Take lesson bookings and payment in one place, and keep every pound of your lesson price.
Golf coaching has more booking software aimed at it than most sports, and most of it is a general scheduling tool with a golf landing page bolted on. What a working coach needs is narrower: a lesson diary that respects daylight and weather, blocks sold up front, and payment taken before someone fails to turn up.
GoalMate handles the booking, the payment and the diary, and puts your profile in front of golfers already searching for a coach in your area. You set your lesson prices and you keep all of them.
Free to join, no subscription, no commission.
Free to join, no subscription, and no commission on any booking. You keep 100% of the session price you set. The client pays a service fee on top at checkout: a flat £1 on sessions up to £25, and 4% above that. See the full pricing breakdown.
Search golf lesson booking and you get two kinds of result: schedulers with a golf page, and systems written for a facility. Here is where each one leaves you.
General appointment schedulers with a golf landing page for search.
You get a link. Finding somebody to send it to stays your problem, and a block of lessons is something you fake rather than sell.
Facility and academy management, sold to organisations.
Priced for a building. One pro with a diary pays for a lot of machinery they will never switch on.
Lesson admin for golf, usually with video analysis and notes attached.
All of it happens after somebody has booked. Every pupil is still one you found yourself.
| Platform | Published price | Charged per | Commission | Card processing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fresha | £14.95 a month solo, £9.95 per team member | Per bookable team member | 20% of a marketplace client's first booking, minimum £4 | 1.40% and 25p online, 1.19% and 20p in person |
| Booksy | £40 a month, plus £5 per extra team member, all plus VAT | Per business, then per staff member | 30% of a Boost client's first visit, minimum £5 | Not published on the pricing page |
| Foremost Golf | Free on EMP Premium, £7.42 a month on EMP Lite | Per pro, on top of Foremost membership | None. Foremost states the booking system is commission free | Not published on the booking system page |
| ProAgenda | $15 a month Base, $44 Plus, $87 Premium | Per agenda, so per coach diary | None published | Not published on the pricing page |
| Upper Hand | $79 a month Start, paid annually | Per business | None published | Not published on the pricing page |
| GoalMate | £0 | No charges to coaches | None. You keep 100% of your session price | Included. The client pays £1 up to £25, then 4% |
Every figure above was read from the platform's own public pricing page in September 2026, and is quoted in the currency it is published in rather than converted. Published rates change, so treat this as the starting point for your own check. Where a column says none published, the platform does not state a figure on a public page.
Yes. Each service has its own duration and price, so a 30 minute putting lesson and a 60 minute full swing session sit side by side on your profile with their own rates.
Payment is taken at the point of booking rather than at the lesson, so the slot is paid for before anyone needs to turn up.
Yes. You can attach different locations to different services and set separate availability at each, including split days.
Nothing to join, no monthly fee and no commission. The platform is funded by a service fee the client pays on top of your lesson price: a flat £1 up to £25, and 4% above that. On a £50 lesson the client pays £52.99 and you receive £50.