Do I need tee sheet software or a full golf POS?
A tee sheet manages who is playing when; a point-of-sale system rings up the money for everything the course sells. Most vendors bundle the two, which is why a course that only needed a tee sheet ends up quoted for a register, inventory and food and beverage.
The short version
- Tee sheet: bookings, capacity, cancellations, reminders, leagues and events.
- POS: register, card processing, inventory, food and beverage, memberships, gift cards.
- Bundling is why category prices cluster at $300–$500 a month.
- If your register is fine, buying a second one is the most expensive line in the quote.
A tee sheet
Answers “is 8:10 open, and for how many?” Putted is this column and nothing else.
- Bookings, online and by phone
- Capacity and double-booking
- Cancellations and reminders
- Leagues and tournaments
A point of sale
The till. Bigger and more regulated software, and where most of a bundled quote lives.
- Register and card processing
- Inventory
- Food and beverage
- Memberships and gift cards
Neither column is the better product. The question is which one is broken at your course — and if the answer is both, buy the POS, because a tee sheet will not fix your register.
What a tee sheet actually is
It is the answer to "is 8:10 open, and for how many?" Everything in a tee sheet exists to keep that answer correct: generating times from your schedule, holding capacity, taking bookings from the phone and the web without collision, cancelling cleanly, and reminding people to turn up.
Events sit here too. Tournaments and leagues are about who plays when, not about money changing hands.
What a POS actually is
It is the till. Card processing, receipts, inventory, the grill, memberships, gift cards, staff accountability, end-of-day reporting. It is a bigger and more regulated piece of software than a tee sheet, and it is where most of the price in a bundled quote lives.
Why they get sold together
Because the vendor would rather sell one $500 subscription than one $150 one, and because there are genuine integration benefits: a round rung up at the register can settle against the booking, and reporting covers the whole operation in one place.
Those benefits are real. They are also worth less than they sound at a course where the pro shop takes cards on a terminal that already works and the grill is a separate business anyway.
How to tell which you need
Ask what is broken. If the answer is "the phone rings all day, we double-book, and people do not show up," you need a tee sheet. If it is "we cannot tell what we sold last month, inventory is a guess, and closing out takes an hour," you need a POS.
If it is both, buy the POS — a tee sheet will not fix your register. If it is only the first, buying the POS is the most expensive line in a quote you did not need.
Where Putted sits, said plainly
Putted is a tee sheet and nothing else. It does not run your register, hold inventory or take payments — it quotes a total so a golfer knows what to expect and they pay at the counter exactly as they already do. Keep whatever POS you have.
That is a deliberate limit, not a roadmap item. It is also why the price is $149 instead of $500.
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