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One plan. One flat rate. Model the illustrative uplift for your venue, then list your club in under five minutes.

Pro growth model

Fill the empty hours.
Out-earn the competition.

Even well-run UK padel courts sit empty 30–40% of the day. Our matchmaking engine turns solo players and pairs into full sessions in your quieter hours — courts you've already paid for, now generating revenue.

A typical UK padel club · 4 courts · £32/hour

Status quo

Other platforms

Typical 2.5% per booking

Court utilisation70%
Booked hours / mo
1,176
Gross revenue / mo
£37,632
Commission (2.5%)
-£941
Net to club / mo
£36,691
  • Listed in search & matchmaking
  • No active demand generation
  • Basic analytics only
  • Flat 2.5% commission · £0/mo
Pro

With matchmaking

RacketSync Club HQ

Bookings + active matchmaking

Court utilisation80%
Booked hours / mo
1,344
Gross revenue / mo
£43,008
Commission (1.75%)
-£753
Subscription
-£250
Net to club / mo
£42,005
  • Bookings + matchmaking
  • Auto-fills quiet hours
  • Flat-fee — no peak surcharge
  • Flat 1.75% commission + £250/mo +VAT

Court utilisation

+10pp

70% → 80%

Modelled extra net revenue

+£5,314/mo

Estimated £63,770 per year — illustrative

Sessions matched (modelled)

+112/mo

Players we'd otherwise lose

Model your club

Adjust the numbers to match your venue. Calculations use conservative industry averages — your real uplift will likely be higher.

4 courts
1 court12 courts
70%
20%95%
81%
70%95%

Modelled lift: 81%+11pp headroom

£32/hour
£20/hour£60/hour
14 hrs/day
8 hrs/day18 hrs/day
2.5%
0%15%

Pro is a flat 1.75% on every booking.−0.75pp vs Pro

Your commission (2.5%)£1,089/mo
Pro commission (1.75%)£762/mo
You'd save on commission+£327/mo · +£3,919/yr

Commission saved vs your current platform

Assumptions

  • 30 days/month
  • Your current commission: drag the slider to match your existing platform (defaults to 2.5%)
  • Pro: flat 1.75% commission + £250/mo (no peak surcharge). Target utilisation defaults to our modelled matchmaking lift (capped at 95%) — drag it to test a stretch goal.

On other platforms

Booked court hours
1,176/mo
Gross revenue
£37,632
After commission & sub
£36,691

With Pro + matchmaking

Booked court hours
1,361/mo
Gross revenue
£43,546
After commission & sub
£42,534

Your projected uplift

+£5,842 / month

That's £70,108 extra net revenue per year, after subscription & commission.

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Industry baselines from LTA padel reports & UK club averages (2024). Pro uplift modelled conservatively at +10pp utilisation; published matchmaking lifts often exceed +15–25pp. All figures are illustrative estimates, not guaranteed outcomes — actual results vary by venue, catchment, pricing and demand.

Club HQ

£250/month +VAT. Flat 1.75% on every booking +VAT.

One plan, one predictable monthly fee, one flat rate per booking — no peak surcharges, no surge pricing, no demand-led adjustments. Everything we build, every club gets.

Founders: 2 months free

— Club HQ

Everything you need to fill courts.

Built for clubs ready to take utilisation seriously.

£250/month +VAT

Flat 1.75% commission per booking +VAT

  • Listed in player search & matchmaking
  • Pre-paid bookings, weekly payouts
  • Real-time calendar sync
  • Flat 1.75% on every booking — no peak surcharge
  • Premium placement in club search
  • Full booking history + CSV export
  • Pro Insights: utilisation, revenue & demand analytics
  • Branded club page with hero imagery
  • Priority support
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Future-proofing

When the padel boom slows, utilisation matters even more.

Right now, demand is growing. But UK padel court supply is expanding faster than ever — and as more clubs open, the venues that win will be the ones that fill courts consistently, not the ones that wait for players to organise themselves.

Market saturation

  • More courts opening every quarter
  • More clubs entering each catchment
  • Demand spreads thinner per venue

What happens next

  • Off-peak utilisation drops first
  • Peak becomes harder to fill fully
  • Revenue plateaus — then declines

With RacketSync

  • Demand is automatically organised
  • Games are created, not waited for
  • Courts stay full as supply grows

— Utilisation curve as the market matures

Clubs using RacketSync maintain higher utilisation through market maturity.

0%25%50%75%100%TodayMarket matures →
Without RacketSyncWith RacketSync

As supply increases, even a modelled 5–10% drop in utilisation can translate into thousands of pounds of forgone monthly revenue for a 4-court club. Active matchmaking is designed to hold the line.[8]

— Sources & footnotes

Where the numbers come from

Every figure on this page is grounded in published industry research and cross-industry benchmarks. Ranges are presented honestly — your mileage will vary by location, court mix and pricing.

