Your facility, booked.
We bring the players.
CageList lists 3,300+ places to hit and sends players to book lessons, camps and teams today, and cage time once you turn online booking on. You keep your brand and your website. We run the scheduling and the payments.
- $0 setup
- No contract
- Paid 48 hours after each session
Paid
1 hour · 3 players · booked from your website
You receive$47.50
New review
After a completed session, on your page
booked from your website
Paid
$47.50
$0 setupNo contractPaid 48 hours after each session
You didn't open a facility to run software.
The booking tools built for facilities charge a setup fee, lock you into a year, and only serve the customers you already have. Then they leave you with an empty events page.
- setup, instead of a four-figure onboarding fee
- contract. Month to month, cancel any time
- places listed. Players search here and land on your page
- Training facilities and academies listed
- Public fields
Six tools. One page.
Everything a facility sells, on one page that also ranks in search. No add-ons, no second login.
| Today you pay for | On CageList |
|---|---|
| Cage booking, a facility scheduling app | Every space listed and priced free, real-time booking once you turn it on |
| Lessons, Acuity, Calendly, texts | Lessons by coach, with the cage blocked automatically |
| Camps and clinics, Google Forms, Eventbrite | Registration with a start time, a roster and an image |
| Team dues, Venmo, TeamSnap, a spreadsheet | Travel teams with rosters, schedules and monthly dues |
| Your website, GoDaddy, Wix | Keep it. Point every button at your CageList page. |
A facility page that does the selling.
This is a real one: First Class Prospects in Rosemont, Illinois, on the pilot. Spaces, coaches, camps, teams, hours, reviews and a booking rail, edited from your phone.
cagelist.com/listing/d28339c4-bd3b-481b-9f27-013b2cfda912
Three steps, no sales call.
Claim your page
Most facilities are already listed. Find yours, verify by phone or email, and it is yours to edit.
Build it out
Add your spaces, hours and prices. Set up coaches, camps and travel teams if you have them. Free, no card, most of it from your phone.
Ask us to turn on booking
Connect Stripe and request online booking. We're switching facilities on one at a time during the pilot, at 5% all-in. Released two days after each session, then Stripe's standard bank timing.
Two rates. Nothing up front.
When we bring you the customer, we take a small cut from both sides. When you bring your own people through your own site, we are the rails and take almost nothing.
Claim it, edit it, keep it forever. No card required.
Lead form, visitor counts, your own page button, owner card. Free for founding facilities through March 31, 2027.
5% of each booking. Players pay no booking fee, and CageList pays the card fee out of that 5%.
Against the tools facilities pay for today.
Software such as The Futures App does things CageList doesn't: video analysis, drill libraries. On the parts a facility pays for, here is the comparison.
| What | CageList | Typical facility software |
|---|---|---|
| Setup fee | $0 | Not published. Quoted per order form. |
| Contract | Month to month. Cancel any time. | One-year term, auto-renews. 90-day written notice. Fees non-refundable. |
| Fee on your bookings | 5% of the booking, card fee included | 4% to 4.9% plus $0.70 per transaction, on top of a platform fee. |
| Where players come from | We bring them. Your page ranks in local search and sits in a directory players already browse. | Serves the customers you already have. |
Real buildings, real bookings.
What nobody tells you going in
The first one I ever watched open was in Farmington, New Mexico, in 2005. The man who had been my host family at the Connie Mack World Series built it with the head coach from one of the local high schools: multiple tunnels, a ProBatter machine, the real thing. I spent five weeks in that building the summer I was nineteen. They had the money to do it right and they did it for the love of it, and it was still a grind every single month. Since then I have watched the same story play out in the batting cage groups on Facebook over and over. A dad wants his town to have the good indoor spot, mostly for his own kid, puts a loan or an inheritance into it, and a few years later is selling the turf and the machines off one piece at a time.
Nobody publishes what these owners actually take home. The biggest franchise in the business does not disclose it at all, so everything anybody tells you, me included, is a read rather than a fact. My read is that the ones who make it are running a lot of club teams and lessons on top of the tunnels and grinding at it for years. My old teammate Wes Long in Seattle is the best example I know, and nobody I know works harder. Most everyone else is working nights, weekends and every school break for less than you would guess. If more owners heard that going in, a lot of them would take a smaller bite, and the smaller bite is what we are trying to make viable. Your page here is free, the baseball and softball families searching your town land on it, and when you are ready you can open specific hours for online booking and keep running everything else exactly the way you run it today.
Founder of CageList. Seven pro seasons in five countries, and a decade of lessons since.
What facility owners ask first.
Do I need my own website?
No. Your CageList page is a complete booking page: spaces, hours, prices, coaches, classes and teams. If you already have a site, keep it and point its buttons here. If you don't, this is the page you send people to.
What if I already use another batting cage or scheduling software?
Keep it as long as you want: eSoft Planner, Swift, The Futures App, Baseline (formerly StatStak), Acuity, Calendly, whatever you run today. Claiming your CageList page is free and takes a few minutes, and it means players who find you here can book or call instead of bouncing. Before you switch anything, check your current contract's renewal date and notice window. Nothing has to migrate: spaces, hours and prices are set up by hand in an afternoon.
Who handles refunds and cancellations?
You choose a cancellation policy for your facility: flexible, moderate or strict. A player who cancels before the deadline gets a full refund; after it, they get half back as CageList credit. CageList processes the refund and handles the support conversation.
Your page is probably already here. Take it.
Claiming is free, takes a few minutes, and nothing about your current setup has to change today.
Not listed yet? Add a new facility. Same page, same price.
