Tennis Club Membership Card Printing
CP Cards have been supplying Tennis Club membership cards to UK clubs and organisations for over 30 years.
Every card is printed here in England, no overseas production and delays.
Orders start from just 25 cards, free delivery is included as standard, and we'll email you a photorealistic proof before anything goes to print.
Tennis clubs typically need membership cards that double as court-booking ID, especially where booking systems check membership status before releasing a court slot. We can include a barcode or QR code that integrates with common tennis club booking software, and many clubs order a fresh batch each season to reflect updated coaching or ladder-league status.
About our Plastic Tennis Club Membership Cards
Example Tennis Club Membership Card Prices 760 microns thick
| Quantity | Price from |
|---|---|
| 25 | £75.00 |
| 50 | £79.00 |
| 100 | £85.00 |
| 200 | £99.00 | 250 | £109.00 |
| 500Popular | £175.00 |
| 1000 | £245.00 |
Prices include free UK delivery & for one design to be printed from your print ready artwork sent to the correct specifications, see our artwork guide.
Prices exclude VAT & optional extras.
Need a different quantity? Contact us for a quote.
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Tennis Club Membership Cards printed
Tennis clubs play outdoors twelve months a year, and a great many now run a gated court with a fob. That combination — year-round outdoor use and an access credential — is what shapes the card.
Solid PVC, full colour on both sides, free delivery within Great Britain, from 25 cards, with RFID available so members carry one thing instead of two.
There are tennis club membership card examples below, and the full specification is on our membership card printing page.
What Tennis Clubs Print on a Membership Card
Club name, member name, membership number and category go on the front, along with the year. Tennis clubs tend to have a wide spread of categories — full adult, junior, student, family, off-peak, social and coaching-only — and it is worth making the category legible at a glance, because it is what determines court access at peak times.
Clubs with a junior programme often print the coaching stage on junior cards. Where children are grouped by a colour-coded stage, having it on the card lets a coach sort a Saturday morning group without a register.
Floodlight entitlement is the tennis-specific one. Many clubs meter their floodlights and either include an allowance or charge for use, and printing a member’s entitlement on the card avoids the conversation happening on a dark court in November. The reverse then carries court booking arrangements, gate access, how the floodlights are operated, guest court fees and coaching programme times.
Outdoor Courts and a Twelve-Month Season
British tennis clubs play outdoors all year. That means a membership card used at a court gate in February rain as readily as in July sun, carried in a racket bag that has been standing on wet grass, and handled by people who have just come off a court.
Printed paper cards do not last that, and laminated ones fail at the corner where the seal lifts. Our tennis club cards are 760-micron solid PVC with the design sealed beneath the card’s surface, so there is no film to peel, rain does nothing, and a racket frame or a tube of balls in the same bag will not scratch the print away.
There is a second reason to use plastic here that is easy to overlook: if the card operates a gate, it has to keep working. A card that has gone soft or warped will not sit properly against a reader, and the member ends up standing at a locked gate.
Court Gate Access and Other Options
Gate access is where tennis clubs get the most out of their cards. A great many clubs run a keyed or fob-operated court gate, which means members carry a membership card and a separate fob. An RFID card — 1K or 4K Mifare or Fudan — can be the membership card and the gate credential at once, replacing the fob entirely. They are supplied unencoded, so you write your own data to them, which is worth knowing before you order.
If your courts are booked through a system rather than a gate, a barcode will usually do the job instead. Code39 is the most widely supported, with Code128 and EAN5 available — ask your booking provider which they read.
Beyond access, colour coding by category or junior coaching stage does a lot of work for nothing, since both sides print in full colour as standard. A QR code — square, minimum 15mm — pointed at your coaching timetable means the programme can change each term without the cards dating. And sequential numbering keeps everything tied back to your membership register.
Tennis Club Membership Card Examples
The tennis club cards below mostly put the
membership number and category on the front and court arrangements on the reverse.
The ones worth studying are those that give floodlight entitlement its own line
— it is the question that comes up on a dark court in November when nobody wants
to be looking it up. Send us your logo and we will do the same.
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The tennis quote turns on whether the card needs to open the court gate. An RFID card
that replaces a fob costs more than a printed card but removes an item from every
member’s keyring.
Tell us what your gate currently uses, your category split, and whether junior
coaching stages get their own colour.
Quotes emailed within 10 minutes,
Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.
Design Service
Club logo and a category list?
Our Design Service takes it from there
for just £29 +vat
We will build both sides around your logo, make the category readable because it is
what governs peak court access, and set out booking, gate and floodlight arrangements
on the reverse in the order members actually need them.
You approve before we print.
Artwork Fixing Service
Tennis club artwork is usually fine; the issue is more often what gets left off.
Clubs frequently forget the floodlight and gate information until proofing, and then
try to squeeze it in.
Send us the full list of what the card has to carry at the start and we will design
for it. Artwork corrections — sizing, bleed, colour mode — are
just £10 +vat.
Free Photorealistic Email Proof
To give you complete confidence before we go to print, we’ll email you a
free, high-quality, computer-generated photorealistic proof of your full colour plastic Tennis Club membership cards.
This realistic mock-up shows how your finished Tennis Club membership cards will look, so you can check and approve the layout, text and overall design before production begins.
