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The short answer: for a padel or tennis business, the subscriptions published on 4 November 2026 ran from €57 to €279 a month excluding tax. On top of that you pay card processing on every online payment (for Stripe in France, from 1.5% + €0.25 per standard European card), and often extras: a branded app, SMS, integrations, hardware. PLAI charges no subscription, and its card fees are about three times lower than Stripe's standard rate.
This article is published by PLAI. Facts about other companies come from their own public pages, linked with the date we read them.
The five parts of the bill
1The subscription
Most tools charge a fixed monthly fee, cheaper when paid a year ahead, often in tiers by number of courts or by feature. Published examples on 4 November 2026:
| Software | Published price | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gestion Sports | From €57 a month for associations, from €197 for private businesses | Excluding VAT | Gestion Sports pricing, read 4 November 2026 |
| Playtomic Manager | €59, €89, €139 or €279 a month | Excluding VAT | Playtomic pricing, read 5 November 2026 |
| Doinsport | From €179 a month for a private business | €161 on an annual plan | Doinsport pricing, read 4 November 2026 |
| PLAI | €0 a month | No setup fee, no contract | plai.live/business |
Ask whether the price you are quoted is monthly or annual, with or without tax, and how many courts or locations it covers.
2Card processing
Whatever the software, someone pays the card network and the payment provider on each online payment.
Many booking tools take card payments through Stripe Connect, which links your business to the software's own Stripe platform. Doinsport, for one, says it sets up your Stripe account for you (source: Doinsport online payments, read 4 November 2026). How that link is set up decides who sets your card rate. Stripe now calls these Standard, Express and Custom accounts its legacy account types (source: Stripe Connect account types, read 4 November 2026).
| Account | Your card rate | What the software pays Stripe | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | Stripe's published rate, from 1.5% + €0.25 | Nothing extra | Stripe Connect pricing for France, read 4 November 2026 |
| Express or Custom | Set by the software | €2 per active account a month, plus 0.25% and a fixed fee on each payout | Stripe Connect pricing for France, read 4 November 2026 |
Ask which account you get. With Express or Custom, the rate you pay is the one the software sets, not Stripe's published rate.
Published card rates:
| Provider and card | Rate | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Stripe, France: standard European cards | 1.5% + €0.25 | Stripe pricing for France, read 4 November 2026 |
| Stripe, France: premium European cards | 2.8% + €0.25 | Stripe pricing for France, read 4 November 2026 |
| Stripe, France: UK cards | 2.5% + €0.25 | Stripe pricing for France, read 4 November 2026 |
| PLAI | About three times lower than Stripe's standard rate above | plai.live/business |
The fixed part matters: on a €6 drink it is a larger share than on a €40 court.
3Platform fees
Some tools add their own fee per online payment, either instead of a subscription or on top of it. Ask how much it is, and whether it comes back on a refund.
4Extras
The common ones, each with a published example:
| Extra | Published example | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware | Door access and lighting can be on quote, as at Doinsport | Doinsport pricing, read 4 November 2026 |
5Your time
Setup, staff training, moving your customers across, and the hours your desk spends on bookings and payments each week. Cheap software that costs your staff an hour a day is not cheap.
A worked example
Take a business with six courts that takes €10,000 a month online in 400 payments of €25, all on standard European cards.
Card processing at Stripe's standard French rate: 1.5% of €10,000 plus 400 × €0.25 = €250 a month, or €3,000 a year.
With a subscription of €200 a month and Stripe: you pay €200 + €250 = €450 a month, or €5,400 a year. The €200 is due whether you take €10,000 or €2,000.
With PLAI: no subscription, and card fees about three times lower than that €250 at Stripe's standard rate.
Your numbers will differ. Put in your own volume, your own card mix and the quote you actually receive.
Try it with your numbers
What will your software cost you in year one?
Example values: the starting numbers are this article's worked example, not customer data. Card rates are Stripe's published rates for France, read 4 November 2026. Hardware and your time are not counted.
Before card fees, PLAI saves you €2,400 in year one. At Stripe's standard rate, your card processing would cost €3,000 a year; PLAI's card fees are about three times lower than Stripe's standard rate.
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What PLAI costs
PLAI's line is "Pay nothing. Get everything." Concretely:
- €0 subscription, €0 setup, no contract.
- Card fees about three times lower than Stripe's standard rate in France of 1.5% + €0.25 per standard European card (source: Stripe pricing for France, read 4 November 2026).
Everything is included: booking, packs and memberships, privileges, split bills, tournaments, the till, messages and the app for players and members. See plai.live/business.
Questions to ask every vendor
- Is the price monthly or annual, with or without VAT, and for how many courts or sites?
- What is the card rate, and who is the payment provider?
- If it is Stripe, is your account Standard, at Stripe's own rate, or Express, at a rate the software sets?
- Is there a platform fee per payment, and does it come back on a refund?
- What is extra: app, SMS, integrations, hardware, onboarding?
- How long is the contract, and what does leaving cost?
For the other side of the question, read Free venue software: where is the catch? and Best padel club booking software in 2026.
FAQ
Is a subscription or a percentage cheaper?
It depends on your online volume and the percentage. Add up a full year of each: subscription, card processing, platform fee and extras.
Does PLAI charge a subscription?
No. PLAI has no subscription, no setup fee and no contract (source: plai.live/business). Its card fees are about three times lower than Stripe's standard rate in France of 1.5% + €0.25 per standard European card (source: Stripe pricing for France, read 4 November 2026).
Do card fees come back when I refund a booking?
Not with Stripe: its processing fee is not refunded (source: Stripe pricing for France, read 4 November 2026). Ask your vendor about its own fee too.
What is the difference between a Stripe Standard and an Express account?
With a Standard account, Stripe bills you its published rate and the software pays Stripe nothing extra. With an Express account, the software sets your card rate and pays Stripe €2 per active account a month, plus 0.25% and a fixed fee on each payout (source: Stripe Connect pricing for France, read 4 November 2026).
What about VAT?
Most published prices exclude VAT or sales tax. Check before you compare.
Sources
- Doinsport pricing, read 4 November 2026
- Doinsport online payments, read 4 November 2026
- Gestion Sports pricing, read 4 November 2026
- Playtomic pricing, read 5 November 2026
- Stripe pricing for France, read 4 November 2026
- Stripe Connect pricing for France, read 4 November 2026
- Stripe Connect account types, read 4 November 2026
