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How to Split Court Booking Costs Between Players Without Chasing Anyone
One player books, pays the lot and spends a week asking the others for their share. Here is how a club can let every player pay their own part, and decide in advance who covers the gaps.
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How to Switch Club Management Software Without Losing Members, Bookings or Payments
Most clubs don't stay with software that annoys them because they like it. They stay because switching feels risky. Here is a plan that takes the risk out, from the contract notice period to the first week on the new system.
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QuickBooks for Sports Clubs: How to Get Bookings, Memberships and Card Fees Into Your Books
One journal entry a day, the right accounts for prepaid credit and card fees, and a clearing account that reconciles your payouts. A practical setup for getting a club's takings into QuickBooks.
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Doubles-Only Peak Hours: Should Your Club Require 2 or 4 Players per Court?
When evening demand outstrips courts, one player on a court that four could use is the most expensive booking you take. Here are the rules that fix it, and what each one costs.
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What's new in SportyPlus: late October and early November 2026
Tickets in your wallet, pay only your share, bring a friend, and training attendance parents can see.
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How to Run a Sports Club Referral Program That Rewards Members for Bringing Friends
Your members already recommend the club to their friends. A bring-a-friend reward makes that happen more often, as long as it pays out for real new players and not for throwaway accounts.
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Sports School Registration Form: How to Move Enrolment Online
The printed enrolment form costs a school hours every September and still leaves gaps. Here is what an online version should collect, how consent should work, and how acceptance can start billing on its own.
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Round Robin vs Knockout Tournament: Which Format Should Your Club Run?
A knockout is quick and dramatic, and half the field goes home after one match. A round robin is fair, and it eats courts. The numbers decide which one fits your weekend.
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How to Prevent Tennis Court No-Shows at Your Club
A booked court that nobody plays on costs you twice — the member who wanted it and could not get it, and the evening it showed as full. Most no-shows are a missing rule, not bad manners.
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How to Build a Sports Club Mailing List That Reaches Beyond Your Members
Your member list is not your audience. The parents, the trial players and last summer's camp all want to hear from you, and none of them are members yet.
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Single Sign-On for Sports Clubs: Let Staff Sign In With Your Organisation's Accounts
When the receptionist leaves, does their access to your club software leave with them? With single sign-on it does, and nobody has to remember to remove it.
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Padel Tournament Formats: A Complete Guide for Clubs
Every padel event starts with one decision that shapes the whole day — the format. Pick the wrong one and half your players are knocked out by ten o'clock, or the final starts after the lights go off.
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Website Optimization With Claude Code: What Lighthouse Found, and What It Missed
Lighthouse found the problems. A second check, measuring every image on 71 pages at seven screen widths, caught the bug our first fix introduced.
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How to Create a Court Booking Cancellation Policy That Members Think Is Fair
Six decisions make up every cancellation policy. Make them on purpose, write them in one paragraph, and most cancellation arguments never happen.
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Americano vs Mexicano: Which Format for Your Padel or Pickleball Night?
Both formats rotate partners and score players individually. The difference is when the pairings are drawn, and that one detail decides who enjoys the evening.
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What's new in SportyPlus: September and October 2026
Family accounts, one card for every club, DUPR sign-in, planned competitions and help inside the app.
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How to Run a Tennis Ladder: Formats, Rules and Ratings That Keep Players Playing
A tennis ladder costs almost nothing to start and is easy to let die by June. The format you pick decides how much refereeing it needs and whether players are still playing after the first month.
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AI Assistant for Sports Clubs: What It Should Do, and What It Must Never Do
A chatbot that guesses is worse than none. Here is what to expect from an AI assistant in your club software, and five questions that show whether you can trust it.
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How to Run a Padel Americano: Format, Rotation, Scoring and a Full Schedule
An Americano is the easiest padel event to sell and the easiest to get wrong on the night. The format is simple. The rotation, the sit-outs and the scoring are where the evening falls apart.
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How to Run a DUPR Pickleball League at Your Club
Players want their league matches to count on DUPR. The rating is the easy part. The organising work around it is where the season either runs itself or eats your Tuesday nights.
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Age of Digital Consent by Country: What Sports Clubs Need to Know
The GDPR age of digital consent is 13, 14, 15 or 16 depending on the country. Here is the full table, what the rule does and does not cover for a club, and how to handle a 12-year-old signing up online.
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How to Manage Junior Members and Their Parents at a Sports Club
Most clubs have juniors on the books under a parent's email, a shared login, or no account at all. Here is a structure that works for the parent, the child and the club's records.
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AI Court Booking: Letting ChatGPT and Other AI Assistants Book and Pay for Your Courts
Players are starting to ask AI assistants to book things for them. Here is what it takes for your courts to be bookable that way, on your rules and your Stripe account.
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How to Run a Sports Club Email Newsletter: Club News, Offers and Opt-Ins
Most clubs send one undifferentiated "club email". That is why members unsubscribe from everything after one sale. Split news from promotions and both get read.
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How to Record Matches on Club Courts Automatically
A camera on the court is easy. Getting the right 90 minutes of it onto the right player's phone is the hard part — and that is the part the booking system should be doing.
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Court Access Control and Lighting: How SportyPlus Opens the Gate and Turns On the Lights
A booking is a promise that the gate will open and the lights will be on. Here is how that promise is actually wired — WebLock for access, Shelly for switching, Tweener for the light itself.
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Social Media for Sports Clubs: What to Post and How to Post It Everywhere at Once
Most clubs end up with a Facebook Page, an Instagram account and a members' chat group. The hard part is not the content — it is posting the same thing everywhere.
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How to Handle Refunds for Cancelled Court Bookings Automatically
A clear cancellation rule plus an automatic club wallet credit removes one repetitive task from every cancellation.
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How to Manage Court Bookings Without Spreadsheets, Messages and Manual Work
A complete guide to replacing spreadsheets, WhatsApp groups and manual scheduling with booking rules the system enforces on its own.
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How Far in Advance Should Members Be Allowed to Book Courts?
Too long and the best slots vanish a month out. Too short and nobody can organise a match. How to pick the number deliberately.
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How to Prevent 30-Minute Gaps Between Court Bookings
The 30 minutes between two reservations is real availability that almost never gets booked. One simple rule prevents it.
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How to Prevent Players From Booking Too Many Courts
A few members holding most of the prime-time slots is rarely bad behaviour. It is usually a missing rule.
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Welcome to the SportyPlus blog
What this blog is for, and what club managers can expect to find here.
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Five signs your club needs online court booking
Five warning signs that phone-and-notebook court booking is costing your club time and money.
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