CourtReserve wins
A comparison that concedes nothing is an advertisement. CourtReserve is the strongest court-operations product compared on this site, and these are the places a club should buy theirs.
- Court operations depth. Leagues and flex leagues, a player match-maker, per-plan court allowances up to thirty-two, Reserve with Google and electronic waivers add up to a product built by people who run racquet venues. If your week is courts and leagues rather than terms and camps, they are ahead of us on the part that matters to you.
- Access control for gates and lights. Offered as an add-on, and we have no equivalent at all. An unstaffed venue where a booking needs to open a gate or switch on court lights is a real and common requirement, and it is a straightforward reason to choose them over us.
- Ratings integrations clubs here are starting to want. DUPR, World Padel Rating and USTA Connect are all available as add-ons. Australian pickleball and padel are moving the same way, and nothing on our roadmap matches that today.
- Scale in their own market. More than two thousand three hundred clubs and a community that includes the USTA, the PTR and the PPR is real institutional weight, and it means the product has been shaped by a very large number of racquet venues rather than by a handful.
- A stringing module and a point of sale built into the same product. For a club with a pro shop and a racquet service bench, having stringing jobs and retail sales in the same system as the bookings removes a whole second workflow, and our Pro Shop is an order-and-collect shop rather than a counter operation.
Independent ratings and verified pricing
Two listings a reader can open, and an important caveat about all three parts of this. These are the US listings, because the Australian App Store listing for their player app carries no ratings at all. Both scores are low, and low scores on a player app are worth reading carefully rather than gloating over: this is the app members hold, not the software a club runs. And AllSquads publishes no app-store rating of its own, so there is nothing of ours to put beside them. Capterra's listing would not open for us on the date below, so no Capterra figure is quoted.
App Store
2.8 / 5
338 ratings
The US store listing for the player app. The Australian listing carries no ratings at all, which is why this is the US one.
Google Play
2.4 / 5
374 reviews
The same player app on Play, with more than a hundred thousand downloads behind that score.
Verified pricing
CourtReserve
US$159/month, Launch, includes 8 courts, billed annually, prices shown exclude sales tax, added in applicable jurisdictions
about A$222 a month at the RBA rate on 2026-09-12
courtreserve.com/pricing, checked 2026-09-12
AllSquads - Club
A$169/month
Sourced live from allsquads.com.au/pricing.
CourtReserve’s figure is read from its own published pricing page on the date shown and converted at the RBA daily exchange rate, 11 September 2026. It is shown only while it works out higher than our comparable tier per month and was checked within the last ninety days.
Measured impact
Rounded bands from clubs that moved onto AllSquads from an existing system, not one club's figures presented as a benchmark. Your week will differ; the shape usually does not.
- Monday spent working out who gets paid
- most of it goes away, because the payout arrives itemised
- Exchange-rate surprises on the software bill
- none, because the rate is published in Australian dollars
- Chasing money after a term starts
- close to none, because a place is held only once payment clears
- Places sold from cancellations
- more of them, because the waitlist offers them in order by itself
- Time to publish a term with the holidays taken out
- minutes rather than an evening
If your operation is mostly courts and leagues rather than terms and camps, read the Where CourtReserve wins section again before weighing any of this.
Should you choose AllSquads or CourtReserve?
Choose AllSquads if
- You want an Australian dollar invoice with GST already inside the figure, rather than a US dollar one with sales tax language attached.
- Your year turns on school terms and holiday camps, with drop-ins taking spare places on the same class.
- Your independent coaches need paying directly for the sessions they ran, without the club redistributing by hand.
- You would rather the software bill did not move when you add or resurface a court.
- You want to set it up and take a real booking yourself this weekend rather than book a sales call.
- You want the AllSquads AI answering the easy enquiries: a chat agent on your own website that books, and a concierge in the player app.
Consider CourtReserve if
- Courts and leagues are the business, where their per-court depth, flex leagues and match-maker are ahead of us.
- You need access control so a booking opens a gate or turns on the lights, which we do not offer at all.
- DUPR, World Padel Rating or USTA Connect integration is something your members are already asking for.
- You run a racquet service bench and want stringing jobs and counter sales in the same system as the bookings.
Pricing: AllSquads vs CourtReserve
CourtReserve publishes plan prices on a public page, sized by how many courts each plan includes, and shows the annual-billing rate by default with the monthly-billing saving stated beside it. Two things an Australian club has to read carefully. The figures are in US dollars, and the page states that prices exclude sales tax which is added in applicable jurisdictions. The figure shown above is their entry plan on the cheaper annual billing, converted at the Reserve Bank's published daily rate on the date given, which is the most conservative comparison available from their page.
Their add-ons are priced separately: the integrations, the stringing module and access control each carry their own monthly charge, flex leagues carry another, and a branded member app carries a one-time setup fee on a year's contract, with the entry plan's member app carrying CourtReserve co-branding until then. We are not reprinting those figures here, because a comparison page is not a pricing page; read them at the source, which is linked below.
AllSquads is a flat monthly subscription per tier in Australian dollars with GST inside the published figure, with free Coach and Club tiers underneath the paid ones and Pro tiers above, billable monthly or annually, and the rate does not change with how many courts you have. Every paid tier opens with a trial at full tier access; a card is required to start it, nothing is charged on the day, and cancelling before it ends moves the account to the free tier with your data intact. Two fees exist and different people pay them, a booking fee at checkout and a platform fee on the club's payout, both published on our pricing page and deliberately nowhere else.
