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- Unmarked: This is the initial status when an idea is submitted. The Product Team will review all submitted ideas to determine how best to move forward.
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- Accepted for Future Development: Once the idea has been reviewed, discussed with the submitter (as needed), and prioritized by a PO, the idea will be accepted for development in an upcoming sprint. The timeframe for development will be determined based on other existing priorities/team capacity.
- In Progress: When the idea has been estimated, the idea is considered in progress.
- Beta: If the idea requires a beta testing period, this status will be set. This remains the status until Beta testing is completed.
- Completed: Once the idea is released to Production, the idea is considered completed.
Throughout the process outlined above, POs will provide updates to keep you in the loop.
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Booking restrictions that only include reservations made by the member
Schedules/Sessions inside of an Event
Virtual Guest Pass
It would be nice to allow for a virtual free guest pass to give to members on court reserve. This would allow members to bring guest whenever. We wouldn't have to zero out guest fees and use paper guest fees that we are currently using.
Have "Each Player based on Membership" not apply to ball machines
We charge courts fees based on membership. The "Reservation Fee Responsibility" option of "Each Player based on Membership" works very well for us. We can have a 4 players on a reservation and collect 4 different amounts from each of them. It's perfect.
Where this falls apart is when we add a ball machine with a fee to a reservation. What happens is each of those players have to pay the ball machine fee based on their membership. It doesn't make sense to charge each player the full fee for the ball machine. Either leave the ball machine fee responsibility with the reservation owner or allow it to split equally between (not multiplied by) the players on the court.
Event discounts specific to membership type
Would like to see event discounts expanded to be membership specific. For example, we would like to allow some memberships a free open play from open until 4pm and other memberships could have a free open play at any time during the day. Currently, the category type applies to all membership types
Check auto-renewal membership fee at cancelation
CR will auto-renew memberships a specified number of days in advance. During that advance period, members can still cancel but CR doesn't remove or check for the fee. It might still be billed and collected even though the member properly canceled. It would be helpful to remove the fee, or check and alert the member/Club, or even warn the member to check for the fee whenever they cancel: "Your membership renewal fee may already be generated based on Club policy, please verify your account or contact the Club to confirm"
Set specific date for when guests can be registered for events
For events, have an option to set a specific date that guests can be registered so that members have first priority. Similar to the event registration where you can set different dates/times that membership categories can register.
For example, space is limited to only 50 registrants. Allow members to register up to a certain date, and then at that point they can register their guests if space is still available.
You can manually do this, but would be great to not have to manually do it each week for reoccurring events.
email button in app for players in player directory
many people don't use the baked in email app on iOS, yet you require it when you click on the email icon in the player directory for a member. my feature request is to show the email address and have the ability to "copy email address" so you can paste it into gmail for example. The way it functions right now doesn't even work for me because I don't have the iOS mail app.
Thank you.
Pay for guests at events immediately
We don't want our members to carry a balance. The new event guests feature is great except it doesn't force the member to pay the assigned guest fee right away. Please consider updating this.
Ability to display court layouts, etc.
It would be helpful if when players were booking or reserving courts, that they could "see" a schematic/layout of the courts and/or campus, in general, in order to better inform them of locations of courts. A simple link/button on a reservation form that popped up a PDF or graphic that we uploaded, for example.
add guests to waitlist for events
ability for players and admins to add guests of players to waitlist attached to them..
Costs of Goods report for Point of Sale
We would like to be able to have a report that can be run for Sales over a given time period that factors Unit Cost into the report. Currently only the Inventory Valuation does this, but it is not a report that can show sales over a given time period.
A being able to see Unit Cost subtracted out of the Gross Sales on another POS report such as Item Sales would be helpful.
Add "Package Name" in Transaction List Output
Our club uses Transaction List with Payment Types = Punch to generate a punch report for each instructor which is used to calculate the instructor's pay. Currently, the output does not include the Package Name. We have multiple packages for the same events with different punch counts and thus a different $/punch value. In order to correctly pay the instructor using this report, we need the Package Name in the Transaction List output.
Allow members to add recurring bookings themselves
Our club is mostly unmanned, and as a result we would like the ability for members to reserve recurring bookings by themselves. This knowledge base item says members cannot setup recurring bookings without the intervention of a system user: https://intercom.help/courtreserve/en/articles/4852028-recurring-reservations
Ideally allowing the club to turn this feature on by adding this functionality at a membership level / by membership type:
- membership level ie. Add a feature to select which type of membership you will allow to place their own recurring bookings via the portal/mobile app
- All other membership level restrictions apply as currently set at a member level ie. number of days you can book in advance, hours notice for cancellation etc.
thanks
Receive event sign up notifications when members add themselves to waitlist
Currently, we receive emails for anyone signing up to an event... but when the event is full, we don't get notices that people have put themselves on the waitlist and we think this would be a great feature.
Filter on Batch Billing to not include members with current pending invoices
Ability to copy Rows
Often times Rows used to build the website are similar, so being able to duplicate a Row and edit it would make website building much faster.
