A flat subscription and a published rate card, next to a barter arrangement.
Choose TeeWire if you would rather pay for software in dollars than in tee times. TeeWire is a flat monthly subscription from $149, posted publicly, with no commissions and no inventory traded, and bookings happen on the course's own branded page so the golfer relationship stays with the course. GolfNow is paid in tee time inventory. The NGCOA's Beware of Barter guide walks owners through what that inventory is actually worth before they sign.
How to read this page
Plenty of courses signed a barter agreement for reasons that made sense at the time: the software arrived without a cash line item and the marketplace brought rounds. This page is not an argument that those owners were careless. It compares the two on the commercial model, on what each vendor publishes, and on what actually happens to a course's tee times and golfer relationships under each one.
This page is not symmetrical, and it should not pretend to be. TeeWire documents its own side in detail because it is our software. The GolfNow column contains three kinds of cell and nothing else: the commercial category that TeeWire already publishes about barter marketplaces, matters of public corporate record, and the words Not published. Not published means the detail is not documented on the vendor's public site at the time of this comparison. It is not a claim about GolfNow's contract terms, its staffing or how its software works. Your own agreement is the authority on your own terms, so read it, and confirm current capabilities and pricing directly with the vendor before you decide anything.
TeeWire and GolfNow side by side
Only rows where a course owner would actually make a decision are here. The commercial model rows are the ones that matter most, because the difference between a subscription and a barter arrangement is not a feature difference. It is a difference in what leaves the course every month.
| Capability | TeeWire | GolfNow |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial model | ||
| How the vendor is paid | Flat monthly subscription, no inventory trades | Barter, in tee time inventory |
| Subscription pricing posted publicly | Yes, the full rate card is on the site | Not published |
| Commissions on bookings | None | On certain inventory |
| Who owns the golfer relationship | The course. Bookings happen on the course branded page | Not published |
| Pricing engine | ||
| Behavioral pricing based on player history | Yes, published as Player Score | Not published |
| Weather aware dynamic pricing | Yes | Not published |
| Support and migration | ||
| Migration timeline published by the vendor | 5 days from a signed contract to a live booking page | Not published |
| Migration cost | Included with the subscription | Not published |
| Direct founder access for customers | Yes | Not published |
| Team and company record | ||
| Development and support team | 100% U.S. based and in-house | Not published |
| Company record | Launched 2016, and operates as one company with CourseLogix, which has built golf course software and websites since 2005 | The platform traces back to Cypress Golf Solutions, bought in 2008, and EZLinks, bought in 2019 |
The TeeWire column describes TeeWire's own product and terms. The GolfNow column reflects only what GolfNow documents on its public site as of August 2026, plus matters of public corporate record. "Not published" means the capability is not documented publicly and is not a claim that it is absent. Products and terms change, so confirm current capabilities directly with GolfNow before making a decision. Wider category context is on the how TeeWire compares page.
We sweat the small stuff
100% U.S. based development and support.
TeeWire is one of the few golf course tee sheet and POS platforms built and supported entirely in the United States. No offshore development. No overseas call center. The team writing the software and the team answering your calls are both here, and both know golf.
Developed in the USA
Every part of TeeWire is engineered in-house by a U.S. based team, not outsourced overseas. The people building your tee sheet and POS know how American courses run, so the product keeps moving in the direction your operation actually needs.
U.S. based support
When you call, a U.S. based team member answers, someone who knows golf and knows the product. No overseas queue, no scripted call center. Support is everything, and ours never leaves the country.
Your data stays with a U.S. team
Your revenue numbers and your golfers' personal information are handled by a U.S. based team under U.S. law, never sent offshore. As security and privacy expectations rise every year, where your data lives matters more than ever.
You talk to the people who build it
When your course needs something changed, you reach the people who write the code, not a queue that ends at a script. Much of this industry outsources development overseas, so the person on the phone has no line to the team that could actually fix it, and the request quietly stops there. At TeeWire the people answering and the people building sit in the same building, and the small things get fixed because somebody who can fix them heard about it.
A subscription is a line on an invoice. Barter is a share of your tee sheet.
