The single-system alternative to nooQ
nooQ is a modern platform built in Glasgow, and it reads the problem correctly: a typical UK club runs tee times in one system, membership in another and the bar on a third, and nobody owns the join. nooQ's answer is to sit across those systems and make them work as one, with an AI assistant on top, on published pricing from £499/month. Links Meridian answers the same problem by replacing those systems instead of connecting them, so the tee sheet, membership, pro shop and F&B point of sale, the accounting ledger and the member community all read and write the same records.
Credit where it is due. The split stack nooQ describes is real, and UK clubs live it every day: BRS on the tee sheet, ClubV1 or IntelligentGolf behind membership and competitions, a separate till behind the bar, and a spreadsheet holding the whole thing together. nooQ's model is to leave those contracts in place and orchestrate them, which is a legitimate answer if your club is not ready to move off them. Its site names the systems it connects, including ClubV1, BRS and IG for tee times, competitions and memberships, alongside Lightspeed and EPOS Now for retail and food.
An integration layer can only be as good as the systems underneath it. The tee sheet still belongs to the tee-sheet vendor, the membership record still belongs to the membership vendor, and the join between them is still a reconciliation rather than a single row. Links Meridian removes that layer by removing the split: one database holds the member, the booking, the bar tab and the journal entry, so a green fee taken at the till is the same record the ledger posts and the member sees in the app.
The coverage difference shows up in three places. Accounting: nooQ lists financial integration with Xero, QuickBooks and Sage on its top tier, where Links Meridian includes a full double-entry general ledger with AP, AR and automatic daily bank reconciliation, plus QuickBooks and Xero export if you would rather keep your ledger where it is. Point of sale: nooQ includes F&B and EPOS with a kitchen display from its middle tier and connects Lightspeed or EPOS Now for the pro shop, where Links Meridian runs one till across retail and food with charge-to-member-account on both. Member experience: nooQ's pages describe a member app with push notifications and a member wallet, and Links Meridian adds the Digital Clubhouse, a native community with a club feed, Course Records, the Honours Board, season standings and awards.
Both platforms publish their prices, which is still rare in this category and worth saying plainly. nooQ publishes tiers at £499, £999 and £1,799 a month, with F&B and EPOS arriving on the middle tier and financial integration and multi-course support on the top one. Links Meridian publishes tiers from $99/month with the full platform in every tier, so the price does not climb as the club needs the next capability. Migration is free, you keep your existing systems running until you have checked the import, and the 30-day trial does not start until you go live.
The outcome for your club
One system instead of a layer over three
nooQ orchestrates the tee sheet, membership record and till you already run. Links Meridian is all three, on one database, so there is no join to maintain and no vendor contract left underneath.
Full accounting built in
A double-entry general ledger with AP, AR and automatic daily bank reconciliation, inside the same platform as the tee sheet and the till, with QuickBooks and Xero export if you would rather keep your ledger where it is.
The Digital Clubhouse
A native member community: club feed, Course Records, the Honours Board, season standings, awards and challenges. Members open it because they want to, which is what moves retention.
Everything in the tier you buy
Published pricing from $99/month with the full platform in every tier, so F&B, accounting and multi-course support are not held back for the top plan. Migration is free and you cut over on your own signal.
Links Meridian vs nooQ
Common questions
Is nooQ any good?
nooQ is a modern, Glasgow-based platform with published pricing, an AI assistant it calls Clara, a member app, competitions, memberships and F&B EPOS on its middle tier. Its case is a fair one: most UK clubs do run several disconnected systems, and connecting them is a real improvement on leaving them apart. Links Meridian gives a different answer to the same question. Rather than sitting across your existing systems, it replaces them, with the tee sheet, membership, pro shop and F&B point of sale, a full accounting ledger and a member community on one database.
We run BRS for tee times and ClubV1 for everything else. Can one platform replace both?
Yes. Links Meridian covers what each of those systems does today: online and staff-side booking on a live tee sheet, member records, subscriptions and billing, competitions with live scoring, and member communications, plus the pro shop and F&B till, the accounting ledger and the Digital Clubhouse. We import from each system as part of your migration plan, and you keep both running until you have checked what landed and set the go-live date.
How does the pricing compare?
Both platforms publish their prices. nooQ lists three tiers at £499, £999 and £1,799 a month, with F&B and EPOS from the middle tier and financial integration and multi-course support on the top one. Links Meridian publishes tiers from $99/month with the full platform included in every tier. Compare on what is included at your club's size rather than on the headline number, since the capability a club needs in year two is often the one that sits a tier up.
Can we migrate from nooQ to Links Meridian?
Yes. We import your member records, tee-sheet history, future bookings and payment records, and your existing system stays live until you have checked the import and set your own go-live date. Migration is free, and the 30-day trial does not start until you go live.
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One platform for the whole club, at a published price
Tee sheet, membership, EPOS, accounting and the Digital Clubhouse on one database. Free migration, on your timetable.