Run the Whole Facility. Not Just the Back Office.
Most sports facility software was built for the operator's dashboard — not for your customers. That means clients calling to book, emailing to cancel, and staff manually processing payments. Orhuk is two-sided by design: a full admin dashboard for your team and a live, branded booking site your customers use on their own. Live the same hour you sign up. Free to start.
Why Operators Switch to Orhuk
Orhuk is two-sided. Upper Hand is one.
Upper Hand has a customer portal, but Orhuk's booking experience is designed from the ground up to be customer-facing — not an add-on to the operator dashboard. Orhuk generates a live, branded booking site alongside your admin dashboard. Customers discover availability, book, pay, and sign waivers entirely on their own. Your staff focuses on delivering the service, not processing reservations.
AI setup vs. days of onboarding calls
Getting configured on Upper Hand typically takes days of guided calls. Orhuk's AI reads your facility type and configures your resources, pricing, staff, and booking rules in a single session — including payment setup. Most operators are live the same hour they sign up. No calls, no onboarding fees, no waiting.
Free forever. Nothing to upgrade.
Upper Hand requires a paid subscription before you've taken a single booking. Orhuk is free forever — a fully live system with a real booking page, real transactions, and real staff access, with no monthly fee ever. You pay a flat 3% per transaction on the bookings you actually take, and there are no tiers to upgrade into: every account gets the entire platform from day one.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does Orhuk support the same sports training features as Upper Hand?
- Yes — and more. Staff scheduling, private lesson booking, event and program management, membership tiers, session packs, digital waivers, and a live customer-facing booking site are all built in. Orhuk also handles multi-resource facilities (courts, rooms, equipment) and supports university-scale operations. The only narrow edge case: if you run a structured coaching academy where athlete progress tracking and parent portals are the primary product, compare that specific feature. For all other sports facility operations, Orhuk covers it — and the customer experience is significantly better.
- Does Orhuk have a customer-facing app like Upper Hand?
- Orhuk generates a branded booking site for your facility — customers access it on any device without downloading an app. No app download friction, no Orhuk branding — just your facility's name and logo on a fast, mobile-optimized booking page.
- How does Orhuk pricing compare to Upper Hand long-term?
- For most independent sports facilities, Orhuk is significantly cheaper. Orhuk is free forever — there's no monthly subscription at all, just a flat 3% per transaction. Upper Hand's tiers, based on available market data, run $99–199+/mo before payment processing. Card processing on Orhuk is separate and runs through your own Stripe account at standard Stripe rates, the same as you'd pay anywhere.
- I use Upper Hand for coaching staff management. Can Orhuk handle that?
- Yes. Orhuk supports staff scheduling, task assignment, and linking specific trainers to bookable services — so customers can choose and book a specific trainer directly from the booking site, on their own, without calling. You also get full waiver management, membership tracking, and automated reminders tied to each booking. For dedicated coaching academies that need structured athlete progress portfolios and parent portals as the core product, that's a feature to evaluate specifically.