Booking system for courts and rooms – self-service by the hour

Yes – each court or room is its own product, with a code padlock on the gate or the room key in a key box by the door. Sell fixed sessions – an hour or 90 minutes on a padel court, an evening in the club house – or let customers pick their own start and end within your opening hours, starting on the hour, half hour or quarter hour. Prices can be per hour, differ by weekday and give members a discount, and the calendar stops double bookings. Players who just turn up scan the QR code on the gate and book the next free time on the spot.

Before you choose, read what to check first ↓ – Rentalbuddy suits courts and rooms nobody needs to staff, not every padel centre.

Four limits decide it for some padel centres. Prices can differ by weekday, season and dates you pick, but not by time of day, so an evening hour can't cost more than a morning hour. There are no repeat bookings: a team with a fixed Tuesday slot books each week, or you add their times as manual bookings. Players can't cancel on their own – they contact you. And Rentalbuddy opens the lock but doesn't switch on court lights or heating: put those on a timer or a motion sensor, or ask us about your setup.

Usually yes. Igloohome codes run in whole hours, so a code opens the lock from up to an hour before its booking starts until up to an hour after it ends: an 18:00–19:00 booking's code works from 17:00 to 20:00. With the room key in a key box, that rarely matters: renters keep the key with them until they leave (say so in your confirmation text), so by then the previous renter's code opens an empty box.

It matters where the code opens the gate or door itself, because the previous group could walk back in during the next booking. On a court gate that's rarely a problem. Where it is, lock the gate with an ordinary key lock and keep its key in a key box by the court, as for a room – players take the key in with them and hang it back when they leave.

No. Rentalbuddy can't make codes for another brand's lock, but you can keep its key or tag in an Igloohome key box by the door, so every booking gets its own code for the box. Or add its keypad as a manual lock: renters see its code on their unlock page around their booking – but it's the same code for everyone and works at any time, so change it now and then.

Put an Igloohome door lock with a keypad on the hall door itself – a key box won't do there, because the first group takes the key inside with them. Locks on Igloohome's Igloo Connect list work with Rentalbuddy, but not every model fits every door, so ask us before you buy one. Every booking then gets its own code for the door, and Rentalbuddy still books each court on its own. Each court counts as a lock on your plan, and so does the door lock – 3 courts and the door count as 4.

Yes. Add members – import a CSV list (email, end date, discount) or let them buy a membership in the booking window – with up to 100% off their bookings. There's no members-only login, so anyone with your booking link can book at your normal price: set that as your price for non-members. Lending for free

Each court or room counts as one lock on your plan, and so does a shared door: 2 courts are 2 locks, 3 courts and a hall door are 4 – all on Starter, 299 SEK a month excl. VAT, with no commission. More than 6 locks, or more than one location, is Growth: 599 SEK a month with 8 locks included, then 120 SEK a month per extra lock.

On top come Igloohome's code fee of about 20 SEK per lock a month and Stripe's fee per payment, plus the locks, bought once. Courts rented out for sport usually carry 6% VAT in Sweden; renting out rooms or premises is often VAT-free. What could 2 courts bring in?