Cinch for golf courses

Golf Course Management SoftwareTee times that don't require a phone call.

Member booking windows, dynamic pricing, walking-vs-cart, junior + twilight rates, foursome editing — and an AI assistant that can actually move a tee time without calling the pro shop. Built to replace ForeUP and Membersports at a tenth of the price.

  • $0/mo + just 0.5%* per booking — vs ForeUP's $1,500/mo flat
  • AI moves, cancels, and re-books tee times in chat
  • Free migration from ForeUP, Membersports, or a paper sheet
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The AI moves your tee time.
Try it right now.

Click a prompt below. Watch the concierge preview the change, ask for confirmation, then commit. The same flow your members see in the app.

Bear Creek Concierge
Try it · scripted demo
Welcome to Bear Creek. I can find tee times, move existing bookings, surface last-minute deals, and edit your foursome. Try one of these:
In the real product, members type freely — this demo plays canned prompts so you can see the flow.
What we hear

The complaints we keep getting.
And what we do about them.

"To move my Saturday tee time I have to cancel, lose my spot, and rebook. By then the slot is gone."
Tell the AI "move me to 9:24 instead of 9:08." It locks the new slot before releasing the old one. You never lose your foursome's place.
"Adding a 4th player after I book is impossible in the app. I have to call the pro shop during business hours."
Chat: "Add Jim Park to my Saturday group." The AI adds the player, charges his green fee, and texts him the confirmation. No phone call.
"ForeUP is $2,400 a month for tee sheet + POS + email. Then $200 more for the consumer app upgrade."
Cinch Scale is $199/mo for the entire platform. Member app included. Stripe Connect routes green fees and pro shop sales straight to your bank.
"Membersports' app is slow to load and crashes when the tee sheet is busy on Friday at 4pm."
Built on the same modern stack Vercel runs on. Booking flow loads in under 500ms. Auto-scales on Friday-afternoon rushes without us doing anything.
"Dynamic pricing in ForeUP is buried four menus deep. We never use it, leave money on the table."
Peak rules sit on the tee sheet itself — drag, set the multiplier, save. Last-minute discounts on unsold slots run automatically (10% within 24h, 25% within 12, 40% within 4). Most operators recover $400–800/week of dead inventory.
"No-shows on weekend mornings cost us $1,200 a Saturday. Members shrug."
Cancellation policy enforced automatically. 24hr window triggers a card hold; no-show charges with a one-tap dispute path. Members feel it once, never again.
Side-by-side

Membersports says “no.”
Cinch says “here’s what we’ve got.”

A real screenshot from app.membersports.com on a fully-booked day vs what Cinch shows the same member in the same situation. Same data — radically different UX.

Membersports · today
The dead-end.

Reconstructed from app.membersports.com — what a member sees when their first-choice slot isn’t available.

Book Tee Time
Login
Today
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Mon, May 11, 2026
No tee times available on this day
...no alternatives offered.
×No alternative times suggested
×No mention of tomorrow's availability
×No deal-of-the-day surfacing
×No waitlist / notify-me option
×No AI assistant to ask
Cinch · today
The pivot.

What members see when their first choice isn’t open. Same data, radically different UX.

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Bear Creek
members.bearcreek.com
Monday, May 11
All tee times are booked today.
Here’s what we’ve got instead:
Tomorrow · 40% off5:40am · 9 holes · $35
Early bird twilight discount — was $58.
Tomorrow · prime time8:24am · 18 holes · $72
Same start time you tried to book today.
Waitlist for todayWe text you
22% of foursomes cancel within 24h. We’ll text you the second one opens.
Or just ask me anything.
“What’s the cheapest tee time this week?” “Find me a Saturday slot for four.”
Surfaces tomorrow's last-minute deals automatically
Suggests the same time slot the next day
One-tap waitlist with SMS notification
AI concierge available for any other question
Member never hits a dead-end page
Built in, not bolted on

Features your operators care about.

The things we shipped specifically because golf courses told us they were missing.

A full member self-service portal

Members get their own portal under YOUR course's brand — upcoming reservations + invitations, waitlists, weather rainchecks, prepaid credits & round passes, gift-card balances, payment history, and saved cards. Booking is a player-search party builder with a live order summary and a hold timer. Click “See the live golf member portal” above to walk it yourself.

AI tee-time editor

Not just an FAQ chatbot — a tool-using assistant that can MOVE a tee time, ADD or REMOVE players, switch walking/cart, change holes (18 → 9), and cancel — all with conversational confirmation. Beats every other golf software where editing means starting over.

Member booking windows

Members book 7 days out. Premium members 10 days out. Public 3 days out. Configured per tier with one slider. The tee sheet enforces it automatically — your starter doesn't have to play gatekeeper.

Peak pricing rules

Weekend prime +30%. Weekday prime +15%. Twilight -30%. Rules sit on the tee sheet itself — drag a window, set the multiplier, save. Rules compose, so weekend AND prime can stack. Pricing visible to members as they book — no surprises at the counter.

Auto last-minute deals

Empty 4pm slot tomorrow? Cinch automatically discounts it 10% within 24 hours, 25% within 12, 40% within 4. The same yield-management playbook airlines and hotels run — built into the tee sheet so you stop leaving Sunday-evening revenue on the table. Members ask the AI "any deals tonight?" and book in three taps.

