Four players, one booking
The amount is divided between the participants automatically. Everyone pays their exact share: nobody fronts the money for the others any more, and there is nothing to settle after the match.
Padel management software
The padel club management software that fills your courts
Booking around the clock, partners matched by level, one payment split four ways and QR-code access — one back office, and zero fees for your players.
Built for padel A padel club is not run
A padel club is not run
like a tennis court
Padel is played by four, booked in 90-minute slots, paid for by several people and lived as a community. A general-purpose court booking tool misses all of that. SportFinder was built around those rules: the booking, the match, the payment and access to the courts form one single flow, not modules to wire together.
90-minute slots
A time grid that belongs to padel: the 90-minute slot is the reference, and our engine does not put on sale a booking that would leave an unsellable gap between two matches.
Levels P100 to P1000
Belgian, French and Spanish rankings handled natively, with the equivalences between federations: no file to import, no level to key in twice.
Booking & progressive optimisation Maximise occupancy
Maximise occupancy
without sacrificing profitability
The question worth asking any booking system: when a player asks for one hour in the middle of two free hours, what decides whether to accept? With us it is not “the court is free” — it is what the booking leaves around it.
Because accepting one hour in the middle of two free hours means selling one hour and losing the two half-hours either side. Our engine scores what each booking would leave behind it, on a scale specific to padel, and only puts on sale what stays profitable — then it relaxes on its own as the date approaches, up to the point where an empty court costs more than a thirty-minute gap. Pick a part of the schedule below and step through the stages: it is exactly what a player would see on that court.
Maximise revenue Minimise idle courts
Court 1 — Friday, three free hours between two bookings
Booked 3h to sell Booked
The 12 possible cuts of this range — the engine opens those whose remainder score exceeds the requirement of the moment.
- 19:00 → 20:30 Opens: a week before.
- 20:30 → 22:00 Opens: a week before.
- 19:00 → 20:00 Opens: six days before.
- 21:00 → 22:00 Opens: six days before.
- 19:00 → 21:00 Opens: four days before.
- 20:00 → 21:00 Opens: four days before.
- 20:00 → 22:00 Opens: four days before.
- 19:30 → 20:30 Opens: three hours before.
- 19:30 → 21:00 Opens: three hours before.
- 19:30 → 21:30 Opens: three hours before.
- 20:00 → 21:30 Opens: three hours before.
- 20:30 → 21:30 Opens: three hours before.
2 of 12 slots on sale
Three hours to sell, and only two ways to cut them without damaging anything: two blocks of 1h30. Every other cut would leave an hour, two hours or half an hour on your hands. Seven days out, there is still plenty of time to sell better. Profitability first.
4 of 12 slots on sale
First easing: the engine now accepts leaving two hours behind it, because two hours on a Friday evening still sell very well. The cuts that leave an hour or half an hour stay closed.
7 of 12 slots on sale
A one-hour remainder becomes acceptable: better an hour to fill again than an evening half empty. Start times that write off half an hour, still not — and the engine will stay there until the last six hours.
12 of 12 slots on sale
In the last six hours, an empty court earns nothing at all. The engine opens everything that can still go, including start times shifted by half an hour. No more dead loss.
Club open from 18:00 to 23:00, bookings of one to two hours in 30-minute steps, progressive strategy. Four steps, because the padel scale tells no more apart: between four days and six hours before the slot, the engine no longer changes its mind. The demo plays by itself: click a step to take control.
Maximise revenue Minimise idle courts
Court 1 — Saturday, two free hours before the first booking
2h to sell Booked Booked
The 6 possible cuts of this range — the engine opens those whose remainder score exceeds the requirement of the moment.
- 08:00 → 10:00 Opens: a week before.
- 08:00 → 09:00 Opens: four days before.
- 09:00 → 10:00 Opens: four days before.
- 08:00 → 09:30 Opens: three hours before.
- 08:30 → 09:30 Opens: three hours before.
- 08:30 → 10:00 Opens: three hours before.
1 of 6 slots on sale
A week before, the engine only sells the whole block. Nobody can book 09:00–10:00: it would leave an orphaned opening hour, and a Saturday-morning hour does sell — later. Profitability first.
