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The slot engine is set from your back office

The slot engine decides which start times and durations your players see, so that a booking does not leave behind a thirty-minute gap nobody will buy. Until now, this setting went through us. You now do it yourself, and you see the effect before applying it.

What your club gains

  • Fewer hours lost between two bookings. The engine only offers slots that leave a schedule that can still be sold.
  • One setting per time band of the week. Demanding on Saturday evening, when everything goes, and flexible during the day, when it is better to sell than to protect.
  • More flexible as the slot approaches. The recommended mode keeps the bar high while there is still time to sell better, then opens up less perfect cuts as the time draws near.
  • You decide on your own figures. Before saving, the screen compares the new setting with the current one on your courts: how many slots each offers a week before, four days before and the day before.

Three screens, nothing saved until the end

The assistant changes nothing until you have confirmed the last step. Screenshots taken on our demonstration club.

  • The slot optimisation screen in SportFinder: optimisation switched on, the two exceptions at opening and closing, and the mode applied the rest of the time
    The club’s setting What the engine does at opening, at closing and the rest of the time — one switch per rule.
  • First step of the optimisation assistant: choosing the time bands of the week, here peak and off-peak hours, with their timetable grid
    Your time bands of the week Peak hours, off-peak hours: the same bands as your prices. Each can have its own setting.
  • Second step of the assistant: three suggested modes, and below them a mode compared with the current setting, on the club’s court grid, a week, four days and one day ahead
    Compare before choosing Two settings compared on your own slots: a week before, four days before, and the evening before.

How the engine chooses

The simplest way is to watch it work: the padel page shows the engine on a real schedule. You choose a time slot, scroll through the days between now and the match, and see what a player would see at each stage. See the slot engine demonstration.

And on your own schedule?

In a demo, we compare the settings on your courts and your real bookings, rather than on an example.

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