Gather Commons vs YourCourts
YourCourts is configurable court reservation software for clubs and community facilities. Gather Commons covers reservations too, alongside the events, directory, documents, dues and branded website that make up the rest of running a community.
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You went looking for court booking, found something that does it well and cheaply, and now you are wondering whether you are about to run your community across three or four separate tools that each know a different version of who your members are.
Choose YourCourts if…
- You need court booking and genuinely nothing else.
- Deep configurability of booking rules is your main requirement.
- Your community already has a website and member system it is happy with.
- Budget is the deciding factor and a second subscription is acceptable.
Choose Gather Commons if…
- You would rather your roster, dues, events and bookings share one member record.
- You need a public website as well as a booking system.
- You want dues and event payments collected in the same place members book.
- Adding a household should grant court access automatically, not require a second signup.
How the two are positioned
Differences in what each product is built around — not a feature scorecard.
| YourCourts | Gather Commons | |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Reservations, with configurability as the focus | The full community — reservations included |
| Member records | Maintained in the booking system | One roster shared by bookings, dues, events and the directory |
| Public presence | Not the product | A branded site on your own domain |
| Money | Payments tied to bookings | Dues, membership fees and event payments in one place |
YourCourts is a court reservation softwareproduct 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 We describe positioning rather than feature lists, because feature claims about other people's software go out of date the week they ship something.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
Communities usually arrive here after noticing the roster drift: a household joins, gets added to the community list, and nobody remembers to add them to the booking system — so they turn up and cannot book. Consolidating means importing your member list once and setting your booking rules once, and there is no second roster to keep in step afterwards.
Common questions
We only need court booking. Is Gather Commons overkill?
Possibly, and that is a fair reason to choose a point solution. The value here shows up when courts are one of several things your community runs — a pool, a calendar, a roster, dues, a website. If courts genuinely are the whole job, dedicated booking software may serve you better.
Do members need a separate login for reservations?
No. Members sign in once to the community and book from there. That is the structural difference from running booking as a separate product — there is one account, one roster, and joining the community is what grants court access.
Can we use Gather Commons alongside YourCourts?
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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