3 of 6 slots on sale
Four days out, Saturday has filled up elsewhere and the engine cuts in two: 08:00–09:00 and 09:00–10:00 go on sale. It still refuses to start at 08:30, which would write off the first half-hour of the day.
6 of 6 slots on sale
On the morning itself there is nothing left to protect: the 08:30 starts open too. An empty half-hour and four players on court beat a whole morning standing still. No more dead loss.
Club open from 08:00 to 13:00, bookings of one to two hours in 30-minute steps, progressive strategy. A club that would rather sell the end of the range than protect its opening can exempt the remainder next to opening time: 08:30–10:00 and 09:00–10:00 then go back on sale from day one. The demo plays by itself: click a step to take control.
Maximise revenue Minimise idle courts
Court 1 — Tuesday, two quiet hours in the middle of the afternoon
Booked 2h to sell Booked Booked
The 6 possible cuts of this range — the engine opens those whose remainder score exceeds the requirement of the moment.
- 14:00 → 16:00 Opens: maximum profitability.
- 14:00 → 15:00 Opens: the standard setting.
- 15:00 → 16:00 Opens: the standard setting.
- 14:00 → 15:30 Opens: fill above all.
- 14:30 → 15:30 Opens: fill above all.
- 14:30 → 16:00 Opens: fill above all.
1 of 6 slots on sale
The strictest setting only sells what leaves no trace. It is the one for the ranges you know will fill: it would rather refuse than damage. On a Tuesday afternoon, it would cost you dearly.
3 of 6 slots on sale
The default setting accepts leaving an hour behind it, never half an hour. It is the balance most clubs keep through the day, and the starting point of the progressive strategy.
6 of 6 slots on sale
No requirement left: everything that fits in the range goes on sale. It is the setting for a Tuesday afternoon, where the risk is not selling badly, it is not selling. The dial is yours.
Same bookings of one to two hours in 30-minute steps. Here the strategy is set by the club for the whole range, and does not move with the lead time. The demo plays by itself: click a step to take control.
Six strategies, one per time range
From “maximum profitability” to “fill at any price”, with progressive easing in between. Your off-peak hours, your weekends and your peak hours do not follow the same rules — and are set separately.
A scale of its own for padel
90 minutes and its multiples first, then 3 hours, 2 hours, 1 hour. On a tennis court or a football pitch, the same engine scores durations differently: what sells again is not the same from one sport to the next.
Zero day-to-day arbitration
You set the strategy once. The engine applies it court by court, slot by slot, around the clock — without anyone at the club having to decide whether “we take it or not” for that 18:00 booking.
The rest of the schedule follows the same logic:
- Drag-and-drop calendar: in the back office, you create, move or extend a booking with the mouse, and the engine immediately recalculates what remains sellable around it.
- Different booking windows: 14 days ahead for your members, 7 for visitors for example — a real loyalty lever.
- Recurring bookings: “every Tuesday at 18:00 for six months” is created in one go, with no repayment at each occurrence.
Matchmaking & filling
The community that fills your quiet slots
“My 12:00 and 21:00 slots stay empty.” In one click, turn any booking into an open match: you set the level, the gender and the number of places, and the SportFinder community fills the gaps. Matchmaking is not a separate module — it is your booking that opens up.
- Partner search by level, with the equivalences between federations and direct sharing on WhatsApp.
- Everyone pays their share as they join the match: the court fills without anyone fronting the money for the others.
- Self-service replacement: a player who cannot make it gets replaced, someone else takes the place, and the refund follows on its own.
- Approval as you choose: open sign-up or validation by the organiser, set match by match.
And because your club also lives beyond its walls, your courts and your matches appear in the SportFinder directory that players in Belgium and France browse. Discover matchmaking
What your players see in the app — real open matches on SportFinder.
The management software The back office that runs
The back office that runs
the club day to day
Behind online booking there is your team’s working tool: the dashboard, the calendar, the takings, the customer file. Scroll through — these are real back office screens, not mock-ups.
Takings, payment methods and accounting have their own page. See payments & POS
The app Your club has its own space
Your club has its own space
in the app
The SportFinder app is already in your players’ pockets — and your club has its page, its schedule and its rates in it. Here is one booking, screen by screen, as your players experience it.
