One Kiosk, Five Sports — How Multi-Sport Venues Maximise Equipment Rental Revenue

The Short Answer

A modern venue rarely runs just one sport. Convertible courts now host tennis, badminton, squash, padel and pickleball on the same floor.

So why run five rental desks — or none at all?

A single multi-sport equipment rental kiosk plus lockers can stock and dispense gear for all five sports, 24/7, with no staff. That spreads your hardware cost across more players, fills more hours of the day, and smooths the demand peaks and troughs that any one sport leaves behind.

One machine. Five revenue streams. Maximum utilisation per square metre and per dollar of hardware.

Why Multi-Sport Is the Default, Not the Exception

Australian and New Zealand venues are consolidating sports under one roof. Indoor centres convert badminton courts to pickleball in an afternoon. Tennis clubs add padel. Squash centres chase the LA28 Olympic bump.

The participation base across these five sports is large, growing, and — critically — arriving at the same venues.

Add it up and you have well over 2 million participants across five sports, much of it concentrated in the multi-court venues that buyers like you operate. The single-sport pro shop is a relic of a single-sport venue that no longer exists.

The Utilisation Problem One Kiosk Solves

Every individual sport has dead hours. Tennis peaks early morning and evening. Badminton skews to migrant-community midweek nights. Pickleball owns the late-morning social slot. Squash fills lunchtimes.

Run one sport and your rental hardware sits idle most of the day. Run five through one machine and those troughs overlap into something close to continuous demand.

The kiosk doesn’t care which sport the player came for. It dispenses the right racquet or paddle on a tap, returns it to inventory, and logs the rental to the cloud dashboard. Idle hardware becomes earning hardware.

The Economics: Spreading Hardware Cost Across Five Sports

The hardware is the same whether you rent one sport or five. What changes is how many rentals you push through it.

Running fees are deliberately light: a $1/rental + GST management fee and ~1.75% + 26¢ payment processing. No fixed monthly cost — the machine only costs you when it earns.

Here is the difference a diversified sport mix makes to the same hardware:

At 20 rentals/day, the conservative multi-sport case nets ~$5,139/month, hits break-even in roughly 4–5 months, and delivers a Year-1 ROI near 185%. Double the sports, roughly double the throughput — on hardware you only bought once.

A Sydney indoor sports centre that deployed kiosks in late 2022 recouped its hardware cost within about two months, ran 30+ daily rentals, and built 1,000+ customer contacts in months — precisely because its floor served multiple sports and multiple time slots.

Five Sports, One Inventory, One Dashboard

The operational case is as strong as the financial one.

One stocking workflow. Staff (or you, on a quiet visit) load tennis racquets, badminton racquets, squash racquets, padel and pickleball paddles into the same lockers. The dashboard tracks each item by sport.

One analytics view. You see which sport rents hardest, at which hours, and where to add a locker bank. Real-time cloud inventory means you restock before you run out, not after.

One cashless front end. Players tap to pay — card, Apple Pay, Google Pay — for any sport. Cashless e-wallet use in Australia is forecast to grow at 22.54% CAGR to 2034 (source: IMARC Group), and 43% of Australians used mobile contactless payment last year, up from 35% in 2022 (source: RBA Consumer Payment Behaviour Bulletin, May 2026). Just keep the UX dead-simple: roughly 28% of Australians say they avoid self-checkout (source: industry surveys), so a one-tap flow matters.

One footprint. A kiosk plus locker bank occupies a corner. Five staffed rental desks do not. The Australian interactive kiosk market is growing 10.94% CAGR to US$1.8B by 2034 (source: IMARC Group), and the global smart locker market 15.3% CAGR to US$9.1B (source: Verified Market Research) — venues are voting for compact, automated dispensing.

Why Diversification Beats Specialisation

A single-sport rental operation is exposed. If tennis bookings dip for a wet fortnight, the desk earns nothing. A multi-sport kiosk hedges that: pickleball and badminton keep the indoor courts — and the kiosk — busy regardless.

It also future-proofs the purchase. Squash is heading to LA28 and Brisbane 2032. Padel is the fastest-growing racquet sport globally. Pickleball is up 29% year-on-year. You can’t predict which sport spikes next in your catchment — so dispense all of them from one machine and let demand sort itself out.

Make Your Floor Work Harder

If your venue already runs more than one racquet sport, you are almost certainly under-monetising your floor and your foot traffic. A single multi-sport kiosk turns idle hours and unstaffed weekends into a continuous, diversified rental income — on hardware that pays for itself in months.

See the full breakdown on our pricing page, or contact us to map your sport mix and court hours to a kiosk-and-locker configuration. Not sure your site qualifies? Start with a fitting test. And if you operate outside Australia or New Zealand, our global sister brand KioskForce serves your market with the same product.

Data sources: Tennis Australia / AusPlay (Australian Sports Commission); Badminton Australia; Badminton New Zealand; Pickleball Australia (Mar 2026); Squash Australia; IMARC Group (Australia interactive kiosk market); Verified Market Research (smart locker market); RBA Consumer Payment Behaviour Bulletin (May 2026); IMARC Group (e-wallet market).