Open matches

Racket venues fill their courts with open matches: a player offers a free slot to others of a similar level, and the court is booked once enough players are in. Nobody at the desk has to do anything.

• Offering one: in the app, Courts, pick a free slot on a court with a racket sport, then "Open it for players". Pick the sport if the court has several, and who can join: all levels, or a range around your own level, half a level at a time. The range always keeps your own level in it. The API takes it as levelMin and levelMax, from 0 to 7.
• Joining: Courts, Open matches lists the ones still looking for players, soonest first, and says whether each fits the player's level. A player joins a side with room: one each side in singles, two in doubles.
• The court's price, shared: each open match shows the court's price at the rate of whoever offered it (member or guest) and each player's share, as "€5 each".
• Full: the last place books the court in the name of whoever offered the slot, like any booking they make, and the match becomes a game in each player's Games. Its result is entered and confirmed by the players, as for any game, and moves their levels.
• Each player pays their share: once it's full, every player owes their part of the court's price, due when the match starts. Any cent left over falls to whoever offered it. The shares are in each player's Payments, paid in the app when the venue takes payments online, or at the desk, where staff mark them paid in the admin, under Fees.
• Who hears what: the players already in hear each one who joins. When it's full, everyone hears the court is booked, with their share. When it's off, the players still in hear why: whoever offered it called it off, the court went to someone else first, or the court's booking was cancelled.
• Cancelling the court: cancelling the booking of a full match calls the match off and cancels its game. Shares not paid yet are cancelled; paid ones come back in the same proportion as the court's refund.
• Before it's full: anyone can leave, and the player who offered it leaving calls it off. If someone books the court in the meantime, the match is called off when it would have filled.