Sweepa vs CourtReserve
CourtReserve is a court-booking platform, largely for racquet clubs, and it books courts well. Sweepa is for venues where court hire is one line of the P&L rather than all of it.
Written by the people who build Sweepa. Everything below about CourtReserve is what their public site said on 26 August 2026 — check it yourself, and tell us if we have it wrong. We do not quote their prices, because prices change and ours is the only one we can promise.
One system, from the booking to the payout
Courts, and the rest of the business
Casual hire and recurring blocks, plus coaching terms, holiday camps, in-house leagues, parties and open games — sharing one calendar so a camp cannot double-book a court a member has already paid for.
Competitions, properly
Seasons, fixtures, ladders and finals with team fees and captain-pays-then-squad-pays splits. Not a note in a booking.
Coaches as first-class
A public coach directory, per-coach availability, and private lessons that hold the court and the coach — the database refuses to double-book either.
It knows what a court is called
Court, field, or neither — the copy on your public site uses your venue’s own word, because a hockey club does not have courts.
Australian by default
AUD, Australian timezones, Australian state activity vouchers, and Stripe into an Australian bank account.
One price, no per-transaction markup
A monthly platform fee. Stripe’s own processing fee is Stripe’s, and we do not add to it.
What Sweepa doesn’t do yet
If one of these is how you run your venue, you should know before you switch, not after.
Standalone cup tournaments
Sweepa runs a real finals bracket: seed the top 2, 4 or 8 off the ladder, quarters through to a grand final with an optional third-place playoff, and winners advance automatically as results go in. What it does not run yet is a standalone cup — a one-weekend knockout with no season behind it — because the bracket seeds off a league ladder.
Automatic Google review requests
Sweepa emails and texts your customers about their bookings. It does not chase them for a Google review after they play. You can send that yourself from a broadcast; it is not automated.
Posting to your social accounts
Sweepa writes the caption and builds the graphic from your own programs. Scheduling it straight to Instagram or Facebook is waiting on Meta’s app review — until that is approved, you copy the post across. We would rather say that than imply it publishes today.
A public player marketplace
The transfer market connects players and teams across venues on Sweepa. It is not a public listings site, and it does not bring in players from outside the network. It is real demand, from a real network, and it is not the whole internet.
Anything but Australian dollars
Sweepa bills in AUD and your customers pay in AUD. Timezone, currency and locale are AU-first today. If you are outside Australia, talk to us first — the platform runs, but this is the sharp edge.
Doing your migration for you
On Academy and Squad you export a spreadsheet and Sweepa imports your people and your upcoming schedule. It does not bring across invoices, balances or payment history — those stay in your old system until they are settled. Club plans get hands-on help.
Moving off CourtReserve
Export your members and reservations
Member Directory → Export, and Reservations → Reports with the range set from today forwards.
Import into Sweepa
Clients first, then upcoming reservations. Nothing is emailed to your members and nothing is charged.
Set up what CourtReserve did not have
Your competitions, coaching terms and camps have no equivalent to import — they get set up fresh, which is a first-week job, not a migration.
Point your domain and go live
A CNAME, and we handle the certificate.
Step-by-step, including where the export button lives: Switching from Spawtz, PlayHQ or GameDay.
The website comes with it. Every Sweepa venue gets a public website in one of seven designs, each in a light and a dark version, and every plan can use all twelve. Your booking flow, program and league listings, fixtures and ladders follow the design you pick; change it later and the whole site changes with it. Choose any two colours and the text stays readable, and none of the seven designs needs a photo. See the designs
See it with your own venue in it
Start a 30-day free trial — card required, nothing charged until day 31 — or take thirty minutes with us first and we’ll show you exactly how the switch works.
Start free trial Book a walkthrough
Or click through a real venue’s public site at demo.sweepa.io — no signup, nothing to cancel.