A Court Booking System is available now for use by EACF member clubs. This is a facility which enables clubs
to have their own online court booking system for the courts at their club. They do not need to have their
own club website, though it can easily be added as a direct link within a club website as well.
Bookings can be made in a variety of ways, from short time-periods on one court to whole days on multiple courts.
To view existing bookings by day, by week or by month just visit the corresponding link here, and then select a club. Or first select a club and then change the view using one of the links at the bottom of every page.
Access to editing bookings is controlled by a simple login with user name and password, so that only club members can make or change bookings. Each club also has one or more administrators who can manage the use of the system by their own club members.
The booking system can be used from any standard browser and PC, laptop, tablet or mobile phone with an internet connection. JavaScript must be enabled for it to work properly, which is the default setting for all modern types of browser.
A Demonstration system using a hypothetical club is available for illustration and experimentation. The pre-defined members at this club are named 'Alice' and 'Bob', and they both have the password 'demo'. You are welcome to login in as one of these users and to make some experimental bookings to see how it works! Just follow the link to try it out.
Since May 2010 the system has been used 'live' by Norwich and Watford, and in subsequent years it has also been adopted by many more clubs. Around the time of the Covid pandemic, when booking was strongly encouraged in order to implement restrictions on the maximum number of people allowed to meet together, the number of clubs using it increased substantially, also extending its use to all other regional Federations, and outside the UK. Those clubs have continued to use it after the Covid restrictions were removed. The system is now available for free to all clubs worldwide whose national governing body is a member of the World Croquet Federation, and in many languages. There are now nearly 2,000 registered users making over 40,000 court bookings a year.
The actual bookings for participating clubs are visible to all (for viewing only except by those members with login rights) and can be reached by selecting a real club instead of the Demonstration club, or directly via the details shown for those participating clubs on the EACF Clubs page, or from an external website link or browser 'favourite' if desired.
If you are interested in using this system at your own club please contact the Webmaster.
