The Court Booking System

An optional new user interface has now been provided as part of work to internationalise the EACF Court Booking System system in order to make it available for croquet clubs worldwide. All the existing bookings and the basic booking operations remain the same as before for all EACF users.

However, in addition to the existing method of accessing their bookings, EACF users can also now access them as part of the World Croquet Federation website domain at https://cbs.worldcroquet.org. The actual system is the same by either route, though via the WCF link you will see the WCF logo in the top left corner instead of the EACF one.

What's different?

The main differences are:

• The new layout has dispensed with a lot of the text items that you click on to change between different dates, and replaced them with buttons and a pop-up calendar-style navigation, which means a less cluttered page. The new design is also intended to work rather better on mobile devices.
• Bookings can now be seen and made in many different languages.
• If you access the bookings website without specifying any particular club, you will land as usual on the 'Demonstration club'. But in addition you will see a new club selection mechanism at the top of the page which first requires you to select a country, and then from a list of clubs in that country. You can see it there now. In most cases it should default to the country in which you are actually located, so for EACF users that would of course be England. Apart from England these country lists will be empty at first, except that the Demonstration system is available to all.
  
  If you arrive in the bookings system directly on the page for your own club, as most people do, then the club selection will disappear from the menu at the top, but it can still be accessed via the Settings and Preferences icon in the top right corner.
• In some countries there is more than one language in common use; or users of the system could be travelling abroad; or you might have a member of your own club that would prefer to use a different language. So the choice of language in the system is separate from the choice of country, though for most users the choice will probably be the obvious one for their home country.

Do I have to change anything?

The short answer is "No". You can carry on using the system just as you did before. However, why not try out the new design and navigation features now? You can always revert to the old style at any time via the Settings pop-up in the top right corner. This will provide you with a short menu of options where you can select different languages and different countries and clubs if you wish, as well as the choice between the old and new style of user interface. You can click on the settings icon here to try it out.

Please note that when using the old style interface you will only be able to override the default selection of country or language by using this page and accessing the Settings via the icon in the top right corner.

When using the new style interface you can access your Settings and Preferences using the Settings icon in the top right corner of every page.

Return to your bookings