How does the Stripe Connect payment flow work?

You connect your Stripe account once during onboarding. When customers pay through GolfAuth checkout (fitting quotes or Pro Shop marketplace), funds go to your Stripe account on Stripe’s normal payout schedule. GolfAuth takes a platform fee of 1% of the sale price plus applicable tax on that fee (e.g. GST in Australia), shown where relevant before you publish or collect. Stripe’s card processing fee still applies separately.

What is the 1% + tax Connect fee?

On Stripe Connect checkouts (fitting quotes and Pro Shop marketplace sales), GolfAuth takes 1% of the sale price plus tax on that fee (for example in Australia that is 10% GST on the 1% fee, about 1.1% all-in). Marketplace listing prices are entered excluding tax; Stripe Tax adds the buyer’s tax at checkout. Golfer-to-golfer marketplace sales are not charged this Pro Connect platform fee.

Can I use my existing supplier relationships?

Yes. Your suppliers are managed in your private supplier database. When a customer accepts a quote, GolfAuth generates a supplier purchase order with their preferred format and delivery details. Your supplier relationships stay yours. GolfAuth just makes the order administration faster.

What happens to my customer data if I leave GolfAuth Pro?

Your data is yours. You can export your full customer database, fitting history, quote records, and supplier information at any time. We provide CSV export by default and JSON export for technical users.

Do my customers need their own GolfAuth accounts?

It helps but isn’t strictly required for basic fitting. Customers who have GolfAuth accounts get the Pro-Verified digital records of clubs you build for them, which strengthens their relationship with you. We help you invite them through a co-branded onboarding flow.

Does GolfAuth integrate with my accounting software?

Xero integration is on the roadmap for Q3 2026, with MYOB and QuickBooks following. In the meantime, GolfAuth Pro provides exportable reports compatible with standard accounting workflows.

How does the 2-month free trial work?

Sign up with your business details. No credit card required. You get full access to GolfAuth Pro for 2 months: all features, no limits. At the end of the trial, you can choose Basic, Standard, or Premium pricing. If GolfAuth Pro isn’t right for you, do nothing and your account simply expires.

What do my golfers get out of it?

A GolfAuth account that holds their whole bag, free. Every club you build for them is recorded as a Pro-Verified club with your shop named on it and a chain of custody that follows the club for life. They accept quotes, pay, and track orders in their own portal, message your shop directly, collect Pro Shop orders against a signed QR code, and get an automatic email the moment you scan one of their clubs into Lost & Found. The paid golfer tiers start at $1.99 a month and add AI caddie chat, bag valuations, and bag reports, but none of the shop-side benefits require a golfer to pay for anything.

Can I message my customers inside GolfAuth?

Yes, on every tier including Basic. Any golfer linked to your shop can start a thread with you, and you can start one with them, with read receipts and typing indicators. The thread sits alongside the customer record, so the conversation about a build stays attached to the build. It replaces the personal-mobile-number problem most shops end up with.

Can I have multiple fitters under one business account?

Yes. Pro tier supports multiple fitters under a single business account, with role-based permissions, individual customer attribution, and consolidated reporting. Basic is single-fitter.

Fitting to cash

Quote sent at 11am.
Paid by lunch.

Your bench knowledge is the product. GolfAuth Pro is the workflow that runs everything around it: the customer record, the build spec, the payment, the supplier order, and the handoff. One spine, start to finish.

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One spineFitting to cash

Pro-VerifiedEvery build carries your name

Driver fittingQuote total
$990 AUD

Customer record

HCP 8 · 105mph · low-spin draw · 7yr history

Member

Build spec

9° · X-Stiff · 75g · Midsize grip · +0.5° lie · +1.0"

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Which kind of shop are you?

Pick the one that fits.

Master fitters & PGA pros

I run custom builds and fittings.

Customer records that survive every visit, multi-option quotes, Stripe Connect checkout, and outcomes that carry your name forward.

See the workflow Green-grass pro shops

I run shop ops at a course or club.

Counterfeit trade-in verification, a lost and found audit trail, and a 500-member directory that survives staff rotation. From $19.99 a month — one caught fake pays for the year.

See the shield

Either way, your golfers get the other half of it free. See what lands in their pocket.

Why GolfAuth Pro exists

The bench is where you earn it. The admin is where you lose the afternoon. We take the afternoon back.

