Does OpenTeeSheet take a percentage of what my studio earns?

No. It is a flat monthly price, $149 for up to 4 bays or $249 for unlimited bays, and there is no commission or application fee on what golfers pay you.

What does a franchise give me that software does not?

The site decisions, the pricing and membership playbook, a brand and a build-out standard. The booking, payment and door system is software, and it is what this product replaces.

Can I leave at the end of a month?

Yes. Billing is monthly, cancelled from the dashboard with no notice period, and your bookings and customers export as a CSV at any time.

Do I need staff to run it?

The product is built for nobody at the desk: the golfer books and pays online, the door code is issued for the booked window, and failures reach you by email and text.

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Can I run an unstaffed golf sim studio without paying a franchise fee?

What a franchise charges for the software and the playbook, what a flat monthly software price covers instead, and what an independent owner has to decide for themselves.

Updated 2026-11-06. Every quote links to where it was published.

In owners' own words

“I was looking for a new adventure that wouldn't require all my time and would be somewhat passive.”
A franchisee of an indoor golf franchise, quoted by a Richmond business paper · source

“This can kind of run by itself and you can give it the attention it requires”
The same franchisee, same interview · source

“for franchisees to operate with little to no employees”
An indoor golf franchise's own franchise page (franchisor-authored, archived) · source

“Royalty 8% of monthly Gross Revenues”
Aggregator summary of a 2026 indoor golf franchise disclosure document · source

What it is

The passive, low-staff simulator studio is the business a lot of owners want, and franchises sell exactly that: a tested layout, a membership model, an app and a booking system, in exchange for a one-time fee in five figures and a royalty on everything the studio earns. The disclosure summary quoted above puts that royalty at 8% of monthly gross revenue, on a ten-year term.

A royalty is a cost that grows with success, which is the opposite of how software usually costs. A studio paying 8% of gross hands over more every month it gets busier, for the same booking screen. The question for an owner is which parts of the franchise they are actually paying for, and which of those a flat software bill already covers.

What a franchise really sells beyond the software is the decisions: where to put the studio, what to charge, what the membership looks like, which launch monitor to buy. Those stay the owner's to make. What it also sells, the system that takes money and opens doors with nobody at the desk, is software, and software can be bought flat.

How OpenTeeSheet does it

OpenTeeSheet is $149 a month for up to 4 bays and $249 for unlimited bays, with no commission on any booking and a 14-day free trial.	Pinned by automated tests: marketing-claims.test.ts
The price is flat in bookings and in revenue: card payments run through the venue's own Stripe account and the platform takes no application fee on anything a golfer pays.	Pinned by automated tests: no-application-fee.test.ts
Every venue pays the list price on the pricing page; there is no introductory price that changes later.	Pinned by automated tests: no-founding-pricing.test.ts
The subscription is monthly, cancelled from the dashboard with no notice period, and a CSV of every booking and customer can be downloaded at any time.	Pinned by automated tests: marketing-claims.test.ts, venue-export-dates.test.ts
What a franchise playbook calls the operating system is in the flat price: card at booking, the no-show fee, door codes on six lock systems, memberships with included hours, packs that expire, extra-player fees and league seasons.	Pinned by automated tests: booking-payments.test.ts, no-show-fee-realdb.test.ts, every-door-opens-realdb.test.ts, memberships-realdb.test.ts, pack-expiry-realdb.test.ts, guest-fee-realdb.test.ts, leagues-realdb.test.ts
A new owner reaches a bookable venue with a lock and a bay PC connected without help, walked and timed end to end against a real database.	Pinned by automated tests: selfserve-timed.test.ts

The bar we measure it against

The published price for a 4-bay unstaffed studio covering booking, payments, door access, memberships and events stays flat with no commission and no royalty, and a franchise comparison shows the 8% royalty against it with every number sourced.

Where it stands today: The flat price, the absence of any commission or application fee, and the feature list it covers are pinned by the tests named above. The side-by-side royalty table at three revenue levels is not published on the site yet, and a bulk member import for a studio leaving a franchise is not built.

Not built or not measured yet

A franchise-versus-independent table, showing the royalty at three revenue levels against the flat price, is not published on the site yet; the sourced numbers behind this page are the franchise disclosure summary quoted above.

A bulk member import, for a studio arriving with a membership list, is not built: memberships are created in the dashboard or sold to golfers one at a time.

What owners report from other tools

The software and the playbook of an indoor golf franchise come with a one-time fee in five figures and a royalty of 8% of monthly gross revenue over a ten-year term, by the franchise's own 2026 disclosure summary. The royalty rises with every busy month.

Questions

Does OpenTeeSheet take a percentage of what my studio earns?: No. It is a flat monthly price, $149 for up to 4 bays or $249 for unlimited bays, and there is no commission or application fee on what golfers pay you.
What does a franchise give me that software does not?: The site decisions, the pricing and membership playbook, a brand and a build-out standard. The booking, payment and door system is software, and it is what this product replaces.
Can I leave at the end of a month?: Yes. Billing is monthly, cancelled from the dashboard with no notice period, and your bookings and customers export as a CSV at any time.
Do I need staff to run it?: The product is built for nobody at the desk: the golfer books and pays online, the door code is issued for the booked window, and failures reach you by email and text.