  1. [1] UK padel court utilisation — quiet-hours gap

    LTA Padel Insights and UK club operator surveys consistently report 35–55% utilisation across quieter weekday daytime hours, even at otherwise busy venues. The gap exists because casual players can't assemble a doubles group on demand — exactly the problem matchmaking solves.

    LTA Padel — UK growth & participation
  2. [2] No-show economics in pre-paid leisure bookings

    At high occupancy, every cancelled or no-show slot is unrecovered revenue because there is no walk-in flow to backfill in real time. Pre-payment + automated waitlists are the standard recovery levers used across hospitality and fitness booking platforms.

    Mindbody — cancellation & no-show benchmarks
  3. [3] Waitlist auto-fill performance (analogous SaaS booking platforms)

    Class-booking and restaurant-reservation platforms (Mindbody, Resy, OpenTable) report that automated waitlists typically recover 15–25% of cancelled slots — the equivalent of 2–3 court-hours per court per week at 80% utilisation.

    Resy Notify — automated waitlist case study
  4. [4] Savills UK Leisure & Health Clubs Spotlight

    Savills' UK leisure research notes that the strongest indoor racquet venues (top-tier health clubs and dedicated padel venues) sustain >85% court utilisation in mature catchments — the upper bound modelled here.

    Savills — UK Leisure Spotlight
  5. [5] Flat-rate commission model

    RacketSync runs a flat-rate commission model: clubs pay a single percentage on every booking with no peak surcharges and no demand-led adjustments. Predictable for players and operationally simple for clubs. Revenue lift comes from utilisation (matchmaking) rather than from price-discrimination tactics.

    See the pricing model
  6. [6] Subscription-driven visit frequency lift (ClassPass / fitness)

    ClassPass and gym-membership studies (IHRSA, ClassPass internal benchmarks) show paid-membership users visit 30–50% more frequently than pay-as-you-go users in the same venue category. Applied here to Player Pro as the closest behavioural analogue.

    ClassPass for Studios — engagement benchmarks
  7. [7] LTA Padel insights & UK court growth

    The LTA's published padel updates report rapid court growth across the UK, with outdoor courts running materially below indoor utilisation due to weather sensitivity (typically 35–55% vs. 65–85% indoor). Matchmaking only triggers when a slot is bookable, which lifts outdoor occupancy on viable days.

    LTA Padel — UK growth & participation
  8. [8] Revenue model — 4-court UK club at £32/hr (illustrative)

    Monthly revenue ranges (e.g. +£2k–£9k) are modelled estimates, not guaranteed outcomes. They are derived from a 4-court venue at the UK average £32/hour indoor rate, 14 bookable hours/day, applied to the utilisation lifts above. Net of RacketSync subscription (£250/mo +VAT Club HQ) and a flat 1.75% commission +VAT. Actual results vary by venue, catchment, pricing and demand. See the live calculator page to model your own assumptions.

  9. [9] LTA — UK padel participation & court supply

    The LTA reports ~860,000 padel players in Great Britain as of March 2026, up from over 400,000 a year earlier, with 1,000+ courts at 325 venues nationwide as of July 2025. Both supply and demand are growing fast — meaning the operators who fill shoulder hours first capture the structural advantage as new courts come online.

    LTA — 860,000 UK padel players (Mar 2026)
  10. [10] Padel4all — UK case study (Bookteq)

    Padel4all, one of the UK's leading padel operators, publicly reports a 56% increase in court utilisation and a doubling of booking revenue in month two after moving to online booking with 63% of bookings taken via the calendar widget. A direct UK precedent for the utilisation lift our model assumes — achieved with bookings alone, before layering matchmaking on top.

    Bookteq — Padel4all case study (+56% utilisation)
  11. [11] Playtomic × PwC Strategy& — Global Padel Report 2025

    The Global Padel Report 2025, produced by Playtomic with PwC's Strategy& consulting arm, projects 70,000 padel courts worldwide by 2026 and identifies open-match formats — where strangers are matched into full sessions — as a primary driver of record player retention across the global market. This is the same matchmaking pattern RacketSync deploys for UK clubs.

    Playtomic & PwC Strategy& — Global Padel Report 2025

Dynamic pricing and subscription-frequency lifts are drawn from analogous markets (hotels, gyms, ClassPass-style passes) and applied conservatively to padel — not extrapolated from padel-specific A/B tests. Ranges are presented honestly; your mileage will vary by location, court mix and pricing.

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