A five-a-side operator's hardest scheduling problem isn't the calendar — it's that one 11-a-side pitch is also two 7s, or three 5s, and selling any one of those has to close the others. Get that wrong and you find out at 20:00 on a Thursday, in front of twenty-two people.
They're the same four whether you run two pitches behind a leisure centre or a twelve-pitch complex.
Sub-resources are the fix, and they have to work in both directions: selling the whole pitch must close every section under it, and selling one section must close the whole. Anything less is a spreadsheet with extra steps, and the failure mode is always public.
League organisers and corporate bookers hold your most valuable inventory — the same peak slots, every week, all season. They don't want a checkout; they want an account, an invoice at month end and the ability to move their own fixtures. Give them a login and you stop being their booking desk.
The Thursday-night group that books on a whim and doesn't show is a peak slot you could have sold twice. Deposits change the behaviour, but only if the cancellation window automatically puts the pitch back on sale — otherwise you've collected a small fee and still lost the hour.
Floodlit hours cost you money to run and are the ones everybody wants. Rate bands per pitch and per hour let the evening carry its own price, and let the winter and summer schedules differ without anyone rewriting a price list twice a year.
The pitch structure is the only part that needs thought. Everything after it is rates and rules.
Define each pitch and the sections it splits into. Booking one closes the others automatically.
Peak, off-peak and floodlit bands per pitch, plus junior and member rates where you run them.
League organisers and corporate customers set up on account, with recurring season-long blocks.
Deposit or full prepayment per booking type, a cancellation window, and automatic re-listing.
Yes. A pitch can be configured with sub-resources, so selling the full pitch closes the sections underneath it and selling a section closes the full pitch. That prevents the classic double-booking where a 5-a-side and an 11-a-side are sold the same grass at the same time.
A recurring booking holds the same slot each week for the length of a season or a term, and it can be billed weekly, monthly or up front. Individual weeks can be released without cancelling the series, which is what you need over a holiday period.
Yes. Organisers and corporate customers can hold block bookings on account with monthly invoicing, and can be given their own login to manage their own fixtures within the block rather than phoning your desk.
A deposit or full prepayment at booking, a cancellation window that suits you, and automatic reminders. The important part is that a cancellation inside the window puts the slot straight back on sale — a released pitch nobody can rebook is the same loss as a no-show.
Yes. Rate bands are set per pitch and per hour, so evening slots under floodlights can carry their own price and the winter and summer schedules can differ without anyone rewriting a price list.
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