A five-a-side operator's hardest scheduling problem isn't the calendar — it's that one 11-a-side pitch is also two 7s, or three 5s, and selling any one of those has to close the others. Get that wrong and you find out at 20:00 on a Thursday, in front of twenty-two people.
They're the same four whether you run two pitches behind a leisure centre or a twelve-pitch complex.
Sub-resources are the fix, and they have to work in both directions: selling the whole pitch must close every section under it, and selling one section must close the whole. Anything less is a spreadsheet with extra steps, and the failure mode is always public.
League organisers and corporate bookers hold your most valuable inventory — the same peak slots, every week, all season. They don't want a checkout; they want an account, an invoice at month end and the ability to move their own fixtures. Give them a login and you stop being their booking desk.
The Thursday-night group that books on a whim and doesn't show is a peak slot you could have sold twice. Deposits change the behaviour, but only if the cancellation window automatically puts the pitch back on sale — otherwise you've collected a small fee and still lost the hour.
Floodlit hours cost you money to run and are the ones everybody wants. Rate bands per pitch and per hour let the evening carry its own price, and let the winter and summer schedules differ without anyone rewriting a price list twice a year.
The pitch structure is the only part that needs thought. Everything after it is rates and rules.
Define each pitch and the sections it splits into. Booking one closes the others automatically.
Peak, off-peak and floodlit bands per pitch, plus junior and member rates where you run them.
Staff hold the season's hours on the calendar; a club's players can self-serve with an email-domain code.
Confirmations and reminders on every plan. There are no deposits or cancellation fees — see the FAQ.
Yes. A pitch can be configured with sub-resources, so selling the full pitch closes the sections underneath it and selling a section closes the full pitch. That prevents the classic double-booking where a 5-a-side and an 11-a-side are sold the same grass at the same time.
Your staff can hold those hours on the calendar so nothing is sold underneath them, and the team pays for its bookings at checkout. What there is not is a recurring series that bills weekly or monthly and lets you release single weeks out of it — over a holiday period, freeing those dates is a manual job. There is no on-account billing either, so the money side is agreed and invoiced outside the system.
No. There is no account with credit terms, no monthly invoicing, and no organiser login that would let them manage their own fixtures. Those arrangements are agreed and invoiced off-platform today, with your staff holding the slots. The one corporate mechanism that is properly automated is a promo code scoped to an email domain, so a club's players book themselves at your agreed rate.
Confirmation and reminder emails, which address the largest cause — forgetting. What we cannot do is attach a cost: there are no deposits, no cancellation windows and no no-show fees. A freed pitch does return to availability, and dynamic allocation helps it fill where your pitches are interchangeable, but nothing offers it onward to a waiting list.
Yes. Rate bands are set per pitch and per hour, so evening slots under floodlights can carry their own price and the winter and summer schedules can differ without anyone rewriting a price list.
Free to start. No card needed, and bookings settle into your own payment account.