Your club, your rules
Software that fits your rules, not the other way round
Most systems impose their way of working on you. SportFinder rests on a single rules engine — a value, a condition, a priority — that governs rates, quotas, booking windows and refunds. You learn the logic once and reuse it everywhere. The club arrives pre-configured; the depth is a reserve for tailoring, not a configuration chore.
- Rates that follow the sunset: your outdoor courts switch to the “night” price exactly at real dusk, calculated every day from the club’s GPS address — clock changes included.
- A match straddling 19:30 is billed half day, half night: the slot is split automatically.
- The Ciney case: “€0 while there is quota left, then a reduced rate” — the member switches to the right price on their own once their quota is used up.
- School-holiday rates: the club declares its region, and the software applies the right rate on the right dates, with no intervention.
Unmanned access & lighting The 7am slot
The 7am slot
sells itself
“I have to be at the club to open, close and switch the lights on.” The unmanned club model is not a slogan: the door opens on an encrypted QR code, lighting and the hot water in the showers follow the booking, and everything closes with nobody on site. On standalone hardware, the reader at the door validates the code locally — even when the connection drops.
- Compatible with the market’s main solutions — standalone hardware, connected systems, code padlocks: you can often keep your existing installation.
- Lighting driven by the real sun, with an adjustable margin — not a fixed timer switching on blind.
- Every access is logged (who, when, granted or refused): a full audit trail, useful if something is disputed.
Tournaments & federation
Your tournaments, your official licences
Publish a tournament in minutes: categories by level, gender and age, team entries paid online, duplicate protection, doubles partner search and reminders when entries open. SportFinder also automatically lists the official tournaments of AFPadel and the Fédération de Padel Wallonie-Bruxelles.
- Paid online entries, with team tracking and refunds handled in the same back office — with no fee added for the player.
- Federation licences sold online: the player buys their licence together with their booking, the request goes to the federation signed, and validation can be automatic.
- Federation number and official ranking synced into the player’s record — no more Excel exports from the federation’s website.
Those federation integrations are Belgian today (AFPadel, Fédération de Padel Wallonie-Bruxelles): no British or Irish federation is connected, and we would rather say so than let you assume it.
Steering
Stop running the club on instinct
How much did you take this month? Which slots stay empty on a Tuesday? Who are your best customers? SportFinder answers with clear dashboards: revenue, court occupancy as a heatmap, period comparisons, top customers and accounting exports. Enough to decide with figures, not with an impression.
Revenue & comparisons
Revenue consumed and revenue taken, compared with the previous period, with the share of each source of income.
Court heatmap
Occupancy hour by hour, court by court: you see where your gaps and your peaks are.
Your customers
Top players, frequency, average basket — to know whom to reward and whom to win back.
One single platform
The club’s whole life cycle, in one place
Online booking
Club schedule
Matchmaking
Online & on-site payments
Access control
Memberships
Tournaments
Fine-grained pricing
Quotas & members
Statistics
Notifications
Club TV screens
Directory & visibility
Accounting exports
They trust us
“Our first month went well beyond our expectations! Our collaboration has a lot to do with it. Every day I thank my instinct for trusting SportFinder: daily follow-up, lightning-fast answers to my questions, simple software that anyone can use and that gives me complete autonomy. I can only recommend it with my eyes closed.”
Florent Maquart, Padel du Plateau — Rocroi, France (translated from French).
Read the case study The market, plainly
Marketplace, classic software, or both?
The market tends to impose a choice: a commission model that brings you players but earns its money on your takings, or licensed software that leaves you free but alone with acquisition. SportFinder combines the two — the complete software plus the acquisition ecosystem. We take a commission on online sales too: it is tapered, bank fees included, and its scale is published. What stays at 0% is the player side.
