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Using your club

Running your club (committee)

The club Action Centre
One page for everything that needs a decision or an action from your committee: your actions plus live club status.
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Find Players
Search players in your area who've opted in to being found by clubs, and send them an invitation in a couple of taps
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The Documents vault
Store minutes, policies, rules, forms and posters in one place, with version history, visibility controls and automatic review reminders.
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Managing Finances
Learn how to track payments, manage payment requests, log visitor fees, generate reports, and run the treasurer's report
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Publishing Open Sessions to Find-a-Game
Publish a club-hosted open session on Find a Game to recruit drop-in players, with the club's age policy applied automatically
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Pre-book sessions with capacity, waitlist and pre-pay
Set a hard cap on an event, let members book in advance, optionally take payment up front, and watch the peg-board fill from confirmed bookings.
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Committee tasks and governance obligations
Run the committee, not just the badminton. Assign tasks, group them into projects, and keep on top of recurring duties like affiliation, insurance and the AGM.
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Inviting a guest to a session
Approve a visitor's visit request onto a capacity session as an invitation they confirm or decline, choose the fee, and track booked, invited and waitlisted guests in the event's Bookings panel.
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Taking payments: Stripe, GoCardless and beyond
Connect your own Stripe and GoCardless accounts, set sensible defaults per payment type, issue refunds, and understand why Badminton Clubhouse never sees your money.
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Competitions overview
Understand the competition model: organisers, entry modes, formats, and how tier capabilities map onto what your competition can do.
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Managing association seasons
Define the seasons your association runs, with registration deadlines, transfer windows, and a public key dates page.
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Creating a competition
Step-by-step guide to the create-competition wizard: pick what you're running, then follow the steps for that kind.
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Entering teams into competitions
Send a team entry request to a competition organiser, approve or reject requests as an organiser, and pay entry fees to confirm.
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Creating a league
Step-by-step guide to spinning up a multi-team league competition with stages, divisions, and rules.
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Managing divisions
Add, order, and configure divisions within a league stage, including promotion and relegation counts.
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Adjudicating a contested match
How to review and adjudicate a contested match-card: read the contest reason, re-enter the score, write your decision, and optionally apply a penalty.
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Importing fixtures from a CSV
Bulk-import a season of fixtures from a spreadsheet using the CSV import dialog on the Fixtures tab.
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Setting handicaps for a competition
How to assign signed handicaps to entrants, seal or open them, re-rate a value, and read raw vs net results once matches are played.
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Locking the roster for a competition
How to lock in the players eligible for a team's entry into a competition, so match-card validation has a stable per-competition roster.
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Penalty rules
How penalty points work, how to apply them from the Adjudication tab, and how to rescind a penalty you applied in error.
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Running a self-arranged competition
Set fixtures to self-arranged so opponents fix their own date, chase them automatically, resolve walkover claims, and assign competition officers.
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Grouping competitions into a series and running a finals night
How to create a competition series, attach sections, take one combined entry fee, and assign the section finals to a shared finals night.
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Registering players for an association season
How associations view the registered player pool, and how club admins register their members into an open season.
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Player transfers, team entry fees, and the season hub
How to process player transfer requests between clubs, set per-team competition entry fees, and use the association season hub to monitor club and player payment status.
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Creating a knockout competition
Set the seeding order, generate the draw, and understand how the public draw page displays it.
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Self-serve entries and entry flags
How members enter singles and doubles competitions themselves, the warn flags you see on the entries list, and the committee late-entry escape hatch.
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Put your competition on the venue TV
Open a full-screen, auto-refreshing display of a public competition on a hall TV or projector, and curate which panels it rotates through.
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Creating a round robin
Set the Structure step, assign entrants to the group, and generate the all-play-all fixtures.
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Running a box league
Deal entrants into boxes, generate each box's self-arranged fixtures, and publish the public box grid.
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Running a challenge ladder
Set the challenge range and response window, seed the starting order, and see how positions settle themselves.
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Member Management Overview
Learn how to view, manage, and organize your club members
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Importing Members from CSV
Learn how to bulk import members using a CSV spreadsheet file, including custom field data
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Filtering and Searching Members
Learn how to find and filter members using search and advanced filters
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Exporting Members to CSV
Learn how to export member data to CSV, including custom fields
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Invitations
Send and manage invitations to members, admins, service providers, programmes, and other tenants
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Visitors
Track non-members who attend your club, walk-ins, regulars, taster sessions, and one-off visitors.
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Merging duplicate visitors
Combine two visitor records that represent the same person, without losing attendance or payment history.
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Visit requests
Review and decide on requests from players and guardians who want to attend a session at your club.
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BE Affiliation Enforcement
Understand the BE affiliation threshold, enforcement modes, and how to mark a visitor as affiliated after they pay.
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Junior Walk-Ins (Under-18 Visitors)
How the Under-18 toggle works, the guardian consent flow, and what the platform requires before a child can play.
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Safeguarding hub
DBS verification, incident management, training currency, and the club compliance score
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Running a Junior Section
How to declare your club's safeguarding posture and enable junior membership so you can enrol under-18 members.
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Managing coaches
Review coach deployments at your club, end deployments when coaches leave, and endorse coach qualifications and CPD.
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Managing national programmes
Track Badminton England funded programmes, invite participants, record attendance, and export outcome reports for funders.
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Endorsing service providers as a club
Use the Service providers admin page to invite providers or endorse existing ones by @handle. Endorsements affect public sort order and add a badge to the provider's profile.
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Affiliation invitation and request emails
Who gets notified when a club is invited to an association or county, and when a club requests to join one.
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Club Settings Overview
Learn how to configure your club settings, memberships, roles, and tags
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Memberships
Learn how to create and manage memberships for your club
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Managing Venues
Learn how to set up and manage venues, schedules, closures, and what3words locations
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Event Types
Configure event categories with colors and default durations for your club calendar
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Your Public Page
Control how non-members see your club, your shareable public URL, the cover image and story, FAQs, social links, and the Find-a-Club search listing
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Finance Settings
Configure your club's bank details, payment instructions, visitor fees, fixture fees, and payment reminder settings
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Plans and Packages
How your club's size Plan and feature Package work together, and where to see what your club currently has
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Roles & Permissions
Understand system roles, create your own custom roles, and control what each committee member can do
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Deleting Your Club
How to permanently delete your club and all associated data from Badminton Clubhouse
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Managing Player Skill Levels
Set up and assign skill levels to help balance games during club sessions
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Adding admins (including non-playing ones)
Add an existing member as admin or invite someone new by email, with one or more roles
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Preview Switcher (Staff Tool)
How Badminton Clubhouse staff use the Preview switcher to simulate any size plan, package, member tier, or role for testing
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