Lightspeed Golf comes from a retail point-of-sale company and quotes each facility; foreUP prices its tee sheet, POS and other modules separately and exports its accounts to QuickBooks. Links Meridian puts the tee sheet, the tills, a double-entry ledger and the member community on one login, with every tier published.
“Not specified” means the sources we checked do not say, which is not the same as not offered.
| Criterion | Lightspeed Golf | foreUP | Links Meridian |
|---|---|---|---|
| Background | Golf product of Lightspeed, a retail and restaurant POS company; formerly Chronogolf | Owned by Clubessential Holdings since February 2021; merger with Xplor announced September 2025 | Built for golf clubs as one product on one data model |
| Published price | None; the pricing page offers a personalised quote | No longer published; the archived pricing page listed modules from $70 to $130 a month each | Every tier published, $99 to $1,799 a month |
| A public contract figure | No public figure | City of Spokane: $40,032 a year for four courses, plus $6,100 to implement, five-year term | The published tier price |
| Pricing model | Quoted per facility | Priced by module | No per-module fees within a tier |
| Tee sheet and pro shop POS | Yes | Yes, each priced as a module | Tee sheet from Starter; pro shop and F&B tills from Professional |
| Card processing | 2.6% + 10¢ in person, 2.6% + 30¢ card-not-present; a monthly fee if you keep another processor | Not specified | Standard published card rates, paid into the club's own account |
| Accounting | Not specified | Two-step export and import into QuickBooks | Double-entry ledger built in, with QuickBooks Online and Xero sync, from Professional |
| Tournaments | Not specified | A separate module, listed from $120 a month on the archived page | Included from Professional |
| Member community | Not specified | Not specified | The Digital Clubhouse: community feed, Course Records, the Honours Board |
Lightspeed Golf, formerly Chronogolf, is the golf product of Lightspeed, a retail and restaurant point-of-sale company (Lightspeed Golf). foreUP sells its tee sheet, point of sale, F&B, billing, marketing and tournaments as separate modules (foreUP's archived pricing page), and its accounting runs through a two-step export into QuickBooks (foreUP). Links Meridian runs all of these on one system, with a double-entry ledger built in.
Neither publishes a plan price today. Lightspeed's pricing page offers a personalised quote, and Lightspeed Payments publishes 2.6% + 10¢ per in-person card and 2.6% + 30¢ card-not-present (Lightspeed, checked 3 October 2026). foreUP's archived pricing page listed modules from $70 to $130 a month each, and the City of Spokane pays $40,032 a year for four courses plus $6,100 to implement (City of Spokane Park Board agenda, 9 January 2025). Links Meridian publishes every tier, from $99 to $1,799 a month.
Lightspeed Golf is part of Lightspeed (Lightspeed Golf). foreUP has been owned by Clubessential Holdings since February 2021 (PR Newswire), and Clubessential announced a merger with Xplor Technologies in September 2025 (Clubessential).
Yes. Your current system stays live until you sign off on Links Meridian, whichever tier you choose. On every plan, free of charge, the migration tooling stages your upload, maps fields with AI assistance, runs a dry run and can roll back.
A demo walks the platform on the showcase club's seeded data. After it, Standard and Professional come with a 30-day trial, no credit card, and your current system stays live until you sign off.