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Sport is the new social network
Players and members follow venues and friends, share posts, react and comment, and find open games near them, all in the PLAI app.
Compare with Doinsport
Doinsport€1,932/year
Private business plan, €161 a month on an annual plan × 12 = €1,932, on its pricing page read 9 November 2026, which does not say whether VAT is included1
PLAI
€0/year
With payment fees*, on €200,000 of online payments a yearWith payment fees*, on €500,000 of online payments a yearWith payment fees*, on €1,000,000 of online payments a year
With Doinsport*€7,932/year
€1,932 Private business plan + payment fees* 3%** of €200,000 = €6,000 → €7,932
With PLAI*
€2,000/year
No plan. Payment fees*: 1% × €200,000 = €2,000
With Doinsport*€16,932/year
€1,932 Private business plan + payment fees* 3%** of €500,000 = €15,000 → €16,932
With PLAI*
€5,000/year
No plan. Payment fees*: 1% × €500,000 = €5,000
With Doinsport*€31,932/year
€1,932 Private business plan + payment fees* 3%** of €1,000,000 = €30,000 → €31,932
With PLAI*
€10,000/year
No plan. Payment fees*: 1% × €1,000,000 = €10,000
* Transaction fees are charged by the payment service provider (PSP) that processes card payments, with PLAI as with Doinsport. They are not a software fee.
** Doinsport may add its own markup on top of the PSP fee.
Side by side
Every fact about the other product comes from its own public pages, read on the date shown. A number in the table points to its source.
| Feature | Doinsport | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | ||
| PriceA month, on the same scale | €99–€179 Associations and public bodies from €99 a month (€89 annual); private businesses from €179 (€161 annual); franchises on quote; the page does not say whether VAT is included1 | €0 €0 a month, €0 setup, no paid extras |
| Fees on online payments | Rate not published Payments run on Stripe; rate not published3 | 3× cheaper than Stripe Card fees about three times lower than Stripe's standard rate in France of 1.5% + €0.25 per standard European card6 |
| Contract and trial | Monthly or annual plan Monthly or annual plans; annual saves 10%; no free trial stated1 | No commitment No contract; nothing to trial, since it costs €0 |
| Run your venuePLAI has one offer with everything in it. | ||
| Sports | Padel and tennis Padel and tennis clubs2 | Multi-sport Racket sports, golf, fitness, yoga, pilates and other studio classes |
| Memberships and packs | Yes Membership fees, subscriptions, credits and a wallet1 | Included Memberships, packs of sessions and credit; member, newcomer and off-peak prices |
| Settings | Yes A booking schedule you set up: opening hours, payment policies and cancellation terms4 | Included Booking rules, refund policy, opening hours, spaces and equipment, offers, products and packs, member, newcomer and off-peak prices, customer attributes, team roles, online and in-person payments, a public page that search engines and AI assistants can read, and a log of changes |
| Till at the desk | Yes LNE certified till and payment hardware1 | Included Cash or a card reader, sales even offline, stock, a chained sales journal with daily closes and a sealed yearly archive, copies for your accountant |
| Integrations and hardware | Yes Private plans add an LNE certified till, a card terminal, SEPA and Pennylane accounting; access control, lighting and a website on quote1 | Included Door access, a card reader and client import |
| Support and setup | Yes Setup and migration by its team2 | Included Help by email or call, with full support during onboarding |
| Analytics | Yes Statistics, including accounting and financial statistics1 | Included Bookings, revenue, occupancy, players, hours, sport mix, courts, times of day, top players and loyalty, a heat map by weekday and hour, exports and a monthly email of the month before |
| AI assistant | None | Only on PLAI Ace, built into PLAI Business: ask about your bookings and revenue, find your way around the app and your settings, and let Ace make changes for you, by text or by voice |
| Players and communityHow players and members find your venue, follow it, talk to each other and play together. | ||
| Your venue online | Yes Yes: booking on your website or an app in your club's name1 | Included Your own page on plai.live with your sports, address and booking link, and your venue in the PLAI app, in front of players and members near you |
| App for players and members | Yes Yes, under the club's name2 | Included Yes: the PLAI app on iPhone, Android and the web, where players and members find venues, book, pay their share and join open games |
| Communities | None SMS, email and push campaigns to its members5; no communities on its pages | Only on PLAI Each community has its own feed, members, group chat and activities, including members-only games. PLAI's own communities carry rankings, from the world to your city. Public or private, open, by request or by invitation; your venue gets its own members' community |
| Messages | Yes | Included An inbox for your venue, private and group chats and a chat for each activity, with photos, videos, files and voice messages, replies, reactions, polls, mentions and forwards. System messages post themselves: a cancelled booking and its refund, a new time, who joined or left, and requests to join to accept in the chat |
| Feed and club news | Yes Personalised notifications and club news2 | Included Your venue posts news, photos, videos and polls with a booking button; players follow you, react and comment |
| Tournaments | Yes | Included Entry with a partner and online payment, waiting lists, draws, match scheduling, live scores and standings |
| AI video analysis | None | Only on PLAI Upload a padel match video to an activity: AI tracks the court, players and ball, with rallies, highlights, a points timeline and match stats. Each player gets their own view: where they stood on the court, distance run and time near the net, side by side with another player. Any rally can be shared as a clip. In beta |
Why PLAI
A category of its own
PLAI is a sports marketplace that connects players and members with sport and wellness venues worldwide. It is a free app for players and members, and an all-in-one platform for venues and coaches to run their day.
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Every sport, all in one place
Racket sports, golf, fitness, yoga and pilates, with booking, packs, the till, tournaments, messages and the feed in one app. Doinsport presents itself as software for padel and tennis clubs2.
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AI-native
Ace runs your venue with you. The name says it: PLAI is play + AI. Ace, the assistant built into PLAI Business, reads your numbers, guides you through the app and makes changes for you once you confirm, by text or by voice. AI also tracks the court, players and ball in your padel match videos. Doinsport's own pages show no AI assistant124.
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100% free
€0 to run your venue, from one venue to a whole chain. No subscription, no setup fee, no contract and no paid extras, however many venues you run.
What Doinsport's top plan costs in a year, with its transaction fees
Online payments a year, per venue
PLAI, per venue: PSP fees at 1%€5,000
1 venue€11,932to€16,932
3 venues€35,796to€50,796
15 venues€178,980to€253,980
Private business planTransaction fees at 2%Up to 3%
Private business plan, €161 a month on an annual plan × 12 per venue; the page does not say whether VAT is included1. Transaction fees of 2% to 3% of online payments: an example rate, since Doinsport does not publish its own3.
Can I move from Doinsport to PLAI?
Yes. Send us your clients and upcoming events as a CSV or Excel file and we import them in 15 minutes. The app then walks you through closing bookings on your old tool and pointing your customers to PLAI.
How we compared
This page is published by PLAI, one of the two products compared. Every fact about Doinsport comes from its own public pages, listed under Sources with the date we read them; a number in the table points to its source. Prices and offers change: check Doinsport's pages before you decide. PLAI is not affiliated with Doinsport; its name is a trademark of its owner. To compare costs on your own numbers, read How much does venue management software cost?
Sources
- Doinsport pricing, read
- Doinsport home page, read
- Doinsport online payments, read
- Doinsport padel club software, read
- Doinsport loyalty and communication, read
- Stripe pricing for France, read
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