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To ensure that everyone understands the process the Product Team follows when reviewing/addressing submitted ideas, below is a breakdown of statuses:
- 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.
- Internal Review: The Product Team will review the submitted idea to determine scope of the request. A Product Owner (PO) may reach out to you for more detail.
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- Waiting on Votes: After the Product Team decides to move forward with an idea, this status will be set to allow time for others to vote on the idea. Ideas will be kept in this status for 90 days, as this will allow for enough time to garner votes and for the Product Team to better understand priority based on the number of votes received.
- 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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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.
Add the ability to see who you are playing with onto the Calendar Feed.
The apple calendar feed does not indicate who you are playing with: just indicates Singles. So I either have to enter a simultaneous appointment (with the name of the other player) or go the CR to view the actual reservation.
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.
Automatic Proration of Membership Dues for New Members
Our members pay their dues on a quarterly basis, so right now when we get new members in between billing cycles, we have to prorate the amount they owe by hand, otherwise they technically are getting free membership until the next round of dues are billed. Since quarterly billing is common, it would be great if Court Reserve could have a feature that automatically does that math for me.
Separate package "use" dates from "reservation" dates (more flexibility around start and expiration dates for packages
CourtReserve currently gives us a package start date and expiration date. Because members book courts and events one to two weeks in advance, we need to control two dates independently:
- When the package can be applied to a new booking.
- Which reservation or event dates the package can pay for.
For winter packages, we want members to be able to apply the package a week or two before October 1 when booking October 1 or later play. They should not be able to apply it to play before October 1.
For summer packages, we want members to be able to apply the package through September 30, including to reservations or events that take place after September 30. Starting October 1, the expired summer package should no longer be available for new bookings. Reservations already paid for with it should remain valid.
Could you add separate settings for the dates a package is available to apply at checkout and the reservation or event dates it is eligible to cover? This would let us handle advance bookings across seasonal pricing changes.
5‑person Rotation Type Option
If you could add the option directly,“1 to 21” option to the 5-person Rotation Type that would be great.
Using saved email templates to notify registrants directly through event
Regularly sent emails out to participants of specific events. There are two ways to do it currently which are tedious:
1. Go to email templates, filter the event date and time slot and select participants. Annoying thing with this is if the specific event isn't using all of our courts, it will include people who have generic court reservations in the filter so staff have to go through and ensure these folks wont receive the email. Would be great if you were able to filter by event name.
2. Second option is to go to the event, click notify event registrants and send an email that way but we are unable to access our templates so we either have to go into history and duplicate a previous email OR copy paste a template from google drive. So, it would be nice to be able to access our email templates from the notify registrants section in a specific event.
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
Guest Database in a Dropdown. So we don't have to type the same people over and over.
Guest Database in a Dropdown. So we don't have to type the same people over and over.
Integrate with the Stripe Terminal to allow a better experience for in-person payments
Webhooks and Open API
I know integrations are happening but having a fully open API and Webhooks would be outstanding!! Currently we are using Patch but without webhooks we cannot get all the information we need to fully use their system. Even if you are not using Patch having that ability to integrate with other 3rd party communication systems will launch all club communications to the next level!
Players viewing when syncing to Swish.
When syncing with Swish, allow all players to view round robins/matches once on the Swish app.
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.
Event pricing tied to membership
We've created memberships with various powers and pricing.
Yet when we create Events, there isn't even a default price per membership.
This is problematic when:
- new membership types are added. Then have to go into every recurring event and manually set the pricing for the new membership types.
- events are created with wrong info.
Memberships should have default event prices that can be overridden similar to how courts can be overridden for recurring event dates.
Add more info in Stripe Payment API
Currently the payment info passed to Stripe is very limited and it's hard for our accountant /bookkeeper to understand what the payment is by looking at stripe only, and will have to reconcile with Court Reserve. It would be very helpful if Court Reserve Payments can pass more information (eg. order number, or payer name, or payment type(membership, court fee, events)) to stripe.
Event notifications at event level
Can we add a feature to event notifications so that instead of being global as it currently is, can we have the option of making it also event specific?
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