CourtCallInstall app← All venues

Guide

How Court Call works

Two halves. The first is for anyone who wants to play this week. The second is for a club that lists its courts here. Nothing in either is longer than it needs to be.

For players

01 See what is actually open

Open the venue list and pick a club. You get a grid: courts across, times down, and the price in every slot. Seven days, refreshed live. Nothing is hidden behind a sign-up, and you do not have to ask anyone whether 7pm is free — you can see it.

An open slot shows its price. A slot somebody has taken is quietly hatched. A slot that has already started is dimmed. Those three look different on purpose, because “gone” and “taken” are not the same thing.

02 Hold the court

Tap the slot. Tap more if you want a double session or two courts side by side — they collect in a tray at the bottom with the total. Then Reserve, your name and your mobile number, and that is the booking.

No account. No password. No card. The number is so the venue can reach you about this booking, and it is the only thing about you the club can see.

03 Turn up and play

You get a reference like CC-0910-6BBB. Screenshot it — nothing is sent to your phone. Show it at the desk and pay there, in cash or however that club takes payment.

If you cannot make it, ring the venue. Cancelling frees the slot for somebody else, which is the difference between a club that is full and a club that looks full.

04 Keep it on your phone

Court Call installs from your browser — no app store, nothing to download. The install page shows the exact taps for your phone. You get an icon on your home screen that opens straight to the courts.

For venues

01 Getting listed

There is no sign-up button, deliberately. An account here can read the name and mobile number of every player who books you, so we confirm a club is who it says it is before we make one. Ask us to add your venue and we set it up, usually the same day.

02 Your day, at the desk

Sign in at the venue console and the first tab is the day: every booking, in time order, with the player’s name and a phone number you can press to call. Plus the reference they will read out, and what the day should take at the desk.

Mark a booking played once they arrive, or cancel it. Cancelling genuinely puts the slot back on sale within seconds.

03 Taking a court off sale

Resurfacing, a coaching session, a tournament, a burst pipe. Block the slot and it stops being bookable. If a player already holds it, Court Call tells you rather than quietly double-booking your court. Unblock puts it back.

04 Courts, hours and prices

The Courts tab adds a court when you build one, renames one, or turns one off while it is out of action. Nothing deletes a court, because that would take its booking history with it.

Hours and rates sets opening and closing, when your evening rate starts, how long a block is, and four prices — weekday day, weekday evening, weekend day, weekend evening. Changing a price never changes a booking somebody already holds.

There is a switch to stop taking bookings entirely. Use it for the off-season instead of asking us to delete anything.

What Court Call does not do

Written down so nobody finds out at the desk.

  • It does not take payment. A booking holds a court and gives a reference. Money changes hands at the venue.
  • It does not text or email anyone. No reminders, no confirmations, no notifications. Your reference lives on the confirmation screen — screenshot it.
  • It does not work without a connection. Installed or not, availability needs the network. A saved copy of the grid would show courts as free that went an hour ago, which is worse than showing nothing.
  • Players cannot cancel themselves yet. Ring the venue and they will do it in the console.
  • It is a beta. The venues on it now are marked Demo Club and are placeholders. No real club has been listed without asking.

What it costs

For players

Nothing. You pay the venue for the court, at the venue, at their price. Court Call adds nothing to what you pay and takes no commission from your booking.

For venues

Nothing during the beta. We are looking for clubs in Cebu willing to run their real bookings through it and tell us where it is wrong. Pricing comes after that, and it will be a flat monthly fee rather than a cut of your court fees — you built the courts, we did not.

Talk to us if that is your club.