BOCA RATON, Fla. – Bond Sports, a facility management software group for the recreational sports and fitness industry, has announced a partnership with Black Bear Sports Group, an owner and operator of ice rinks in the United States.
As part of this five-year partnership, Bond Sports software will provide services to Black Bear’s 36 facilities, 34 youth hockey clubs, and four hockey leagues.
“We are so fortunate to have found Bond Sports …,” says Murry N. Gunty, founder and CEO of Black Bear Sports Group. “The youth hockey industry is marred with old technology, none of which can handle enterprise reporting which is so vital for us to bring best-in-class products and services to our customers. Bond, with its customer-first mindset, has helped us to revolutionize and simplify our front-end rink-level registration and point-of-sale system, as well as our back-end scheduling and reporting systems so we can focus on what matters–our skaters in our rinks.”
The partnership makes Bond Sports the end-to-end management platform for all of Black Bear’s business lines, including programming and club registration, facility rentals, and membership management. Bond Sports will also build Black Bear’s websites and run its facility calendars and online payments.
“Black Bear is the largest owner and operator of ice rinks in the United States, and it continues to invest in creating better consumer experiences,” says Marc Rothschild, co-founder and president of Bond Sports. “Murry and his extended team have been fantastic partners, and we look forward to helping fuel Black Bear’s incredible growth.”
According to a media release, Bond Sports aims to drive greater profitability for its recreational sports and fitness facility customers by “improving online registration experiences for consumers, delivering a more intuitive administrative interface that staff can easily learn and use, and offering enterprise-level financial reporting and analytics.”
“While the recreational sports and fitness industries continue to grow rapidly, they have not had the software to easily manage and understand the key drivers of their business,” says Matt Minoff, co-founder and CEO of Bond Sports. “Bond Sports is the first software platform that helps owners and operators unify their business on one holistic platform across all of their locations and business lines.”
