This is a follow up to Part One which sets you up the point that you have accepted team registrations online and approved/rejected them appropriately. When you have closed registrations, you are ready to proceed with this guide. As with Part 1, this is also largely covered in the below video if you prefer that […]
Month: July 2022
Setting Up Your Season: Part One
Once you have your league registered, you can start setting up your season. Some of the content below can be seen in video format below for those who prefer a video format. Set Up Venues and Tables In order to register teams, the system needs to know the venues and the pool tables which are […]
Register Your League
In order to use RackEmApp you need to Register. You need to register using an email address and create a password. This should be a personal account to you and not a shared one, as your registration will include access to your own player profile. But don’t worry, you can invite more of your committee […]
Every league needs to run some form of basic content which Teams and Players need to be able to access. This could be your league rules, your league constitution, bylaws, about your committee, an FAQ page… Any number of different reasons. RackEmApp provides a basic content management system to allow you to operate pages like […]
Online Payments with Stripe
One of the more administratively difficult parts of running a pool league is handling cash. Whether its team registrations or competition entries, having to handle that cash, issue a receipt and bank and account for it makes being a treasurer a chore. Not to mention that society is moving more and more towards being cashless […]
Player IDs
When we set out to build RackEmApp, it was with the view that a player could own their own profile, and reuse that profile in any other league that also uses RackEmApp. One of the challenges with this approach is how do you identify a player? How many John Smiths are there in pool leagues […]
End Of Season
The end of the season is always ane xciting time in pool leagues. Who’s going to win the league? Who is going up? Who is in a relegation dogfight? The live scoring and easy interactivity in RackEmApp adds a new element of fun to the end of season shenanegans, and we love to see it. […]
Competitions
Running a pool league isn’t easy. In fact, its quite difficult! In most cases committees are volunteer led, by a few dedicated people putting in a lot of effort just to make pool night happen. And a lot goes into that which many captain’s and players sometimes don’t appreciate. One of those areas is the […]