SOFTWARE
for your tennis business
Table of contents
1.2. What makes us different? 5
1.3. For club owners & directors: how to keep things under control? 6
1.4. How your business can be useful for Liga.Tennis users. 7
3.5.1. Main booking settings 16
3.5.2. Coaches booking settings 19
3.5.3. Process booking settings 21
3.5.4. Notification booking settings 22
6.1. Online booking process 53
6.2. Manage bookings by users 61
7.3. Pre-purchased packages 69
Liga.Tennis Software is a booking & management system for tennis venues around the world. Liga.Tennis Software specializes in tennis only: online bookings, staff management, CRM, Pro-Shop, Analytics and more. We built this system from the ground up to deal with our own challenges. So Liga.Tennis Software is made by tennis club owners, for tennis club owners. We understand what you need.
Please read Liga.Tennis Software presentation and FAQ on this page: https://liga.tennis/software
AS A LIGA.TENNIS BUSINESS ACCOUNT YOU CAN:
Here are 5 great reasons which makes us stand out from the rest:
1. Liga.Tennis Software specializes in tennis only, and we like to think we thought of everything: online bookings, staff management, CRM, Pro-Shop, Analytics and more. We built this system from the ground up to deal with our own challenges. So Liga.Tennis Software is made by tennis club owners, for tennis club owners. We understand what you need!
2. Liga.Tennis Software is integrated with our free Liga.Tennis App to better engage with your clients; encourage them to play more matches, join social games, events, tournaments, and much more. Clients can see for example, who is signed up for a group activity or who just finished playing a match at your venue. This ecosystem will drive participation and revenue. It’s very simple: thanks to this app they will play more tennis at your venue.
3. You will enjoy for free a full range of our other amazing features: a tournament & league manager, timeline, ladders, built-in messenger and much more.
4. You will get new clients. If you have an open facility, not only your existing customers but anyone from Liga.Tennis app (100k users) can book your facility or programs online - which will have a prioritized view in our app. Even if you are members-only, non-members will see matches happening at your facility and could inquire with you about membership!
5. For all the features we offer, we are super affordable! We also provide all other standard features such as mobile devices adaptation, different languages, 24/7 technical support and many more.
For tennis clubs owners and principals, Liga.Tennis Software gives great opportunities to keep things under control. Depending on your settings you can be notified:
Using Liga.Tennis App, anyone, including your own clients and members can:
So:
You can specify minimum and maximum time for bookings - this will be the maximum amount of hours that a single client can book daily.
Booking time step - allows you to control a time range for each booking. If you’d like to allow the user to make bookings ‘on the half hour’ for example every 1 hour, 1 hour 30 min, 2h, 2h 30 min etc. leave this value on the default setting. (30 min). Otherwise choose 1 hour and by this you will allow users to make bookings only ‘on the hour’ 1h, 2h, 3h etc.
You can leave this as default (just specify the price for your courts) or also specify your opening times. You are also able to create different time for different weekdays and specify a price depending on the time like the following example:
Please note: don’t worry at this step if you have different prices for different courts (for example indoor or outdoor). You will be able to manage all courts separately once you set up the basic information.
Once you have set up the basic information you will be redirected to your booking calendar page.
The top bar is your main navigation toolbar:
The hamburger menu button will show you all available options
Today - a button for quick access to the current day.
Date - opens calendar.
Day - a button to switch mode of the calendar: you can choose Day, Week or Month view.
Bell - a notifications button - will show you the latest notifications about an activity of your tennis center.
Exclamation mark - shows important information which you should take care of, i.e. if you have unapproved bookings (in case, you didn’t set to instant booking mode).
How to get: Click → Spaces Manage → Information
In this section you can manage the main information about your tennis center such as:
How to get: Click → Spaces Manage → General
In this section you can manage basic settings :
How to get: Click → Spaces Manage → Spaces
In this section you can manage your spaces.
Courts will be automatically added after the setup step.
For example if you chose 6 courts you will see the following list:
Of course you can edit this list anytime you want to easily add or remove a court and allow or disable availability.
Let’s take a deeper look into what you can configure for each court:
At the top of court’s settings you will see these checkboxes
Active - if ticked the selected court is available in the calendar.
