Every PlayTour guide,in one place
Start by picking whether you are playing or organising. Each guide follows the order you actually do the work in, from entry to result, with the screens alongside.
For players
You are entering a tournament, or you are already on the entry list and want to know when you play.
Getting started
Creating an account, filling in your profile, and learning how to read a tournament page.
Entering and paying
Choosing a category, adding a partner or team, paying the entry fee, the waiting list and withdrawing.
The mobile app
Your playing schedule in your pocket, notifications on your phone and entering scores courtside.
For organisers
From an empty event to the final standings. The guides are in the order you need them.
PlayTour for your club
What the platform does for a sports club, what it costs and how to start.
Help with organising
The short route through the whole job, with the questions that come up most.
Creating an event
Name, dates, visibility and publishing. The foundation everything else hangs on.
Setting up categories
Entry fee, capacity, closing date, eligibility and how each category is played and scored.
Managing venues
Record your halls and pitches once, with the courts inside them and when they are free.
Assigning courts
Which categories may use which courts, and what to do when two matches want the same one.
Draws and scheduling
Seeding, drawing each category, letting the planner do the sums and publishing the playing schedule.
Managing entries
Statuses, payments, the waiting list, replacements, transfers, withdrawals and competitor numbers.
Talking to entrants
Announcements by email and push, documents, and getting your own rules agreed to.
What is in which guide
The table of contents for the whole set, so you do not have to open four pages to find where your subject lives.
Entering and paying
- Finding a tournament by sport, town and date
- Choosing a category and checking you are eligible
- Inviting a doubles partner or a whole team
- Paying the entry fee online (coming soon)
- Sitting on the waiting list and moving up
- Telling the organisers when you cannot play
- Withdrawing, and what that does to your payment
The mobile app
- Signing in with the account you already have
- Seeing your matches and your court
- Turning push notifications on and off again
- Being told when your match moves
- Entering scores courtside
Events and categories
- Creating an event with dates and visibility
- Public, unlisted, or still a draft
- Categories with their own entry fee, capacity and closing date
- Eligibility by age, gender and standard
- Singles, doubles, teams, squads or relays
- Choosing the format and the way points are counted
- Selling extras alongside the entry, on the Enterprise plan
Venues, courts and playing schedule
- Recording a venue once and reusing it
- Courts, tables, pitches or boards per venue
- Opening hours and closures in the availability calendar
- More than one venue inside a single event
- Tying categories to particular courts
- Seeding and drawing each category
- Letting the planner do the sums and clearing conflicts
- Publishing the playing schedule and moving a match later
Entries and entrants
- Reading the entry list: status and payment status
- Confirming or declining an entry
- The waiting list and who moves up
- Replacing a player inside an existing entry
- Handing an entry over to somebody else
- Typing a club squad in from the paper form
- Withdrawals and refunds
- Handing out competitor numbers in your own numbering
Communication and terms
- An announcement to the whole tournament or to one category
- Email and push notification in one go
- What PlayTour already sends when the playing schedule changes
- Attaching your rules and terms to the entry form
- Recording that somebody agreed, and to which version
- Uploading documents for entrants or for everybody
- Unsubscribing from club mail, and what still gets through
If your subject is not here, try the frequently asked questions or ask through the contact form. What gets asked more than once gets added.
If you are stuck
These guides are about the platform. If your question is about the rules, the entry fee, the venue or the playing schedule of one particular tournament, the organising club knows the answer, and their contact details are on that tournament page.
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