TeeWire posts its rate card rather than gating it behind a sales call. Tee Sheet Only is $149 per month for 9 hole courses, $179 for 18 hole, $235 for 27 hole and $285 for 36 hole, and every plan includes both the online booking engine and the cloud based tee sheet. Adding the TeeWire Golf POS is $150 per month on top of any tee sheet plan. There are no long term agreements, no commissions and no inventory trades.
A barter arrangement is harder to price, and that is the point worth sitting with. The cost is not an invoice line, it is tee times, and the bill scales with how good your tee sheet is. The National Golf Course Owners Association published a guide called Beware of Barter which urges owners to calculate the cost of the inventory they hand over and compare it against what they actually receive, and which concludes that the cost benefit of a barter arrangement likely advantages the vendor.
The practical test is simple enough to run on a napkin. Count the tee times you hand over in a season, multiply by what you would have collected for them at your own rates, and put that number next to a subscription. Whatever the answer is for your course, you should be the one who knows it.
Who owns the golfer relationship under barter
With TeeWire, golfers book on a page that carries the course's name and branding, on the course's own domain. The booking, the golfer record and the contact details belong to the course, and they stay in the course's database where staff can use them.
That matters most on the day a course changes systems. A course that owns its golfer list can email those golfers directly and tell them where to book next. A course that does not is starting its outreach from scratch at exactly the moment it can least afford to.
It also compounds quietly year over year. Booking history, rate history, no-show patterns and spend per golfer are the raw material for pricing decisions, and they only get more valuable the longer the record runs.
What TeeWire includes for counter staff day to day
Leaving a marketplace is only worth it if what replaces it is easy to run. TeeWire is one login and one place to look, and it is simple enough for counter staff to learn in a shift, so nobody has to remember which screen holds which answer.
The modules courses ask about most are part of it. A tee time waitlist that alerts golfers when a matching slot opens. Text messaging for confirmations, reminders and weather calls. Email marketing to the course's own golfer list. Online event registration for outings, leagues and clinics, with online payment and a seat held while a registrant is checking out.
Underneath, a double entry general ledger pushes to QuickBooks Online or QuickBooks Desktop so the month end numbers are not re-keyed by hand. And the course website is designed and hosted by the same company, so the book now button and the rates on the page match the system behind them.
Support and migration differences between TeeWire and GolfNow
TeeWire's development and customer support teams are 100% U.S. based and in-house. The people who answer know golf operations, not just the software.
That shows up first during the move. TeeWire does the migration itself, at no charge. Tee sheet templates, historical bookings, customer records, pricing rules and gift card balances come across in five days, and course staff spend roughly two hours in total across those five days.
TeeWire customers can also speak directly with the founder rather than working through account manager tiers. If team location matters to your course, and it should, ask any vendor the question directly and get the answer in writing.
Who you are buying from: the GolfNow corporate record
The GolfNow platform traces back to Cypress Golf Solutions, bought in 2008, and EZLinks, bought in 2019. Several of the names on the golf software market today are the result of one company buying another. That is public record, not a criticism. It is simply worth knowing who a course is actually buying from.
TeeWire
Built as one system from the start, by the people who still run it. TeeWire launched in 2016 as a division of CourseLogix, which has built golf course software and websites since 2005 from Clarkston, Michigan. More than 300 golf courses work with TeeWire today.
Ownership history is drawn from the companies' own public announcements. It is stated as record, not as criticism. Ownership and product lineups change, so confirm current ownership with the vendor.
Moving a course from GolfNow to TeeWire
TeeWire publishes a dedicated section on moving a course off GolfNow, so these mechanics are not invented for this comparison. The move is included with the subscription, and the published timeline is five days from a signed contract to a live booking page on the course's own domain, assuming the course can provide the source system export or credentials on Day 1.
- The exit is planned around the course own renewal date rather than mid term, and a course already past renewal and out of contract can switch immediately
- Bartered tee time inventory is reclaimed at the contract termination date and is immediately available for direct booking at the course own rates
- A branded TeeWire booking page replaces the third-party booking widget on the course's website on go-live day
- Marketing email lists move to a course-owned marketing system rather than staying on a third-party platform
- The historical bookings and customer records the course is entitled to are exported on request and imported into TeeWire
- No downtime: the old system keeps taking bookings until cutover, TeeWire runs in parallel for the final day, and at go-live the new system takes over without a gap
- Course staff spend roughly two hours in total across the five days: a kickoff call, a tee sheet review and two training sessions
TeeWire does the migration itself, at no charge. Tee sheet templates, historical bookings, customer records, pricing rules and gift card balances come across in five days. The full day-by-day timeline is on the switching to TeeWire page, and the subscription rate card is published in full on the pricing page.