Foursome editing without phone calls

Group members can each be invited by phone or email. Each one sees the tee time in their own member app, settles their own green fee, gets their own check-in QR. The lead golfer can add or remove players up to the cancellation window.

Walking, cart, 9 vs 18

Captured on every booking. Cart fleet rotation, walker pace-of-play, 9-vs-18 capacity all model first-class. Your starter sees who's walking before they get to the first tee.

Weather + pace-of-play push

Rain delay? Push to every player in the next 4 hours of tee times — auto-offer rebook or refund. Pace of play running long? Push the trailing groups with the live wait time, set expectations before they get to the turn.

Stripe Connect for green fees + pro shop

Money flows directly to your bank account. We take a 0.5% application fee on each charge — half of what ForeUP marks up on payments. Green fees, cart fees, lesson packages, pro shop POS, F&B — one Stripe relationship.

Lessons + tournament management

Lesson booking with your teaching pros — same booking flow as tee times. Tournament brackets, shotgun starts, sponsorships, scoring — built in. No more spreadsheets for the Member-Guest.

Unit economics

Why we’re a tenth of the price
of the incumbents.

Cinch’s monthly base is the floor. We make most of our money on a small percentage of bookings — which means we’re only winning when you’re winning.

How Cinch makes money
Just 0.5% on each booking. Or $199/mo flat.

Pay-as-you-go is $0/mo + 0.5% per transaction. All-Inclusive is $199/mo flat with zero transaction fees. ForeUP charges you $1,500–3,000/mo whether your tee sheet is full or empty. We don't.

Weekday twilight — 9 holes for one guest
Twilight discount applied
Member pays $35.00You receive $34.83Cinch fee $0.17
Saturday morning foursome with cart
Weekend prime + morning prime stacked
Member pays $320.00You receive $318.40Cinch fee $1.60
Member-Guest tournament — 80 players
$95/player guest fee
Member pays $7,600.00You receive $7,562.00Cinch fee $38.00
Money flows directly into your Stripe account. We never touch your operating cash. At any volume up to $300k/mo in bookings, Pay-as-you-go beats ForeUP. Above that, the All-Inclusive $199 flat track wins. Either way you save thousands a year on day one.
Side-by-side

ForeUP charges $2,400 a month for a worse booking flow.

Apples-to-apples on starting price + what you actually get for it.

VendorStarts atWhat you hear
Cinch$0/mo + 0.5%AI concierge, family memberships, modern app — pay-as-you-go or $199/mo flat. Either way, way under the incumbents.
ForeUP$1,500–3,000/moIndustry standard but feels like enterprise software from 2014. Member app is an afterthought. Editing a tee time after booking is broken. Owned by a roll-up, support response is slow.
Membersports$1,000–2,000/moMore modern UI than ForeUP but slow under load, brittle mobile app, complex config. Members complain about the booking flow weekly.
Club Caddie$300–800/moNewer entrant, cheaper, but limited dynamic pricing + no AI. Mostly used by 9-hole municipals.
Lightspeed Golf$600–1,500/moSolid POS + tee sheet, but the consumer-facing experience is generic Lightspeed-branded.
Jonas Club Software$1,500–5,000/moUsed by private country clubs. Powerful but feels like enterprise software from 2008. Famously hard to admin.
Pricing

Same pricing.
Whatever you operate.

Month-to-month. Free white-glove migration. Cancel anytime.

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We win when you win
Pay-as-you-go
$0/month
+ just 0.5% on bookings

Connect your own Stripe account. Cinch takes a 0.5% application fee on each transaction — that's it. No monthly cost, no transaction minimums, no surprise add-ons.

  • All product features (no tiers, no upsells)
  • Unlimited members + amenities
  • Stripe Connect to your own bank
  • AI concierge, dynamic pricing, white-label
  • Free white-glove migration
  • 0.5% application fee per transaction
Best fit: Operators doing $10k+/mo in bookings
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Predictable monthly bill
All-Inclusive
$199/month
Zero transaction fees

One flat monthly fee. We process payments through our Stripe account and settle to you on a regular schedule. No surprise charges when you have a big month.

  • All product features included
  • Unlimited members
  • Single location
  • Standard Stripe rates (2.9% + 30¢)
  • AI concierge, dynamic pricing, white-label
  • Free white-glove migration
Best fit: Small studios + single-location operators
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For multi-location + high volume
Enterprise
Custom
Negotiated rate

Multi-location, country clubs, franchises, high-volume golf courses. Custom application fee (down to 0.25%), dedicated CSM, SLA, white-glove migration, custom integrations.

  • Everything in Pay-as-you-go
  • Multi-location support
  • Custom-negotiated application fee
  • Dedicated customer success manager
  • SLA + uptime guarantee
  • Custom integrations + API access
  • We'll even build your website
Best fit: Country clubs, multi-location, $100k+/mo in bookings
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Ready when you are

Tee-time software your starter and your members actually like — $199/mo.

Free 60-day trial. Free migration from whatever you're on now. Cancel anytime.