Visitor green fees, collected properly

Every visitor pays.
Before they play.

A QR code on a stand at the first tee. Visitors scan it, enter their names, and pay by card in under a minute. Take payments even when the Pro Shop or Clubhouse is closed. You see who is on the course and what they paid, and the money reaches your account without anyone having to chase it.

No monthly fee No hardware to buy Cancel whenever you like
A dark green first-tee sign reading “Welcome to Anywhere Golf Club — scan the QR code to pay and play”, with a QR code and paygreenfees.co.uk/pay link, standing beside a fairway.
Your own stand, your own code, at the first tee
Nothing to install

The golfer uses their phone camera. There is no app, no account and no sign-up for them.

Set up in 5 minutes

Register now and start taking payments within 5 minutes. Print your own signage free from your dashboard, or order bespoke signage from us.

Your pricing, your rules

Seasonal rates, weekend rates, twilight rates, member rates.

You keep 90%

A flat 10% commission on what you collect, with card processing included. Payments made to you weekly.

Unattended play

The rounds nobody records.

Most clubs already know roughly what happens on a Tuesday morning when the pro shop is quiet and four visitors walk on. The question is what to do about it without putting someone on the first tee all week.

  • 01
    Nobody is there to ask

    Early starts, twilight rounds, bank holidays and half-day winter opening are exactly when visitors arrive and the clubhouse is shut.

  • 02
    Collecting it costs someone an evening

    Chasing a payment after the round, writing it up and reconciling it is unpaid admin for income the club should already have.

  • 03
    You can't see the pattern

    Without a record you cannot tell whether your twilight rate is working, or whether Thursday is worth staffing.

  • 04
    Asking is awkward

    Chasing a fourball halfway down the second is nobody's idea of a welcome, and it rarely happens.

The stand does the asking. It is polite, it is there every day of the year, and it never has an off week.

Not a booking system. Pay Green Fees does not run your tee sheet and does not compete with it. It collects money at the point of play, which is the bit the tee sheet was never doing.
How it works

Three taps on the first tee.

The whole flow is built for someone standing outdoors, one-handed, holding a driver, on the kind of signal you get in a valley. No login, no app, no account.

1

Scan

A visitor points their phone camera at the stand. The page opens with your club's name, your logo and today's date — nothing to download.

About 5 seconds
2

Add the names

Up to four players. Each is marked member or non-member, and the right rate for today, this season and this time of day appears beside the name.

About 20 seconds
3

Pay and play

Apple Pay, Google Pay or a card. A receipt is sent by email, and the Club's dashboard is updated immediately.

About 10 seconds
Designed for a tee box, not a desk

Under a minute, in the wind.

Built for someone stood at the first tee, phone in one hand, ready to play. Every detail below is there to get them paid and on their way.

  • Members go through too

    A member playing with three guests marks themselves as a member and pays nothing. One transaction, four names, and your record shows the whole group.

  • The right price, automatically

    Winter rate, weekend rate, twilight after four o'clock — the price shown is the one you configured for that exact moment.

  • Proof they can show the starter

    A short reference code on screen and a receipt by email. If anyone asks, the golfer has an answer in their pocket.

  • Closed means closed

    Outside your opening hours, or on a closure date, the code shows a polite message and your phone number rather than taking money for a round nobody can play.

What your club sees

Who is on the course, and what they paid.

Open on the pro shop iPad in the morning and it is all there. No spreadsheet, no reconciliation, no chasing.

Pricing

One number. Nothing else.

No setup fee, no monthly fee, no minimum. If nobody scans the code, you pay nothing.

10%of what you collect
  • Card processing included. It is covered by our 10%, so your 90% is exactly what it says.
  • Weekly payouts straight to the club's bank account, with a remittance advice sent by email.
  • Member rounds are free to process. A £0 member round costs you nothing and still appears in your records.
  • Unlimited users — secretary, pro shop, greenkeeper, treasurer.
  • No setup fee, no monthly fee, no contract length, no exit fee.

Printed tee-box stands are available separately, or print your own — the artwork is a free download from your dashboard.

