About
Four systems that never learned each other’s names
The tee sheet, the register, the website and league night were sold to you as four separate products. Aced exists because the person who has to make them agree is the same person who has to be at the counter when it opens.
Your tee sheet, your register, and your website finally agree.
Why this rather than another tee sheet
Most golf software is organized around the vendor’s product boundaries rather than the course’s day. The tee sheet is one contract, the register another, the website a third, and league night is a clipboard. Each one is defensible on its own. Together they produce a general manager who spends a morning a week making three systems agree about what happened on Saturday.
Aced was built the other way round: one database, one golfer record, one ledger. A tee time, a green fee, a hot dog at the turn and a league result are the same person and the same day, which is why the close reconciles without anyone re-keying anything. That decision costs more to build and it is the entire product.
It is also why tournaments and leagues are in the platform rather than beside it. Several tee-sheet vendors offer live scoring, natively or through an integration — that is not the claim. The claim is narrower and more useful: the entry fee is a line on the pro-shop register, the draw holds real tee times, and the result lands on the same golfer record the counter sees.
How we operate
Four commitments, and what each one costs us
Principles are cheap to publish. These are the ones with a price attached, which is the only way to tell whether they are real.
- We quote the facility, not a rate card
- It costs us the self-serve conversion of an operator who just wanted a number. We think publishing one figure for a nine-hole daily fee and a 36-hole club is worse.
- We publish the limits
- Cash-only offline mode, no public API, no SOC 2 report, no published recovery objectives. Every one of those is a sentence a competitor would omit. Omitting them is how a buyer gets surprised in month two.
- We do not fabricate proof
- There is no logo wall on this site and no anonymous testimonials. Both are the cheapest things on the internet to manufacture, and the first things a sceptical operator discounts.
- Leaving is easy on purpose
- Exports are available whenever you want them, and a failed payment makes an account read-only rather than deleting it. Retention as a business model is an admission that the product cannot hold people.
Where the company actually is
Aced is an early platform. The software is real, shipped and inspectable — the complete operating documentation is public, and the instant preview builds a working site for your course without asking for an email address. What it does not bring is a decade of tenure or the reference list that comes with one.
We are onboarding our first design-partner courses now. If you are evaluating vendors, weigh that honestly: an incumbent brings scale and a reference list, and this brings a modern connected system and a founder who answers the phone. Both are real considerations, and any vendor who tells you their side has no trade-off is telling you something else too.
- The full help center is public — read it before you talk to anyone
- The instant course preview needs no email address
- The limits are published on this page, not buried in a sales call
- Every screenshot on this site is labelled as sample data
Design partners
Company status accurate as of August 2026. This page is updated when the answer changes, not when it becomes convenient.
Why golf
Because the people who run these places deserve better software than they have been sold
Four systems that were never designed to know about each other, and one person expected to reconcile them at the counter. That is the problem Aced exists to remove.
Ask the awkward question
How early are you, who else uses this, what happens if you disappear. Those are the right questions for a young vendor and you will get direct answers.