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Coaching, booked by the hour.

ConnectCoach puts players in the Philippines in touch with coaches near them, for any sport and level. Students book the hour that fits their week. Coaches fill the hours they set aside.

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Pickleball paddles and balls on a court, with a circle of players' feet around them

Coach Mika R.

4.9 out of 5

Pickleball · Makati

from ₱500 / person / hr

Why it matters

Spend your hours coaching, not chasing bookings.

Posts, DMs and headcounts eat the week before anyone is on court. ConnectCoach takes that part off your hands, so the hours you set aside turn into sessions.

1

Your calendar

Every session, in one calendar.

A booking lands on your calendar the moment you accept it: who is coming, which court, and how many seats are left. See the month at a glance or the day in detail, on your phone or on the web.

  • Month and day views
  • Group seats and open hours at a glance
  • A reminder before every session
Lia T. in 1 hour
2

Get found

Students near your courts find you.

Players looking for a coach see the ones closest to them, with your price range, rating and badges up front. The stronger your record, the higher you appear.

  • Ranked by distance to the courts you teach at
  • Verified and PHPA Certified badges
  • A credibility score that lifts you up the list
A student saved you
3

Session plans

Coming soon

A plan for every session, and a record of every student.

Students pick what they want to improve, like their backhand. In the session details you get a suggested plan for it to recommend to them. Afterwards, note how it went and save their progress, so the next session picks up where this one left off.

  • A suggested plan for what the student picked
  • Your notes after every session
  • Progress you can look back on
Plan sent to Lia

And the rest of your week

Your coaching, your terms.

  • Your rates, per sport and group size
  • Your courts and your hours
  • Nothing is booked until you accept
  • Students pay you directly, by QR or cash

Once you're verified, students near your courts can find and book you.

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Requests come to you

When a student can't find an hour that fits, Find me a coach sends their request to coaches in range whose rates fit. Accept it, and they choose.

Fuller courts

Open an hour to a group with a seat cap. Students join until it's full, each paying from your group rates.

Ratings you earned

Only students who completed a session with you can rate it, and every session adds to your record.

All in one place

Requests, calendar, chat and alerts in the app, and on the coach website when you're at a laptop.

The market

A country that plays, and a coach who is hard to find.

Pickleball, tennis and badminton courts keep opening, from city clubs to mall rooftops. Booking a coach for them still happens one message at a time.

18,000+

registered players with the Philippine Pickleball Federation

277

clubs nationwide (Oct 2025)

86

courts across 29 SM malls alone — the largest mall network, and still expanding

2026

the first Philippine Amateur Nationals, a national player registry and rankings, and a pro league (Pickle Yard Conference League)

Pickleball in the Philippines

From Metro Manila to Mindanao, everyone’s picking up a paddle.

Clubs, malls and neighbourhood courts keep adding pickleball, and players are signing up faster than coaches can answer their DMs. ConnectCoach isn’t limited to a few cities: wherever coaches sign up and get verified, players nearby can find and book them.

Pickleball court

The problem

Coaching runs on group chats.

Coaches advertise in Facebook groups and answer DMs one by one. Students scroll, message, and wait. Both sides lose hours before anyone is on court.

Today: posts, DMs and word of mouth
A tennis coach sits on a courtside bench, head in hand, staring at a phone

Coaches

Every booking is a chase.

  1. 1Post in Facebook groups
  2. 2Answer the DMs
  3. 3Agree a time and a priceWhere most bookings stall
  4. 4Booked session

Most of a coach’s effort goes into conversations that never become a session.

A player sits on a courtside bench, frowning at a phone

Students

Nobody knows who’s good, or who’s free.

  • No way to compare

    Coaches are scattered across posts, pages and group chats, each with a different rate.

  • No reviews to trust

    There is no record of who actually played with a coach, or how it went.

  • Scheduling by chat

    Finding a free hour takes a dozen messages, and often never lands.

The solution

Coaching, out of the group chat.

Students near your courts find you and book your open hours, or post what they want for the first coach who fits to take. Every request lands in one place, and nobody pays until you say yes.

Get discovered

Students near your courts find you.

Players nearby see coaches ranked by their nearest court. Your price, your court and your next free hour are on your card, so they can pick you without messaging first.

Student's phone

Get booked

One screen, not forty messages.

Students book you from your profile, your open hours or a group with seats left. Each request comes with everything answered, and nothing is charged until you say yes.

Find me a coach

Work you didn’t have to chase.

