Standalone Packages
Standalone packages are pass bundles that Customers can buy directly from your club’s packages page, without signing up for a Membership. You build them from the same Package Templates area you use for membership benefits, and you turn on Standalone and add price, visibility, and how long purchased passes stay valid.
Staff can also grant a standalone package to a single Customer from the Dashboard (for example when you are selling a pack at the desk and need to charge the Customer’s card on file). That flow uses a short checkout preview, then charges the Customer’s default booking payment method and creates the package.
Use this when your club sells packs or punch cards (for example Open Play Passes or Credits) as one-time purchases.
See which templates are sold standalone
Navigate to Package Templates in the Dashboard
Click the Standalone tab
Look at the Available for Sale column — templates showing Yes are currently offered for direct purchase
Set how standalone purchases expire
After Standalone is on, the Duration section explains how long passes last after a Customer buys this package standalone (read the help text on the screen for each choice).
Choose Days — then enter Duration (in days)
Choose Fixed date — then pick Expiry Date
Choose Never expire — passes from this purchase do not auto-expire by time
Price, shop order, and links
Enter Price — this is what the Customer is charged to purchase this package when buying standalone (required when Standalone is on)
Optional: set Display Priority — controls order on the club packages page (lower numbers appear first, per the field help)
Enter Slug / Deep link URL — short text used in links; it should be unique. It often fills in from the display name—you can edit it for clean sharing
Set Send charges to Area — stores the area (not a Stripe account id); charges use that area’s linked Stripe account. This is separate from Tax Region (which taxes apply) and from Available at (where the package is sold). Required when more than one area is available. When your club or account only has one area (or you can manage only one), PodPlay selects that area automatically and hides this field.
Package groups (variants vs mixed bundles)
When Standalone is on, Publish in package group controls how the package appears on the customer Packages page:
Same pass type only (homogeneous) — All rows in Passes are the same kind (for example only open play passes). You must pick a package group. Use one group for size variants (3-pack, 5-pack, 10-pack). Every template in that group must use the same pass type.
Mixed pass types (heterogeneous) — The bundle includes more than one pass type (for example court reservations and replay passes). Group selection is locked to Uncategorized. Customers see each bundle as its own card with a breakdown of what is inside.
If a package group is used for multiple offerings, Customers will have the option to select from the different package choices once on the Order Summary page of the purchase flow.
Archive a standalone package template
If you want to retire a standalone template without deleting it, use Archive. Archived templates:
Are hidden from the public packages page and from the grant picker on customer profiles
Cannot be purchased or granted until you unarchive them
Can be found in the Package Templates board by enabling Show archived in Filters, where they appear with an Archived tag
To archive:
Open the standalone template in Package Templates
Click the ⋯ (actions) button in the drawer footer, then select Archive
If Archive is greyed out, the template is still linked to at least one membership — unlink it first.
To restore, open the archived template from the board (with Show archived on), then open the ⋯ menu and click Unarchive.
Tips
Match Display Name to what you want Customers to read at checkout
Keep Slug short and unique if you share direct links to a specific package
Use Display Priority to put your most important bundles at the top of the packages page (lower numbers appear first — 0 is before 10)
When granting Standalone Packages from the Dashboard, double-check the Checkout totals before Confirm purchase—taxes can differ from the template list price alone
On a Customer’s profile under Packages, you can use the pencil icon to adjust pass counts for some item types. Virtual credits and Replay credits rows do not offer that edit control—changing those numbers on the profile would not change the Customer’s actual virtual credit or replay balance; fix mistakes by following your club’s support or billing process.
Changing Virtual credits or Replay credits amounts on a template only affects future purchases; it does not reclaim value from Customers who already received a grant.
For general template setup (membership-focused fields, regrant, delete rules), see Create and Manage Package Templates
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