🇿🇦 Built for South African sport · Prototype

Every court.
Every coach.
Every sport.

Active Hub is Booking.com meets TripAdvisor, built for South African sport. Players book courts, fields, lanes and lessons in seconds. Venues and coaches get a full diary. And reviews only come from people who actually played.

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Courts, coaches and clubs across Cape Town, Joburg, Durban and more
The Active Hub app home screen
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Court bookedTonight · 18:30
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Split with 3 friendsPaid on WhatsApp
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9.4 · SuperbVerified review
48sports, one app
5ways to book anything
100%verified reviews
60sto add a brand new sport
How it works

Find it. Book it. Play.

No phone calls, no WhatsApp groups, no guessing if the court is free. Three taps and you are on.

1Search by sport, area and time

Find

Search by sport, area and time, or just ask in plain words. See live availability, the real price and reviews from people who played there.

2Pick a slot and pay

Book

Pick a slot, split the cost with friends, add last minute deals and weekly repeats. Pay by card, EFT or QR, and your ticket lands on WhatsApp.

3Join open games at your level

Play

Join open games at your level, build a crew with streaks, book a coach, and if rain stops play you move your game free. Then rate it.

Three sides, one app

Made for players, venues and coaches

Everyone who touches a game in South Africa, in one place, each with their own home.

Players

Find, book, pay, play

Free to use. The whole country's courts, fields, lanes and coaches in your pocket.

  • Live availability and the real price
  • Split payment by WhatsApp link
  • Open games, crews and leagues
  • Free rebook if rain or power stops play
Venues

A full diary, for free

Clubs, courts, pitches, pools, gyms and studios list their bookable spaces and fill the empty slots.

  • Free to list, pay only on bookings we bring
  • Weekly payouts, no admin
  • One space can host many sports
  • Reply to reviews, never deleted
Coaches

A storefront of your own

Any coach in any sport gets a verified profile, a diary and upfront payment.

  • Keep 100% of your session price
  • A small flat monthly fee, first month free
  • Court included on lessons
  • Notes, video and progress for students
One app, every sport

From padel to paragliding

48 sports at launch, and growing. Filter by family, or just scroll and find your game.

A sport on Active Hub is just a line of data. When pickleball takes off, an admin adds it in 60 seconds and every venue and coach in the country can list it the same day.

The engine

Any sport, no new code

Most booking apps hard code "tennis court" or "padel court". Active Hub never knows what a sport is in code. A sport is a row in a table that points at a space template, lists the booking modes it supports, and the details players filter on.

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One space, many sportsA multi purpose court is tagged basketball, netball and futsal. Book it for one, it blocks for all. No double bookings.
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Filters build themselvesThe court template carries surface, floodlights and backup power. Every court sport inherits those filters for free.
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New sport, same dayNo app store update. Add the sport, and venues and coaches list it immediately, country wide.
Sportname, icon, family, template, booking modes, filter details
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Space templatecourt · field · lane · ring · water · studio · course · wall · trail
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Venuebusiness, location, hours, verified, payout
Coachsports, credentials, plan
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Space / offeringCourt 2 · Lane 4 · a slot, class, pass or event with price rules
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Booking → Reviewplayer, time, price, split shares, ticket. A review can only come from a completed booking.
The trust layer

Reviews you can actually trust

This is the TripAdvisor half, done properly. On Active Hub you can only review what you booked and played.

No booking, no review

Every review is tied to a paid, completed booking. Venues can reply in public, but never delete.

Scores that mean something

Each template rates what matters: court condition and lighting for courts, safety and coaching for surf schools.

Reliability both ways

Players earn a score from show ups. Venues get one too. High scores unlock pay later and member prices.

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Players' Choice awards. Every year the top rated venues and coaches per sport and city win a physical plaque and window sticker. Every sticker on a clubhouse door sends new players to the app.

On Active Hub already

Real places, real games

A taste of the courts, clubs and spots in the prototype. Sample venues, shown to give the feel.

Find your coach

Every discipline, every level

Verified coaches with diaries, upfront payment and student progress built in.

How Active Hub makes money

Fair for everyone

Proposed numbers, to be tested with real venues and coaches before launch. Nothing here is final.

Players
R5 / booking
Just a service fee

Free to use. A small fee per booking covers payment processing on cheap bookings. That is it.

Venues
8% commission
Free to list

Pay only on bookings Active Hub brings. You only pay when we fill a slot that would have stayed empty.

Coaches
R149 / month
Keep 100% of your rate

A flat, small fee to be listed. Pro at R349. First month free. We never take a cut of your session.

Busy clubs
R499 / month
Hub Desk

Run your whole booking sheet, walk ins and members on Active Hub. 0% on your own regulars.

Illustrative only. Every price above is an assumption to validate with the first venues and coaches.

Built for South Africa

Made for here, not ported from somewhere else

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Payments people actually use

Card, Instant EFT and QR wallets like SnapScan, all in rand. Split payments by WhatsApp link, because the friend who books always ends up chasing everyone else.

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WhatsApp first

Confirmations, reminders, pay links and rebooking all land on WhatsApp, where South Africans already are. Email is the backup, not the main channel.

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Power and weather guarantee

A backup power filter for floodlit venues, and a promise: if rain, an outage or a closure stops your game, you rebook free or get your money back.

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Light on data, POPIA from day one

Fast on a mid range phone and a slow connection. Only the data we need, clear consent, and South African hosting for player data where possible.

Your next game is one tap away

Open the working demo right now in your browser, or scan to run it full screen on your phone like the real app.

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Questions

Good to know

Not yet. This is a working prototype: a clickable app, this website and a blueprint we use to pitch the first venues and coaches. The venues, coaches, prices and reviews you see are sample data to show the feel.

The plan is to launch in Cape Town with padel, tennis and coaches, where demand is dense and venues compete for evening slots. Then Johannesburg and Durban, adding sports city by city. The engine already supports 48 sports.

Listing is free. A venue pays 8% only on the bookings Active Hub brings in, so you only pay when we fill a slot that would have stayed empty. Busy clubs can run their whole diary on Hub Desk for a flat monthly fee, with 0% on their own regulars.

No. Coaches keep 100% of their session price. There is only a small flat monthly fee to be listed, with the first month free. That is the main difference from platforms that take a percentage of every lesson.

Because every review is tied to a paid, completed booking. No booking, no review. Venues can reply in public but can never delete a review. Players and venues both build a reliability score over time.

You rebook free or get your money back. There is a backup power filter for floodlit venues, and a rain alert that lets you move your game at no cost.