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Lobby vs CourtReserve

Established club management
or flat software on your domain?

CourtReserve is club management software known for court reservations, memberships, events, and point-of-sale. Lobby is newer club software with a flat monthly fee, a custom domain, and a controlled migration path.

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When CourtReserve may be better

  • -Your front desk relies on point-of-sale and events tools that already work for your club.
  • -Your members are used to the current reservation flow and rarely need help with it.
  • -The invoice is clear and the club uses most of what it pays for.

When Lobby may be better

  • -You want to compare every per-booking or per-member line with one flat Lobby software fee.
  • -You want booking, emails, and receipts on your own domain with the club brand.
  • -You want a source review and a verified week before your members see a new booking site.

Fee calculator

Bring your
own numbers.

Enter three figures from your own invoice and reporting. The comparison stays empty until you provide them.

Your invoice

Copy these figures from your own reporting and signed terms. Lobby does not prefill a competitor fee.

/ month
$
$

Lobby public plan

Starter · $29/mo

Yearly billing includes 2 months free.

One year, side by side

Enter three figures from your own invoice.

The comparison appears only after you provide booking volume, average price, and the fee in your current terms.

Use the per-booking fee in your current invoice or signed terms. Lobby does not provide a CourtReserve fee estimate. Lobby yearly fees include 2 months free.

Claim and evidence table

What is known,
what to verify.

Observable model differences first. Subjective positioning second.

Claim

What we know

What to verify

Lobby position

Product scopeCourtReserve presents court reservations, memberships, events, and point-of-sale as its public feature set.Which of those modules your club uses and which sit idle.Lobby covers bookings, classes, memberships, leagues, open play, payments, and reports. There is no point-of-sale module.
Market focusThe product is centred on a specific market and the clubs in it.Currency, tax, payout, and data-hosting terms for a club outside that market.Lobby hosts data in the EU and pays out through Stripe Connect.
Fee modelPricing and contract terms can vary by package and club size.Per-booking, per-member, and processing lines on your invoice.Lobby software fee, 0% Lobby booking cut.
Member dataMember accounts live inside the vendor system.Export format, which fields come with it, and how much history is kept.The member list is the club’s and exportable at any time.

Migration reality

Switching is work.
Plan it like work.

  1. 01

    Export members, courts, future reservations, and events from CourtReserve.

  2. 02

    Map memberships and pricing rules onto Lobby with a source review of the export.

  3. 03

    Have staff run the next real week on the Lobby preview and sign off.

  4. 04

    Launch on the club domain and keep CourtReserve read-only for lookup during soft launch.

Questions

Decide with
current facts.

Is CourtReserve bad for clubs?
No. It is established club management software and many clubs run well on it. The question is whether its scope, market focus, and fee model fit your club.
Does Lobby have point-of-sale?
No. Lobby takes card payments for bookings, classes, and memberships through Stripe. It does not run a pro-shop till.
What should we verify first?
Verify invoice lines, export rights, currency and payout terms for your market, and how open memberships would carry over.

Compare your contract

Bring the invoice.
Bring the export terms.

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