| Commission model | Licensed software | SportFinder | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What triggers the invoice | A percentage of every booking taken | A software subscription — what applies on top to online payments is specific to each contract | A subscription, plus a tapered, all-in commission on online sales — scale published |
| When the club fills up | The invoice follows revenue | The subscription, for its part, does not move | The subscription does not move. The commission follows volume — but its rate drops as volume rises |
| Bank fees | To check with the platform | To check with the vendor | Included in the rate, whatever the payment method — no separate transaction-fee invoice |
| What your players pay | A service fee may be added to the court price — to check | To check with the vendor | €0 — no service fee, no cancellation fee |
| Brings you players | Yes — it is the whole point of the model | No, acquisition is up to you | Yes — directory & open matches, and the players are added to your database |
| The price, before talking to a salesperson | Published or on quotation, depending on the platform | Published or on quotation, depending on the vendor | Published — subscription and commission, on the pricing page |
This table describes billing models, not companies: no vendor is named, because each one defines and changes its offer freely. The two left-hand columns only say what defines the model; wherever the contract decides, they say “to check” rather than guess on a vendor’s behalf. Only the SportFinder column asserts anything, and you can check it line by line on our pricing page. Situation as of August 2026. Already using a software? See how to switch without losing anything
Frequently asked questions
Running a padel club
Which software should I choose to run a padel club?
SportFinder brings together in a single back office online booking around the clock, level-based matchmaking, payments, unmanned access control, memberships, tournaments and statistics. The counter till is a trade of its own: good solutions already exist, and you choose the one best suited to your project. The product is designed for the reality of padel: four players on one booking, split payment, 90-minute slots and P100 to P1000 rankings.
How do I avoid unsellable gaps in a padel club’s schedule?
That is the job of our slot engine: a booking is only put on sale if what it would leave around it remains sellable. The scale is specific to padel — 90 minutes and its multiples first, then 3 hours, 2 hours, 1 hour — and a remainder the grid cannot sell again (45 minutes, 1h15, whatever is left after a booking created by hand) is never accepted. Its requirement then relaxes as the date approaches: more than six days out, it only accepts leaving behind a multiple of 90 minutes, or more than three hours; at six days, a 2-hour remainder is accepted too; at four days, a one-hour remainder; and only in the last six hours, a 30-minute remainder, because a sold court is worth more than a perfect schedule. The club chooses its strategy from six, time range by time range: off-peak hours, the weekend and peak hours can be set differently.
Does SportFinder take a commission on my bookings?
Yes, and it is published. Our commission on online sales is tapered — it drops as your volume rises — and it includes bank fees whatever the payment method: you receive no separate transaction-fee invoice. The full scale is on our pricing page. On the player side, however, it really is 0%: no service fee, no cancellation fee. And your customers’ money goes straight to your own Stripe account, in your name: SportFinder never holds your cash.
How does paying four ways on a padel booking work?
With split payment, each player pays their exact share (by bank card, Apple Pay or Google PayBancontact, bank card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, or with the club wallet) without the organiser fronting for everyone. The share is calculated automatically according to each person’s own rate (member, subscriber, guest). The court is held as soon as the deposit is reached, then confirmed once everyone has paid.
Are P100 to P1000 padel rankings supported?
Yes, natively. The Belgian, French and Spanish ranking scales each exist by default, with the equivalences needed by clubs near a border. A player ranked on one scale finds their equivalent level on another, and both matches and tournament categories are filtered by level automatically.
Can a padel club run 24/7 with no staff?
Yes. Access control is native and compatible with the market’s main solutions — standalone hardware, connected systems or a simple code padlock. The door opens when an encrypted QR code is shown, lighting and hot water follow the booking, and standalone hardware validates the code locally — even when the connection drops. Outdoor lighting can even follow the real sunset at your site.
Can federation licences be sold through SportFinder?
Yes, for the Belgian padel federations, to which SportFinder is natively connected: your players buy their federation licence together with their booking, the request goes to the federation signed and secured, and validation can be automatic. The federation number and official ranking then live in the player’s record, with no re-keying. No British or Irish federation is connected today.
How does migrating from my current software work?
Our team guides the migration: import of your contacts, bookings, credits, memberships and rankings, with controlled de-duplication. The mapping is compatible with the market’s main platforms. You do not start from scratch, and your players follow you.
How much does SportFinder cost, and how long until we are up and running?
A subscription, whose price depends on the number of courts and the modules switched on (access control, tournaments, licences…), plus a tapered commission on online sales, bank fees included. Both scales are published on our pricing page: you know whether it fits your budget before talking to us. Setup is done with our team during onboarding; we set the timetable together during the demo.
30 minutes to see what it looks like at your club
A demo on your club: your courts, your rates, your memberships. We configure one of your rules live.