for people who run courts

An empty court costs the same as a full one.

Rent, light, water and staff run whether anybody is playing or not. Pickle Club fills the hours nobody has booked, then brings those same players back the next time they play. You pay ₹2,000 a month for each court you list, and keep every rupee those courts earn.

List your courts

Two steps about the venue, then your details and a login, then pick a plan. Nothing is charged for your first 14 days, a court is only billed once you make it live, and you can take it down yourself at any time.

What it costs

₹2,000: per court, per month
0%: commission on every booking
100%: of every booking, straight to you

Why a flat fee

We charge rent for a listing, not a share of your takings. ₹2,000 per court per month, whether that court gets booked once or two hundred times.

A commission would mean we earn more in the month you had a good run, and that we are quietly a partner in every rupee your courts take. We would rather be a fixed cost you can do the arithmetic on before you sign up than a percentage you discover afterwards.

Here is that arithmetic. At ₹800 an hour, three bookings in a month covers a court's fee. Your own rate is the one that counts, and you already know it: divide ₹2,000 by what you charge for an hour. Everything past that is yours, and it stays yours in the month you are full. That is exactly the month a commission would cost you most.

It also means the booking is yours in full. Players pay in the app when they book, the whole amount lands in your account, and we take nothing out of it. Because the money is collected when the slot is taken, a no-show cannot leave you with an empty court and nothing to show for it. There is nothing to count at the end of the night.

Where your courts show up

On the app's front page: Anybody opening Pickle Club near you sees courts in their area first, with your photo, your price and the next free slot on the card.
Inside a game that is already forming: When a group's evening reaches enough players, the card grows a Book court button. That takes them to your courts, with the day and time already filled in.
On your own page: Every venue gets a link that shows your courts, your hours, your prices and what is free. Paste it into a WhatsApp thread or your own website.

Why players come back

Your court, one tap away: Once somebody plays at your venue, Pickle Club opens them straight back to it. Planning the next game and booking a court stop being two jobs: the group settles on a time, and your court is already the one in front of them.
Regulars, not one-off bookings: Standing is earned at a venue, not across the app. The more a group plays your courts, the more it has built up at yours in particular, and none of it comes with them if they go elsewhere. That makes the second booking easier to win than the first.
Every player brings the next: A group is a dozen phones, not one. When one member books you, the whole crew sees where they are playing, and any of them can book you themselves next week. The game does the introducing, to people who had already decided to play.
Reasons to play this week: Ladders and challenges run over weeks, not one evening. A group in the middle of one has a reason to book again next week, and it books where it is already playing.

What happens when somebody books

1A player picks a court, a day and an hour, and pays in the app.
2The slot closes instantly. Nobody else can be sold the same hour on the same court. The database refuses it, not a background job that might be behind.
3The full amount lands in your account, with nothing taken out. The player gets a confirmation with the venue, the court, the time and a calendar file.
4It appears on your console under today, already paid. They turn up and play, and there is nothing to collect at the desk.

What we ask in return

Keep your hours and prices honest, so a player who turns up is not surprised.
Honour a booking, or decline it with a reason before the player leaves home.
Tell us if you sell the venue or stop running it, so the listing comes down.

Questions we get

Do I have to change how I take money?

Players pay in the app when they book, at the price you set, and the full amount lands in your account. We take 0%, so there is nothing to reconcile and no cash to count. The listing fee is billed separately and never comes out of a booking.

How and when do I pay the listing fee?

We bill per court, and only while a court is actually open for bookings. A court you have not made live yet costs nothing, taking one offline stops its billing that day, and you can put it back whenever you like.

What if the court is already taken when a booking comes in?

Block the hour in your console and it stops being bookable. If something has already been booked and you cannot honour it, decline it with a reason: the player is refunded in full and emailed straight away, before they drive over.

Will this fill my courts?

Not on its own, and not everywhere. Pickle Club is new, and in some areas there is nobody looking yet. Since you are paying for the listing, judge it by arithmetic rather than by our say-so: at ₹800 an hour, three bookings a month covers a court. If a court is not bringing in more than ₹2,000 after a couple of months, take it down. You can do that yourself, from the console, without asking us or waiting out a contract.

Can I take it down?

Any time, from the console, without asking us, and billing stops with it. Take a single court offline for a repair, or the whole listing off the app. Your bookings and your history stay where they are.

Who else can see my numbers?

Nobody. Your bookings and takings are visible to you and to whoever you add as a manager. Players see your courts, your hours and your prices, never your revenue.

A court costs ₹2,000 a month to list and about three minutes to set up. Three bookings at ₹800 covers it. If it never clears that, take it down yourself. There is no contract to get out of.

List your courts