Every number,
on this page.
Almost nobody in golf software publishes a price. We think that's the tell. Here is ours, including the fee, including the cap, including a calculator you can put your own numbers into.
Everything the maintenance shed needs. Free, and not a trial.
capped at $399/mo*
- Crew & shift scheduling
- The job board, with photo proof
- Geofenced time clock
- Fleet & service log
- Certification expiry alerts
- Course map with zones
- Weather-aware planning
- Unlimited history
- AI import & onboarding
- Member-facing app
- Shared labor pool
- API & webhooks
For a crew that outgrew the whiteboard. Unlimited staff.
capped at $350/mo*
- Everything in Groundskeeper
- Unlimited crew
- AI import from any spreadsheet, PDF or photo
- AI shift planning against weather & rounds
- Spray records with re-entry countdowns
- Shared labor pool with nearby courses
- Payroll-ready exports
- API, webhooks & calendar feeds
- Your own public website, on your own address
- Member-facing app
- Dues & tee-time collection
- Email campaigns
Add the member side: tee times, dues, events, the whole front of house.
capped at $250/mo*
- Everything in Superintendent
- Member portal in your club's colours
- Tee sheet shared by members & the pro shop
- Dues plans, invoices & an aging report
- Card payment through your own Stripe account
- Events with waitlists & guests
- Food & drink ordered from the course
- Scannable QR member pass
- AI-drafted replies a person sends
- Email campaigns, and moments that send themselves
- Multi-course rollups
- Public online booking & dynamic pricing
- Point of sale & inventory
- Stored-card autopay & club accounting
Flat rate, no platform fee, several courses under one roof.
- Everything in Clubhouse
- No platform fee — 0%, at any volume
- Unlimited courses & rollup reporting
- Single sign-on
- A named human who knows your course
- Migration done with you, not at you
Prices in USD. No setup fee, no implementation fee, no per-seat charge, no minimum term. Crew limits count active people — deactivated seasonal staff don't count against the tier, so your winter roster costs the same as your July one.
What a month actually costs.
Money that actually moves through Fairway — today that's invoices: dues, events, lockers, anything the club raises and a member pays here. Greens fees and bar trade you take any other way aren't counted and aren't charged.
The cap is doing its job. The uncapped fee would be $450; you pay $250. At this volume the flat Championship plan is the same — and the app tells you that rather than waiting for you to notice.
Where every cent of a $200 dues payment goes.
This is the slide a club board should be able to read without a follow-up question. Stripe's rate is Stripe's — published at 2.9% plus 30¢, charged by them, not marked up by us.
- Your course is the merchant of record. Receipts carry your name.
- We never hold your money. It goes to your Stripe account.
- The application fee is visible in your Stripe dashboard, not just ours.
- No hidden currency spread, no monthly gateway fee, no PCI surcharge.
- Your member pays$200
- Stripe's processing fee−$6.10
- Fairway platform fee (0.9%)*−$1.80
- Your course receives$192.10
Stripe's rate shown is their published US card rate (2.9% + 30¢). Your actual Stripe rate depends on your account and card mix; whatever it is, we don't touch it. Fairway's $1.80 is the entirety of what we take from this transaction.
* Cards taken in person on a reader at the counter are charged the same rate, and that one is not capped. The cap covers money members send you through Fairway — dues and invoices. A till is a different shape of volume, and capping it would mean pricing a card reader into everybody's base, including the courses that never buy one. Counter takings are not counted toward the cap either, so buying a reader never shortens the headroom on your dues.
Twelve active crew. Past that, adding a thirteenth asks you to move up. Nothing you've already got stops working — but we're not going to pretend the limit isn't there.
No point of sale, no inventory, no retail. If that's what you need, Lightspeed is better at it than we would ever be.
It works. It is not as good as ForeUP's or Lightspeed's, and we'd rather say that here than have you find out in April.
It's genuinely useful once a handful of courses near you are on Fairway, and an empty board until then. We show it empty rather than faking listings.
AI import, the concierge and email need API keys on the install. Everything gated on one says so plainly in the app instead of erroring.
If they ever do, existing courses keep their price for at least twelve months and we'll email before, not after. That's a commitment, not a footnote.
Is the free tier really free?
Yes. Groundskeeper costs nothing, forever, for a crew of up to 12 — crew scheduling, the job board, the geofenced time clock, the fleet log, certification tracking and the course map. No card, no countdown, no feature that quietly stops working. We make money on the paid tiers and on a transparent share of money courses collect through Fairway.
What exactly is the 0.9% platform fee charged on?
Invoices a member pays through Fairway — dues, lockers, event fees you've invoiced for. That is the only place money is collected here today: greens fees taken however you take them now aren't counted, and a food order goes to the kitchen and onto the member's account rather than through a card. It is charged on top of Stripe's own published processing rate, which we do not mark up, and there is no platform fee at all on the maintenance side, because no money moves there.
How is the fee capped?
The cap is derived, not invented: on any metered tier your platform fee stops at the point where base plus fee equals the flat Championship price of $399/month. On Clubhouse that means the fee never exceeds $250 in a month. Past that point the flat plan is simply cheaper, and we'll tell you so in the app. There is exactly one exception, and it's the only asterisk on this page: Cards taken in person on a reader at the counter are charged the same rate, and that one is not capped. The cap covers money members send you through Fairway — dues and invoices. A till is a different shape of volume, and capping it would mean pricing a card reader into everybody's base, including the courses that never buy one. Counter takings are not counted toward the cap either, so buying a reader never shortens the headroom on your dues.
What's the asterisk next to the cap?
Cards taken in person on a card reader at the counter. Cards taken in person on a reader at the counter are charged the same rate, and that one is not capped. The cap covers money members send you through Fairway — dues and invoices. A till is a different shape of volume, and capping it would mean pricing a card reader into everybody's base, including the courses that never buy one. Counter takings are not counted toward the cap either, so buying a reader never shortens the headroom on your dues. You never have to use one — a reader is something you buy from Stripe and pair yourself, we don't sell hardware, and nothing about the rest of your bill changes if you never do.
Who is the merchant of record?
Your course. You connect a Stripe account, the money goes to you, and your members' receipts and statements carry your club's name — not ours. We take a disclosed application fee on the transaction; we never hold your funds.
What happens if we outgrow the free tier?
Nothing breaks. When you pass 12 active crew members, adding another person asks you to move up a tier — everything already in the account keeps working exactly as it did, and your data stays yours either way.
Do you charge for implementation or onboarding?
No. There is no implementation fee, no setup fee, and no professional services line. The importer is part of the product. On the Championship tier a named person helps with your migration; that's included in the price, not billed on top.
Can we pay annually?
Yes — 10 months charged for twelve, on any paid tier. Pick "annually" when you change plan in Settings. Municipal courses often prefer this because it fits an annual budget line better than a monthly card charge.
What if we want to leave?
Export everything as JSON in one click, cancel from the settings page or from Stripe's own portal, and you're done. You keep the tier through the period you already paid for, then the course drops to the free one on its own — nothing is deleted. No exit interview, no data-retrieval fee, no support ticket required to get your own records back.
Something not answered here? Ask us — a person replies, and we'll add it to this page.