Fast Production Time
Most tennis clubs renew in spring, before the summer peak, though play carries on all
year.
Production is 7 working days from proof approval,
with a 4 working day express option, printed in
England.
If the cards are replacing gate fobs, allow extra time to get them encoded and issued
before the old fobs are turned off — that transition is the part clubs
underestimate.
Free Delivery
FREE DELIVERY within Great Britain, whatever the
quantity.
Tennis clubs often have a clubhouse but it may only be open at weekends and during
coaching sessions, so cards usually go to the membership secretary at home.
Plain, unbranded packaging with no paperwork inside. Junior programme cards can be
boxed separately for the head coach if that is easier.
Made in England
Where categories and junior coaching stages are colour-coded, those colours need to
stay put across seasons.
A coach sorting a Saturday morning group by card colour is relying on this
year’s orange matching last year’s. Every run coming off the same press
from the same stock is what makes that dependable.
Your artwork stays on file, so reorders are a date and a quantity.
100% Recyclable
Annual renewal across several categories means a steady yearly volume, and junior
cards change as children move up coaching stages.
Ours are solid PVC and recycle through
standard household and commercial facilities,
unlike laminated cards, whose layers cannot be separated.
Biodegradable cards print identically.
Note that RFID cards contain a chip and are not recycled the same way.
Optional Extras
The extra that changes most for a tennis club is RFID. A 1K or 4K
Mifare or Fudan card can be both the membership card and the court gate credential,
which takes a fob off every member’s keyring. They are supplied unencoded, so
you write your own data before issuing.
Beyond that, a QR code pointing at your coaching timetable keeps the
card current while the programme changes each term.
Barcodes suit booking systems.
Our vast range of optional extras combined with our competitive prices and fast, friendly service makes us a market leader which keeps our customers returning time after time as well as recommending us.
The majority of cards that we print have a signature strip and also a unique number which is usually sequential however you can supply an Excel document and we can print the details from the document onto the cards so each one has unique details. For example, their name, membership number, expiry date, level of membership etc.
Membership Card Specifications
760-micron solid PVC,
Full Colour (CMYK)
on both sides at no extra cost, print
sealed beneath the surface.
Rigidity matters here for a practical reason beyond looks: a card that has warped will
not sit flat against a gate reader, and a member standing at a locked court is the
failure mode you are trying to avoid.
Gloss or
matt, same price.
Bureau Personalisation Service
Tennis clubs recruit hardest in spring and summer, but junior programmes take children
in every term.
Our Bureau Personalisation Service means you are
not ordering a dozen junior cards every few months. We hold your printed stock; you
email the names and we print and post the cards
within 3 working days.
Where cards are also gate credentials, the main order still needs encoding at your
end.
A Plastic Card to Approve
If you are moving to RFID cards on the court gate, a physical card is not a nicety
— it is the whole test.
The cards come unencoded, so what you need to confirm is that your system writes to
them and your gate reader sees them. Doing that with one card, before three hundred
arrive, is the difference between a smooth changeover and a difficult fortnight.
We will print one and post it.
Artwork Specifications & Guides
Two guide points for a tennis card.
Floodlights on the front or high on the reverse. It is checked in the
dark, so do not bury it under booking rules.
Mind the RFID antenna. If a card carries a chip, a punched hole
through the antenna loop will kill it. Tell us before we punch anything.
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How to Order your Membership Cards
The membership secretary in spring, usually as renewals come in.
Send the logo, the category list, what the gate needs, and an Excel file if cards are
personalised. Approve the proof and the cards arrive before the summer peak. We keep
the artwork, so next spring is a single email.
Tennis Clubs Membership card examples
Do you see a design that you like?
A tennis card below close to your club?
Tell us which and we will start from it.
Clubs typically keep the structure — where the number and category sit, how gate
and floodlight information is arranged — and change the logo, colours and
category names. Included in the
Design Service.
Tennis Club Membership Card FAQs
Can tennis club cards integrate with our court booking software?
Yes. We print Code39, Code128 and EAN5 barcodes and fit magnetic strips. Ask your booking provider which format their reader expects and we will print to match.
Do tennis clubs typically reorder cards each season?
Most reorder annually. We keep your artwork on file, so a reorder with a new year and any updated coaching or category details does not need redesigning.
Can the card double as court-booking ID?
Yes. The membership number is what most systems key on, so printing it clearly is usually enough. A barcode or RFID card makes it automatic.
What's the minimum order?
25 cards, which suits a junior programme intake or a small club ordering for its full membership.
Can one card open our court gate and be the membership card?
Yes. An RFID card in 1K or 4K can replace a separate gate fob entirely. They are supplied unencoded, so you write your own data to them before issuing.
Can floodlight entitlement be shown on the card?
Yes. Printing a member's floodlight allowance or entitlement on the card is one of the more useful things a tennis club can do with the space, and avoids the question arising on a dark court.
Can junior coaching stages be shown?
Yes. The stage can be printed and given its own card colour at no extra cost, which lets a coach group children on a Saturday morning without a register.
Will the card still work at a gate reader after a year outdoors?
Yes. Solid PVC does not warp or soften the way paper and laminated cards do, so it still sits flat against a reader at the end of the season.