2 months, no credit card

Full access, every feature, no limits. Decide on day 61.

Run real fittings on it

Every customer record, every config, every payout: live during the trial.

Your data stays yours

Export the full customer base and fitting history any time, CSV or JSON.

Everything GolfAuth Pro does

One platform for the
whole shop.

Run every fitting

Built around how you actually fit.

Five pillars, one spine: the customer record, the build spec, the payment, the purchase order, the handoff. Each one replaces a folder of email threads, a tab of spreadsheet rows, or a stack of paper receipts.

The customer record

Every fitting starts with the bag they walked in with.

Handicap, swing speed range, ball flight tendencies, lie-angle preference, every prior fitting note, every club currently in their bag. Pull it up before the launch monitor warms up. When they come back in 18 months for a wedge refit, you remember exactly what you tried with the driver.

The build spec

Spec drift dies here.

Every shaft, grip, loft, lie, swing weight, length, and frequency, captured against the configuration. Multi-option quotes when you fit more than one shaft brand. The order packet to your suppliers writes itself; supplier dispatch generates from accepted quotes.

The payment

No invoicing. No 30-day chase.

Customer accepts the quote in their inbox, pays online via Stripe Connect, payout lands in your bank on Stripe's normal schedule. No invoicing, no 30-day chase, no awkward "just following up" email. PayTo for Australian customers, card for everyone else.

The purchase order

The order packet writes itself.

Turn an accepted quote into a purchase order in a tap. Split a build across multiple suppliers or send a single-supplier order, emailed straight to your rep or manufacturer with every shaft, grip, and spec already filled in. No retyping line items into three different portals.

The handoff

Delivered, and provenance-complete.

Track every build from ordered to fulfilled in Order Management. When it reaches the golfer, shipped to them or picked up from your bench after final adjustments, it lands in their GolfAuth bag as a Pro-Verified club: full spec, your shop on the record, and a chain of custody that carries forward every time they sell or transfer it.

Between the fittings

The months between builds are where shops lose people.

A fitting is one afternoon. The relationship is every month after it. Messaging, demo loans, and a briefing that reads their bag before they arrive: the surfaces that keep you in the conversation until the next build.

Messaging

They can message you straight from the app.

Two-way threads between your shop and any golfer linked to you, with read receipts and typing indicators. A question about stock, a follow-up on a build, a nudge about a refit before the season. It sits next to the customer record instead of on somebody’s personal phone. Every tier.

Demo fleet

Loaners that actually come back.

Check a demo out against its serial and the customer who took it, set the due date, log the condition it left in. Overdue loans flag in the tab and a nightly email tells you what is still out. Standard and Premium.

AI fitting briefing

Briefed before they walk in.

The briefing reads the bag they already own, finds the gaps in it, and suggests a demo sequence before the session starts. You open the bay knowing what you want in their hands first. 20 a month on Standard, unlimited on Premium.

Customer invites

Bring the book you already have.

Invite your existing customers across. The invitation carries your name, they arrive already linked to your shop, and their fitting history starts on day one instead of on their next visit.

Get discovered

Your shop, in the pocket of every golfer in your postcode.

The GolfAuth consumer app sends golfers looking for a fitting straight to verified pros, with your real outcomes attached. Every Pro-Verified build you ship now is a search hit later.

Verified Pro profile

Your shop, your specialties (driver, irons, putter, wedges), your real fitting history. Every Pro-Verified build you ship strengthens your network credibility, and surfaces you ahead of generic listings.

Local discovery

Golfers searching "Find a Professional" in your region see you first. Your postcode plus specialty tags drive the ranking; your existing customer base reinforces it.

Direct booking

Your existing scheduling link is embedded on your profile. Golfer goes from "I need a fitting" to your calendar in three taps. No quote forms, no inbox tennis.

Trust signals that compound

Receipt-Verified and Pro-Verified clubs in your customers' bags carry your shop's name forward. Three years from now, every driver you fit is still searchable as your work.

Sell to local golfers

List demo units, trade-ins, and shop stock to GolfAuth golfers near you in the Pro Shop marketplace. They pay by card at checkout with verified pickup, and you keep the sale minus a flat 1% plus tax. A local resale channel running on the same verified identities as everything else.

