# Booking Software for Golf Coaches

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.

## What golf coaches actually lose time and money to

- **No shows on a booked bay.** If you have paid for a bay or a studio hour, a no show costs you twice. Taking payment at the point of booking removes the argument entirely.
- **Lesson blocks sold by conversation.** Most improvement is sold as a block of six, and most blocks are still agreed verbally, tracked in a notebook and chased for payment weeks later.
- **A diary that changes with the light.** Outdoor availability moves through the season. Editing a static booking page every few weeks is the kind of admin that quietly stops happening.
- **Being found at all.** A booking link only helps people who already know your name. It does nothing for the golfer searching for a coach near them.

## What you get

- **Lesson blocks with weekly recurrence.** Sell a block of six as one purchase with the sessions scheduled across the weeks, rather than rebooking each time.
- **Separate services and prices.** A 30 minute short game lesson, a 60 minute full swing session and a nine hole playing lesson can each have their own duration, price and venue.
- **Payment taken up front.** Cards are charged at booking through Stripe and paid out to your bank automatically.
- **Availability you control.** Set the hours you want to work, including different hours at different venues, and change them as the season moves.
- **Two way calendar sync.** Existing commitments block out automatically, so you are not double booked against your own diary.
- **A profile that gets found.** Your qualifications, your venue and your specialisms on a page that ranks for golf coaching in your area, bookable directly.

## How this compares to the usual options

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.

- **Koalendar, Picktime, Bookeo, Setmore.** 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.
- **Upper Hand.** 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 Pro and similar golf apps.** 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.

## 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

**Can I charge different prices for different lesson lengths?**

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.

**How do I stop losing money on no shows?**

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.

**Does GoalMate work if I coach at more than one venue?**

Yes. You can attach different locations to different services and set separate availability at each, including split days.

**What does GoalMate cost a golf coach?**

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.

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