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Clubhouse check-in
Staff create a group, scan putters into it, and optionally name players. Broken putter? Swap the NFC tag without losing scores.
NFC · Touch kiosks · Outdoor hole boxes
Score mini golf with a tap of the putter
PuttTap is the on-course scoring system for mini-golf. Each putter carries an NFC tag. Staff check groups in at the clubhouse. Golfers tap at every hole — on a touch kiosk or a weatherproof hole box — and the whole party shares one live card.
Outdoor hole box — e-ink group card, digit window, three waterproof buttons, NFC pad.
How a round works
From putter checkout to the last hole, every station writes the same clubhouse card.
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Tap at the hole
The golfer taps their putter to the reader. Indoor kiosks open a full scorecard. Hole boxes wake the e-ink card for that group.
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Enter strokes
Touch pad on a kiosk, or minus / plus / check on the box. The save is that hole only. A dropped LAN queues the score and uploads it later.
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Live group board
When everyone in the group has scored the hole, the group advances automatically. Running totals and the gallery leaderboard stay shared.
Four stations, one scorecard
The same clubhouse API powers the desk, the course, the gallery TV, and the outdoor boxes.
Course · Indoor
Golfer kiosk
- Tap putter → personal scorecard
- Large touch pad for strokes 1–15
- Hole summary, totals, group board
- Screen sleep after idle; demo Simulate Tap
Course · Outdoor
Hole box
- One box bolted to one hole
- 7-inch e-ink group card + digit window
- Three waterproof buttons: − / ✓ / +
- Rain-ready enclosure, compact Pi-class board
Desk · Management
Clubhouse
- Create and manage active groups
- Scan putters in at check-out
- Rename players and look up tags
- Replace a broken putter mid-round
Gallery · TV
Leaderboard
- Today’s best rounds on a large monitor
- Scan a putter to open that group’s card
- Idles back to the daily board
- Same Linux kiosk app as the desk
Designed for real courses
Centralized scoring, hardware that survives the fairway, and a stack you run on-site.
NFC putter identity
Each putter is a durable NFC tag. Golfers don’t type codes — they tap and play.
Indoor or outdoor holes
Capacitive 7-inch kiosks inside. Weatherproof hole boxes with buttons and e-ink outside.
Shared clubhouse API
FastAPI + PostgreSQL so every station sees the same groups, members, and scores.
Auto hole advance
When every active player has scored, the group’s current hole moves forward for the whole party.
Offline score queue
If the LAN drops, a hole save stays on the station and uploads when the clubhouse is reachable.
Putter swap & demo
Replace a broken shaft without wiping the card. Simulate Tap with IDs like TAG001 for sales demos.
Inside the app
Screens from the PuttTap kiosk client — golfer and clubhouse flows.
Captured from the PuttTap kiosk client in tablet landscape (1280×800) with sample mid-round data.
What you need on site
A practical kit for a 9- or 18-hole course — mix indoor kiosks and outdoor boxes.
- One clubhouse station for check-in and group management
- Clubhouse API on the LAN (Docker: FastAPI + PostgreSQL)
- Per hole: a touch kiosk or a weatherproof hole box
- NFC reader at each station (USB ACR122U-class or UART PN532)
- NFC tags affixed to putter grips or heads
- Optional gallery TV for the daily leaderboard
- Optional course par CSV for the card
- Linux-friendly PCs, tablets, or Raspberry Pi-class boards
Bring PuttTap to your course
Whether you’re modernizing an existing mini-golf park or designing a new experience, we can walk through a live demo, station layout, and rollout plan.