One cockpit instead of ten tabs
Booking, back office, guests and screens live in one interface with permissions per team member. One look in the morning and you know what's on today.
Lounge management from real operations
The control centre for your sim racing lounge.
PaddockOS brings booking, back office, guests and screens together in one cockpit. No tab chaos, no third-party cloud, no till. Built while setting up KÜSTENWERK Simracing Lounge in Rostock, Germany.
Booking & availability light
Office & invoicing
Guests & marketing
Cockpit
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This is a sample view with made-up data, not a live system. The real cockpit has far more features and looks a good deal better. Please note: the cockpit currently ships in German, the demo is shown in English so you can follow along. We'll show you the real thing in a personal demo.
Why PaddockOS
Fewer tabs, more racing.
A lounge lives on bookings, guests and a counter that runs smoothly. PaddockOS is the tool for exactly that, without a software bazaar.
Built by operators
PaddockOS is being built while KÜSTENWERK Simracing Lounge is set up. Every feature answers a real question from daily operations, not a requirements document.
Your data stays with you
Runs on your own web hosting, no third-party cloud. Backups, a deletion tool and GDPR procedures are built in, not bolted on.
Features
Everything on board. Sorted like the cockpit.
Six areas, one login. Every item is its own tool with its own permission, so the crew only sees what it needs.
Race operations
Everything that counts on race day.
- Booking calendar with availability light: online booking with Stripe checkout, reminder emails, waiting list, closure days and public holidays maintained in one place.
- Walk-in booking: book walk-in guests in seconds. Payment is taken at your till.
- Event management: event files, participant lists as PDF, self-registration link, results and podium ceremony.
- Waiver terminal: signature on a tablet, unlock via terminal code or QR, no name list on screen.
- Sim maintenance: status per rig. Faulty sims disappear from online booking automatically.
Pit office
From quote to receipt.
- Quotes: quote numbers, guide prices from the product backend, "convert to invoice" in one click.
- Contract and order confirmation: straight from the quote, with e-signature and payment plan.
- Invoices compliant with German VAT law (§ 14 UStG): gapless numbering, PDF archive, cancellation, e-invoicing to EN 16931.
- Receipts: capture incoming receipts by photo OCR, export per company for your accountant.
- Garage: file storage with PIN folders, versions, share links and mounted as a drive on your computer.
- Products: one central backend with VAT per product for menus, quotes and invoices.
Grandstand
Guests who come back.
- CRM for private guests and companies: activities, tasks, follow-up automation, leads from website and events.
- Newsletter: double opt-in, campaigns, birthday automation, one-click unsubscribe.
- Loyalty programme: stamp card per visit, reward redeemed at the till.
- Vouchers: online sales, printed blanks, public balance check via QR.
- Wallet cards: loyalty card and ticket for Apple and Google Wallet, updated automatically.
- Guest portal "Mein Fahrerlager": bookings, stamps and best laps for your guests.
- Instagram planning: schedule posts, reels and stories, published via the official Meta API.
Pit lane
The place runs even without you.
- Daily checklist: shift tasks and handover for the crew, right in the cockpit.
- To-do list: project backlog with categories and priorities.
- Lounge handbook: procedures and how-tos right where the work happens.
- Race control briefing: morning briefing with the day's plan, utilisation and inbox glance, read aloud on request.
Race control
Every screen is yours.
- Display manager: lounge TV with leaderboard and slots, drinks menu, snack menu, welcome screen and customer display from one control.
- Players on Raspberry Pi: heartbeat in the cockpit, outages visible immediately.
- Kiosk app for Android tablets: counter and terminal run locked down, emergency exit by PIN.
Setup
Secure, traceable, yours.
- Users and permissions: one permission per tool, owner access kept separate.
- Two-factor login with an authenticator app, "stay signed in" for your own devices.
- Opening hours, special openings, public holidays and closure days in one place, with a live preview of the availability light.
- Backups and system check: daily backup with status light, twelve automatic checks, alert email only on failure.
- GDPR deletion tool: remove or anonymise a person from every data store.
No till
PaddockOS is deliberately not a point-of-sale system. Payments, fiscal signing (TSE), cash book and tax audit exports stay with your POS. That keeps the tax office out of the picture, and PaddockOS stays what it is meant to be: the control centre around it.
Demo
Click first, talk later.
Three ways to see PaddockOS. All with sample data, none of it is real.
Cockpit demo
At the top of this page: overview, booking calendar, quotes, CRM, displays and more to click through, as a sample view with made-up data.
Guest portal live
"Mein Fahrerlager" is the page for your guests. The demo tour shows bookings, stamps and best laps with a sample profile, in German.
Personal demo
30 minutes of screen sharing. Your workflow, your questions, the real cockpit instead of sample data.
Technology
Runs where your website already runs.
No server project, no subscription zoo. PaddockOS is PHP on ordinary web hosting, and the data lives as files with you.
DRS
PaddockOS does not control simulators and does not touch the game. It is the tool for your lounge's daily operations: booking, guests, back office and screens. Via API interfaces it connects to other software and can be integrated where needed. A sim control system, for example, pulls paid bookings automatically.
Hosting instead of cloudShared hosting is enough. No database, no containers, no dependency on someone else's data centre.
One cockpitAll tools in one interface, installable as an app on Mac, Windows and tablet.
Integrations optionalStripe, Brevo, Meta, Apple and Google Wallet only if you need them. Everything else runs without.
Permissions per toolThe crew only sees its areas. Two-factor login for every account, owner access kept separate.
Backups and status lightDaily backup, system check with twelve tests, alert email only on failure.
Screens includedLounge TV, menus, welcome screen and check-in from one manager, players on Raspberry Pi.
Pilot phase
Fancy driving the first lap with us?
PaddockOS runs today for KÜSTENWERK Simracing Lounge in Rostock, Germany. For the next stage we are looking for two or three pilot lounges to adapt it to their operations together with us. Pilot-phase terms: fair and individual.
- 01Send a demo request. Two sentences about your lounge are enough.
- 0230-minute video call. We show the real cockpit and listen.
- 03Test access with sample data. Click around at your own pace.
- 04Joint start. Setup, crew training, first bookings.