What would that be worth to us?

Move the sliders to your own numbers.

45
£30
34
Missed revenue, now collected£45,900

Illustrative only, based on the figures you enter. It assumes every visitor round goes through the code — the real question for your club is what share of them does today.

Built for how clubs actually work

The awkward bits, handled.

Every club has a rule that doesn't fit the standard form. These are the ones we heard most.

Seasonal and twilight rates

Set a winter rate that runs from November to February, a weekend rate, and a twilight rate after four o'clock. Overlapping rules resolve by priority, and a preview grid shows you exactly what a visitor would pay in every slot before you save.

Opening hours and closures

Different hours every day of the week, plus closure dates for competitions, maintenance and Christmas Day. Or leave the code live around the clock if that suits you better.

Members play free, and still get counted

A member marks themselves as one and pays nothing. No membership list to upload, no codes to hand out — and the round still appears in your records so you know who was out.

Analytics your committee will read

Revenue over time, member and visitor split, average party size, and a day-by-hour heatmap that tells you whether Thursday afternoons are worth staffing — and whether the twilight rate is earning its place.

A stand, or just a printout

Order a weatherproof tee-box stand printed with your own code, or download the print-ready artwork and put an A4 sheet in a frame this afternoon.

Records the treasurer can use

Every order exports to CSV with the fee split shown line by line. Every payout comes with a remittance advice.

Handling your money

Boring, on purpose.

You are letting someone else collect your visitor income. Here is exactly how that works.

Card details never reach us

Payment is handled end to end by a regulated payment provider. Neither we nor your club ever see a card number, which is also why there is nothing for you to be PCI-compliant about.

Bank details encrypted

Your account number is encrypted the moment you enter it and is never displayed again — only the last four digits, and only to you.

Every penny is accounted for

Each payment writes an entry to an append-only ledger. Your balance is the sum of your own entries, and our costs never touch it. You can trace any payout back to the rounds that made it.

Your data stays yours

We hold visitor names and email addresses only to issue receipts and show you who played. Export everything whenever you like, and we delete it on request.

Questions we get asked

The ones the committee will raise.

What if a visitor doesn't have a smartphone?

They pay the way they do now — in the pro shop, or to the starter. The code is there to catch the rounds you are currently missing, not to replace the ways that already work. Nothing about your existing process has to change.

Is there signal at our first tee?

The page is deliberately small and works on a poor connection, but it does need some. If your first tee is a dead spot, most clubs put the stand by the pro shop door or the car park instead, where visitors pass anyway. It is worth checking on your phone before you order a stand.

How do we know someone actually paid?

Your dashboard shows a live list of who has paid today, with names, times and amounts. The golfer gets a reference code on screen and a receipt by email, so if anyone is asked on the course they have it in their pocket. Nobody has to scan anything or carry a device.

Couldn't someone just say they're a member?

They could. Membership is self-declared and trust-based by design, because the alternative is uploading and maintaining a membership list, which most clubs would rather not do. What you gain is a record of every claimed member round, so if the same name appears every Saturday you can have a quiet word.

When do we get the money?

Weekly, by bank transfer, with a remittance advice you can download and hand to the treasurer. There is a small minimum payout threshold; anything under it rolls into the next run rather than disappearing.

What happens if a golfer disputes a payment?

You'll see it in your dashboard as soon as it happens, along with what it means for your balance. Chargebacks are rare on transactions like these, and we handle the process on your behalf — but the outcome does affect what you're owed, and the terms set out exactly how.

Who at the club has to manage it?

In practice, nobody day to day. Rates and opening hours are set once and only change when the club changes them. The secretary or treasurer will want to look at the payout each week, and the pro shop can keep the day's list open on an iPad — but there is no queue to work through and nothing to reconcile by hand.

How long does it take to set up?

The application takes about ten minutes: club details, a contact, bank details and the terms. Once it's approved, your code, your opening hours and your base rates are ready to go, and you can print the artwork the same day.

Ready when you are

Put a stand on the first tee.

Ten minutes to apply. Nothing to pay until a visitor pays you.