What's new in SportyPlus: late October and early November 2026

This round-up covers the second half of October and the start of November. Tickets for club events moved into the app and into your phone's wallet, shared bookings now charge each player only their part, and clubs running a sports school can record who came to every training — which parents can see.

Most of this is live now on the web and in the SportyPlus app. A few changes from the last few days are on the web already and reach the iOS and Android apps with the next update; they're marked below.

For players and members

Buy event tickets and keep them in your phone's wallet

When your club sells tickets for a match, a tournament final or a social evening, you can now buy them in the app. For events with numbered seats you pick your seats on a seat map, and clubs can sell season passes the same way.

Your tickets are under My tickets, each with a QR code you show at the door. Add a ticket to Apple Wallet on iPhone or to Google Wallet on Android, and it's there even when you're offline. Bought one for someone else? Give it to them by email, or to someone in your family, and the ticket and its code move to them.

Pay only your share of a shared court

At clubs that hold seats on bookings, booking a court for 2 or 4 players no longer means one person paying for everyone. Each player pays only their own share, and it's charged when the match starts — so you can leave, or the organiser can take a player off, until then.

If you've been added to someone else's booking, you can now leave it straight from its payment page. Where your club allows it, your club wallet pays just your own share rather than the whole court. You can also add a guest to a booking you've already made.

Bring a friend and you both get a reward

At clubs that run it, you'll find Bring a friend in the menu, with a personal link to share. Once your friend pays for a booking, you both get the reward your club has set, and you can see the friends you've brought in. Clubs that want to start a referral scheme can read how to run one.

For parents and families

See whether your child made it to training

Coaches can now mark each child at a training as present, absent or excused, from the group's page or the booking itself. As a parent you see those marks on your child's page, training by training, with a count for the month — so you know what your child attended, not just what was booked. On the web now, and in the iOS and Android apps with the next update.

Uploading a medical document for yourself or your child now asks for your consent first, and you can delete it at any time to withdraw it.

For clubs

Run your sports school from enrolment to attendance

Schools can now take enrolments through an online form that parents fill in themselves — the child's details, the programme they want, the consents — and the club reviews each request before accepting it. There's more on moving enrolment online in our guide to sports school registration forms.

Once children are in, each programme can run as several groups — the same course on different days or at different courts. In the admin you link groups to programmes, add trainers and students (children enrolled in the programme are suggested first), and book a group's trainings once for the whole term, repeating every week or every other week. The trainings show up for everyone in the group in the app.

A new Attendance page shows, for each child, how many trainings they were on and how many they came to — the figure to use if you charge per training or give a discount for missed classes. The Trainers page now lists all of your club's trainers and their groups, even in a month with nothing booked.

Smaller improvements

• Know before you book. If your plan doesn't allow cancelling a slot, you're told before you book it, and when a cancellation is refused you now see why. On the web now, in the apps with the next update.
• Booking follows the club's clock, so free slots, cancelling and the door and light buttons are right even if your phone's clock or time zone is off.
• Find courts by town. Picking a town in the courts search now shows only courts in that town. On the web now, in the apps with the next update.
• Sync with calendar is back, on a private link to your own bookings.
• Your booking counts down in the notification shade to its start and end.
• My equipment: keep your rackets in the app and lend them to other players.
• Friends first: when you add players to a booking, the players you've marked as friends come first.
• Coaches can join a booking's waiting list.
• Leagues: in rotating formats you see your court, your rotation and who sits out. League admins can enter points from a file or a photo, and give several players points at once.
• Padbol is now available as a sport, scored like padel. On the web now, in the apps with the next update.
• At the front desk, staff can check bookings in as arrived or as a no-show.
• Sign-up: clubs can ask for a phone number, an address and a city when someone joins. On the web now, in the apps with the next update.
• Mailing lists: clubs can build lists for campaigns that reach beyond their members — see how to build one.
• Change log: every change staff make in the admin is recorded, with the values before and after.
• iPhone Duo: the menu and account buttons sit in the vertical bar beside the screen.

Tell us what you think, or what you'd like next, at info@sporty.plus. If your club isn't on SportyPlus yet, see how the sports school and family accounts work.