If you’re shortlisting billing software for a snooker club or gaming cafe in India, two names you’ll run into are CueBill and Cuetronix (by Cuephoria Tech). They overlap on the surface — both bill tables and run a counter — but they’re built for different kinds of venue. Here’s an honest breakdown, including a straight answer to a security claim you may have seen.

The headline difference: focus

CueBill is built to be the fast, affordable choice for a small-to-mid club: a native Android app (plus web), snooker-native frame billing, PlayStation per-controller charges, Khata, UPI, and a canteen — without bloat.

Cuetronix is a broader all-in-one gaming-billing suite that leans into extras like online bookings and staff payroll & attendance. If those are must-haves in one tool, that breadth is its genuine strength.

Pricing

Both are transparent about pricing now, which is how it should be:

CueBill: a flat ₹399/month for the whole club — every table included, no per-table fees — with a 14-day free trial.
Cuetronix: published tiers around ₹999–₹3,999/month, with a 14-day trial.

For a small club that wants one predictable number and no upsell path, CueBill’s flat pricing is the simpler call. For a larger venue that wants bookings and payroll bundled, Cuetronix’s tiers may map to that.

Billing built for snooker

Both handle time-based billing. CueBill adds frame billing — a fixed price per frame with overtime — plus per-game rates and per-controller PlayStation charges. If you bill serious snooker by the frame, that’s built in. (Here’s why frame billing matters.)

Where Cuetronix is genuinely strong

We’ll be fair — Cuetronix does things CueBill deliberately doesn’t:

Online bookings for tables and stations.
Staff payroll & attendance inside the same suite.
A broad, multi-activity “gaming venue” scope.

If those are on your must-have list, Cuetronix is a reasonable choice.

Where CueBill wins for clubs

Native Android app — run the counter on the phone in your pocket, no browser required.
Frame billing, Khata and UPI designed for Indian clubs.
Flat, transparent pricing — ₹399/month, everything included.
Start in minutes — no sales demo to see the product or the price.

About the “exposed keys” security claim

You may have seen a comparison page claim that CueBill “exposes Supabase database credentials and Google API keys” in its app, and that this puts your members’ data at risk. Because your members’ trust matters, here’s the straight answer.

The claim mixes up two very different things: a publishable key and a secret key.

The key visible in the CueBill app is a publishable (anon) key. It is public by design — Supabase and Google document it as safe to include in client code. Every app built on these platforms ships one. It is not a database credential.
What actually protects your data is server-side Row-Level Security, enforced by the database on every table. Even with the publishable key, a request only ever returns your own club’s rows — never another club’s customers, khata or bills.
The powerful service-role key — the one that could bypass those protections — never ships in the app. It stays on the server. And your login session is stored in the phone’s hardware keystore, not in plain storage.

Here’s the part worth knowing: Cuetronix’s own website is built on Supabase too, and ships the same class of publishable key to every visitor’s browser. That’s not a flaw in their product — it’s how the platform is designed to work, for them and for us. Which is exactly why “a key is visible in the app, therefore it’s a data leak” doesn’t hold up: it would apply equally to almost every modern app, including the one making the claim.

If you want the full engineering detail, we wrote it up here: Is CueBill Safe? The truth about app keys and your data.

The bottom line

Choose Cuetronix if you specifically want bookings and payroll bundled into one broad suite. Choose CueBill if you’re a snooker-first, Android-first club that wants affordable, frame-native billing with pricing upfront — and data protected by the same server-side security model any professional app relies on.

See the side-by-side comparison table, or start a 14-day free trial and judge it on your own floor.

CueBill vs Cuetronix: An Honest Comparison for Snooker Clubs & Gaming Cafes