# Booking Software for Cricket Coaches

Search for cricket booking software and almost everything you find manages facilities: lane hire, net allocation, ground bookings, membership for a club. That is useful if you run a centre. It does nothing for a self employed cricket coach trying to fill a winter of one to one sessions.

GoalMate is built around the coach. You set your session types, your prices and the hours you are actually free, and clients book and pay for your time. The venue is a detail on the booking, not the thing being sold.

It is free to join, there is no subscription, and GoalMate takes no commission. You keep 100% of the session price you set.

## Why cricket coaching is badly served by booking tools

- **The software books facilities, not people.** Lane and net systems are designed for a centre manager allocating resources. A coach needs a diary of clients, session histories and repeat bookings, which those tools do not model.
- **Winter demand arrives all at once.** Indoor season compresses most of the year's one to one work into a few months. Taking those bookings through messages means losing slots to slow replies at exactly the point demand peaks.
- **Blocks of six, not single sessions.** Cricket coaching is usually sold as a technical block across a winter. Generic scheduling apps handle single appointments and make multi week blocks awkward or manual.
- **Juniors mean a paying adult who never attends.** The person booking and paying is often a parent, while the player is someone else. Tools built for adult one to one appointments handle that badly.

## Built for how cricket coaching actually runs

- **Multi week technical blocks.** Sell a six or eight week block with weekly recurrence, paid up front or per session, without rebuilding the booking every week.
- **Session types that match the work.** Separate batting, bowling, wicketkeeping and general technique as distinct services, each with its own duration and price.
- **Small group sessions.** Take two to six players into one slot, with each place booked and paid for individually, which is how most junior winter coaching is sold.
- **Payment before the session.** Cards are charged at booking through Stripe, so an indoor slot you have already paid the centre for is not lost to a no show.
- **Venue on the booking.** Each service carries its own location, so a session at an indoor centre and one at a club ground do not get confused.
- **Your own bookable profile.** A public page listing your playing background, coaching qualifications and availability, which clients can book from directly.

## How this compares to what else is out there

Most of what ranks for cricket booking is not aimed at you. It is aimed at whoever runs the venue, and that decides who the software treats as its customer.

- **Skedda.** Space booking. Nets, lanes, courts and rooms, allocated across a venue. The net gets booked. You do not. There is no profile of yours in it, no client of yours, and no payout in your name.
- **AllBooked and Waresport.** Net and facility booking, written for clubs and indoor centres. The account belongs to the centre. You are somebody they schedule rather than somebody they sell.
- **Generic schedulers such as Picktime or Bookeo.** General appointment booking, with a cricket page added for search. A block of six has to be faked, a parent booking for a child has nowhere to go, and nobody new ever finds you through it.

## What it costs

Free to join, no subscription and no commission. The client pays a service fee at
checkout: a flat £1 on sessions up to £25, and 4% above that. On a £50 session the
client pays £52.99 and you receive £50.

## Questions

**Does GoalMate book the indoor net as well as the coach?**

No. GoalMate books your time and takes the payment. You keep whatever arrangement you already have with the centre or club for the facility, and the venue is recorded on the session so the client knows where to turn up.

**Can I sell a six week winter block?**

Yes. Multi week packages with weekly recurrence are a standard session type, so a block is one purchase for the client and a recurring set of sessions in your diary.

**A parent books but the child attends. Does that work?**

Yes. The account holder books and pays, and the player attending is recorded against the session, which is how most junior cricket coaching is arranged.

**What does it cost?**

Nothing to join, no subscription, and no commission. GoalMate is funded by a service fee the client pays on top of your price at checkout: a flat £1 on sessions up to £25, and 4% above that. On a £50 session the client pays £52.99 and you receive £50.

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