Listed alphabetically inside your postcode. Specialty matches rank above generalists. Customer outcomes drive the long-tail credibility. There is no pay-to-play tier on the consumer side.

Protect your margin

For green-grass shops protecting their margin.

Pro Basic is not a lite version of the fitter platform. It is a different product: counterfeit trade-in verification, a lost & found audit trail, and a 500-member directory that survives staff rotation.

$19.99/mo. One caught fake or one avoided wrong-person release pays the year.

Trade-in verification

Verification before store credit is issued.

Serial scan against the GolfAuth verification network: registered ownership, receipt-verified provenance, duplicate-serial flags. Plus chain-of-custody transfers: members hand off pre-registered clubs digitally so your inventory inherits their full lineage. Counterfeit Scotty Camerons get refused at the counter, not discovered after $400 in credit has already been issued.

L&F audit trail

No proof of ownership, no item released.

Staff batch-scan found items during quiet shifts. Claimants must show their GolfAuth registration or upload original-receipt proof before any high-value item leaves the counter. Every release logged: who, when, what proof, which staff. Insurance carriers like structure. You like not eating a $500 rangefinder when someone else collects it on the honor system.

Repeat-guest tracking

500 local members, with their gear history attached.

Every member who has traded in, lost a club, or registered gear at your shop sits in your customer database with their full history attached. When the same member walks back in six months later asking about a wedge swap, your assistant on shift has the same context you do. Institutional memory in spite of staff rotation.

Honest caveat: the chain-of-custody play works strongest on members who already use GolfAuth. For members who do not, the serial verification still runs against the network's receipt-verified records and duplicate-serial flags, a structural upgrade over visual inspection at the counter. Coverage compounds as the network grows.

What your golfers get

The other half of this runs in their pocket.

GolfAuth Pro is one half of a network. The other half is the golfer app your members and customers get free. Run your shop on GolfAuth and every golfer walks out with something that keeps working after they leave the car park, with your shop attached to it.

The bag in their pocket

Every club they own, registered and valued.

Your members get a GolfAuth account that holds the whole bag: spec, serial, purchase record, current market value. Free to download, free to hold all 14. You are the reason they have it.

Pro-Verified

The build you handed over, documented for life.

It lands in their bag as a Pro-Verified club: full spec, your shop named on it, and a chain of custody that carries forward every time that club is sold, transferred, insured or claimed. Only a verified professional can issue that record, and it stays on the club for life.

Their own portal

Quotes and orders they can actually find.

They accept the quote, pay, and follow the build from their own GolfAuth login. Past fittings, saved configurations, live orders, all in one place instead of buried in an email thread from March.

Collection

Pickups that prove themselves.

Pro Shop orders are collected against a signed QR code at your counter. The right club goes to the right person, the handover is logged, and neither side has to take the other on trust.

Lost & Found

Told the moment their club turns up.

Scan a found club into Lost & Found and the registered owner is emailed automatically. Your member hears from the shop before they have finished searching the boot of the car. That is the story they tell in the clubhouse.

Everything on this list works on a free golfer account. The paid golfer tiers (AI caddie chat, bag valuations, bag reports) start at $1.99 a month with a two-month free trial, and nothing your shop does is gated behind a member paying for one.

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Founding shops: discovery ranks inside your postcode — the first verified shop in yours holds the top spot.

Pricing

Pick the tier built for your shop.

2 months free · No card · Full access on every tier. Basic is the loss-prevention play for green-grass shops: counterfeit trade-in verification, L&F audit trail, 500-member directory. Standard is where working fitters settle in: Stripe Connect, Pro Shop marketplace, demo fleet tracking, 20 fittings and AI briefings a month, unlimited quotes, single-supplier POs. Premium is for the top of the market: multi-option shaft and grip quotes, multi-supplier POs, automated quote follow-ups, equipment trend insights. Pick the tier you'll run on when billing starts.

Basic

Built for green-grass shops protecting margin.

$19.99/ mo

or $199.99 / yrSave 17%

Questions from fitters.

Generic CRMs don’t understand fitting. GolfAuth Pro is built specifically for the fitting workflow: capturing club configurations, launch monitor sessions, supplier orders, and Stripe Connect payments. Every customer interaction is captured in a structured way that’s useful for the next fitting, not just the current one.

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Two months free. No card. Every customer, every config, every payout, yours to keep when the trial ends.

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