ForeTees Alternative for Private Golf Clubs

ForeTees started with its private club tee sheet and has grown into a broader club platform with a member app, point of sale and back-office accounting. Clubs searching for a ForeTees alternative are often asking a specific question: should the tee sheet and the rest of the club live in one system, and if so, which one? This page summarizes what ForeTees offers, from its own public website, and where Bubs takes a different approach.

What ForeTees is and who it serves

ForeTees describes itself as club management software for private clubs, with more than twenty years of experience working alongside golf professionals. Its website presents a cloud-based platform that connects reservations, the member app, member management, accounting and point of sale.

On its public pages, ForeTees covers:

• Golf management. A tee sheet it describes as able to handle a wide variety of club restrictions, with weighted, pro-shop-controlled and random lottery options, tee time wait lists, event and clinic registration, lesson and fitting bookings, and demo and rental club tracking. ForeTees says it integrates with the USGA and Golf Canada for handicap reporting, including a rounds-played-versus-scores-posted analysis.
• Other reservations. Dining and events, courts, fitness, simulators and other amenities, with charges passed to the point of sale.
• ForeCaddie. Caddie scheduling for loops.
• ClubCentral member app. A branded app for reservations, a club calendar, push notifications, photo galleries, mobile food ordering, mobile key access to club doors, valet requests, QR check-in and golf bag requests.
• Staff App. Reservations, push notifications, food-order handling, bag requests, check-ins and valet from staff phones.
• Point of sale. A web-based POS that runs on tablets, laptops or desktops, with seat-based ordering, floor plans, tee sheet charges flowing to the POS, and inventory.
• Club management. Built, in ForeTees's words, "on the world's most powerful CRM system," with general ledger and reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable with dues, installment billing, minimum spend charges and statements, member management, banquets and events, and dashboards.
• Club websites.

ForeTees's strengths are its tee sheet heritage, a long list of member-service features in the app such as valet, mobile key and bag requests, and a caddie program tool. A club whose caddie program or amenity bookings are central to its operation should look closely at those.

Is there a ForeTees alternative for private golf clubs?

Yes. Bubs is all-in-one club management software built for private golf and country clubs, with the tee sheet, point of sale, member billing, club accounting, events, tournaments and a member app in one product. The differences below are where the two approaches diverge.

Where Bubs is different

Scoring, games and handicaps in the same product as the tee sheet

Bubs runs tournaments and live scoring — member-guests including flighted round robins, leagues, match play brackets and side games — in the same system as the tee sheet and the member account. A tournament blocks its own tee times and entry fees go on statements. Bubs is an official USGA partner: Handicap Index® values, Course Rating™ and Slope Rating® come from the USGA, and members post scores to the USGA from the app. See handicaps.

One ledger from the first tee to the month-end close

Every Bubs module writes to one append-only ledger. Cart and guest fees land on the member's account at check-in, grill chits post as they're rung, and the club general ledger runs on a chart aligned with the Uniform System of Financial Reporting for Clubs. Clubs that aren't ready to move their books can keep their accounting package and take a mapped journal export for each closed period.

A register built to work offline

The ForeTees pages we reviewed describe a web-based POS; they don't describe offline operation. Every Bubs register — pro shop, grill, bar, halfway house — keeps working without a connection for everything except card payments, tells staff plainly whether it's synced, and reconciles on reconnect. See the offline POS guide.

A kitchen display and ticket printers in the same system

Bubs includes a kitchen display that routes tickets by station, fires by course and bumps when they're up, alongside kitchen ticket printers. The ForeTees pages we read mention optional kitchen auto-fire for mobile orders but don't list a kitchen display.

A social member app

ForeTees's ClubCentral app offers push notifications, a calendar and photo galleries. Bubs adds a member-to-member layer around the round: members follow their regulars and hear when they book, find a game, and combine two twosomes into a foursome when both groups agree. The white-label member app is published under the club's own name.

Reversible migration

Bubs imports your roster, balances and history, goes live in stages, and gives the club a full data export at any time. See switching to Bubs.

ForeTees and Bubs, side by side

Entries for ForeTees reflect its public website as of the date below. "Not listed publicly" means we did not find it on the pages we read; it does not mean ForeTees lacks it.

Switching from ForeTees to Bubs

When ForeTees runs the tee sheet alongside other systems, a move can be staged cleanly. Bubs imports the roster, households, member numbers and opening balances from the files your current systems produce, and labels each imported balance with its as-of date and prior system. A common plan starts with the member app, ordering and dining, then move the tee sheet at a quiet point in the season, then the registers and the books.

Write your requirements down before the demos. Our club software RFP template and switching guide cover the questions and the sequencing, and the tee time lottery guide is useful if your lottery rules are the hardest part to move.

Does ForeTees work with the USGA for handicaps?

ForeTees's golf management page says it integrates with the USGA and Golf Canada for handicap reporting. Bubs is an official USGA partner, with Handicap Index® values and course data from the USGA and score posting from the member app.

Can Bubs replace ForeTees's caddie tool?

Bubs does not include caddie scheduling. If your caddie program runs on ForeCaddie today, plan for that before you switch and ask how any tool you keep would work alongside Bubs.

What should a golf committee check first?

Run your hardest booking rules through each system: your lottery, guest limits by member class, standing times and blocks for men's day. Then check what happens after the round — scoring, posting and the charges that land on the statement.

Sources

Checked September 27, 2026.

• ForeTees home page: https://www.foretees.com/
• Golf Management: https://www.foretees.com/golfmanagement
• Club Management: https://www.foretees.com/club-management
• Member App: https://www.foretees.com/member-app
• Mobile Ordering: https://www.foretees.com/member-app/mobile-ordering
• Point of Sale: https://www.foretees.com/point-of-sale
• Dining & Events: https://www.foretees.com/Dining
• Staff App: https://www.foretees.com/Staff-App
• ForeCaddie: https://www.foretees.com/Caddie
• Reservations: https://www.foretees.com/reservations

ForeTees is a trademark of its owner. Bubs is not affiliated with ForeTees, LLC. Product details come from public sources as of the date above and may change — confirm current capabilities with the vendor.