# Golf Bay Reservation System: Bays Booked, Balls Flying > Golf bay reservation software for driving ranges, indoor simulators, and practice facilities. Hourly bay rental, lesson booking, simulator league blocks, and card payment at booking. Canonical: https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/solutions/golf-simulators Golf bay reservation software for driving ranges, indoor simulators, and practice facilities. Sell bay time by the hour, book lessons and league nights on the same bays, and keep every hitting bay earning. **Always grandfathered in** ## Sound Familiar? A hitting bay is perishable inventory: an hour that goes unsold at 6pm is gone. Ranges and simulator venues typically run bay rental, coaching, and league nights across the same bays with three different booking methods — walk-ups at the counter, lessons in a coach's own calendar, and leagues on a spreadsheet — which guarantees collisions on exactly the nights that matter. ## Built for Golf Bays, Ranges & Simulators Features designed specifically for managing golf bay bookings and maximizing facility revenue. ### Bay-by-Bay Booking Sell each hitting bay by the hour or half hour. Premium simulator bays and standard range stalls can carry different prices. ### Booking Length Rules Set half-hour or hourly slot increments and minimum and maximum booking length per bay — short sessions on range stalls, longer rounds on simulators. ### Lessons on the Same Bays Coaches book real bay time from shared availability, so a lesson can never be sold out from under a pro. ### League Nights Reserve a block of bays for a simulator league across a season, and cancel single weeks so those bays can be booked again. ### Indoor Winter Demand Simulator venues peak exactly when courses close. Extend each bay’s operating hours for the season without rebuilding your schedule. ### Payment at Booking Take card payment when a bay is booked, or send a Stripe invoice for corporate events and league fees. ## Why Golf Bay Facilities Choose Us - Sell hitting bays by the hour with online payment - Stop lessons, leagues, and public bookings colliding - Price premium simulator bays differently from standard stalls - Let customers find and book quiet weekday hours online - Run seasonal simulator leagues as recurring bay blocks - Send automatic email reminders before every session - See your busiest days and hours on the dashboard - Put bays from every location on one calendar ## Running a hitting bay as sellable inventory Driving ranges and indoor simulator venues have converged on the same operating model: a fixed number of bays, sold by the hour, competing against coaching and league commitments for the same evening hours. Treating a bay as inventory rather than as a walk-up amenity is what separates the facilities that fill their calendar from the ones that do not. ### Three booking methods on one set of bays is the core failure The typical range or simulator venue accumulates booking methods rather than choosing one. Public customers walk up or phone. Coaches keep their own lesson calendar because they had one before they worked here. League play lives in a spreadsheet the league organiser maintains. Each of these is reasonable on its own, and together they guarantee that on the busiest night of the week two of them will claim bay 4 at the same time. Consolidating onto a single bay calendar is less about efficiency than about eliminating a category of failure. When every claim on a bay — public, lesson, or league — draws from the same availability, the collision cannot occur. This is usually the highest-value change a multi-bay facility makes. ### Bays are not interchangeable, and pricing should say so Most venues now run a mix: a few premium bays with a launch monitor and full simulator software, and a larger number of standard hitting stalls. Customers know the difference and will pay for it, but only if the booking flow presents the difference. A single flat hourly rate across all bays leaves money on the premium bays and makes the standard ones look overpriced. Per-bay pricing also makes the investment question easier. Once premium bays carry their own rate and their own bookings, it is much clearer whether a second launch monitor would pay for itself than it is from a single total booking count. - Separate rates for simulator bays and standard stalls - Different rates for shorter and longer sessions - Dashboard stats on your busiest days and hours, and booked versus collected payments ### Indoor golf is a seasonal business inverted from the course Simulator venues peak precisely when golf courses close. In most of North America and northern Europe that means November through March carries the year, with league play concentrated on weeknights across that window. The operational demand is therefore front-loaded planning: seasonal hours and league blocks reserved across a whole season before it starts. The corresponding opportunity is the shoulder season, in April, when the natural instinct is to go back outside. Online booking with the price visible and payment taken up front makes a spring session an easy decision rather than a phone call. ## Frequently Asked Questions Common questions about golf bay booking software ### Can we price simulator bays differently from range stalls? Yes. Each bay is its own space with its own rate, so a premium launch-monitor bay can be priced above a standard stall and still share one booking calendar. ### How do lessons avoid clashing with public bookings? Coaches book bay time from the same availability the public sees. When a pro takes bay 4 at 5pm, that bay is no longer publicly bookable at 5pm — there is no second calendar to reconcile. ### Can we run a simulator league? Reserve a recurring block of bays for the season. When a league week is off, cancel that occurrence and the bays become bookable again rather than sitting blocked. Scores and standings stay in your simulator software. ### Do you support prepaid bay hours? Not yet. Prepaid hours and balances are not tracked. Bookings are paid individually at the bay rate, or you can send a Stripe invoice for a custom amount. ### Can customers book in 30-minute increments? Yes. Set slot increments and booking length per bay. Half-hour increments suit range stalls; simulator rounds usually need an hour or more, and you can configure both in the same facility. ### We have two locations. Can we manage both? Yes. Add the bays from both locations to one account, each with its own hours and pricing, in a single calendar view. ### Will you raise my price? No. We will not raise prices on customers who sign up at the current $79/mo Pro rate — even if our public pricing increases later. ### Will you retire my plan? No. We do not retire old plans. Your plan tier stays valid; we never force you onto a new tier to keep the same features at a higher price. ### What does grandfathered mean? You keep your signup rate and plan tier forever. 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