Padelovia: padel courts

CZSyn

About this app

Padel is played four a side, in doubles, on an enclosed glass court. To play you need a partner, two opponents, a free slot and a club with room. Padelovia is built for exactly that, on both sides of the fence.

As a player, you see the padel centres around you, their courts, indoor, outdoor or covered, with the surface they are built on, and the slots that are really free, court by court, hour by hour. Booking takes three screens: the slot, the players, the payment.

Short of a third or a fourth? Publish your match on the club's open match wall with the level you are looking for, and other members complete the pair. It works the other way too: turn up alone, join a match that needs someone of your level.

Levels follow the scale used by French padel clubs, from D beginner to A advanced. Your profile keeps your matches, wins and losses, and what is left on your prepaid books of slots.

Club tournaments are listed with their format, and in padel the format changes everything. In an americano the pairs are recomposed every round, everyone scores for themselves, and no one plays twice with the same partner. There are also mexicano, pools and single elimination. You register as a pair and the final standings fill in round after round.

Behind the counter, the day looks different. Whoever runs the centre opens the app on today, every court side by side, from the first slot of the morning to the last of the evening, and sees at a glance what is confirmed, what is being played and what has just been freed. Courts are described as they are, surface and price included. The player list keeps levels and prepaid books. Coach availability covers private lessons, group lessons and camps. A tournament is set up with its level range, capacity and registration deadline. Takings, invoicing, court occupancy and the week's revenue are all there, and a wall display at reception announces the matches in progress.

All of it is free. The app costs nothing to players and nothing to centres: no tier, no commitment, no feature held back for those who pay. Padelovia earns only at one moment, when a player it brought to a centre pays for a match from the app. The platform then takes 10% from the centre, for twelve months from that first payment, and nothing after that. A player the centre already had, a payment at the counter, a booking entered from the planning: never anything.

Payments made in the app pay for services delivered in a physical centre: an hour of court, a session with a coach, a tournament entry, a book of slots to use on site. No digital content is unlocked. The centre is the merchant: it collects on its own Stripe account, sets its prices and cancellation terms, and handles its own refunds.

Padelovia is published by CZSYN SAS, a French company based in Marseille.