A search for court reservation software will often return club tools such as CourtReserve or YourCourts, built for features most HOAs don't need: member dues, professional lessons, leagues, and a front desk. Your players are residents, the courts are shared, and the board's job is equity in booking.
Instead of a sign-up sheet or a spreadsheet that needs constant upkeep and fiddling, Reciti allows for rules that run themselves. The system is set up once and runs on its own, with or without staff. And we don't punish communities in pricing for how many amenities they have. Build a new basketball court next year and your price stays the same.
But the most obvious place Reciti's strength shows is in its ability to see a court for what it is: a physical space that may hold one game of tennis or two games of pickleball. Instead of a club tool's "linked entry" behavior, we model the space as it exists, so one court can support multiple activities of different sizes and sports. Reciti is amenity reservation software for HOA boards, condo associations, and property managers, and that court is where we're strongest.
Side by side
The left column describes club booking tools as a category. Products vary, so treat it as what to check in a demo rather than a spec sheet.
- Court-club tools
- Clubs with paying members
- Reciti
- Communities where residents share the courts
- Court-club tools
- Court or resource count
- Reciti
- Unit count, any number of amenities
- Court-club tools
- Linked whole-court entries
- Reciti
- Two halves, tennis claims both
- Court-club tools
- Varies
- Reciti
- Every amenity, same rules
- Court-club tools
- Often per membership type
- Reciti
- In bookings and in minutes
- Court-club tools
- Often
- Reciti
- Yes
- Court-club tools
- Varies
- Reciti
- Per activity, and the request holds the slot
- Court-club tools
- Often
- Reciti
- No, a link in the browser
| Feature | Court-club tools | Reciti |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Clubs with paying members | Communities where residents share the courts |
| Priced by | Court or resource count | Unit count, any number of amenities |
| A striped court as one tennis match or two pickleball games | Linked whole-court entries | Two halves, tennis claims both |
| Pool, clubhouse, and grills on the same calendar | Varies | Every amenity, same rules |
| Caps per household, per day and per week | Often per membership type | In bookings and in minutes |
| Advance window with a daily release time | Often | Yes |
| Requests the board approves before a slot is confirmed | Varies | Per activity, and the request holds the slot |
| Residents need an app | Often | No, a link in the browser |
What Reciti does differently
- One court, two halves. Tennis claims both, pickleball claims one, and the calendar holds one tennis match or two pickleball games without a double booking, because the conflict check runs inside the database when the reservation is written.
- Rules that run themselves. Hours, 15-minute increments, durations, guest limits, per-household caps by day and by week, an advance window with a daily release time, blackout dates, and open-play windows are set once per amenity or activity and applied to everyone.
- The whole community on one calendar. A clubhouse is its rooms and a field is its zones. Every amenity runs on the same rules, and residents see all of them from one link.
- Requests when the board wants a say. Coaching, leagues, clinics, and private events can require approval. The request holds the slot until the board decides, and the resident gets the answer by email.
- Nothing to install. Residents open the community link in their browser and sign in by magic link. The board invites them, and the calendar is private to members.
Setup
Configuring a community takes hours, and a typical community is live within a week. The board lists its amenities and the zones residents reserve, defines the activities and what each one claims, sets the rules, and shares the join link.