Players book a bay by the hour from their phone and pay as they book, so the seven o’clock on a Friday is held by somebody who has committed to it. No bay is offered twice, and a booking nobody turns up for can hand its hour back rather than sitting dark.
Blu FairwayBook online
Bay 2 · 1 hrFri 19:00 · peak$40.00
Bay 3 · 2 hrOff-peak$50.00
Lesson · bay 11 hr · with coachBook
Next free5:00 PM6:00 PM8:00 PM
Booked online
9:00 PM
From the pub, on a Friday
Paid at booking
$40.00
The peak hour, before it starts
Bay 1 at seven
Sold once
Never offered twice
Each of these takes an hour off whoever is behind the counter and sells it to the player, without ever letting one bay be promised to two groups.
Your bays with their hours and their prices on a page of its own. A player picks a bay and an hour and takes it. Nobody messages the Instagram account on a Thursday night hoping somebody is awake.
Each bay is a resource, so an hour on it can only be held once. Friday between six and nine is the whole business, and it is exactly when a shared calendar and a group chat start disagreeing with each other.
Price an hour differently at six on a Friday and at eleven on a Tuesday, and take the money at the point of booking. A paid hour is a booking; a name in a diary on a Friday night is a hope.
On the paid plans a reminder goes to whoever booked, carrying a link to release the hour if they cannot make it. A bay given back at five is a bay you can still sell at seven, which a dark screen for an hour never is.
Most indoor centres sell the same bays three ways.
On the paid plans a winter league books as a recurring series with a last date on it, so the Tuesday nights come back when the league ends. A lesson holds the coach and the bay together, so neither is sold from under the other.
An hour of casual hire takes whatever is left. All three are the same three bays, and Picktime will not offer any of them twice.
Open a second site and it keeps its own bays, its own opening hours and its own prices, on a booking page of its own, while both still show in one calendar.
Somebody covering both is looking at one screen rather than logging in twice, and a player who books at the wrong venue is a problem that stops happening, because each page only ever offers the bays that are actually there.
Quarter past seven on a Friday. Two bays are full and loud, and bay three has nobody in it, because the four lads who booked it on Wednesday have gone somewhere else and did not say so. Two people came in at seven asking if anything was free and were told no, because the diary said bay three was taken.
That hour is not recoverable and it does not appear anywhere afterwards. A bay sold and unused looks exactly like a bay sold and used. The only trace is the pair who walked out and did not come back the following Friday.
Picktime takes the money when the hour is taken, puts a released hour back on the page, and on the paid plans reminds whoever booked it before they are due, while there is still a Friday evening left to sell it into.
2Walk-ins turned away at seven
1 hrOf peak time on bay three, gone
Each bay is a resource with its own hours, its own minimum hire and its own price. A bay that is out for a projector fix simply stops being offered, without you deleting anything.
Charge peak and off-peak differently, decide whether an hour is paid in full or held with a deposit, and say how late somebody may release their hour and still be in time for you to sell it again.
The booking page is a link, so it goes in your Instagram bio, on your Google Business profile, behind a Book Now button on the site and on a card at the bar behind a QR code.
Every call an indoor centre misses is missed at exactly the hour it is worth most.
The free plan is a plan, not a trial. There is no date at which it stops, no card to add, and nothing that quietly turns off in a fortnight.
Bay hire is paid through PayPal as it is booked, or through Stripe or Square on the paid plans, so the money and the hour arrive together. Bookings land in the calendar you already keep and move there when they move here, which is what stops a diary on the counter disagreeing with the page.
The booking page runs in any phone browser with nothing to install, which is what somebody standing in a pub on a Friday will actually use. There are iOS and Android apps for you, so the next two hours are visible without going to the back office.
For a player, the tee-time marketplaces cover outdoor courses and will not touch an indoor bay. For a simulator venue, what you want is booking software of your own: your bays, your hours, your peak and off-peak prices, and payment taken as the hour is booked. Picktime does that half and is free to start.
Yes. Picktime’s free plan gives you a booking page for your bays on a link you can share, players booking and cancelling their own hours, and email notifications when they do, with no card and no end date. Card payments through Stripe or Square, and reminders, sit on the paid plans.
No. Each bay is a resource, so an hour on it can be held exactly once and stops being offered the moment it is taken. That is the difference between a booking system and a shared calendar somebody has to remember to update.
Yes. Price your hire differently by the service somebody books (a peak hour and an off-peak hour are two things with two prices) and take the money at the point of booking rather than at the door.
On the paid plans a reminder goes out before they are due, carrying a link they can use to release the hour. An hour handed back at five is an hour you can sell at seven. Taking payment at booking is the other half of it: an hour somebody has paid for is one they generally come to.
Yes, on the paid plans. A league books as a recurring series with a last date on it, so the Tuesday nights are held for the season and then come back on sale automatically rather than staying blocked out until somebody notices.
Yes. Each venue keeps its own bays, its own hours, its own prices and its own booking page, and both appear in one calendar, so somebody covering the pair is looking at a single screen.
Two different products answer to that name and only one of them is on this page. The simulation package that draws the course and reads the ball is bought with the bay, usually from whoever installed it, and its price is theirs to quote rather than ours to guess. The booking half is what Picktime is: free to start, with no card and no end date, and the paid plans are set out on the pricing page.
We are not going to rank the simulation packages, because we do not sell one and any list we published would be somebody else’s opinion retyped. The useful thing to know is that the two choices are independent: the software your bay runs does not decide what takes the bookings, and a venue can change one without touching the other. Pick the bay software on how it plays and the booking software on whether an hour can be sold twice.
For an outdoor course, a tee sheet product, because a course sells eight-minute intervals with a starter at the first and a weather problem behind all of it. Picktime is not built for that. It is built for the indoor version, where the thing being sold is a named bay for an hour, priced by when that hour falls and paid for at the point it is taken.
Pitches and halls Courts, pitches and halls let by the hour, and a club block that ends.
See sports facility scheduling
Cages by the hour Cages hired in half hours, busiest after school and all weekend.
See batting cage booking
Tee sheets Members taking their own tee interval, and a society block with an end date.
See tee time bookingFree forever for one venue. No card, no trial clock, and your bays can be bookable before Friday.
Stripe
Square
PayPal
Google Calendar
Outlook Calendar