This guide compares nine golf course POS systems on published US pricing, tee sheet integration, pro shop retail, food and beverage, and what it costs to run more than one course. It also does something no other comparison currently does, which is state plainly which vendors publish a price and which will only give you a quote.
Every figure came from the vendor's own site in September 2026. New to buying one? Start with our guide to what a pos system does.
| Platform | Published price (US) | Card rate published | Best for |
| Vibe Retail | $19/mo Essential, $97/mo Pro | Yes, from 2.9% + 15c | Pro shop retail and merchandise |
| TeeWire | $199 tee sheet + $100 POS = $299 | No | Published pricing and add-ons |
| Square | $0, $49, $149 per location | Yes, 2.6% / 2.5% / 2.4% + 15c | Snack bar and simple retail |
| Lightspeed Golf | Not published, quote only | No | Multi-course portfolios |
| Club Caddie | Not published, quote only | No | Halfway house and bev cart |
| Club Prophet | Not published, quote only | No | Deep pro shop inventory |
| foreUP | Archive page only, dated 2023 | No | Module by module buying |
| GolfNow Business | Not published, barter model | No | Courses trading tee times |
| Jonas Club | Not published, quote only | No | Private and country clubs |
Best for: Pro shop retail and merchandise where the tee sheet is already handled
Published pricing: Essential $19/month for one register, two users and 100 items. Pro $97/month for unlimited users and items, loyalty, ecommerce and multi-location sync. Card present from 2.9% + 15c down to 2.5% + 10c.
What stands out: Most of what a course sells is retail, and retail is what Vibe is built for. Apparel in sizes and colors sits under one product rather than as a dozen unrelated items, balls, gloves and accessories track properly, and gift cards and loyalty work across the facility. Pricing is published, which almost nothing else in golf does, and the $97 Pro tier covers multiple sites on one price list rather than a quote per course. Our golf course POS system page has the detail.
Tradeoffs: Vibe is not a tee sheet. If you need green fee logic, tee time management and member dues in the same system, you are looking at the golf specialists further down this list.
Best for: Courses that want to know the price before the demo
Published pricing: $199/month for the tee sheet and online tee times on an eighteen hole course, plus $100/month to add the golf POS, so $299/month for the core. Add-ons include membership and member billing from $100/month, banquets and events $40/month, kitchen display $50/month, dynamic pricing from $100/month and a lesson scheduler at $25/month. Month to month, cancel any time, no setup or migration charge, 10% off for annual billing. Card rates are not published.
What stands out: By some distance the most transparent vendor in golf. The tee sheet is the core product and the POS is a clearly priced add-on, the retail side handles a real catalog with on hand counts that draw down as you sell, and the grill room gets modifiers, bundles and an optional kitchen display. You can price a full setup before you speak to anyone.
Tradeoffs: Card processing rates are not published, and the page's meta description mentions a lower entry figure for smaller courses without itemizing what a nine hole course pays. Multi-course needs a sales conversation.
Best for: Snack bars, simple pro shops and courses with a tee sheet already
Published pricing: Square Free $0, Square Plus $49/month per location, Square Premium $149/month per location. In person 2.6% + 15c, 2.5% + 15c and 2.4% + 15c. Online 3.3% or 2.9% + 30c. Keyed in 3.5% + 15c.
What stands out: The only vendor in golf that publishes both software pricing and card rates in full. Square for Retail handles pro shop stock properly, with purchase orders, vendor profiles and barcode label printing, and Square for Restaurants covers the grill. Per location pricing makes a second course easy to budget for.
Tradeoffs: There is no tee sheet, no green fee logic, no member dues billing and nothing golf specific whatsoever, so you will be bolting on a third party tee sheet and running two systems. For a course with an existing tee sheet it is a very cheap answer. For a course buying one system, it is not one.
Best for: Groups running several courses as a portfolio
Published pricing: Not published. Lightspeed operates a pricing page for golf that carries no figures, stating instead that plans and processing rates are built to your needs. Card rates are not published either. The widely repeated figure of $119 a month appears nowhere on Lightspeed's own site and we have left it out.
What stands out: The most complete golf platform here and the only one treating retail POS and food and beverage POS as separately named products rather than one till with a menu bolted on. The multi-course portfolio management is the strongest in the category, with cross property reporting, and the integration list is long, including GolfNow, Golf Canada and Supreme Golf.
Tradeoffs: You cannot compare it on price because there is no price. Nothing about what a second course costs is published either. One correction worth knowing: Chronogolf is now part of Lightspeed Golf rather than a separate product, which several competing comparisons still get wrong.
Best for: Courses where the halfway house and the beverage cart matter
Published pricing: Not published. There is no pricing page on the site and no figure appears anywhere in the navigation. Card rates are not published.
What stands out: The broadest food and beverage coverage of any vendor here, naming the beverage cart, full service dining, bar, pool, halfway house, driving range, mobile and golf shop as separate POS stations. Inventory is unified across food, beverage, services, golf, merchandise and hard goods. Multi-course is the core positioning, with a single database, cross property transactions, regional gift cards, memberships spanning facilities and unified accounts receivable. Leagues including alternating sides and outings are handled.
Tradeoffs: No published pricing of any kind, and the blog post that ranks for this term is a self promotional piece that names no competitors and states no prices, which sets the tone. Expect a full sales process before you see a number.
Best for: Pro shops with genuine merchandising depth
Published pricing: Not published on the product pages or elsewhere on the site. Prophet Pay processing rates are not published either, only a PCI DSS 4.0 validation.
What stands out: The deepest retail inventory of any golf vendor we looked at: barcode scanning and printing, multiple barcodes per item, tiered pricing, item modifiers and quick sale keys. It is also the only vendor naming a handheld built specifically for beverage carts, with a separate food and beverage module alongside it. If the pro shop is a real retail operation rather than a rack of gloves, this is the golf specialist that understands it.
