A quota aimed at pickleball only
Two bookings in progress at a time for pickleball members at one club, four at another — and five a week, on the pickleball court only. The same club’s tennis rules are untouched.
Pickleball club software
Add pickleball to your club, not a second piece of software
Pickleball almost never arrives in an empty club: it arrives on the courts of a tennis or badminton club that is already up and running. SportFinder handles it that way — one court carries two sports, and pickleball keeps its own rates, quotas and memberships.
One court, two sports
The same court can carry two sports
In SportFinder, a court does not belong to one sport: it carries as many as you like. So you do not have to create a fictitious “pickleball” court duplicating your existing one, or keep two schedules that contradict each other the moment a booking comes in.
The sports pickleball already sits alongside at our clubs:
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- A single court in your back office, two sports bookable on it. A pickleball booking blocks the slot for the other sport, without you having to think about it: it is the same court.
- Each sport keeps its own booking step and durations. A club that mixes two sports on the same courts does not run them at the same pace, and the software does not force it to.
- This is not a theoretical case: at the Centre sportif du Bertransart, the badminton courts are also pickleball courts — five sports in total across sixteen courts, each with its own exceptions. The details are on our multi-sport club page.
Is your club mostly about tennis? See the tennis page. Mostly about padel? Discover the software from the padel side.
Making it pay
A new sport, a new revenue stream
- A pickleball membership in its own right, with its own price and conditions — not a box ticked in the tennis membership. The card shown here is a real product page, as your members see it.
- Or a combined membership that opens both sports at once: that is the formula one tennis club set up to introduce its tennis members to pickleball, from €75 against €20 for pickleball alone.
- The membership can drive the quota: only pickleball members get their booking allowance, without you having to decide by hand who may book what.
- Payment follows the same path as the rest of the club — online, on site or split between players. See payments and POS.
Your rules, sport by sport
Pickleball gets its own rules, tennis does not move
Opening a sport to your members is above all about deciding who can book what, and how much. Every SportFinder setting can be filtered on pickleball alone, on a specific court, or on both at once — here is what tennis clubs actually do with it.
The playing format, for two or four
The number of players per booking is set sport by sport: one club requires four players for pickleball and lets tennis choose between two and four. It is a free setting, not a fixed mode.
Duration and booking window
Default duration, maximum duration, how far ahead bookings open: everything can be set down to the level of the sport. Your pickleball can open seven days ahead while tennis allows fourteen.
These rules are set in plain terms, with no bespoke development. The details of the engine are on “your club, your rules”.
Filling the new slots
An extra sport is pointless if it stays empty
The real risk with a sport you add is that it takes up hours without filling them. The same levers as on your other courts apply from day one.
One-hour slots that land right
A game of pickleball classically lasts an hour — exactly the format the optimisation engine places first when it fills in your schedule. It was not written for pickleball: it is the engine shared by all your sports, and this is the duration it favours. See matchmaking and court filling.
Your courts are shown in the club and beyond
Your courts’ availability goes out to the club screens, including when a court carries two sports. And pickleball is one of the sports featured in the player directory: a player looking for a game near them finds your club.
Getting your members playing
An internal ranking, without a federation
Let us be frank: no pickleball federation is connected to SportFinder today, and we would rather write it than let you find out. What you can do right now is keep a ranking internal to your club — a level scale of your own, sport by sport — to make up balanced groups, bring together players of similar strength and launch your tournaments without waiting for an outside integration.
The right question
A pickleball hour sold earns
The question is not what one more piece of software costs — there is no extra one. It is what your courts earn at the hours when nobody is playing tennis. That sum is done on the demo, on your own data; our prices are already published.
Our commission follows the same rule for every sport: 0% fees for your players, a sliding commission on the club side.
Frequently asked questions
Pickleball: what clubs ask us most
Can pickleball be played on a court already used for another sport?
Yes, and that is how it is designed: in SportFinder, a court carries several sports. Your tennis or badminton court can also be declared a pickleball court, without creating a second fictitious court and without duplicating your schedule. That is already the case at one of our centres, whose courts are both badminton and pickleball.
Can pickleball have its own rates and quotas without touching tennis?
Yes. Price, duration, booking window, number of simultaneous bookings, player format: every setting can be filtered on pickleball alone. Tennis clubs limit pickleball bookings, for example, to two in progress at a time, or to five a week, without their tennis rules being affected.
Can I sell a pickleball membership, or a combined one?
Both exist at real clubs: a pickleball-only membership, and a combined pickleball-tennis membership that opens both sports. The membership can then govern a quota — only pickleball members get a given booking allowance.
Is there an official pickleball ranking in SportFinder?
No. No pickleball federation is connected to SportFinder today — including the Belgian federation whose name mentions pickleball, of which only the tennis and padel scales are integrated. You can, however, keep a ranking internal to your club to make up groups and have your members play at their level.
Pickleball is played by two or four: can the software keep up?
Yes, the number of players per booking is not fixed and is set sport by sport. A club can require one format for pickleball and leave another for tennis, at the same centre and on the same screens.
Do I need separate software if pickleball is only a small part of my business?
No, and that is exactly the point: pickleball is a recognised sport on the platform, not an extra module. Your bookings, payments, statistics and club screens handle it like everything else, whether it accounts for two hours a week or forty.
30 minutes to open pickleball at your club
Shared courts, quotas, combined membership: we configure your sport together, on your real settings.