PlayHQ and GameDay are association-first: they exist to run a sport’s competitions from the top down, and if your association mandates one of them, you will keep using it. Sweepa is venue-first — it runs the building, the bookings and the money.
Written by the people who build Sweepa. Everything below about PlayHQ and GameDay 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 We do not quote their prices, because prices change and ours is the only one we can promise.
This is the honest headline. If your association runs its competition on PlayHQ, that does not change. Sweepa runs your courts, your casual hire, your coaching terms, your camps and your own in-house comps.
Casual court hire, recurring blocks, parties, open games and add-ons — the revenue an association platform was never built to take.
A branded public site with your booking and registration pages on it, and payments into your account, not a governing body’s.
Monthly court passes and season memberships that charge whether or not somebody plays — the revenue a per-registration platform cannot give you.
The parent who registers a child for a term and books a court on Saturday is one person in Sweepa, with one payment history.
786 articles, written for operators, in the admin where they are standing.
If one of these is how you run your venue, you should know before you switch, not after.
Sweepa runs leagues and seasons with ladders, fixtures and finals. A standalone knockout or round-robin tournament — a one-weekend cup with its own bracket — is not a format yet. Teams, fees and scheduling all work; the bracket is the missing piece.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If your association runs the season, you may not be able to export its fixtures at all — ask them. Your own club’s members and teams you can always export.
Members → Export in PlayHQ; Member List → Export in GameDay. Take all statuses, not just active — a lapsed member is still a contact.
Clients first, then bookings, then teams and fixtures. That order is not arbitrary: bookings and teams attach to people, so the other way round creates duplicates.
And run everything the venue owns in Sweepa. Nobody has to choose.
Step-by-step, including where the export button lives: Switching from Spawtz, PlayHQ or GameDay.
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.
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Or click through a real venue’s public site at demo.sweepa.io — no signup, nothing to cancel.