Booking Settings: General

Control the Reservation System at the Membership Type Level

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Written by Ashley Owens
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INTRODUCTION

  • Feature Summary: System users can control member/player access to court bookings.

  • Use Cases: Customize settings that grant platform permissions to membership types for just about every action related to court reservations. This includes online access and restricting the number of guests a player can bring to the club.

The BOOKING SETTINGS section has several pages. This article describes the General page.

Click a link to learn about the other options:

SETUP PREREQUISITES

To configure the settings accurately, system users must understand the club's booking rules and regulations.

Key settings on this page

  • Hide or display the court scheduling tool on the member portal

  • Give members the option to book courts online

  • Set the advance notice required to make reservations

  • Decide if players can invite others to their reservations

  • Set club cancellation policies

SETUP REQUIREMENTS

The first step is to open the General page.

  1. Click SETTINGS on the side menu.

  2. Go to the BOOKING SETTINGS heading and click General.

  3. Scroll down the page and use the checkboxes to enable and disable permissions by membership type. (see below)

  4. Click Save Changes.

Membership type names are different for each club.

Configuring General page settings

Courts and balls

  • Allow Members to Book Courts Online - If enabled, users with this membership type can use the member portal to reserve a court. If disabled, users can see the scheduler but cannot book a court or ball machine.

  • Allow a member to select a court from Consolidated Scheduler - If disabled, the user can select a court type (e.g. hard or indoor) but cannot select a specific court name. If enabled, users can select a court type and court name. To enable this feature, users must also enable the Book Courts Online. (see above)

  • Enable "Auto-Assigning" of Courts - If enabled, CourtReserve auto-fills a court name when the user selects a court type. The user can override the court name if an alternative is available.

  • Hide Courts Scheduler - If enabled, CourtReserve removes the Book a Court (or Reservations) link at the top of the member portal, which means users with this membership type cannot access the scheduler. To enable the Hide feature, system users must disable the Book Courts Online feature.

  • Allow Members To Book Ball Machines - If enabled, users with this membership type can click the Reservations menu link and reserve a ball machine. If disabled, users can see the scheduler, but CourtReserve removes the ball machine option.

  • Restrict Ball Machine Bookings Just From Courts Scheduler - If enabled, users cannot reserve a ball machine on the scheduler. However, ball machines can be booked in other places on the portal (e.g. when creating an event).

People

  • A Member Reservation through the Portal must be Approved - If enabled, a system user must manually approve the request on the TO DO page. CourtReserve records the reservation and displays a Pending Approval tag on the reservation confirmation page. Once approved or rejected, CourtReserve sends the user a confirmation message and removes the Pending Approval tag.

  • Allow Member To Pick Other Members To Play With - If enabled, the user can select one or more partners from the list of users registered on the platform.

Time

  • Time in Advance a Court can be Booked - Use this feature to limit how far in advance (days and hours) users can make a court reservation on the scheduler. If, for instance, advanced bookings are limited to 15 days from the current date, the scheduler does not display calendar dates 16 days (from the current date) and onward. It is possible to set different limits for each membership type.

  • Restrict Days in Advance to Booking Member Only - This feature only applies if members can pick a partner when making a court reservation. (see above) If enabled, the advanced booking time limit applies only to the membership type that is making a reservation. If disabled, the advance booking time limit applies to apply all players, including the picked player. For instance, Player A has a full membership and can book courts within 15 days. Player A tries to book a court seven days in the future and wants to add Player B, who has a guest membership type and a five-day booking window. If the Restrict Days feature is enabled, Player A can add Player B and complete the reservation. If disabled, CourtReserve displays an error message and a note that says Player B is not eligible at this moment.

  • Time to Open Next Available Reservation Day - This optional field sets the clock time when bookings each day can be made on the scheduler. Leave blank to give members 24-hour online access to the scheduler.

  • Exclude Past Reservations from Reservation Restrictions - Check this box to apply membership rule changes to future bookings only. Active reservations that were created with previous rules are not affected by the new rules. If not checked, the new rules apply to future and current reservations.

  • Days In Advance To Show Courts Availability - Decide when the court scheduler displays on the member portal. Set the number of days before a court time.

  • Booking Buffer Minutes - Stop last-minute court bookings. Set the number of minutes ahead of a court time to close down bookings.

Penalties

  • Hours before Reservation can be Canceled Without Penalty - If the system user enters a number into the field, players accumulate penalties every time they cancel after the allowed time.

  • Remove Ability to book after X Penalty Cancellations - When the number of penalty cancellations equals or exceeds this number, players with this membership type cannot make a court reservation. In this case, admins would need to make a reservation for the player.

  • Prevent Member from Cancelling a Reservation within X Hours - If the system user enters a number into the field, players cannot cancel a paid reservation (CourtReserve hides the Cancel button on the member portal) and get a refund. Plus, the reservation counts towards the player's allowed number of courts/reservations per week (if applicable).

  • Allow Player to be Added to Other Reservations - If enabled, a player with this membership type cannot book a court but can be added to a reservation by another player (if this feature is enabled - see above).

  • Require Reason On Reservation Cancellation - If enabled, CourtReserve displays a required field in the cancellation popup window that asks the player to enter a reason for the cancellation.

  • Message To Show Member If Outside Cancellation - Enter a message to show players trying to cancel a reservation outside the permitted cancellation period (if enabled). For instance, "Please contact the front desk at (phone) because you are trying to cancel outside of the cancellation window."

Edits

  • Allow Reservation Edit - If enabled, CourtReserve displays an EDIT RESERVATION on the member portal. However, no edits are possible unless one or more edit features are enabled ( see below).

  • Allow Reservation Edit - Reservation Type - If enabled, the player can change the reservation type (e.g. singles, doubles, ball machine).

  • Allow Reservation Edit - Date - If enabled, the player can change the date of the booking.

  • Allow Reservation Edit - Time - If enabled, the player can change the booking date and time.

  • Allow Reservation Edit - Court - If enabled, the player can choose a different court (if this feature is enabled).

  • Allow Reservation Edit - Players - If enabled, the member can add or remove players (if this feature is enabled).

  • Don't allow reservation edit if less than X hours till Reservation Start - If enabled, this feature creates a window that blocks reservation edits. Enter the number of hours before a booking time start to create the no-edit window.

Withdraw and sub

  • Allow Reservation Owner to Withdraw from Reservation without Cancelling - If enabled, the player who created the booking can remove their name and assign a new reservation owner (called a sub) without canceling the reservation and creating a new one. To add a sub, select a player name that is already on the reservation.

  • Allow Players on a Reservation to "sub" out with other players. - If enabled, any player on a reservation can replace themselves with a substitute player.

  • Allow Any Player to "Sub" Any Other Players. - If enabled, any player on a reservation can replace themselves - or another player - with a substitute player.

  • Allowed Number of Guests - Enter the number of guests that each membership type can add to a court reservation. Also, set the frequency (e.g. per day or per week).

  • Maximum Allowed Court(s) per Reservation - Enter the number of courts that each membership type can reserve in a single booking.

FEATURE USAGE - PLAYERS' PERSPECTIVE

The screenshot below shows the member portal options. The owner of the reservation can withdraw from the reservation, replace themselves with another player, or sub out the invited player and replace them with another club-registered player.

VIDEO TRAINING & RELATED WEBINARS

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