Booking software for padel and racket clubs

Padel, tennis and squash clubs sell courts by the hour, coaching slots, and increasingly gear — grips, balls, racket hire.

What usually goes wrong

Court booking usually runs on a free calendar tool with payment on arrival. That means no-shows on peak slots, no deposits, and a WhatsApp group doing the work of a system.

What changes when booking lives in the checkout

Courts are bookable resources with real capacity, and peak slots can carry a different price. Coaching is a separate bookable with its own availability.

• One payment rail. Deposits and full payments settle through the provider you already use. No second checkout, no month-end reconciliation between two systems.
• One customer record. The person who has booked nine times stops looking like a stranger, so you can reward them, segment them and follow up.
• Deposits that actually reduce no-shows. A deposit is just a price, so it works like any other line item.
• Abandoned-booking recovery. A half-finished booking is an abandoned cart, and Shopify already knows how to chase those.
• Products and time in one basket. A member books a court and adds racket hire without a second transaction.

What it takes

Three to five working days on an existing Shopify store. Two to three weeks if the store gets built at the same time. The slow part is almost never the software — it is deciding exactly what you sell, at what price, in what length of session.

Fun Life Media builds Shopify stores with booking built into the checkout. Installs from R4,500 once-off plus R850 a month. Book a free fifteen-minute audit.