Innovative technology for the modern pro shop
Bowling software built for what’s next
Five products for pro shops, coaches and bowlers. Run your shop, ring up a sale, log a competition, break down a video, or learn the trade. Built by people who have stood behind the counter and on the approach.
The suite
One suite. Every side of the game.
Most bowling software solves one problem and stops there. Spectre covers the shop floor, the register, the bowler’s phone, the coaching session and the classroom, with five products built to work together.
For pro shops
Spectre Cloud
Bowler profiles, spec sheets, arsenals and job tracking in one place. Unlimited bowlers, unlimited spec sheets, nothing to install.
For bowlers
Spectre Stats
Log competitions, capture shot data, and see how each ball really performs. Free to start, on iPhone and Android.
For pro shops
Coming soonSpectre POS
A register that already knows your inventory. The whole bowlingdatabase.com catalogue is loaded, and arsenal entries in Cloud arrive as parked orders.
For students and operators
Coming soonSpectre Academy
Four classes that take you from first time bowler to working the milling machine, with a test out that goes straight to IBPSIA.
For bowlers and coaches
Coming soonSpectre Coach
Video analysis frame by frame, side by side comparison, and voiceover feedback. Free for bowlers. Coaches get a public listing, payments, homework and full programs.
Your first month is on us. Use referral code SPECTRETRIAL when you sign up for a free first month on any yearly subscription.
Watch
See it in action
Walkthroughs, feature demos and pro shop how to videos from the Spectre channel.
Who builds it
It started in a pro shop, not a boardroom
Spectre began at Buffa Distribution’s pro shop, where Mark Buffa got tired of hunting through binders for a layout he had drilled two years earlier. But this isn’t a hobby project bolted together by weekend enthusiasts. Mark is a computer science graduate, an IBPSIA Certified Master Instructor, a USBC Silver Coach, and has represented Canada nine times on the lanes. Luis Rodriguez, a Montreal bowler with twenty years of professional software development behind him, writes the code.
That combination is the point. Every oval calculation, every span type, every spec sheet field comes from people who have actually stood behind the counter and actually competed at a high level, built with the same engineering discipline you would expect from any serious software company. Real coders who are real bowlers, not vibe-coded guesswork wearing a bowling logo.
- Computer science, not guesswork. Built by a computer science graduate and a career software developer, with the version control, testing and engineering discipline that implies.
- High level competitive bowlers. An IBPSIA Certified Master Instructor, a USBC Silver Coach, and nine-time Team Canada bowler, so the nuances of a drilling spec come from lane experience, not a spec sheet someone else wrote.
- Built and proven behind a real counter. Every feature ships against how a shop actually runs, not how it looks in a pitch deck.