How to switch from CourtReserve
Three moves and a first term. Export before rebuilding anything, and while you are in there note what your last invoice actually converted to in Australian dollars, because that is one of the two numbers this decision turns on.
Export your members, bookings and program registrations
Take the member list with membership types and expiry dates, the forward court bookings, and the current program and clinic registrations out as a spreadsheet. Note any packages people are part way through, because an unused balance is the thing a family notices immediately if it goes missing in a move.
Import the contacts and carry the balances as credit
Upload the spreadsheet as a CSV under Contacts, then Import. Imported people keep a record of where they came from, can be tagged as juniors or members, and can be given a membership tier with its renewal date immediately. Part-used packages become credit against the person holding them; a credit raised against somebody who has not signed up yet waits as pending and attaches itself when they register with that email address.
Put the courts up first, then one term beside them
Add every court with its hire rates and member rates, then publish a single term class with its dates, weekly time, excluded public holidays, capacity and both prices, with drop-in switched on. Courts first is deliberate here: they are the part you are moving off a product that does them well, so you want to see them working before you judge anything else.
Watch one Monday, and compare two invoices
After the first week of real bookings, open the payout report: one payment for the previous week, itemised booking by booking, and if your coaches are independent, check their own sessions paid out to them. Then put your last CourtReserve invoice, converted at the rate you actually paid, beside our tier rate. Those two things settle this better than any feature list.
What to try in your first week
It is self-serve, so there is nothing to book and nobody to sit through. Five things to do inside the trial, each ending in something on screen you can judge for yourself.
Add your courts with their hire rates and a member rate
A member sees their own rate on a court booking automatically, and the public sees the standard one.
Publish one term class with the school holidays excluded and drop-in switched on
The dates skip the holidays by themselves, and one listing shows both a term price and a casual price.
Book a court against the same hour as a coaching session
The clash is flagged as you create it, on the same roster, rather than discovered by two groups arriving.
Import thirty members from your CourtReserve export and carry a part-used package across as credit
Each person's balance shows against their name, spendable on anything the club sells, with nothing typed twice.
Pay a coach for one session they ran
The coach's own payout shows their sessions itemised, without the club redistributing anything by hand.
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Other CourtReserve alternatives to consider
If CourtReserve is on your list, some of these probably are too. Naming them, and who each actually suits, is how a comparison page earns being read.
SportLogic (inTennis)
The long-standing Australian racquet-sports incumbent, with an on-premise option and no published price at all.
ClubSpark
Strong on gate and light access at unstaffed venues and widely used by tennis associations, with no public price.
TennisBiz
Australian, priced by how many active customers you have, with make-up handling more specific than ours.
Mindbody
The largest product in the category, with a consumer marketplace behind it, priced per location per month.
Outcoach
Australian-founded and priced per student, which suits a smaller roster, with deeper student progress tracking.
Where this comes from
- CourtReserve's published plans, that each includes a set number of courts, that the page shows the annual billing rate by default, and that prices exclude sales tax added in applicable jurisdictions
- CourtReserve: pricing
- That CourtReserve was founded in 2016 in St. Augustine, Florida, and its own figures for how many clubs and players it serves
- CourtReserve: about
- The exchange rate used to convert their published figure, being the Reserve Bank's published daily rate for 11 September 2026
- RBA: exchange rates
- The player app's rating on the US App Store and the size of the ratings pool behind it
- App Store: CourtReserve
- The player app's rating on Google Play, its review count and its download band
- Google Play: CourtReserve
- The AllSquads AI chat agent a club puts on its own website, generated from Dashboard, Settings, Website Widget
- AllSquads help centre: Club guide
- That the website AI agent is a Pro-plan feature and that the email agent is Coming Soon and in no plan today
- AllSquads help centre: Club FAQ
- The Ask AI concierge in the player app, and that it says when a search was widened
- AllSquads help centre: Player guide
- How AllSquads runs court hire, terms with drop-ins, memberships, credits and weekly payouts
- AllSquads help centre: Court hire guide
- Our current published rates, read live from the data the platform bills from
- AllSquads pricing
FAQ: CourtReserve vs AllSquads
The honest summary
CourtReserve is the best court-operations product compared on this site. It was built by people who run racquet clubs, it is used by thousands of them, and its depth around leagues, ratings integrations, waivers and access control is real. If your club is a large racquet venue whose week is courts and leagues, buy theirs, and do not let a comparison page talk you out of it.
What changes for most Australian clubs is everything around the booking sheet. The invoice is in US dollars with sales tax language attached and an exchange rate you do not control. The plan is sized by court count rather than by what you sell. The coaching season that pays for the year wants one class taking both term enrolments and drop-ins with the school holidays already out. And the money has to come back out, itemised for the treasurer and paid to the coach who actually ran Tuesday night.
That is the whole comparison. Do the first week above, look at one payout report, and put your last invoice, converted at the rate you actually paid, beside our published Australian figure.
- CourtReserve is court-operations software for racquet and paddle clubs, and on courts specifically it is deeper than we are.
- It prices in US dollars, by court count, with US sales tax added where it applies. Ours is Australian dollars with GST already inside the figure.
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