The Middle Pin vs Tee On (Tee-On Golf Systems) · checked 8 October 2026

Tee On, or a price you can read before the demo.

Tee On has been running Canadian tee sheets since 2001 and has booked more than 150 million tee times. It is one of the few companies that sells everything as one package, which we agree with. The difference is that we print our price.

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Monthly fee: $0
A card payment: 5% + 30¢, all in
Contract: None
Companies compared: 7, with sources

Your cost, in two taps

What would you pay?

1What do you use now?

2Card sales in a month

$8,000

3What they charge a month

Fine-tune with your own quote

Average sale $ Their card rate % Plus per sale ¢

The Middle Pin $0 5% + 30¢ a payment · no monthly fee

Them $0

A month, before tax. Cash costs nothing on either side. Hardware is not included. Where a company does not publish a figure, the calculator says so and uses a typical one — put in your own.

Choose Tee On if

You are a Canadian course that wants a long-established Canadian company.
You want a branded app and tournament tools in the same package.
You are a new customer before 30 October 2026, when its offer of 2026 pricing and waived onboarding ends.

Choose the Middle Pin if

You want to see the price before a demo.
You want memberships with autopay dues alongside the register.
Nothing to sign and nothing to cancel.

01 · Side by side

What each one publishes.

Their column says only what Tee On or a review site has published, with the source. Where nothing is published, it says so.

Price One package price, not published.¹ Free. No monthly fee, no setup fee, no per-booking fee.

Contract A services agreement exists; terms not published. Until 30 October 2026, new Cloud customers lock in 2026 pricing with onboarding fees waived; a “Switch or we pay” offer is advertised without published terms.^2,4 None. Nothing to sign and nothing to cancel.

Card payments Tee On Payments; rates not published.² 5% + 30¢ a payment, all in: Stripe’s processing is included. Cash and checks cost nothing.

Online tee times Included.¹ Included.

Website Website builder included; a custom app costs extra.^1,2 Keep your own, or we build and host one for $99.99 a month.

02 · About them

What Tee On does well.

Tee On is a Canadian cloud platform covering the tee sheet, online booking, point of sale, food and beverage, member profiles, tournaments, payments, a website builder, marketing and a branded app, sold as one price with “no modules to unlock”. A custom mobile app costs extra.

Where it is strong

Longevity and one package. Tee On has served Canadian golf for more than twenty years, and it sells one package rather than modules.¹

What operators say

Published operator reviews are scarce, so we have nothing fair to quote. An industry tracker groups it with legacy platforms losing share, and found Lightspeed gained a net 8 courses from it in early 2025.³

What our course data shows

451of 12,230 public courses booked online through Tee On
100of them are 9-hole courses
40moved off it between 2022 and 2023, 22 back to phone-only booking
39moved onto it in the same year

From the 2022–23 dataset of public golf courses in the US and Canada we work from. It shows which company each course used for online tee times: a snapshot, not a live count.

03 · Straight answers

Where we fall short.

We are one of the companies on this page, so here is what we do not do, and the questions people ask.

We are a small, young company. The companies on these pages have been doing this for years, with far bigger teams.
We have no network of discount golfers to fill empty tee times the way GolfNow does.
No handicap (GHIN) integration and no dynamic pricing yet.
Our 5% + 30¢ is more per card sale than the bigger companies’ published card rates. We charge nothing a month instead, so a course with a lot of card volume can pay less overall elsewhere. The calculator shows where that line is for you.
We are built for small public courses. A private club with a full kitchen and complex member billing is better served elsewhere.

How much does Tee On cost?

Tee On sells one package and says there are no modules to unlock, but does not publish the price. Book a demo with them to get it.

Does the Middle Pin work in Canada?

Our payments run on Stripe, which operates in Canada. Talk to us before you switch so we can confirm the details for your province.

Nothing a month. Your course.

Sign up and have it running today. It costs nothing to start and nothing to keep — we take 5% + 30¢ when a card is used. Or take a 30-minute walkthrough with the person who builds it.

Sources

Checked 8 October 2026. Prices and terms change, and most of these companies do not publish theirs, so ask each one for a written quote. If anything here is wrong or out of date, email kevin@themiddlepin.com and we will correct it. Company names are trademarks of their owners and are used only to identify them.