Tradeoffs: No pricing anywhere, no multi-course story on the POS page, and no card rates. The page that ranks at position two for this term has no table, no prices and no FAQs, which tells you how little the category expects to be compared.
Best for: Courses that want to buy module by module
Published pricing: Not published on the current site. An archived pricing page dated April 2023 lists point of sale from $130/month, tee sheet from $120, food and beverage from $120, billing from $80, tournament management from $120 and marketing from $70. Treat all of those as historical rather than current. Card rates are not published.
What stands out: The clearest modular structure in golf, so you buy the tee sheet, the POS, the billing and the tournament management as separate line items and only pay for what you use. foreUP's tournament management is powered by BlueGolf, which matters if leagues and outings are a real revenue line.
Tradeoffs: The current site publishes nothing at all, and the only figures available are on an archived subdomain more than three years old. Multi-course is mentioned but not detailed and not priced.
Best for: Courses willing to trade tee time inventory for technology
Published pricing: Not published, and the reason is structural rather than evasive. GolfNow's commercial model is partly barter, trading tee time inventory for technology, which is why no rate card exists. Sagacity's own pricing page states that pricing depends on how your operation is set up. Card rates are not published, though the payments page claims no hidden fees.
What stands out: The tee time marketplace is the real product, and for a course that needs to fill rounds that distribution is worth more than the software. The POS covers the course, clubhouse and retail on one system, with mobile ordering, handheld POS and predictive modeling on the higher tier.
Tradeoffs: The barter model means the true cost is measured in tee times given up rather than dollars paid, and that is much harder to compare than a monthly fee. The POS capability page is thin, member accounts are only on the higher tier, and multi-course is not addressed at all.
Best for: Private clubs and country clubs
Published pricing: Not published. No pricing page exists on the site and no figures appear anywhere. Card rates are not published.
What stands out: Built for the private club rather than the daily fee course, which shows in what it covers: tee time management with restrictions and prepaid rounds, deep food and beverage with kitchen display and dining reservations, member billing and club accounting, banquet event orders and event billing, plus marina, hotel, spa and court booking for clubs that need them.
Tradeoffs: Enterprise club software rather than a golf POS, so it is heavier and slower to implement than anything else here and priced accordingly. A dedicated pro shop merchandising module is not clearly presented, and nothing at all is published about cost.
A golf course is three businesses sharing one card terminal: the tee sheet, the pro shop and the food and beverage operation. Very few systems do all three well, and the ones that do rarely publish what they cost. This table separates what each platform genuinely handles from what it asks you to bolt on.
| Platform | Tee sheet | Pro shop retail | Food and beverage |
| Vibe Retail | Via integration | Yes, sizes and colors | Counter and snack bar |
| Lightspeed Golf | Yes, native | Yes, named product | Yes, named product |
| Club Caddie | Yes, native | Yes, unified inventory | Bev cart, halfway house, range |
| Club Prophet | Yes, starter hut | Deepest of the set | CPS Air handheld, F&B module |
| foreUP | Yes, priced module | Yes, in the POS module | Yes, priced module |
| TeeWire | Yes, and it is the core | Yes, real stock counts | Grill room, KDS add-on |
| GolfNow Business | Yes, plus marketplace | Yes, but shallow | Yes, plus mobile ordering |
| Jonas Club | Yes, The Sheet | Partial, unclear | Yes, deep |
| Square | No, needs a third party | Yes, strong | Yes, Square for Restaurants |
Only two of the ten vendors we looked at publish a usable monthly price, and only one publishes a card processing rate. TeeWire lists $199 a month for the tee sheet on an eighteen hole course, $100 a month to add the POS, a full menu of add-ons and a 10% discount for annual billing. Square publishes everything. Everybody else wants a conversation first. That is not automatically a red flag, because course size genuinely changes the number, but it does mean you cannot shortlist on price and you will spend several weeks in demos before you can compare anything. Build that into your timeline, and ask every quote to separate software, payment processing, hardware and implementation, because those four things are quoted together and then become very hard to unpick.
A beverage cart on the back nine, a starter hut at the tenth tee and a halfway house are exactly the places where connectivity fails, and not one of the pages currently ranking for this term mentions offline mode. Ask every vendor the same question: if the connection drops mid round, does the handheld keep taking cards and sync later, does it queue offline and need reconciling, or does it simply stop. The answers vary enormously and the difference is real money on a busy Saturday. Ask for it in writing, because it is the kind of thing that gets described optimistically in a demo and behaves differently in the field.
No comparison currently ranking segments its advice, which is strange given that this is the first thing that should narrow the list. A municipal course running high volume and low margin needs fast green fee checkout, league handling and cheap per round economics. A daily fee course needs dynamic pricing and a tee time marketplace. A private club needs member dues, house accounts, minimum spend tracking and proper accounting, which is a different product entirely. A resort needs all of it plus lodging integration. If you also run apparel and equipment at real depth, the retail side matters more than the tee sheet, and our sporting goods POS system and clothing store POS system pages cover how that inventory is normally structured.
Published pricing is scarce here, which is itself the finding. TeeWire is the clearest at $199 a month for an eighteen hole tee sheet plus $100 for the POS, so $299 for the core, with add-ons from $19 to $100 each. Square runs $0 to $149 per location plus 2.4% to 2.6% on cards. Everything else in this comparison is quote led, and the figures that do circulate for Lightspeed and foreUP could not be verified on the vendors' own sites.
Vibe Retail starts at $19 a month for a single register, with multi-location and ecommerce on the $97 Pro tier.
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