Your tee times are yours. We never take or trade them.
Some of the best-known booking platforms are cheap, or even free, because you pay with your tee times instead of cash. They take a block of your prime inventory and resell it on a discount marketplace. Links Meridian does not. You keep 100% of your tee sheet, you set every price, and you pay one transparent subscription from $99/mo. Nothing about how we make money depends on selling your Saturday mornings.
The tee-time barter model is the hidden cost of "free" golf software. A platform installs at little or no upfront cost, then takes a number of tee times each day, week, or season as payment. Those times get sold on a third-party discount marketplace, often below your rate, to golfers who may never become members or return at full price. The club loses control of its prime inventory, trains its local market to wait for a discount, and competes against its own tee sheet.
It rarely works out cheaper. When you add up the prime slots surrendered, the rate erosion from public discounting, and the brand cost of your course appearing on a bargain site next to courses you would never compare yourself to, the "free" platform is usually the most expensive option on the table. The fee just moved from a line item you can see to inventory you can't easily count.
Links Meridian is the opposite arrangement, stated plainly in our contract promise: we never take, trade, resell, or discount your tee times, and we never list your course on a third-party marketplace. Every slot on your tee sheet is yours to fill, hold, price, or give away as you choose. We make money one way, from a transparent published subscription, so our incentives and yours point the same direction: keep your tee sheet full at your prices, not ours.
The outcome for your club
You keep 100% of inventory
Not one tee time is taken as payment. Every slot stays on your sheet for you to fill, hold, or price as you decide.
You set every price
No marketplace discounting your prime times below your rate. Your pricing is yours, including any dynamic or member pricing you run.
No discount-marketplace listing
Your course never appears on a third-party bargain site. Your brand and your rate card stay under your control.
Transparent subscription instead of barter
One published price from $99/mo, every feature included. The cost is a line you can see, not inventory you have to count.
Aligned incentives
We earn the same whether your Saturday is busy or quiet, so we have no reason to ever resell your best times.
It's in the contract
The no-traded-tee-times promise is written into our terms, not just marketing. Hold us to it.
Barter-model platforms vs Links Meridian
What's included
Common questions
Does Links Meridian take or resell my tee times?
No. We never take, trade, resell, or discount your tee times, and we never list your course on a third-party marketplace. You keep 100% of your inventory and set your own pricing. This is written into our terms, not just our marketing.
What is the tee-time barter or trade model?
It is how some "free" or very cheap golf platforms get paid: instead of a cash fee, they take a block of your prime tee times and resell them on a discount marketplace, often below your own rate. The club loses control of its best inventory and trains its market to wait for a discount.
If you don't take inventory, how does Links Meridian make money?
One way only: a transparent, published subscription from $99/mo with every feature included and no per-module fees. Because our revenue does not depend on your inventory, we never have a reason to resell your best times.
Is the barter model really more expensive than paying a subscription?
Usually, yes. Once you total the prime slots surrendered, the rate erosion from public discounting, and the brand cost of appearing on a bargain site, the "free" platform is often the most expensive option. The fee just moved from a visible line item to inventory that is hard to count.
Can you migrate us off a barter-model platform?
Yes. We import your tee-time history, future bookings, member records, and pricing rules, and onboarding is part of the plan. The 30-day free trial does not start until you go live, so the switch does not eat into your evaluation.
Keep every tee time. Pay one honest price.
From $99/mo, every feature included, and your inventory stays yours. Free 30-day trial.