When a student can’t find the right hour, they post what they want, when and their budget from Connect Now. If you’re in range, free then and your rates fit, you hear the moment it’s posted. Say you can take it, and the student chooses from every coach who did.

For coaches

Your day, on one screen.

Your dashboard opens on what needs you, with a count for sessions to approve and requests near you. Each session on your day says where it stands in one line, with Approve right on the card, and nobody pays until you approve.

No DMs. No haggling. Just the hour, booked.

Why switch

Everything social media makes you do by hand.

ConnectCoach fills the hours you already set aside. You keep your rates, your courts and your say over every booking.

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Social mediaConnectCoach
Getting found
Post and hope the algorithm shows it
Listed to players near the courts you teach at
Scheduling
Back-and-forth in DMs
Your weekly hours, bookable by the hour
Pricing
Haggled message by message
Your rates, per sport and group size
Reputation
Screenshots of old comments
Ratings from students who completed a session
Groups
Headcounts in a group chat
Group blocks with seat caps

Coach hub

Requests come to you.

Each request arrives with everything you need to say yes: who is coming, their level, the court, the hour and what it pays. Every coach in range sees it at the same moment, and the student chooses from the coaches who accept.

New requestSent to 6 coaches

Group of 3 · Intermediate

Makati Sports Club · 2.4 km

Sat, 8:00–10:00 AM

Total

₱3,000

  1. Step 1

    Set up your profile

    The sports you teach, your levels and your rates.

  2. Step 2

    Publish your hours

    Weekly availability, with overrides for the odd weeks.

  3. Step 3

    Accept what fits

    Requests arrive with the group, level, court and time. You approve or decline.

  4. Step 4

    Coach and get rated

    Every completed session adds to your rating.

Your reputation

Every session builds your name.

On social media, your track record is scattered across old posts and comments. Here it lives on your profile as a credibility score: verified, rated by students you actually coached, and growing with every session.

  • A credibility score you earn

    Out of 100, from your ratings, the sessions you keep, students who come back, the requests you answer and being Verified. A higher score moves you up in Discover.

  • Verified, and PHPA Certified

    Pass our ID check for the Verified badge. Pickleball coaches can add their PHPA certificate for the PHPA Certified badge, and both count towards your score.

  • Ratings you actually earned

    Only students who completed a session with you can rate it. Nobody you never coached gets a say.

  • You decide who you coach

    Nothing is booked until you accept it. If a student crosses a line, report them privately to our team.

Your profile, as students see it

Coach Mika R.

VerifiedPHPA Certified
4.9 out of 5

Rating

126

Sessions coached

PickleballTennisMakati
92

Credibility

Proven

How is this worked out?
  • Student rating27 / 30
  • Reliability24 / 25
  • Experience16 / 20
  • Answering requests10 / 10
  • Verified15 / 15

Coming soon

What we are building next.

A profile coaches can share anywhere, wallet top-ups for every coach and student you bring in, coaching that isn’t limited to the courts near you, and new ways to book: with a court, in packages and in clinics.

Coming soon

Shareable profiles

One link with your sports, courts, rates and ratings. Put it in your bio, your posts and your group chats, and students book you straight from it.

Coming soon

Video chat for online coaching

The right coach isn’t always near you. Coaches outside your area can still train you, over video chat inside the app.

  1. 1Find a coach who isn’t in your area.
  2. 2Book an online session with them.
  3. 3Meet over video chat, right inside the ConnectCoach app.
Coming soon

Refer coaches and students, top up for free

Share your own link or code. Every coach or student who signs up with it and finishes a first session earns you ₱15 in your wallet, for up to 100 referrals: as much as ₱1,500 toward your fees.

  1. 1Copy your link or code from your dashboard or profile
  2. 2A coach or a student signs up with it
  3. 3They finish their first session, and ₱15 lands in your wallet
  • Coming soon

    Courts integration

    Book a coach together with a court, in one booking. No separate message to the club to reserve a slot.

  • Coming soon

    Student packages

    Bundle sessions into one package at your own price. Students buy it once and book each session from it.

  • Coming soon

    Coaching clinics

    Coach 10 to 20 students at once, in a session built around a single skill like serving or footwork.

The platform fee

You keep 94%.

The 6% platform fee is what keeps students finding you and your bookings running, so your time goes to coaching instead of chasing DMs.

94%

is yours

On a ₱500 session

  • ₱470 to you (94%)
  • ₱30 platform fee (6%)

What the 6% covers

  • Getting you found

    Your profile in front of players near the courts you teach at, and Find me a coach requests sent your way.

