Accepting an invitation

If a club, association, programme, or another guardian wants you on board, you'll get an invitation email. This page explains what happens when you click the link.

What the email contains

The email tells you who sent the invitation and what it's for, joining a club, taking on a committee role, signing up to a coaching programme, taking on a coach or umpire engagement, sharing access to a junior, or affiliating two organisations. There's a single button (or link) that takes you to /invite/[token] on Badminton Clubhouse. That link is unique to your invitation and to you.

What happens when you click

You'll land on an invitation page that's tailored to the kind of invitation. The title, the description, and the form fields all change to match, joining a club shows the club name and what membership gets you; a co-guardian invitation shows the junior's name and what shared access means; a service-provider engagement shows the service (coach, umpire, etc.) and what you're being asked to do.

If you already have an account

You'll see a one-click Accept button. Click it and you're in, no forms, no password, no email round-trip. We already know who you are.

If you don't have an account yet

You'll see a signup form that asks for only the fields the kind needs:

• Date of birth is always required, we use it to apply age-appropriate safeguarding, to route junior signups via a guardian, and to apply age-band membership rules.
• Postcode is asked if you're being engaged as a coach or service provider (used for "find a coach near me" discovery later) or if the kind needs it for compliance.
• Consents depend on the kind, e.g. a club-member signup asks the consents your club's GDPR policy requires; a service-provider engagement adds the relevant safeguarding consents.

Fill in the form, set a password, and you're in.

Multiple invitations at once

If you've been invited to several things, say, two clubs and a co-guardian invitation for your eldest, each email link is a separate one-click accept. Accepting one doesn't accept the others. You can do them in any order.

Where you land after accepting

Once you accept, the page takes you straight to the right place:

• Joined a club? → your club home page.
• Took on an admin role? → that club's admin area.
• Signed up to a programme? → the programme page.
• Took on a coaching/service engagement? → your service onboarding page.
• Accepted a co-guardian invitation? → the Juniors page.

You don't need to find anything manually, the accept lands you there.

The 30-day clock (14 days for co-guardian)

Invitations expire 30 days after they're sent. Co-guardian invitations expire after 14 days because they grant access to a child's record. After that, the link stops working and you'll see an "expired" message.

If you'd still like to accept after expiry, just ask the person who sent it to send a fresh one, it takes them a few seconds from their admin inbox.