The booking does it: it unlocks the door for the first player, lights the court, and closes behind the last one. Meanwhile you are somewhere else — and the club keeps selling slots.
Nobody came to switch on a light or turn a key. Every one of these was triggered by a booking.
On paper everyone wants an unmanned club. On the ground there are two schools — and each has good reasons.
The door is unlocked, the court already lit: the player walks in and plays, without taking out a phone or keying anything in. No handling at all, from arrival to first serve — the club looks like it was expecting them.
The court stays dark until a scan at the door confirms that somebody is actually there. It is the choice of clubs with memberships and free entitlements: a ghost booking made “just in case” lights nothing, burns nothing — and the blocked court stays visibly empty, so the abuse shows.
Both schools hold up, and our position is not to decide for you: each behaviour is configurable, club by club and product by product. That is what access control in the service of the club looks like — rather than the other way round.
Depending on the hardware installed, lighting follows the real sunset and sunrise at your club — calculated from its exact GPS coordinates, not from a fixed timer that stays the same all year.
Not a single reader repainted in SportFinder colours. A club that is already equipped keeps its hardware instead of replacing everything to join us.
Access control is usually sold as a closed package: one price tier, one supplier, one reader. We work with the market’s main solutions instead, and we tell you which family fits your door.
The reader calculates and validates codes locally: the door opens even with no internet connection. The most capable also drives lighting, hot water and the car park, through a single rules engine — priorities, groups, time bands, real sunset.
The access code is generated by a call to your hardware supplier’s API. One of those integrations was born on a public tender: the municipality was already equipped, and we worked with its installation rather than re-equipping it.
The simplest of all: one fixed code per padlock, changeable in a click, with a different code per sport on a court that carries several.
And separately from door hardware there is the SportFinder QR: a code scanned by hand by your staff, on their own phone — made for pools, parks and pay-per-entry gates, with no dedicated reader to buy. It is a system in its own right, not a hardware integration.
Solutions exist for your door and your building — we point, we do not impose. The structure of our pricing is public.
No. SportFinder works with the market’s main access solutions — standalone hardware, connected systems or a plain code padlock: you keep what you already have. That is actually how one of our integrations came about: a municipality was already equipped under a public tender, and we worked with its installation instead of re-equipping it.
Yes. Some clubs want everything ready before the player arrives; others insist on a deliberate action at the door, so that a booking nobody honours never lights an empty court. Both behaviours are configurable, club by club and product by product.
Standalone hardware calculates and validates codes offline, without ever calling our servers: the door opens with no connection at all. Connected solutions generate the code through a call to the supplier’s API. And the scanner app your staff use needs the network to validate each scan.
A dedicated “access control integrator” role, which sees no bookings, no contacts and no payments. Even the club owner does not hold that right by default: changing the door configuration stays with that role.
A code that has been generated and handed over cannot be invalidated — it is the equivalent of a copied key you no longer control. You can regenerate new codes at any time; the old ones stay valid until they expire naturally.
Yes, through a dedicated entrance product: multi-entry passes — a ten-session card, for instance — with one code per booking or per participant, depending on how much traceability you need.
It depends on your door and your building: we point you in the right direction, we impose nothing, and we quote for your case. The structure of our pricing — subscription, modules, hardware — is public.
Your door, your hardware, your opening hours: we look at what you already have and tell you straight what it takes.
