BookestoCourts, padel clubs and sports venues
An empty 8 PM court on a Thursday is gone. It does not carry over.
No card needed. We set up each new venue with you, and pricing is agreed before anything is charged.
The problem
Four players, one court, and nobody wants to pay first
The 7 PM goes to a WhatsApp group. One person books it. Then that person spends two days chasing three friends for their quarter, and on Thursday afternoon one of them drops out, and by 6:30 PM the booking is cancelled and the court sits lit and empty at the most valuable hour of your week.
At the same time your listing on the aggregator is bringing you players you do not own. You cannot email them, you cannot see their history, and the platform takes a cut you did not set. You would like your own front door: your prices, your list, your customers. You would also like to keep the listing, because it fills your Tuesday afternoons.
Those two wants are not in conflict.
Capability
In buildSeveral prices for the same court
A price can depend on the court, the time, the day or the season. So 6 AM on a Sunday, 8 PM on a Thursday, the summer rate and the floodlight charge all live on one court without you keeping four price lists.
- Time of day
- 6 PM to 11 PM priced apart from a Tuesday at 2 PM
- Day and season
- Weekend and summer rates as their own rules, not a second calendar
- Per court
- A floodlight charge that applies to court 3 and to nothing else
Memberships and prepaid credit packs are in build. They sit on one balance, so the last credit cannot be spent twice.In build
The regulars
A Tuesday 7 PM, every week
Capability
In buildThe four who have played at the same hour for two years
The weekly four are the most valuable thing your club has, and they are also why clubs refuse to move systems. If their slot has to be re-entered forty times, nobody is moving.
Weekly regulars are booked one at a time today. A series is designed and has no screen.
Coming
In buildStay on the aggregator. Calendar sync is coming.
We are not going to tell you to leave the platform that fills your quiet hours. We would like to be the place your regulars book, where you keep the margin and the phone number.
Bookesto does not sync with those calendars yet, so a court sold on a marketplace does not close itself on your own page. Until calendar sync arrives, block that time by hand. If this decides it for you, tell us, because it moves up the order.
Deposits and prepay
WaitingPaid before the game, once online payment is switched on
Online card payments are not switched on yet, and players pay at the venue until then. When they go live, you will be able to set a different rule for peak slots than for a Tuesday at 2 PM.
- Full prepay
- Paid before the game, which is the norm in this trade
- Part deposit
- Part now, the rest at the venue, with the balance recorded
- Card hold
- A hold now, taken later only if your rule calls for it
Splitting a payment between players is not built. The hard part is the rule rather than the payment: if three players pay and the fourth does not by the deadline, somebody has to be charged and somebody has to be told. We will not ship the easy half and call it split pay.
Saudi Arabia is a separate question: the payment provider we use is not available there, so deposits there would need a second provider, and that decision is open.
Consumer law in Europe also limits what a club may keep when it is the club that cancels. Signups from the EU, EEA and UK stay closed for now.
Moving over
In buildWhat moving a club involves
Less than a salon, and the hard part is different. Your client list is usually small and phone-first, your services are four or five, and your real asset is the recurring bookings.
So the order is: your courts and prices set up with you from your current sheet, your member list imported from a CSV, and your regulars’ bookings entered one at a time before anything goes live.
Forward bookings are the thing you do not want to lose. If your current platform will give you a calendar feed or a CSV of upcoming slots, we can work from that. If it will not, tell us what it is and we will find out before you commit to anything.
Questions clubs ask
Four straight answers
Can a customer pick their court on a visual map?
On your side, yes: you see the venue as you drew it. The customer map, where a player taps court 3 and books it, is not built. Today a player picks a time and a court from a list.
Can I run a Ramadan timetable or a summer timetable and switch between them?
Not as saved timetables yet. Today a different season’s hours are changed by hand.
Do you do open matches and player matchmaking?
No, and not by accident. A player network means competing with the big marketplaces, and we would lose.
We want to be the club’s own booking page instead. Filling a court from your own member list is a different thing, and it is on the list.
Will the lights and the gate open automatically when someone books?
No. That would need a connection to whatever controls your hardware, and that connection is planned, not built.
You can check what we say
Every capability on this site carries a status that links to the row on our public roadmap saying the same thing. Anything still coming says what it is waiting on. Any figure we publish needs a source and a date.
If you want the plain list, the roadmap is the ledger.
The other five trades
Salons and barbershops
Your team, your chairs and your walk-ins on one calendar. Customers choose their stylist, colour notes stay with the client, and tips are recorded at the desk
Clinics and treatment rooms
Bookings, intake forms and consent for aesthetic and wellness businesses. We are your diary, not your patient record. We cannot take a DHA or DOH licensed facility yet, and the page explains why
Detailing, pet grooming and rentals
Your bays on one calendar. Work stages, change orders and condition photos have no screen yet, and that page says so
Classes, tours and experiences
Plan dated classes and departures with a seat count. Customers cannot book them online yet, and that page says so. Your tour-listing sites stay where they are
Restaurants
Reservations, walk-ins and a floor map. Covers, turn times and pacing are still coming, and that page says so at the top
If you are quoting peak and off-peak from a laminated sheet
We set up each new venue with you, one at a time, including your regulars. Tell us about your club.
No card needed. We set up each new venue with you, and pricing is agreed before anything is charged.