Golfgo.ca allows you to book tee times

By Heri Aug 20th 2007 in entrepreneurship

golfgo tee times

GolfGo, owned by Montreal parent company ActiveMedia, launched today tee times reservations. The service is avalaible for almost all golf courses in Québec, and allow golfers to see in real-time avalaibility and book a slot. Of course, there were already services to do that, but you had to go to each golf course’s internet website, which was a painful operation if you were trying to book at a peak hour. Now, it’s all centralized within one website.

Now, if you visit it, this isn’t at all a technological or a design revolution, but I am writing about GolfGo because it’s just a simple innovation, the kind of service that consumers would want and actually pay for, instead of your typical “web2.0″ website (say facebook) where the business model is built upon hype. Golf courses pay a small monthly fee to be indexed in the service, and GolfGo also have key partnerships with hotels and travel agencies.

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Francois Dubuc August 21, 2007

Just to clarify, in fact, there’s a “bit” of technology in the back, because when a player reserve a tee time, the golf course’s software screen is updated in realtime with the new reserved slot, wich is actually the only system in Quebec allowing that… The complete system is built on the world’s most advanced SaaS (Software as a Service) wich is http://www.activesaas.com (by the way, you should post a huge news on that near-montreal technology)

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Carl Mercier August 21, 2007

This is definitely a great service that’s easily monetizable for them. Not a big fan of the graphic design, though ;-)

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Heri August 21, 2007

francois dubuc: ok if i understand it, you are pushing updates to the golf course’s system. i am not sure if this is cutting-edge … i also saw you described it as the most advanced management system in the world, which cut me off guard. How is it exactly the most advanced?

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Francois Dubuc August 21, 2007

Heri, yes, this the the most advanced SaaS (Software as a Service) solution…. give it a ride at http://www.activesaas.com with objective eyes and come back to give me your comments

By the way, we are not pushing updates to golf courses, they use our SaaS solution and are connected to a synchronization server, so everybody is always updated in realtime with no refresh of “web pages” (I hate to use the word “web pages” because in 2007 nobody should use “web pages” anymore, but that’s another topics)

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Brian November 09, 2007

Hi Francois,
Is the site closed?

What courses can we expect to see in 2008?
thx and good luck

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Francois Dubuc November 09, 2007

Brian, no the site is not closed, but at the time you wrote this message, we were doing maintenance on it for 15 minutes, it’s back online now. For the next season, you should expect 10 to 25 new courses, so there will be around 40 to 50 courses. Thanks for the comment.

Francois

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