Gather Commons vs Reserve My Court
Reserve My Court handles court reservations, lessons, and teaching pros for clubs and communities. Gather Commons covers the courts too — alongside the pool, the member directory, dues, documents, and your community website, all on one member record.
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Your neighborhood already books courts through a reservation service, and it works. What it does not do is your pool, your roster, your dues, your documents, or the website nobody has updated since 2019 — so you are running the community across several systems and wondering whether that is necessary.
Choose Reserve My Court if…
- Court booking and a lesson program are the whole requirement, and everything else is handled.
- Your teaching pros need their own tooling — lesson scheduling, availability, and a pro shop.
- Members value reserving by phone as well as online. That is a real convenience for households who would rather not use an app, and we do not offer it.
- Your community already has a website and member system it is happy with.
Choose Gather Commons if…
- Courts are one amenity among several — the pool, the clubhouse, and the pavilion need booking too.
- You want one member roster behind bookings, dues, events, and the directory.
- You need a public website on your own domain, not just a booking portal.
- You would rather a new household be entered once than added to two systems.
How the two are positioned
Differences in what each product is built around — not a feature scorecard.
| Reserve My Court | Gather Commons | |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | Courts, lessons, and teaching pros | The whole community, with courts as one amenity |
| Depth on lessons & pros | A core part of the product | Not something we do |
| Beyond reservations | Member management and communication tied to play | Directory, documents, dues, events, and a branded public site |
| Member record | Maintained in the reservation system | One roster the whole community runs on |
Reserve My Court is a court reservation & lesson managementproduct and may well be the right fit for communities whose main problem lives in that domain. Gather Commons is for communities that lead with engagement. We describe positioning rather than feature lists, because feature claims about other people's software go out of date the week they ship something.
What switching actually involves
The honest question is whether your community needs one system or two. If you run a real lesson program with teaching pros, Reserve My Court does things we do not, and plenty of communities would sensibly keep it. If your courts mainly need fair booking rules without double-bookings, that is included here — along with the pool, the roster, dues, and the website — and there is only one member list to keep current.
Common questions
Do you support lesson scheduling and teaching pros?
No. Reserve My Court is built for that and we are not — if your community runs a lesson program with teaching professionals, that is a real reason to keep it. Our reservations cover member booking of courts and other amenities: booking windows, time limits, prime-time rules, guest policy, and conflict-free scheduling.
Can members still book by phone?
Not with us — Gather Commons is web and mobile. If a meaningful share of your members reserve by phone today, weigh that honestly before switching, because it is a genuine convenience for households who would rather not use an app.
What happens to our booking rules if we move?
They come across as configuration rather than data. You set booking windows, time limits, prime-time restrictions, and guest policy per amenity, so the rules your community already agreed on can be reproduced without renegotiating them.
Can we use Gather Commons alongside Reserve My Court?
Yes, and plenty of communities do. Gather Commons handles the community side — events, reservations, the directory, announcements, and a public site — while you keep whatever you already use for bookkeeping or property operations. Nothing about our setup requires you to rip out an existing system.
How long does it take to get set up?
Most communities have a working site and their first event live within an afternoon. Importing a member roster is a spreadsheet upload, branding is colors and a logo, and a custom domain can be connected once DNS propagates.
What does it cost?
Plans start at $149/month with a free trial, billed monthly or annually, and you can cancel yourself from inside the platform at any time. Court and facility reservations and online payments are both included in the base plan — see the pricing page for the full breakdown.
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