Running Balance on All Transactions Page
Can we change the format of the All Transactions page under billing to show a running balance like banks statements have? Basically, there will be a column with the date, a column with the type of transaction and the transaction date if it occurs in the future, a column for the fee, a column for payments or refunds, and a running balance to show how much is owed or on credit after each transaction. It would look like this:
Date | Transaction | Fee | Payment or Refund | Account Balance |
January 1 | Opening Balance | $0.00 | ||
January 10 | 2 Hours Doubles Booking - Jan 17 | $12.50 | $12.50 | |
January 15 | POS Purchase - Shoes | $100.00 | $112.50 | |
January 20 | Private Lesson - January 27 | $80.00 | $192.50 | |
January 31 | Invoice Payment | $192.50 | $0.00 |
The invoice page works fantastic but I truly believe that revamping the All Transaction page to look like the table above would vastly reduce the confusion from customers when it comes to explaining charges on their accounts.
Allow Event Restrictions using Dynamic Groups
Please allow us to use Dynamic Member Groups and not just Static Member Groups in the Event Registration Restrictions. Dynamic groups would allow us to easily manage our members and the events would automatically update based on our update of members.
Unused Hours Report
I would love a report where I can find unused hours on selected dates, time, and courts. This would be helpful when implementing new programs, tournaments, ideas. etc.
Email reminders to pay outstanding balance
There should be an easy way to email reminders to members who have an outstanding balance and unpaid fees (of any sort) older than X days.
Membership Payment Plans
Enable a member to do an annual membership paid in 4 installments.
Ladders - %PTS Won (Algorithm doesn't work)
We are currently using the Ladder League programme with the rankings being controlled by the %PTS Won and a maximum movement of 5 on the Ladder.
System Issues & How Court Reserve needs to Fix Them
- Issue: Sandbagging & Skewed Totals
- The Problem: Racking up points against weaker players on a lower court yields an artificially inflated cumulative score.
- The Fix: Switch from raw points to Points Percentage (e.g., Total Points Scored ÷ Total Points Available). This normalizes scoring so that dominance on any court is evaluated equally.
- Issue: "Runaway" Scores
- The Problem: Early-season leaders build an insurmountable cumulative points lead, destroying motivation for newer players or late bloomers.
- The Fix: Average your players' weekly scores, or only count their last 3 to 4 weeks of play. Alternatively, use rolling averages so early poor games or missed weeks don't permanently tank a player's rank.
- Issue: Unequal Games Played
- The Problem: In open-play formats, players who attend every session will accumulate vastly more total points than those who attend occasionally.
- The Fix: Rank players strictly by their average match/game win percentage or point percentage, rather than total cumulative points
The current algorithm does not take into account any of the above fixes. this presents major problems on the ladder where high level players find hemselves playing loweer level players with no fun for either.
Come on Court Reserve. You can do better.
Gamified Member Achievements (Badges, Rewards, Leaderboards)
It would be great to add a gamified achievement system for members. For example, clubs could create badges or rewards for milestones like completing all programs, attending a certain number of events, or reaching skill levels. A simple leaderboard or progress tracker could also encourage participation and engagement. This would help clubs recognize member accomplishments and make participation more fun and motivating.
ability to master accept payments like attendance. We are a cash club
We should be able to click multiple players at once to accept payments. Its too much clicking to go through each individual person to accept payment. especially when we are using cash payments. It should give both options.
Check a public booking's email address for an account already in the system
Before a player is allowed to book via public booking, check to see if an account already exists with that email. If that account does exist, then prompt them to log in before booking the court/event.
Add Paddle Rentals when booking online Court Reservations
It would be great if members could rent paddles and balls directly from the online scheduler when reserving courts. Right now, it seems we would have to create a rental item for each of our rentable paddles and balls in order to allow multiple rentals across different bookings happening at the same time. This isn't feasible as we'd have hundreds of rental items in the dropdown menu.
What I would love to see is an option to rent paddles and or balls when members are reserving courts online, that allows the member to check a box or click an option and then increase the quantity needed for their rental. Ideally this would be paired with the option to adjust quantity on the backend so that we don't overbook.
Add a punch(es) onto a members existing package
As Admins we have the ability to deduct punches from a members package, but the ability to ADD a punch(es) onto a members' existing package would be great! This would simplify "merging packages" that only have .5 punches left to a new punch package.
Concurrent Event Registrations Restriction
Please add a feature where a member cannot double book themselves and if a sub admin or admin wants to double book themself, they get a warning first which they have to override
Option to restrict members from booking on dates that are past their membership's expiration date
This would give organization's the option to restrict members from booking reservations, or registering for events on dates that are past their current membership's expiration/cancellation date. So if a member's membership ends on April 1st, they will not be able to book a reservation or register for an event on April 2nd.
Allow members to tip their pro
Right now we have to have a tip item in the POS which has to be overridden with the tip amount. It is very cumbersome. It would be really nice if a member could add a tip to their lesson fee
Integrate with the Stripe Terminal to allow a better experience for in-person payments
Guest Passes for Members
We'd like to be able to include a certain number of free guest passes (monthly) with our memberships. We'd like to be able to encourage our members to bring friends, and allowing them a couple of free guest passes each month would be helpful.
Profile Picture Showing up on Computer screen at time of check in at kiosk-currently its just the name that shows up- would be nice if the photo showed up too
Currently when our players check in at the Kiosk, only the name shows on our screen. It would be nice if the picture no only showed up on the kiosk device, but also on the computer at the scheduler desk.
Allow Guests to Check-In on the Kiosk
Our club doesn't have a full-time front desk, so we rely heavily on the Kiosk feature for member check-in for reservations.
However, guests can't check in on the Kiosk. It'd be great if the Kiosk showed a drop down of all the guests, and they guests could pick out their name and check into a reservation that they are on.
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