Honest comparison
How TurfBook Club compares
Marketplaces bring bookings but keep the customer — and take a cut. Software tools keep your brand but often skip payments, POS or accounting. Here is the full picture, so you can decide with open eyes.
The commission math every owner should do
A turf doing
₹15 lakh/year
in bookings
at a 10% platform commission pays
₹1,50,000/year
and the customer list isn't yours
TurfBook Club costs
₹12,000/year
flat. Zero commission. Your customers, your UPI.
Even a “small” per-booking cut compounds: the busier your turf gets, the more a commission model charges you for your own success.
Feature by feature
| What matters to an owner | TurfBook Club Your own booking software | Playo Marketplace app | Hudle Marketplace + venue software | TurfBox Booking software | Cuetronix Booking software | CricHeroes Free ground-booking manager |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ₹12,000/yr flat (₹14,160 with GST) — everything included | Per-booking commission — rate not published; players also pay a convenience fee | Advertised 0% commission; players pay a convenience fee on every order (per their T&C) | ₹5,999–7,999/yr (as listed) — online payment collection & POS not listed | ₹999–3,999/month (₹12k–48k/yr); POS & loyalty on higher tiers | Free (part of the CricHeroes cricket app) |
| Your own branded booking page | Included at one price | You are a listing in their app | Bookings arrive under Hudle brand | White-label only on Enterprise | Inside the CricHeroes app | |
| Zero commission & zero player fees | ₹0 per booking, ever | Commission per successful booking | Your customers pay the fee instead | Zero commission, but gateway charges (MDR) apply | Free tool | |
| Payments straight to YOUR UPI | Direct to your VPA, no gateway in between | Settled via the platform | Settlement via their gateway | No online payment checkout listed | Via Razorpay gateway | No payment booking page listed |
| Counter (POS) for walk-ins & cash | Partner app manages slots | Not listed | Higher tiers | |||
| Accounting — cash/UPI ledger, dues, P&L | Earnings summaries | Reports + reconciliation export | Strong cash reconciliation | |||
| Loyalty, coupons & membership passes | Inside the Playo ecosystem | Their memberships product | Not listed | Higher tiers | ||
| Customer data belongs to you | Your page, your list | Players belong to the marketplace | ||||
| All sports (cricket, football, pickleball…) | Cricket-focused | |||||
| Pricing published openly | Commission undisclosed | Partner terms not public |
= partly / on higher tiers / inside their ecosystem
Already on Playo or Hudle? Keep them.
Marketplaces are good at one thing: introducing new players to your turf. Use them for discovery. But your regulars— the 80% of revenue that books every week — shouldn't cost you a commission or a convenience fee, and their phone numbers should be in yourcustomer list, not the platform's. TurfBook Club is your direct-booking home base: share your own link on WhatsApp, Instagram and Google, and let the marketplace be the top of your funnel, not the owner of it.
Common questions
CricHeroes has a free ground-booking manager. Why pay ₹12,000?
CricHeroes is excellent for cricket scoring and its free slot manager is genuinely useful — but it is cricket-focused and does not include an online payment booking page, a walk-in POS, accounting with dues and P&L, loyalty, coupons or memberships. If your turf runs on more than a slot diary, you outgrow it on day one.
How is "zero commission" different from Hudle's 0%?
Check who pays. On marketplace models the venue may pay 0%, but every player pays a convenience fee on top of your listed price (it is in the platform's own terms). On TurfBook, the customer pays exactly your price, the money lands on your own UPI, and we charge you one flat yearly fee. Nobody pays per booking — not you, not your customer.
Do you charge payment gateway fees?
No, because there is no gateway in the middle. Customers pay your UPI QR / UPI ID directly — RBI's zero-MDR rule on UPI means 100% of the booking amount reaches your bank account.
What if I leave? Is my data locked in?
Your customers, bookings and accounting are exportable to CSV anytime, free. We would rather keep you with a good product than a locked door.
Your turf. Your brand. Your money.
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