ForeUP charges Utah munis
$18,000 a year. We’re $2,000.
I’m Bryce. I run GullStack, a small software company in Salt Lake. We built Cinch — a modern tee-time and member platform — because Utah’s municipal courses shouldn’t be paying $24,000 a year to a vendor that hasn’t shipped a real feature since 2014.
- $0/mo + 0.5% per booking
- AI concierge moves tee times in chat
- Free migration · GullStack is in SLC
What you’re paying ForeUP or Membersports every year.
Most Utah munis we’ve looked at are paying ForeUP $18k–$30k per year, or Membersports $12k–$24k. Either way, that money belongs in your operating budget — not in a software vendor in another state.
Run the numbers on your actual volume.
Replace ForeUP’s flat annual fee with our 0.5% per booking and the gap is real. For most Utah munis, savings clear $15k a year.
| Your course | Annual booking revenue | ForeUP costs | Cinch costs | Saved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small 9-hole muni | $400k / year | $18,000 / year | $2,000 / year (0.5%) | $16,000 |
| Mid 18-hole muni | $1.2M / year | $24,000 / year | $6,000 / year (0.5%) | $18,000 |
| Busy public 18-hole | $2.5M / year | $30,000 / year | $12,500 / year (0.5%) | $17,500 |
That’s money you can put toward a course-conditions upgrade, a junior program, a clubhouse renovation — or just keep on the books.
On Membersports today?
We’re cheaper at every volume.
Membersports is the cheaper alternative to ForeUP — but our $199/mo All-Inclusive plan is still under their floor. And on Pay-as-you-go (0.5%), we beat them up to ~$3.6M in annual bookings — more rounds than any Utah muni does.
| Your annual booking revenue | Cinch Pay-as-you-go (0.5%) | Membersports mid ($1,500/mo) | Cinch saves |
|---|---|---|---|
| $200k | $1,000 | $18,000 | $17,000 |
| $500k | $2,500 | $18,000 | $15,500 |
| $1M | $5,000 | $18,000 | $13,000 |
| $2M | $10,000 | $18,000 | $8,000 |
| $3M | $15,000 | $18,000 | $3,000 |
| $3.6M | $18,000 | $18,000 | Tied · crossover |
| $5M | $25,000 | $18,000 | Pick All-Inclusive ($2,388) |
Even at $5M in annual bookings (more rounds than any Utah muni does) you’d just pick our $199/mo flat plan and still pay $15k+ less than Membersports. There’s no volume where they win.
Numbers based on Membersports’ publicly-reported pricing tiers. Bring your actual invoice on a call — we’ll plug it in and quote against your exact number.
Modern golf software.
Built down the street.
Members text "move my Saturday tee time to 9am" — done. No phone calls, no pro-shop bottleneck. The killer feature ForeUP can't ship.
Set weekend prime +30%, twilight -30%. Unsold slots auto-discount at 24h / 12h / 4h windows. Most courses recover $400–$800/week of dead inventory.
Resident card-holders 14 days out, leagues 10 days, public 7. Tee sheet enforces it automatically — starter doesn't have to play gatekeeper.
We've done it. We have a canned data-export email you forward to ForeUP support. We import everything: members, tee-time history, billing. 1–3 days end to end.
Quick personal note. I’m emailing every municipal golf course in Utah because I think we can do something good for this state’s golf scene if a few of you give us a shot.
ForeUP and Membersports are both fine. But neither one is made by people who live in Utah and have to call the pro shop to move a tee time at Bonneville. Cinch is.
If you’re paying $1,500–3,000/mo for ForeUP and you’re curious, give me 15 minutes on the phone. If Cinch is a better fit, we’ll migrate your data for free and have your tenant live in 24 hours. If it’s not, no hard feelings — you’ll have a sharper sense of what the modern alternatives can do.
bryce@usecinch.com · (540) 424-0317 · or book a 15-min call.
— Bryce
Every objection your city has — procurement, IT security, the ForeUP contract you’re locked into — we’ve worked the answer. Full plan below.
What we won’t do.
Move your tee-time software to a Utah company.
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