Allow online bookings - if checked you allow selected court to be booked online.
Allow users to book only coach lessons - this checkbox needs to be checked in case you have a court which is dedicated for just coach bookings (no court-only bookings are allowed). For example, your court is located at a private villa and you don’t want random guests to come there without assigned coaches.
After these checkboxes you see fields to specify more information about court such as:
The info button near the court's title shows a modal window with the court’s description.
Booking settings
You can create your own booking settings for the spaces. You can let your users be able to book the exact hour time i.e. 8.00, 9.00 etc or not.
Booking time step 一 you can also set up how many minimum hours your customer can book the spaces.
Instant booking 一 allow your user to book at any time they want
Coaches instant booking 一 If checked it will allow your customers to book the coaches without any prove from you
Hours and availability - if you’d like to specify specific prices and opening hours for the selected court.
Similar to the setup page you can manage opening times and prices for your tennis center
How to get: Click → Space Manage → Booking settings
The following options are available:
Available options are:
Coach can review their lessons from the main Liga.Tennis menu in the section My Bookings
This section is the important one. It is the one that allows users to see what they can choose when they are making a booking. Either court only, court + coaches, group classes, etc.
So, you have to create those items or products by clicking the create item and choose specific sports and the options.
Here you can set the text for different kinds of notifications:
How to get: Click → Spaces Manage → Extras
In this section you can manage extras which can be added to any bookings.
For example you can create a list like below;
Specify names, descriptions and prices and products on this list will be selectable by customers and your administrators while booking.
How to get: Click → Spaces Manage → Classes
In this section you can manage group activities at your tennis center.
For each activity you can specify necessary information, such as title, sports type, gender, coach who will handle the class, description, registration comment once the customer made a booking, youtube video, price, participants limits, etc.
Once you create your first group activity, go back to your spaces, decide when you want to have these classes, make a booking, then fill out the details that are needed. Such as :
You can assign Liga.Tennis users to your activity or can assign other customers who you can add manually.
You can also put booking details, Person in charge (if any), notes, customer comment also choose extras items that you provide.
For each participant you can choose if the participant is Going or on the Waiting list and their Payment status, you can also apply any necessary discounts.
There is something special about classes. Ideally you want every customer to register to the app. But maybe in some cases, they couldn’t, for example for kids. Of course they can’t have an account at Liga App, so the administrator has the ability to add the kids without registration.
Once you create your first group activity it will be available to schedule in the calendar
You can assign Liga.Tennis users to your activity or can assign other customers who you can add manually.
For each participant you can choose if the participant is Going or on the Waiting list and their Payment status, you can also apply any necessary discounts.
How to get: Click → Spaces Manage → Discounts
In this section you can manage discounts which can be applied to bookings or group activity participants. For example, some of your members might have different discounts.
Simply create a list of discounts you want to have available.
And it will be available for bookings
or group activities
How to get: Click → Spaces Manage → Users and roles
In this section you can manage users who have access to administrate your tennis center.
You can search for a Liga.Tennis user by name or URL, then assign and choose a role. You can also choose what kind of notifications this user should receive.
Roles:
Also Managers can add new Administrators into the system but administrators can’t do that.
From the side of the tennis venue, the main page for managing bookings is the calendar page.
How to get: Click → Spaces Calendar
Below is an example default (without any bookings) view of the calendar
The navigation bar contains:
- main menu button
- button to quickly access the calendar
- calendar navigation
- toggle calendar-view mode
- notifications and important alerts
- courts navigation in case you have many courts that can’t be visible at the same time on your screen.
Offline support: In case you don't have Internet - booking calendar will be still available just in read only mode.
System automatically checks the booking calendar for updates. Meaning that if you have an open page with a booking calendar, and someone creates, updates or deletes a booking - your page will be updated automatically and no refresh needed. This check is every 60 seconds.
To create bookings you can:
Once you choose a time the following window appears:
The following options are available:
Click on the arrow (context menu button) in a booking block in the calendar
Then click Delete - confirm and bookings will be removed, in case removing the booking conflicts with your cancellation policy, you will see the following message
Please note for each option (Save and hide, Cancel at no fee, Just delete), administrators will have to explain (add reasons) and this will be received by Managers via email. So Managers and Supervisors will see all removed bookings.
