Built for facilities, not coaches
Upper Hand's power is retail, point of sale, and facility resource management. If you coach people rather than run a building, most of it is overhead you pay for and never use.
The Upper Hand alternative
The Upper Hand alternative built for coaches, not facilities.
Upper Hand is built for big facilities with retail, memberships, and staff to manage. Elite Coach Booking is built for the individual coach and the small academy: a stunning website and the whole booking, payment, and scheduling system behind it. Flat $119 a month.
- Flat $119/mo
- Payments to your own account
- Live in days
A coaching website good enough to charge premium rates.
Every one of these is a real, published coach site. Yours is built the same way, with booking, payments, and your programs wired in behind it.
One app runs everything. And it is wired to your live website.
Configure it once. After that, you create a new offer in the app and it goes live on your public site the moment you save. You never open a website editor again.
- 1 Create the offer in the app
- 2 It publishes to your site instantly
- 3 Clients book and pay themselves
Change a price, add a camp, open a new date. It all updates your site automatically, from your phone.
Why coaches leave Upper Hand.
The add-ons stack up
Upper Hand layers paid add-ons on top of its plan tiers. Elite Coach Booking is a flat $119 a month with the things a coach actually needs already included.
Your website is an afterthought
Elite Coach Booking leads with a premium coaching website that makes you look elite, with booking built in. It is not a facility portal with a booking tab.
It does not know where you coach
Elite Coach Booking's scheduling understands your venues, your service area, and the drive time between sessions, so travel and multi-venue coaching just work.
The whole coaching business, in one place.
We handle scheduling, offers, payments, and your website in ways built for coaches, not classes. Most of it Upper Hand does not have.
Scheduling nobody else does
- Location-aware scheduling that knows your venues and service area
- Drive-time buffers, so you are never booked two places at once
- A real-time availability engine, not a static calendar
- Standing lessons and recurring weekly slots
- Travel and pop-up dates for coaching on the road
Offers built the way coaches sell
- Private lessons at any duration
- Packages and prepaid credits
- Clinics, classes, and multi-day camps
- Group-size pricing and bring-your-own-group
- Deposits or full payment, your choice
Payments that stay yours
- Paid straight into your own Stripe account
- Deposits, packages, and saved cards
- Apple Pay and Google Pay at checkout
- We never sit between you and your income
One system, run from your phone
- A premium coaching website, included
- Create an offer and it publishes to your site instantly
- Clients, programs, and booking history in one place
- Automatic reminders and confirmations
- The White-Glove Launch sets it all up for you
Elite Coach Booking vs Upper Hand.
Upper Hand is a facility-operations platform: courts, retail, point of sale, and staff. If you are an individual coach or a small academy, most of that is weight you do not need, and Elite Coach Booking fits the way you actually work at a flat price.
Best fit for Elite Coach Booking
Individual sports coaches and small academies who sell private lessons, packages, clinics, camps, and travel sessions and want a premium coaching website out of the box.
$119/mo, flat
Best fit for Upper Hand
Large training facilities and multi-location academies that need retail, point of sale, and heavy staff and resource management.
Facility-scale plans (about $79 to $199+/mo, plus paid add-ons)
| Feature | Elite Coach Booking | Upper Hand |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat $119 a month, no add-on stack | Facility-scale plan tiers plus paid add-ons |
| Built for | Individual and academy coaching | Large facilities and multi-location |
| Coaching website | Premium coaching website included | Facility-focused, website is secondary |
| Location-aware scheduling | Drive-time and venue-aware | Not location-aware |
| Payments | Straight to your own Stripe account | Integrated payments |
| Retail and point of sale | Not needed, so not in your way | Retail and POS heavy |
| Setup | White-Glove Launch builds it for you | Do-it-yourself onboarding |
Upper Hand is a strong platform for a facility: courts, retail, point of sale, memberships, and a roster of staff to coordinate. That is a real business, and it needs real facility software.
But most coaches are not running a facility. They sell private lessons, packages, clinics, camps, and travel sessions, and they want a website good enough to charge premium rates without paying for a retail and point-of-sale system they will never open. Elite Coach Booking is built for exactly that coach, at a flat price, with the scheduling smarts that understand where you actually coach.
Click into a real coaching business.
The demo is a live coach site with real availability, a working booking widget, and the coach app behind it. This is what your clients will use.
Explore a live coach site
Ready to look like the best coach in town?
We create the professional starting point, connect your first offers, and guide you through launch. Then you stay in control from the Coach app for $119 a month, with payments straight to your own account.
Common questions
Is Elite Coach Booking cheaper than Upper Hand?
Usually, and more predictable. Elite Coach Booking is a flat $119 a month with the essentials included, while Upper Hand's cost climbs with plan tiers and paid add-ons.
I am a solo coach. Is Upper Hand overkill?
Often, yes. Upper Hand's strengths are facility retail, point of sale, and resource management. If you coach individuals and small groups, Elite Coach Booking fits without the facility overhead.
Does Elite Coach Booking handle clinics and camps?
Yes. Private lessons, packages, clinics, classes, and multi-day camps are all first-class offers, each with its own price, capacity, and location.
How fast can I be live?
With the White-Glove Launch we create the professional website starting point and first connected offers, guide you live through every section, and let you publish when you are ready.