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Our mission · No commission
OpenDinkers is booking software for pickleball courts. A host lists their courts and sets their own prices, a player finds them and asks for a time, and the money goes straight from one to the other. We never take a share of it.
Three things we decided at the start and have not moved on since. Each one is a thing you can check rather than a thing to take on trust.
Built to be checked, not believed
No booking fee, no service charge and nothing added at checkout. A player pays the court's own price to the host who set it, and not one part of it reaches us.
What a player pays OpenDinkersNone
A host pays one flat amount for the software and nothing else. What a player pays for the court is the host's in full, and it never passes through us on the way there.
Our cut of a court fee
Three things worth knowing before you trust a booking to it.
A player pays into the account the host already has. There is nothing of ours in between, so there is no payout to wait for and nobody can be owed out of a balance we hold. Each host switches on the ways they want to be paid and enters their own details for each one.
A player pays the host directly, with nothing of ours in between.
OpenDinkers started with the way most courts are still booked: a group chat, a screenshot of a bank transfer, and somebody keeping the diary in their head. It works until two people ask for the same hour, or until the person with the diary goes on holiday.
So we rebuilt it around three things and refused to move on any of them. The host keeps their own money and their own terms. The player can see what is free and ask for it without asking a person first. And nobody pays us a slice of what changed hands. It is written in more than one language because the people we built it for do not all read English, and a booking is not a thing to guess at.
Get started
Be one of the first courts on OpenDinkers. You keep your own prices, your own terms and all of your takings.
Every page of the site and every screen of the app exists in each language we publish, and the one you get is decided by the address you are on rather than guessed from where you are. Our emails and phone notices are still in English only. A court's price is shown in that court's own currency and its hours in that court's own local time.
Languages the product speaks3
Every confirmed booking carries a booking code and a QR pass. On the Pro and Club plans, the host checks a player in with either one, on the phone they already have. OpenDinkers does not open doors or gates: if a court is locked, the host is still the one who lets you in.
Nothing to buy and nothing to fit
Set opening hours and a price for each court, charge a different amount at different times of day, close a court when you need to, and on Pro and Club hire out paddles or a ball machine along with a booking. A player can ask for a repeating time, so a weekly game is one request rather than a new one every week.
You decide on every request
