Rec

Rec is recreation software built for city and county parks departments, and it now includes a cloud tee sheet for municipal golf courses. The same platform runs a department's programs, memberships, facility rentals, events and point of sale, so a muni course can share one resident account, one payment system and one set of reports with the rest of the city. Rec is published by Rec Technologies, Inc., a San Francisco company co-founded by CEO Birju Kadakia and president Rachel Williams. Courses and golfers can write a Rec review using this SURVEY FORM.

Who Rec is for

Rec sells to parks and recreation agencies, not to golf clubs on their own. Rec says it serves more than 100 cities across the US, including San Francisco Rec and Park, the City of Torrance, Apex Park and Recreation District and the City of Norman. Its golf page carries testimonials from the City of Miamisburg and the City of Torrance. In September 2025 Rec announced an $11 million Series A led by Crosslink Capital.

The tee sheet

Rec describes its golf product as a simple, cloud-based tee sheet for municipalities, with booking rules that staff own. Based on Rec's public golf page:

• A daily view shows every tee time, group and status on one screen, on any device. Staff check in groups with a tap and add walk-ups.
• Staff set up courses, rates, tee time intervals and payment options. Rec says a pro shop and starter can learn it in an afternoon.
• Municipal booking rules are built in: resident booking windows, one-round-per-day limits, and resident, junior, senior and pass-holder rates.
• Leagues, junior camps and lessons run in the same system as other department programs.
• Tournament entries and clubhouse event tickets are sold and checked in alongside tee times, and clubhouse rentals can take approvals and deposits.

Online booking for golfers

Golfers book tee times from the same Rec account they use for city programs, and find an open time from a phone in a few taps. Passes, 10-packs of rounds and resident, junior and senior rates apply automatically at booking.

Point of sale

Green fees, carts and merchandise can be rung up in one transaction in the same system golfers book in. Rec's POS also tracks retail and concession inventory, sells and redeems gift cards, runs card readers and cash drawers from one screen, and takes contactless payments, with every sale posting to a built-in ledger that reconciles at close. Rec says it is SOC 2 Type II audited and PCI DSS certified.

AI features

• Phone booking. Rec says its AI answers calls around the clock, books tee times and recognizes whether a caller is a resident and which pass they hold.
• Weather rebooking. When weather moves in, Rec texts and emails affected golfers and offers each group a new tee time the next day.
• Plain-language reporting. Staff can ask questions such as which days go unbooked or how many rounds residents played this month.
• Seb. Rec's AI coordinator for recreation teams, which previews each change and waits for staff approval before acting.

What Rec does not say yet

Rec's public pages do not cover dynamic pricing, tee time waitlists, squeeze times, shotgun or split-tee starts, Reserve with Google, third-party booking engine or marketplace distribution, F&B kitchen tickets, rain checks, offline mode or the payment processor behind its POS. Pricing is quote-based and not published. Treat those as open questions until Rec confirms them.

Questions to ask in a demo

• Does the tee sheet support dynamic pricing, a waitlist and squeeze times, or only fixed rate tiers?
• Can we hard-block times for maintenance, leagues and outings, and run shotgun starts?
• Do we have to send tee times to GolfNow or any marketplace, and can we connect Reserve with Google?
• Who processes payments, and what are the rates and contract terms?
• How does the AI phone agent hand off to staff, and what does it cost?
• Can we export golfer, booking and sales data if we leave?

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