Double click on a booking or open the context menu and choose Edit
The system has the following types of bookings:
The system sends notifications to administrators via email, internal Liga.Tennis notifications and pushes (if administrator has installed Liga.Tennis application). To setup administrators take a look in the Users and roles section
Unread notifications will show the appropriate badge (bell) in the main toolbar.
Important alerts you can see in the main toolbar (exclamation mark)
If you see this usually there will be a list of unapproved bookings which you should take care of as soon as possible.
How to get: Click → Coaches Manage → Settings
Before creating individual coaches it is better to create types of coaches. At least create one type (i.e. Regular). The individual coach’s prices depend on what type you register them as, so you can have many coaches of the same type and if you need to change price, you just need to update the price of that type.
This section will allow your customer to see the coach information during booking
How to get: Click → Coaches Manage → Coaches
To create a coach click on the top button Add coach, and then following window appears:
Fill out all required information, if a coach has a profile on Liga.Tennis (which is highly recommended) you can register their user profile as a coach
Don’t forget to choose the spaces and type of sports these coaches are available for. It is possible for some coaches to coach in more than one sports type. If they are, you should check 2 types of sports.
Once you create a coach, in this case the coach will receive notifications about lessons and will have access to a list of their lessons.
Then the next step is to create a schedule for them.
There are the following buttons on the coach’s row:
Use Calendar button
In this pop up window click on a date when coach works
To remove work day just click on an appropriate green day, so by clicking on a date you can toggle the work day.
You can give any description about the coach, so once a customer booked them, it will appear on their booking.
How to get: Click → Coaches Calendar
Similar to the main calendar with bookings, instead of having the courts in columns, on this page columns are related to each coach.
Below is an example (with no active bookings)
Use the toggle near coach name to toggle work day on or off.
In the same way as the main calendar you can create a booking by clicking on a time or selecting a time range. If you need to block (i.e remove availability for a) range of time, choose the time range and in bookings window choose ‘Block time’
As a result you will get something like the image below
Selected time won’t be able to be booked by administrators or clients.
Please note that some tennis clubs allow their coaches more freedom to arrange their own schedule by themselves. For example, coaches can block their time as long as they are Administrators in this Software system.
Please note that below we are showing how to book from the desktop web version but you can do it from mobile devices and our App for iOS and Android.
Each facility has an individual page on Liga.Tennis. On this page, under the title if online booking is activated users see the following button:
After click on the ‘Book online’ button this window appears
Your customer can choose what type of sports he or she wants to choose. Then the window might contain up to 3 buttons:
When user click on this button
the next step is to choose a date
After choosing a date the timetable shows up, please choose a time the user needs to click (or tap) on the required time cell:
After choosing a start time user needs to select the end of the booking, available time shows with light green color (the amount of time available depends on the Max booking time setting, read this section for more details).
After this step, once the user selects end time, system shows the booking confirmation step:
On this step users can review all the booking information, choose extras if needed, add a comment (this will show as Customer’s comment in the Edit bookings modal window on the admin side), and accept your Rules and rates (see here for more details).
After clicking Accept rules and click on the Confirm booking button user gets one of two response messages:
When user click on this button the next step is:
- in case you allow booking only by the type of coach (show a list of your coach types, look here for more details).
After choosing the coach or coach type and choosing a date, the user goes to a timetable step, and then to a booking confirmation step as was described in the previous chapter.
On the court page the system shows group activities
User clicks on a Sign up button and gets one of two response messages
In case there is an available slot for the Group activity, or:
In case there are no available slots and user joins the waiting list
If the admin removes a user from the Going list - the next waiting user moves automatically to the Going list and receives a notification.
Users can review registration for group activities from the My Group activities page
Left image in case of joining the Waiting list and right - user is on the Going list
The user can review all their bookings from the ‘My bookings’ page from the main menu or in appropriate section in their App (recommended):
On this page there are a few tabs
Upcoming - list of all the user’s upcoming bookings.
Favourites - list of courts where the user has made bookings, for quick navigation.
Unpaid - shows any unpaid bookings a user may have.
Past - list of all the user’s previous bookings, so they may review their booking history.
If a booking can be modified by the user, the ‘Edit’ button will be displayed.
