Racket Sports Tech for July 2025

Table of Contents

• Ashley’s Tech Blog

  • The Proven Way to Handle Club Payments

• Baseline Vision News as of June 21, 2025

• iPlayMe2 News as of June, 26, 2025

• Noteworthy

  • Infosys, Ballers, TennisIQ App, SwingVision, Camps …

The Proven Way to Handle Club Payments

If you want your club to scale without breaking a sweat, it’s time to rethink how you manage payments. Because spreadsheets and payment apps can only take you so far.

The real engine of a financially healthy, fast-growing club?

A modern, integrated payment processor.

While many clubs settle for patchwork tools like Venmo, PayPal, or Zelle, these weren’t designed for the complexity of tennis or pickleball operations. The right payment system doesn’t just collect money—it powers your entire revenue engine.

And if you’re ready to simplify operations, increase security, and create a better player experience, your next move is upgrading how you get paid.

Stop Chasing Checks — Start Using an Integrated Payment System

Busy doesn’t always mean bankable.

You can have full courts and high engagement—but still spend hours chasing down payments, correcting errors, or manually reconciling transactions. That’s not just a hassle—it’s a growth blocker.

Smart payment processing shifts your mindset. It asks:

• Are we collecting revenue as efficiently as we run our programs?

• Are we giving players the convenient, secure payment options they expect?

• Are we freeing up staff time—or burying them in spreadsheets?

The right system puts your payments on autopilot—so your team can focus on the court, not the cash register.

How to Build a Club Payment System That Works

Here are 6 key shifts that help modern clubs streamline payments, reduce friction, and create scalable growth:

1. Automate Everything You Can

Membership dues, lesson charges, locker fees—if it’s recurring, it should be automated.

A smart payment processor handles the timing, authorization, and settlement for you. No chasing. No forgetting. No awkward collection emails.

Pro tip: Saved cards and ACH options make it even easier for members to stay current—without lifting a finger.

2. Ditch Disconnected Apps

Venmo, PayPal, and Zelle are fine for one-off payments. But for a full-service racquet club? They create more problems than they solve.

They don’t sync with your club operations. They limit reporting. They restrict usage. And worst of all, they can freeze your funds if used outside their terms.

Pro tip: Choose a system that integrates directly with your booking and registration platform—so every payment is tracked, linked, and logged.

3. Go Omnichannel

Players pay in all kinds of ways—on their phones, at the front desk, even mid-match. Make it easy for them.

Integrated payment processors let you accept both online and in-person transactions seamlessly, so nothing falls through the cracks.

Pro tip: Use physical terminals that sync to your club management system to avoid double entry or missing revenue.

4. Accept More Than Just Credit Cards

Modern players want modern payment options. From digital wallets to ACH transfers, giving members choices reduces checkout friction—and increases satisfaction.

Pro tip: Make sure your processor supports multiple payment types, including the ability to store preferred payment methods for faster future checkouts.

5. Reduce Admin Work (and Errors)

Manual entry isn’t just tedious—it’s risky. Integrated systems eliminate double data entry, prevent mistakes, and reduce end-of-month reconciliation stress.

Pro tip: Automate invoicing, receipts, and payment tracking so your staff spends more time with members—and less time behind a screen.

6. Turn Fees Into Strategy

Yes, payment processors charge fees. But when you factor in time saved, errors avoided, and revenue consistency, they pay for themselves many times over.

Some even let you pass fees to players or offer revenue-sharing models—turning what used to be a cost center into a smart business lever.

Pro tip: Evaluate platforms with flexible fee options, transparent pricing, and tools that help preserve your margins.

A New World of Club Payments Starts Here

Upgrading your payment system isn’t just about processing transactions—it’s about operating like the high-performance club you’re building.

Reliable, fast, and secure payments mean better experiences for players, more bandwidth for your team, and steadier revenue for your bottom line.

It’s time to stop patching things together—and start running payments like a pro.

CourtReserve helps tennis and pickleball clubs increase revenue, streamline operations, and deliver next-level experiences.

👉 Explore what’s possible at CourtReserve.com

Baseline Vision News

Baseline Vision website

iPlayMe2 releases its Leaderboard feature…

View your members’ ratings, by sport, in a ranked top-to-bottom list of player ratings. Share those Leaderboards internally (to your pro staff and management) or optionally also to your facility’s membership, making it an objective basis to award improvement, performance, and participation! View this 1-min. video.

Other topics of the newsletter:

• “Safe” In-App Messaging

• Events Registration

• Run Tournaments + Leagues, and Ladders, elegantly and easily

• Real-time Updated Brackets & Standings

Plus club brochure, videos, download Version 3.

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From SportsTechX

• Infosys and the French Tennis Federation unveiled a list of AI-powered features at Roland-Garros 2025 to enhance the fan experience, such as AI Commentary, AI Stadium where fans can use voice prompts to create their own arena and Gen-AI posters that ‘come to life’.

• Social sports club concept Ballers raised $20 million to launch venues in Philadelphia, Boston, and Miami by 2026.

• Apple Sports added tennis coverage ahead of Wimbledon, expanding its real-time score app.

TennisIQ App

In our latest blog, “Smells Like Victory,” we dive into a tennis edge most players completely miss, aromatherapy and herbal medicine.

Sounds out there? It’s actually backed by science.
Your sense of smell is directly wired to the part of your brain that controls memory, emotion, and focus. That means certain scents, like rosemary for alertness, peppermint for clarity, and lavender for calm, can actually improve your performance on court.

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Camps for Clubs

Group Lessons & Academy Camp Management for Tennis & Padel Clubs

We work with coaches and clubs across the US, providing an online booking system that makes it easy to manage sign-ups and collect payments for camps, clinics, and weekly lessons. No more paper forms or back-and-forth emails.

You can explore a live demo here: https://tennisclub.demo.campsforclubs.com
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