The part nobody else does
A cancelled court finds its own next player
Every club already has a waiting list. It lives in a phone, a group chat and
the secretary's head. nxcourt turns a cancellation into an offer, gives it to
one person at a time, and moves it along when they do not answer. Nobody at
the club has to do anything at all.
- How long the hold lasts
- Thirty minutes by default, and your club sets it — anywhere from five minutes to a full day. The same screen that sets it writes the rule out in plain words, reading back your own numbers, so a member and a manager see the same sentence.
- Who gets asked next
- The queue is ordered by how many offers you have already had, and only then by when you joined. That one detail is what stops the same eager member being asked three times while somebody behind them has never been asked once.
- Who gets skipped
- Anybody already on court somewhere at that hour. There is no point offering a court to a person who cannot take it, and doing so would burn a turn they should have kept.
- Missing too many
- Ignore a set number of offers and you come off the list, so a dormant queue entry cannot hold up the people behind it. The number is the club's to choose.
- How you hear about it
- A push notification on your phone with the app closed, an email, and a live entry in the app that updates itself — with the countdown on it, because an offer that arrives late is worth nothing.
- Turning it off
- A club that would rather a cancelled court simply went back on the schedule for anyone to take can switch the queue off. Courts and classes each have their own switch.