TeeWire vs GolfNow: FAQ
What is the difference between TeeWire and GolfNow?
The core difference is how the vendor gets paid. TeeWire is a flat monthly subscription with a published rate card, no commissions and no tee time inventory traded. A barter marketplace takes tee time inventory from the course instead of, or in addition to, cash, then resells that inventory on its own marketplace. TeeWire is also a full golf management system covering the tee sheet, point of sale, online tee time booking, waitlist, text messaging, email marketing, event registration, member billing, a double entry general ledger and course website design, and it starts at $149 a month with no long term agreement. Bookings happen on the course's own branded page, so the course sets the rates, keeps the revenue and keeps the golfer.
What is the barter model and why does it matter?
A barter model is an arrangement where the software vendor takes tee time inventory from the course instead of, or in addition to, cash, then resells that inventory on its own marketplace and keeps the revenue. The National Golf Course Owners Association published a guide called Beware of Barter which urges owners to calculate the cost of the inventory they hand over and compare it against what they actually receive, and which concludes that the cost benefit of a barter arrangement likely advantages the vendor. TeeWire is a flat rate subscription with no inventory trades, so what the course pays is a line on an invoice rather than a share of its tee sheet.
Can I switch from GolfNow to TeeWire without breaching my contract?
Most courses time the switch to align with their renewal date rather than exiting mid term. TeeWire's migration lead helps plan that timing so the course exits cleanly, and a course that is already past renewal and out of contract can switch immediately. Review your own agreement, or have your attorney review it, for notice periods and renewal terms before you give notice, because those terms are yours and they vary. TeeWire has migrated courses off GolfNow before and the mechanics are well understood.
How long does moving from GolfNow to TeeWire take, and is there downtime?
Five days from a signed contract to a live booking page on the course's own domain, with a dedicated migration lead doing the work. There is no downtime. The old system keeps taking bookings until cutover, TeeWire runs in parallel for the final day so staff can compare the two side by side, and at go-live the new system takes over without a gap in booking availability. Course staff spend roughly two hours in total across the five days. Migration is included with the subscription, with no separate migration fee and no setup fee.
What happens to my bartered tee times and my booking widget when I leave GolfNow?
Bartered tee time inventory is reclaimed at the contract termination date and is immediately available for direct booking on the course's own page, at the course's own rates. A branded TeeWire booking page replaces the third-party booking widget on the course website on go-live day, so golfers arriving from the course's site book with the course rather than through a marketplace. Marketing email lists move to a course-owned marketing system rather than staying on a third-party platform.
How much does TeeWire cost compared to GolfNow?
TeeWire publishes its prices. Tee Sheet Only is $149 per month for a 9 hole course, $179 for 18 holes, $235 for 27 holes and $285 for 36 holes, and every plan includes the cloud based tee sheet and the online booking engine. Adding the TeeWire Golf POS is $150 per month on top of any tee sheet plan. Billing runs 12 months a year with a 10% discount for annual billing, which cannot be combined with other discounts. There is no setup fee and no migration fee. Comparing a subscription against a barter arrangement means valuing the tee times handed over, which is the calculation the NGCOA guide walks course owners through.
Is TeeWire only a tee sheet, or does it replace more than online booking?
More. TeeWire is a golf management system on a single database: tee sheet, point of sale, online tee time booking, waitlist, text messaging, email marketing, event registration, member billing, a double entry general ledger with a push to QuickBooks Online or QuickBooks Desktop, and golf course website design, every part of it built by TeeWire. The tee sheet and the register write to the same records rather than passing copies to each other, so a golfer's round and their grill spend are one line on one report. Integrated and unified are not the same word. Most golf software is integrated. TeeWire is unified. One provider. One phone call. One company.
Put the barter math next to a subscription.
A 30 minute demo shows the tee sheet, the pricing rules and the branded booking flow side by side with what the course is running today, and we will walk the numbers with you. Pricing starts at $149 a month with no long term agreement, and the migration is ours to do.