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Getting Started

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Start receiving bookings in 5 minutes. This guide takes you from an empty dashboard to a live booking page in four steps. You'll add your courts, set your hours and pricing, connect payments, and publish the site customers book on.

1. Add your courts

Your courts are the spaces customers rent.

  1. In the sidebar, click on Courts.
  2. Click Add Court Type to create a category - for example Tennis, Pickleball, Padel, or Simulator.
  3. Under each type, click Add Court for every individual court you have.
  4. Give each court a name or label so you can tell them apart. For example, Tennis Court 1 (Outdoor) or Pickleball (Indoor).
Courts admin screen showing court types and individual courts.
Add court types, then add the individual courts under each.

Court types let you price and group similar courts together. You'll use them again when you set custom rates.

2. Set your hours and rates

  1. In the sidebar under Operations, open Hours.
  2. Set your operating hours so customers can only book when you're open.
  3. Click on Add Rates to add at least one rate so bookings have a price. You can refine this later - see Custom rates for peak, off-peak, and member pricing.
Rates screen showing a configured booking rate.
Add at least one rate so bookings have a price.

3. Publish your booking page

  1. In the sidebar under Overview, open Public Page.
  2. (Optionally) Fill in your business profile, contact details, and the tabs customers see.
  3. Share the public link - you can start accepting bookings without payments!
Public Page settings in the dashboard for publishing your booking site.
Open Public Page to fill in your profile and share your booking link.
The public booking page customers see when they visit your link.
This is what customers see when they open your booking link.

Bookings are live by default. Customers can book and pay right away, even before you connect Stripe.

4. (Optional) Connect payments

Payments run through Stripe, so money from bookings lands in your own account.

  1. In the sidebar under Settings, open Payments.
  2. Follow the Stripe onboarding to link or create your Stripe account.
Payments settings in the dashboard with Stripe onboarding.
Connect Stripe so booking payments land in your own account.

See Payments & checkout for the full rundown.

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