Municipal Golf Course Software, with the Prices Published
Links Meridian gives municipal golf courses published pricing a procurement officer can file without a sales call, from $99 a month. Resident, non-resident, junior and senior rates, the pro shop and F&B tills, a daily cash close, a general ledger and, on Enterprise, an audit log of staff actions run on one system. The course keeps every tee time, because none are traded for software.
Municipal courses work under constraints private clubs and resorts do not face. The tee sheet carries heavy public volume on a tight margin, and pricing has to stand up before a city council and its taxpayers. Staff turnover is higher, training is shorter, and the books are public, so the audit trail matters.
Links Meridian publishes every tier: Starter $99, Standard $299, Professional $749 and Enterprise $1,799 a month, with no per-module fees within a tier, and an additional course on Professional or Enterprise is $499 a month (one Par 3 course is free), so Professional for four courses is $2,250 a month. Most vendors quote after a sales call. Where a municipal price is public, it looks like this: the City of Spokane's Park Board approved a ForeUP contract for its four courses at $40,032 a year plus $6,100 implementation, on a five-year term (Spokane Park Board agenda, 9 January 2025).
The other common model costs no cash at all. Under GolfNow's barter agreements the course pays for the software in tee times GolfNow sells; golf technology consultant JJ Keegan estimates the traded value at about $18,000 to $34,000 a year, and GolfNow's standard terms add a $500 a month per course penalty for under-delivering trade times and a 5%-or-CPI annual escalator on cash fees. Traded inventory is harder for a council to see than a cash line. Links Meridian never takes tee times in trade.
Public online booking is branded to the course, on your own domain with Enterprise. Residents hold a resident membership type, and rate cards price each booking by membership type, day, season and holiday, with junior and senior rates alongside. Seasonal pro shop staff work a drag-and-drop tee sheet that updates live on every screen. Daily close compares expected against counted cash and card takings and records the variance, and on Enterprise the audit log records staff changes to bookings, prices and refunds with the person and time, hash-chained so a later edit is detectable.
Often the tee sheet is on one vendor and the clubhouse grill on another, and someone reconciles the two by hand before the numbers go to the finance department. Links Meridian puts the tee sheet, the pro shop POS and the F&B POS on one database from Professional: the F&B POS runs in any phone or tablet browser and fires orders to the kitchen display, and every sale lands in the same daily close and the same ledger. Gift cards sell online and redeem at every register, and golfers enter city tournaments and pay by card on the course's own site. If the city keeps QuickBooks Online, Links Meridian sends it a balanced journal for each day, or the individual invoices, bills and payments, every night at the hour the city chooses or on demand.
The Outcome for Your Club
Resident and Non-resident Rates
Residents hold a resident membership type, and rate cards price each booking by membership type, day, season and holiday. Junior and senior rates sit alongside.
Staff Tools Simple Enough for Seasonal Hires
A drag-and-drop tee sheet that updates live on every staff screen, and pro shop tills with gift cards and rain checks built in.
Audit Trail on Enterprise
Staff changes to bookings, prices and refunds are logged with the person and the time, in a hash-chained log that shows if an entry is altered.
Published pricing procurement can file
Starter $99, Standard $299, Professional $749 and Enterprise $1,799 a month, all published. No per-module fees within a tier, and no tee times traded.
Daily Close and Period Locks
Daily close compares expected against counted cash and card takings and stores the variance. Closed accounting periods lock, and reopening one is recorded.
Reporting your finance department will accept
Income statement, balance sheet, trial balance, and AR and AP ageing, exported to CSV, Excel, PDF or IIF, and a nightly sync to QuickBooks Online or Xero if the city uses either. Accounting comes with Professional.
What's Included
Common Questions
We have a tight budget. What does Links Meridian actually cost?
Links Meridian publishes every tier: Starter $99, Standard $299, Professional $749 and Enterprise $1,799 a month, or 20% less billed annually. Standard adds automated billing, unlimited members and the Digital Clubhouse; Professional adds pro shop and F&B tills, tournaments, rain checks, equipment rental and full accounting; Enterprise adds the audit log, your own domain and marketing automation. Data migration is free on every plan. An additional course on Professional or Enterprise is $499 a month, and one Par 3 course is free. There are no per-module fees within a tier and no tee times traded.
How do we enforce resident pricing?
Residents hold a resident membership type, such as a resident card or a resident season pass, and Links Meridian's rate cards price each booking by membership type, day, season and holiday. A resident who books signed in gets the resident rate; everyone else gets the public rate. Junior and senior rates sit alongside, and on Enterprise staff changes to prices and bookings are recorded in the audit log.
Can we produce reports for city council and public-records requests?
Yes. Links Meridian produces the income statement, balance sheet, trial balance, AR and AP ageing, sales, revenue by category, payment methods and membership reports, each exportable to CSV, Excel, PDF or IIF. On Enterprise, the audit log records staff changes to bookings, prices and refunds with the staff member and time, hash-chained so a later edit is detectable.
We use a city-wide accounting system, not QuickBooks. Will this work?
Yes. Links Meridian keeps a full double-entry general ledger, and the trial balance, income statement and other accounting reports export to CSV, Excel, PDF or IIF for import into the city's system. If the city does use QuickBooks Online or Xero, Links Meridian sends it a balanced journal for each day, or the individual invoices, bills and payments, every night or on demand, on Professional.
What about multi-course parks departments?
Links Meridian runs every course on one account, each with its own tee sheet, pricing and settings. On Professional or Enterprise, each additional course is $499 a month, so a four-course department on Professional pays $2,250 a month, and a Par 3 course on top of those is free. The Portfolio plan is priced per course from $699, with a minimum of two, and gives every course the Enterprise features.
Does Links Meridian take tee times in trade?
No. Links Meridian charges a published monthly fee and never takes tee times in trade, so the course keeps and sells all of its inventory. Under GolfNow's barter model the software is paid for in traded tee times: golf technology consultant JJ Keegan estimates that at about $18,000 to $34,000 a year for a course, and GolfNow's standard terms add a $500 a month per course penalty for under-delivering trade times.
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