Stop chasing your friends for $14.50.
Court Tabs splits a shared court fee by your time on court — so the person who showed up late pays less, and you never do napkin math in the group chat again. Book together, split it fair, settle up in a tap.
Same court. Different times. Fair to the cent.
One court for two hours — the booker actually paid $60. Five friends, but not everyone plays the whole time. Court Tabs splits the $60 by how long each person was on court — so the same time on court always means the same share.
The longer you're on court, the larger your share — Chris and Dana each played 90 minutes, so they pay the same.
An even split would charge everyone $12 — including Eli, who played 30 minutes. Court Tabs charges Eli $4.00, gives the full-session players their fair larger share, and the five amounts add up to exactly $60. No one overpays. No one argues.
The group chat goes quiet
No more “who owes what?”, no pinned messages, no screenshotting the receipt. Court Tabs splits the booker's real cost and tells everyone their exact share.
Play less, pay less — actually
Splitting evenly punishes whoever played the full two hours. We split the cost by how long each person is on court — same time on court, same share — down to the cent.
No awkward money requests
After the game, everyone gets one number and the booker's payment email — with a verified ✓ once they've confirmed it — ready to copy. Send it, tap “I sent it,” the booker confirms, and the tab closes itself.
Reminders that aren't you
Automatic payment nudges after the game that ease off over a week — and the payer can snooze them. You stay the organizer, not the collections department.
Set the weekly game once
Recurring sessions — weekly, every two weeks, or monthly — propose themselves, with the invite list, split, and reminders handled for you.
Settle by Interac in a tap
Tap to copy the booker's payment email, tap for the exact amount, then e-Transfer as usual. Venmo & PayPal are on the way.
From group-chat chaos to one calm tab
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Propose the session
Set your crew up as a club (it takes under a minute), then pick a facility (or just a location) and a time and share it. The real cost is settled after the game, once a booker enters what the courts actually cost.
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Everyone joins with their own times
Each player adds when they're actually arriving and leaving. Not everyone plays the full block — and that's exactly what gets priced in.
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A booker books the real courts
Someone reserves the actual courts and enters what they actually paid for each one. That real total — not a guess — is what gets split.
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The roster freezes at the deadline
At the cancellation cutoff the session commits: the roster and everyone's share lock in. Can't make it after that? Hand your spot to another member.
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Pay after the game
Once you've played, each player repays the booker and taps “I sent it”; the booker confirms. The session closes itself when the last tab clears.
Questions, answered
How does Court Tabs split a court fee fairly?
The booker enters the actual amount they paid for each court they reserved, and by default Court Tabs splits that real total by the time each player is on court — same time on court, same share, so people who arrive late or leave early pay less and the booker is always made whole. Clubs that book loosely can switch to an advanced usage-based mode that prices each half-hour by how busy the courts were and shares empty or over-booked time as overhead.
Who decides the final cost?
The booker. The amount everyone splits is the real money the booker paid for the reservations — peak/off-peak pricing, surcharges, member discounts and all — not an upfront estimate.
When do I pay, and how?
After the game. The booker fronts the booking cost up front; once the game is done, Court Tabs works out each person's exact share and routes them to repay the booker directly, which the booker confirms received.
Can my partner and I settle as one household?
Yes. From your account, create a household, invite them, and set who pays (the billing contact). A household member's share is then automatically covered by the billing contact whenever they're in a session, so you settle one combined tab — and it doesn't matter whether you set the household up before or after joining: every session that hasn't been billed yet is folded in automatically (sessions already settled stay as they were). Changing who pays moves the coverage to the new billing contact the same way. You can opt out for any single session from its Coverage control while it's open, and that opt-out is always kept.
What if I can't make it after I've committed?
While the session is still open — normally up to the cancellation deadline, though the proposer or a booker can lock it in earlier — you can just leave. Once it locks, the roster is frozen: if handovers are on, offer your spot to a club member who isn't already playing, and when they accept, your hours and your share transfer to them (the booker can't hand off their own spot). A no-show who doesn't hand off still owes — that's what protects the booker. In a pinch, the proposer can unlock the session.
What if more people show up than the courts comfortably hold?
Court Tabs never blocks a join — capacity is soft. It shows a crowding hint (players vs. courts booked) so the group can decide whether to grab another court, but nobody gets turned away.
How do session invites arrive?
In the app, by email, and — if you've turned them on — by push notification. The invite email has Yes and No buttons that work without signing in (a decline can be undone), and you can say yes in one tap straight from the push. Recurring games are a little different: you're added to the roster automatically and get an email heads-up instead — open the session if you can't make it.
What if someone joins late or leaves early?
That's the whole point. Players set their own start and end times, so a late arrival or early exit is priced in automatically — the friend who played the last half hour pays for the last half hour, not an even share of the night.
What sports does Court Tabs support?
Any sport where a group splits a booked court, field, or rink — tennis, pickleball, badminton, squash, basketball, soccer, and hockey among them.
Is Court Tabs free?
Yes — creating an account and splitting sessions is free to start.
Can it handle recurring games and clubs?
Yes. Court Tabs supports clubs with memberships and facilities, recurring sessions (weekly, every two weeks, or monthly), and automatic email and web-push payment reminders.
Can I attach a screenshot or PDF as proof of a booking or a payment?
Yes. The booker can attach the venue's booking confirmation — a screenshot, photo, or PDF — to their reservation, so everyone can see the courts are really booked. And on each payment, the payer or the payee can attach proof of the transfer. Booking proofs stay private to the people who can see the session, and payment proofs are visible only to the two people involved.
What's the difference between my handle and my full name?
Your full name (first and last) is how teammates recognize you on rosters, clubs, and payment lists — though if you set a preferred name in your account, rosters and club lists show that instead (payment lists still show your full name). Your handle is your unique @-name — like @gerald — used to invite or find you quickly. You sign in with your email, not your handle, and you can change any of these anytime from your account. Handles are 3–20 characters: lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores.
Can I sign in with Face ID or a fingerprint?
Yes. From your account you can turn on biometric unlock, which registers a passkey on your device. After that you can sign in with Face ID, Touch ID, or a fingerprint instead of typing your password — especially handy once you've installed Court Tabs to your phone's home screen. Your password keeps working too, and you can remove a device whenever you like.
Which payment methods does Court Tabs support?
Court Tabs works wherever your group can pay each other directly. Settlement is by Interac e-Transfer today (ideal for groups in Canada), with more payment methods like Venmo and PayPal on the way.
How does Court Tabs watch for an open court?
On a session at a supported venue you can set a watch for a court and time window. Court Tabs reads the venue's public availability automatically about every 10 minutes and alerts you — in the app, by email, and by push if you've turned it on — the moment a matching court opens, so you can book it on the venue's own site (Court Tabs never books for you). Automatic checks run from 48 hours before your date until the window passes; a watch dated further out waits until then. You can also tap Check now on a watch to look right away, once a minute. It's an experimental, best-effort feature: a freed-up slot can vanish in seconds, and if a venue's feed is unavailable your watch will show "availability checks paused."
Stop doing court-fee math.
Set your crew up as a club, propose a session, everyone taps their hours — the split sorts itself out. Free to start.
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