A turf is one of the simplest businesses to run and one of the most annoying to book. There are maybe fourteen sellable hours in a day, the good ones are all after work, and every one of them gets negotiated over the phone or in a group chat while somebody else is asking about the same slot. The result is the thing every ground owner already knows: the eight o'clock gets promised twice, the eleven o'clock never sells at all, and the advance payment arrives as a screenshot that nobody can check against anything a month later.
What most grounds are doing today
Not because anyone thinks it is good, but because what has mostly been on offer is a listing app that takes a cut and leaves the running of the ground to you.
- Availability lives in a notebook, a whiteboard or one person's head, so a caller has to ring around to find out what is free
- Bookings are confirmed in a group chat, where the confirmation and the argument about it end up in the same thread
- Advance payment arrives as a bKash screenshot, which is a photograph of a claim rather than a receipt anyone can reconcile
- Nobody knows which hours actually sell, so peak pricing is a guess and the dead hours stay dead
Eleven at night on a Tuesday. The floodlights are on either way: the only question is whether that hour was sold.
The empty hours are the whole business
A ground's costs barely move with occupancy. The land, the lights and the person at the gate cost about the same whether the pitch is full or empty, which makes every unsold hour close to pure lost margin and every extra hour sold close to pure gain.
Which is why the calendar matters more than anything else on this page. Once availability is something anyone can look at rather than something they have to ask about, the seven o'clock sells itself, and the eleven o'clock becomes a thing you can discount deliberately, as a late rate or a weekday rate, instead of a thing you simply lose.
What you get
Shaped around how a ground actually sells, rather than adapted from a meeting-room booker.
- Your open hours as a weekly pattern, with slot length and the gap between games, so the calendar fills itself as far ahead as you take bookings
- Peak, off-peak, weekday and holiday rates as dated rules, rather than one price you keep editing by hand
- Payment up front through bKash, Nagad, cards or SSLCommerz, with a real receipt and a code instead of a screenshot
- A booking page on your own domain for the regulars, and a listing on quicket.me and in the app for everybody else, selling the same hours
- A waitlist on the hours that sell out, with the party size attached, so a cancellation gets refilled rather than announced
- A record of who plays, how often, and who has failed to turn up before
A listing and a booking page, not a choice between them
Most turf booking in Bangladesh runs through apps that list many grounds, take a commission on each booking, and stop there. That is discovery, which is genuinely useful and not the same thing as a way to run a ground. Quicket is a marketplace as well, so your pitch is listed on quicket.me and in the app and gets found by people who did not know it existed. The difference is that the listing is not the whole product. The same hours sit behind your own page on your own domain, your peak rates, your waitlist, your counter and your customer list. The Thursday-night regulars who already know your name book on your page, somebody searching for a pitch near them finds you in the marketplace, and both come out of one calendar rather than two systems you reconcile on Sunday.
Common questions
What does this actually replace?
The phone calls, the group chat and the notebook. Availability becomes a page anyone can look at, a booking takes the money at the point it is made, and the confirmation is a code rather than a message. What it does not replace is your gate: somebody who walks up is still sold at the counter, on the same system, so that hour leaves inventory too.
Can I charge more for evening slots?
Yes, and it is usually the first thing worth changing. Rates are rules rather than a single price: a different rate for a stretch of hours, for a day of the week, for a range of dates, or for a group above a certain size. You set the rule once and the seven o'clock prices itself for the rest of the season.
Do people have to pay in advance?
Your choice, per slot type, and both work. Paying in full at the time of booking through bKash, Nagad, cards or SSLCommerz gives you a receipt and a code instead of a screenshot. Free to book with payment on arrival also works, and walk-ups are taken at the counter with the tender recorded as it happened. What is not possible today is taking part of the money online with the balance due later: it is the full amount or nothing.
What about groups that book and never turn up?
Three things help. Payment up front removes most of it outright. A cancellation policy tiered by how close to the start they are decides what a late cancellation gets back, and the hour goes straight back into stock where somebody else can take it. And the customer record counts no-shows, so the group that has done it twice is not a surprise on the third.
How is this different from the turf booking apps?
Those apps are discovery and little else: they bring you people who did not know your ground, take a commission for it, and leave you to run the place. Quicket does that part too, so you are still found. What it adds is everything after the booking, and a front door of your own beside the listing: a page on your own domain for the regulars, peak and off-peak rates, payment up front with a real receipt instead of a screenshot, a waitlist on the hours that sell out, counter sales, and a customer list that is yours to export. All of it off one calendar, so nothing is counted twice.
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Appointments that are on the calendar and paid for before the chair is held.
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Hotels and guest houses
Direct bookings on your own page, a listing that gets you found, and one calendar behind both.
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Send your open hours, what a peak slot costs and how long a game runs. We will build the ground, set the calendar, and send you a booking page to try before anything is agreed.
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