Proprietary & pay-and-play
Built for courses that earn from visitors
Caddyio is golf course management software for proprietary and pay-and-play courses. The tee sheet, online booking and green fees are free for the course, forever, with no commission on any booking, and including a booking widget that drops into the course's existing website. Food-and-drink ordering, growth analytics, range booking and the course's own branded app are a flat club subscription from £99 a month with no per-member fees.
Most golf software is designed around a members’ club: subscriptions, a committee and a handicap secretary. If your income comes from green fees, buggies, the range and the bar, that shape fits badly. This is the same platform with the emphasis where you need it.
What actually matters when visitors pay the bills
Every green fee stays yours
The tee sheet costs nothing, no commission comes off any booking, and no tee times are handed over as marketplace inventory. A busy summer costs exactly what a quiet one does: £0.
Visitors book without a membership
Visitors book a tee time and are charged a per-player green fee automatically, without staff working out who owes what. Corporate customers can pre-pay a balance of rounds that draws down as their nominated players book.
Spend you can see
Food-and-drink orders taken from the course, and growth analytics that separate visitor spend from member spend, show repeat visitors and expose the days your sheet is not full.
Booking on the website you already have
A one-line script drops live availability into your current site — WordPress, Squarespace, Wix or hand-written — so visitors book from the page they already landed on instead of being sent somewhere else. It's on the free plan, along with the REST API if you'd rather build it yourself.
The fee is worked out for you
Every booking carries its green fee, priced by who is playing, so nobody at the counter has to work out who owes what — and none of it is shared with us. Settlement is at the counter today; the card checkout at booking is a demonstration and says so. Already tied to GoCardless, Worldpay or Opayo? Request it from your billing page and we'll tell you honestly where that stands.
Your name on it, not ours
The member and visitor experience runs on your own domain under your own brand, with nothing to install and no per-head licence. A visitor's first impression is your course, not a software vendor.
Turn a visitor into a regular
Visitors are identified rather than anonymous, so a golfer who played twice this season can be recognised and contacted — with consent — instead of disappearing after the round.
The range earns too
Bays and simulators book on the same footing as the tee sheet, with buckets of balls priced and sold as part of the booking.
What Caddyio will not do for you
It will not fill your empty tee times. Caddyio has no marketplace, no visitor mailing list and no distribution deals, so if a booking platform is currently filling your midweek mornings, that demand is real and Caddyio does not replace it — many courses keep both. Caddyio also does not do EPOS, so your till stays where it is, and it does not talk to your ball dispenser or launch monitors.
Common questions
- Does Caddyio charge commission on visitor green fees?
- No — and it does not charge for the tee sheet either. Taking bookings and charging green fees is the free plan: £0 a month, unlimited bookings, no commission and no revenue share, so the whole green fee stays with the course. The paid plans, from £99 a month, are for what comes after the booking.
- Will Caddyio bring us more visitors?
- No, and it would be dishonest to suggest otherwise. Caddyio has no tee-time marketplace and no visitor-demand network. It makes the rounds you already sell more profitable and easier to run, and helps you turn a first-time visitor into a returning one — but it does not create demand that was not there.
- We are not a members' club. Is this still relevant?
- Yes, and it is the cheapest way in. Membership, subscriptions and handicap competitions are optional rather than the foundation, so a pay-and-play course can run the tee sheet, green fees and visitor booking on the free plan without turning any of them on — and add food-and-drink ordering, the range and growth analytics on a paid plan only if it wants them.
- Can we take payment at the counter rather than online?
- Yes, and that is the only settled route for a green fee today: the fee is priced and recorded against the booking, and taken at the counter. The card checkout at booking is a demonstration and states so on screen. Card payment through your own Stripe account is live for membership dues and purse top-ups, on the paid plans, and is off until you connect an account.
- We already use a different payment provider. Does that rule us out?
- No. Stripe is the rail we have wired end to end, but if your merchant contract is with someone else — Worldpay, Opayo, GoCardless, PayPal, Square — you request that provider from the billing page in your portal and we come back with a status: in review, planned, live, or not planned with the reason. In the meantime the tee sheet still runs for free and you can keep taking money exactly as you do now.
- Can we put the booking widget on our own website?
- Yes, on the free plan. Your portal's Developers page gives you an API key, a script tag and the tee-time widget snippet; paste it into your site and live availability appears in your own design. The widget shows what's free and hands the golfer over to finish the booking signed in, so nobody can fill your sheet in someone else's name.
Rather hear it from a club?
We’ll put you in touch with a club already running on Caddyio, so you can ask them the things you’d never ask us — how the switch actually went, what broke, and what they’d do differently. No sales call attached.