Software priced for pickleball — not for the multi-amenity gym next door.
Club Automation is the software a tennis-and-pool-and-spa club buys when the GM has a line item for "club management software." It's deep, it's enterprise, and it's priced for clubs that have a CFO. If your facility has six courts, a kitchen, and one office chair — that's a different shape of problem.
Where the two products diverge.
| Club Automation | The Pickle Jar | |
|---|---|---|
| Target customer | Multi-amenity gym chains, racquet clubs | Pickleball facilities, full stop |
| Pricing model | Enterprise quotes, per-quote pricing | Flat monthly, published on the pricing page |
| Open-play orchestration | Generic class-scheduler | DUPR snake draft, sit-out memory, 0.0–1.0 round scoring |
| Implementation | Multi-month onboarding, integration calls | 15-min CSV import, live in under 30 minutes |
| Member-facing app | Branded mobile-web portal | Native iOS app + Apple Wallet pass |
| Payments | Bundled processor | Stripe Connect or Square — your merchant account, your card fees |
| DUPR integration | Not native | Native, used in the matchmaking engine itself |
| Best fit | Tennis + pool + gym + spa under one roof | A facility where the paddle is the whole point |
Comparison reflects publicly listed product positioning. If your situation differs, tell us on the demo and we'll be straight with you.
The handoff is shorter than you think.
Export the member roster, export your court schedule, export the upcoming bookings. That's three CSVs. We import all three in fifteen minutes — including dues tiers, household links, and saved payment methods if you're carrying them over.
You don't have to run both systems in parallel for a quarter. We've migrated facilities in a single weekend, and the first open-play night runs with our team in the room. If you've been on Club Automation for years, the relief at week two is its own form of feedback.
Stop paying for the gym features you'll never use.
See the orchestrator, the iOS app, and the migration tool in twenty minutes.