There are also review and cancel buttons.
From the main software menu select ‘CRM’ to review and manage your customers.
Here is an example of the customers list
If a user has unpaid bookings - the user’s row will be highlighted.
Each user’s row has the following action buttons
Ban - to register the user as banned. If banned, the user won’t be able to book your courts online.
Statistics - to review the user’s history.
Edit - to edit user information.
Delete - to remove the user.
Here is an example of a user’s statistics.
In this window you can review and search by bookings and review which group activities the user has registered.
To create a customer use the Add customer button, the image below shows a create customer form
Here you can add a new customer, if your customer already has a Liga.Tennis profile you can search and assign it to your customer (recommended).
If your tennis center has memberships this section helps you to manage them.
To create a membership go to Menu → CRM → Membership → Add type
Each membership type might have conditions which you will be able to apply to customer’s bookings
Free week hours - use this function if you’d like to allow your members to be able to book some hours free of charge at your facility.
Another condition would be to allow your members different privileges for making new bookings. For example a regular customer is able to book up to 7 days in the future, but you can allow your members to book up to 8 days in the future as an added benefit.
To assign a membership go to Edit customer, check the ‘Member’ checkbox and choose the membership type
Sometimes your administrators will need to update membership (for example, to freeze it for 1 month). This update history will always be available here in CRM profile of each client:
Please note, once membership is updated, Managers will receive email.
If your tennis center sells pre-purchased packages (for example, 10 lessons with Head Coach), this is going to be a useful tool for you.
You can assign a package for each customer in CRM in the tab Packages here:
Lets see its main fields:
Add - to assign a new package for this client. .
Title - to name this package.
Description - to add a package's description or payment receipt attached on Google Drive, for example.
Booking count - to add the number of lessons included in the packages. Please note that the system will account automatically for every new booking when this package is attached. Current (actual) lessons counts will be displayed here:
In this case 1 lesson has been already used out of 10.
Please note that Managers can receive emails once a new package is attached to a customer.
Admins can manage the store from the main menu
From this section you can create a list of categories
Use the Add button to create your own list of categories.
To create a product, fill out the required information
Below is an example of the products list
You can add to the inventory of a product and update or remove the product.
Please note: to decrease inventory in our system you will need to create an order with the type ‘Write-off’, please read the section below for more details. So nobody can do it manually.
The first step to creating an order is to assign a customer to this order
You can choose one of your existing customers, add a new customer or create a simple order without any additional information.
The next step is to fill the order with the appropriate products
You can search by product or filter them by category. Choose a product from the list and click the ‘Add’ button.
Once you click on the ‘Add’ button the following row appears
You can increase the quantity of products in the order, if you choose a quantity higher than you have in stock you will see the following sign;
Once you add all the required products to the order press the ‘Complete order’ button. If you have no conflicts (i.e no stock) you will see the current order in the list of orders highlighted in green.
After completing the order, the appropriate products quantity will be decreased in stock.
If you just need to decrease the stock use the ‘Write-off’ payment type in an order and complete it
Analytics are available from the main menu
9.1. Bookings
In this section, you can see how many bookings were made, how many of it is paid or unpaid, total hours booking, how many private lessons, classes, regular customers made the booking or members, over a period of time. Either on that day, yesterday, a week ago or even 6 months ago, in a specific space.
You can also see who is your first timer booking for spaces or classes and their nationalities
At the booking section, there will be a red heart symbol for these first timers,
either their first time to book a court or join classes.
Depending on your company, it can be a good change to give these people
very good impression of your facility and services.
While, for the manager there will be an email notification about these first timers.
Most of these first timers will come back for the second time, you can notify by the blue heart on the booking system.
By these, it means your staff must be doing a very good job ! you can find who handle and how they handle the client by clicking the client name and click the history button
And you will know who handled this client and what information that was collected from them.
9.2. Customers
In this section you will understand more about your customers' demographic
from their bookings, lessons, classes, nationalities, age and gender. This
information can be filtered by specific spaces or whole spaces at some period
of time.
Still have questions, found some bugs or have ideas? Please press Need help? and send us an email at hello@liga.tennis. We will be back to you within 1 working day:
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SOFTWARE
for your tennis business