  • Running your bookings

    Requests, approvals and your schedule in one app, instead of a thread of DMs.

  • Keeping it trustworthy

    Coach verification, ratings only from real sessions, and a team to report problems to.

  • Your rates stay yours

    You set them per sport and level. The fee comes out of each booked session, so we only do well when you’re getting booked.

Wallet and receipts

Students pay you. The fee comes from your wallet.

Students pay you directly, by your QR or in cash at the court. Our 6% comes out of your wallet, which you top up ahead, held when you approve a booking and taken only once the session is done.

  • Peso for peso, from your wallet

    Approving a ₱1,000 session holds ₱60 from your wallet. The court fee is never charged a fee, and you start with a free ₱500 Starter top-up.

  • Held, then taken after the session

    The fee is taken a day after the session ends. Decline, let a request expire, or have the booking cancelled by you or the student, and it comes back to your wallet.

  • Top up what you need

    Top up from ₱300 to ₱5,000, with up to ₱200 free on the bigger amounts, by GCash, Maya or QR Ph. Topping up opens soon; your Starter top-up covers your first bookings.

  • Receipts, so both sides know it's paid

    The student sends a photo of their payment and you tap Got it. Paid in cash? Take the photo yourself. Photos are deleted 60 days after the session.

Why a wallet

ConnectCoach runs on a prepaid wallet, not in-app payments.

We kept the part that already works: your students pay you directly, and the money is yours the moment they do. Our fee comes from your wallet, topped up ahead, never out of your pay.

ConnectCoachHow we work: your wallet

Your student pays you. That’s it.

  • Yours the moment they pay, by your QR, GCash, Maya, bank or cash
  • The full price reaches you, with nothing taken out
  • No tax papers to send us before you can earn

Lia pays

₱1,000

You get

₱1,000

Our 6% comes from your wallet, topped up ahead, and you start with a free Starter top-up.

In-app payments

Not how we work

The student pays our app, then our app pays you.

What we could have built: you’d get your money from ConnectCoach, not from your student.

Before we could pay you out, we’d need

  • Your TINYour tax identification number
  • Your CORBIR Form 2303, your certificate of registration
  • A sworn declarationThat you earn under ₱3 million a year, notarized

Then we’d pay you out later, less the fee and often payout charges and withheld tax.

A ConnectCoach wallet against in-app payments

ConnectCoachwallet

Who the student pays

You, straight to your GCash, Maya, bank or hand

Before you can earn

No tax papers to send us. Set up and take bookings

When it's yours

The moment your student pays

What reaches you

The full price. The 6% was paid ahead from your wallet

How students pay

However you take it today: QR, GCash, Maya, bank or cash

In-app: student → our app → youNot how we work

Who the student pays

Our app, which holds it until we pay you out

Before you can earn

TIN, COR and a sworn declaration that you earn under ₱3M a year

When it's yours

When we pay you out, often a day or more later

What reaches you

The price, less the fee, and often payout charges and withheld tax

How students pay

Only the ways our app supports

Your own taxes stay yours to handle, the same as today. The papers are what we would have to ask for if our app took the student’s payment and paid you out; this isn’t tax advice.

Roadmap

Built, and next.

In the latest build

  • Discover by distance, PHPA certification and credibility
  • Connect Now: Find me a coach, or join a public session
  • One-screen booking, with hours chained up to four
  • Group rates by group size, and sessions others can join
  • Coach approval, with answer and pay windows
  • Verified ID checks and PHPA Certified badges
  • Credibility score, from New coach to Established to Proven
  • In-app chat and session reminders
  • Ratings from completed sessions
  • Private reporting for both sides

Next

  • A prepaid wallet for the platform fee, and payment receiptsComing soon
  • Shareable coach profilesComing soon
  • Session plans and progress notesComing soon
  • Video chat for online coachingComing soon
  • Courts integration: book a coach and a court togetherComing soon
  • Student packagesComing soon
  • Coaching clinics for 10 to 20 studentsComing soon
  • Coach types beyond sports: fitness and lifestyleComing soon

Questions

Before you sign up.

Soon, on the App Store and Google Play. Join the waitlist as a coach and we'll reach out to get you set up and verified. Once you're verified, students near your courts can find and book you.

Be on court the day it opens.

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Contact us

Questions before you join?

Getting listed, setting your rates, getting verified, partnering with us: write to us and someone on the team replies by email.

Coaches
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Players
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