For bowling centres and league officers
League money,
handled properly.
LaneTab League collects dues at the front desk the way you already do, pays the centre its lineage first, and keeps every account visible to the officers who are accountable for it. The books reconcile to the cent, every week, without anyone keeping a spreadsheet.
USBC-aware by design · Officers see everything · Reconciled to the cent
Compliance
The USBC clocks and rules, tracked for you.
Convenience
Two taps at the desk. Works when the Wi-Fi doesn't.
Visibility
Every officer sees every account, at any time.
Accountability
A double-entry ledger, attested by two parties.
Compliance
Written around the USBC rules, not bolted on after.
League officers are volunteers, not finance professionals, and the rules they are held to are genuinely easy to miss. The dividing line in the rule most relevant to a service like this one is narrower than most people assume, so it is worth quoting exactly.
Leagues using a third-party online service to collect league dues without league officer access risk violation of USBC Rule 17b-4 and invalidation of bonding coverage.USBC — Debit Cards, Online and Mobile Banking, §5b
The condition that invalidates bonding is the absence of officer access — not the use of a third party. USBC explicitly accepts a service where an officer “has access to the account and can view the account at any time.” So that is the design: officers can always see the money, and no single person can move it alone. A system that locked officers out would void the very bonding it was meant to protect.
Every clock a league is held to
These are tracked for you and surfaced before they expire — ranked by consequence, so what threatens bonding appears above what is merely late.
Money in flight is labelled
USBC bonding does not cover funds until they reach the league account, and the bond is $10,000. We show what is covered and what is still in transit rather than let a league assume protection it does not yet have.
The account is the league’s own
In the league’s name, with two-signature withdrawals and a statement to the president. We check that structure and tell you which part is missing — not merely that something is.
The audit packet is generated
The audit committee’s work stops being an evening of shoeboxes and photocopies. Every figure traces to the entry that produced it, and nothing in the ledger can have been quietly edited.
Convenience
It looks exactly like league night already does.
We are digitising a workflow that works, not replacing it. Bowlers still pay at the desk. What changes is that nobody writes it down twice.
The desk takes payment
Two taps per bowler on a terminal that keeps working when the Wi-Fi drops. Cash, card or ACH. Partial payments and paying ahead are both normal, not exceptions.
The waterfall splits it
Lineage to the centre, prize fund, USBC sanction fees, and the secretary’s stipend — split the moment the money settles, in that order, to the cent.
Everyone can see it
Bowlers see their own balance. Officers see every account, every week, including money that has not arrived yet.
Season end pays out
The prize list is locked, two officers approve, and the money goes to each bowler’s own account — no cheques to write, no banquet-night envelope.
Payments
Money in by ACH. Money out by ACH.
Bank transfer is the cheapest rail in both directions and the one that suits a league best: dues are the same amount every week, and prizes go to people who already gave you their details. Cards work everywhere too — nobody is forced onto a rail.
Collecting
A bowler authorises their bank once and the weekly amount is taken automatically thereafter — or they pay at the desk each week, by cash, card or bank. Partial payments and paying ahead are ordinary, not exceptions to be worked around.
Paying out
Prizes land in each bowler’s own account by bank transfer. No cheques to write, no envelopes at the banquet, and nobody has to be present to be paid. An instant transfer is available if someone wants it, priced to them and shown before they choose.
What actually makes a league night simpler
Weekly billing slips
Printed per bowler with a QR code that opens straight to what they owe — no hunting for the right person on a paper sheet.
Autopay, batched
One authorisation, then it just happens. Batching a bowler's weeks together cuts processing cost substantially versus charging each week separately.
Pay ahead or partially
Prepaid money is held as the bowler's credit and drawn down as weeks are assessed. It never funds a prize for a week nobody has bowled.
Absent, sub, pre-bowl, blind
Each changes what is owed that week, and the rules are configurable per league rather than hard-coded to one centre's custom.
Sweepers and side pots
Billed on their own schedule, with the centre's lineage still coming out first — a sweeper uses lanes like anything else.
Team payments split properly
One payment from a captain is divided by what each member actually owes, and every member's remaining shortfall is reported individually.
Visibility
Nobody has to ask where the money is.
Most friction in a league year is not disagreement — it is not knowing. A bowler who cannot see what they have paid asks the secretary. A secretary who cannot see what has settled asks the centre. All of that disappears when everyone reads the same ledger.
Bowlers
What they owe, what they have paid, and the prize fund balance — given the same weight as their own balance, because it is their money too.
Officers
Every account, at any time, including what is owed and what is still in transit. Read access is unrestricted; that is the point of it.
The centre
Every league you run, in one console, with lineage owed and lineage paid separated so you are never reconciling from memory.
Accountability
Four things the ledger will not let you break.
These are not policies someone has to remember. They are properties of a double-entry ledger that refuses to record anything that would violate them.
Officers are never left holding money
No cash to bank, no cheques to chase, no personal liability for a float. Volunteers keep the responsibility they signed up for and lose the part that keeps them awake.
Every dollar is attested twice
The desk records what it took and the ledger records what arrived. A figure only one side has seen is not a balance — it is a discrepancy, and it is shown as one.
Lineage transfers gross, and first
The centre’s share is never reduced by a processing fee and never waits behind anything else. It is the first posting in the waterfall.
The prize fund stays the prize fund
It is not a general balance, and it cannot be spent on something else mid-season. It disburses directly to each bowler, in the amounts the prize list says.
Two approvals, and a pause
A payout needs two officers and waits 48 hours. Any change to a destination account freezes payouts for five days and re-opens the approvals.
Corrections, never deletions
Nothing in the ledger is edited or removed. A mistake is fixed with a reversing entry that points at the original, so the history stays readable.
Delinquency is shown honestly
Assessing dues never credits the prize fund — only settled money does. So the balance has been truthful all season, and unpaid weeks appear as a variance with names and dates attached.
Pricing
A discount for cash. Never a surcharge.
Surcharging debit cards is prohibited outright, and at a front desk most cards are debit. So there is one posted price and every cheaper rail is quoted as a discount beneath it — legal in all fifty states, with no network registration. There is no debit-or-credit question anywhere in the product, because asking it is what creates the problem.
The league banks the same amount whichever rail a bowler picks — lineage and the prize fund do not move. And the platform is never paid out of the prize fund or the centre’s lineage; there is no configuration in which that is expressible.
Get started
Three ways in.
Bowling centres
- Lineage first, gross, every week
- Run 20+ leagues from one console
- The desk terminal works offline
- Set the policy every league asks about
League officers
- See every account, any time
- Compliance clocks tracked for you
- Audit packet generated, not assembled
- Keep the role, lose the paperwork
Bowlers
- What you owe, and what you’ve paid
- Where the prize fund is, in full
- Pay ahead or partially, any week
- A phone number — no password