Club website
A club website that updates itself and signs new members up
Clayside builds a club website for racket sports clubs that updates itself. The subs, the courts and events & competitions are synced to the website, so the page stays right without anybody touching it. And the person reading it can join there and then, on their phone, at eleven on a Sunday night.
On every club plan, from £265 a year. Free for 14 days, no card.
Live in an evening They join on the page Nothing public until you press Publish
Oxted Lawn Tennis Club
Five courts at the top of the park, and a bar that opens at six.
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What is coming up
News
oxted.clayside.app. The home page, the evening it went live.
The problem
What a club website costs a committee now
Nobody can edit it
It was built by a member who has moved away, in something nobody else has the password to. Changing a price means finding them.
The prices are last year's
Subs went up in April. The page still says the old number, and somebody has just joined at it.
The last post is from 2024
The championships ran and the finals were played, and the website said nothing. A visitor reads that as a club that has closed.
Joining means sending an email
Somebody decides to join on a Sunday night. The page gives them an address, and a volunteer answers it on Thursday.
Live from your club
A club website that reads your club, so nobody updates it
Your website syncs with everything that you setup in Clayside, so visitors can see how many leagues you run, your court availability, coaching options and membership fees, which are always up to date.
- The championships
- Set a championship up and the website has it the same minute: the name, the finals date, and "Entries are open" until you close them. The draw and the results are on the Play screen for members, updated as scores come in.
- The boxes and the ladder
- The season that is running, when it ends, how many boxes and how many playing. The ladder, all year, with how many are on it.
- The subs
- Every category and its price, off your membership year. Put next year's prices up and the page has them.
- The courts
- What is free today and for the next six days, off the day sheet your members book on. Times and courts, so a visitor knows whether to come down.
- The coaching
- The courses and the group sessions with places left, and who to talk to. Club nights are on the Competitions page with their time, off the same diary.
Competitions
What is on
The Competitions page. Set the championship up in Clayside and this is already written.
Joining
Joining happens on the club website, not in somebody's inbox
A website that is right about what a year costs can take the join as well as advertise it. The button under your categories is your own joining form, so nobody is asked to email anybody and nothing sits waiting for a volunteer.
- 01
Somebody looks your club up
Every page carries a title and a description of its own, and the list of pages a search engine reads is rewritten whenever your club changes. Nobody does any of that.
- 02
They get this year's answer
What it costs now, what is running now, whether there is a court free on Saturday. Not the page somebody last edited in April.
- 03
They join on the page
Your categories, your own form, and the Direct Debit set up as they go where your club collects that way. No email to send and nobody to wait for.
- 04
You press Accept
It reaches you as an application and waits in the app until one of you looks. Accept it and they are on your register, with the Direct Debit yours to collect.
Membership
The membership year runs from 1 April to 31 March.
Being a member gets you the courts, the boxes, the ladder and the championships, and lessons and courses.
Join online
Questions? Ask the membership secretary
Your Membership page. Your categories, and your own joining form behind the button.
Your words
The club website you post to from your phone
Five things are yours to write, and none of them needs a laptop or a password somebody else holds.
News
Write a post on your phone and press Publish. It is on the home page, and it has an address of its own to put in the WhatsApp group.
Photos
Upload them from a phone. They are sized for the page, and the newest are on the home page. Every photo goes up with a tick that the people in it are happy.
Documents
The safeguarding policy, the minutes, the fees sheet. Upload a PDF and it is listed under Documents, where a parent or the county can find it.
About, and who to ask
Who you are, in your words. Then a card for each job: membership, juniors, the bar. A name, the job and a club address.
Pages of your own
Juniors, Our history, Hire the courts: up to 8 more pages with a name of your own, each at its own address. Every box has a row of buttons over it for a heading, bold, a link, a list or a quote.
A club that has not posted for a year has News taken off the home page rather than showing the season before last. A quiet winter never reads as a club that has closed.
What stops
The club website jobs that stop existing
A website is never only the writing. It is the bill, the renewal, the thing that wants updating and the banner everybody clicks through. None of that is here, and none of it is somebody's job any more.
No hosting bill, and no domain to renew
It is at the Clayside address you already have, on the plan you are already on.
No cookie banner
Your website sets no cookie, so a visitor has nothing to agree to and nothing to click through.
Nothing to update and nothing to patch
No plugins, no theme, and no separate login held by whoever built it.
Nothing to do to be found in Google
The titles, the descriptions and the list a search engine reads are written for you, and they change when your club does.
Photo metadata (owner and location) are removed
Every one is re-encoded on the way up, so where it was taken and who took it never reach the page.
Nothing anybody can wreck
The last 10 versions are kept and anybody can put an earlier one back. Two people can edit at once without losing a paragraph.
Your badge, your colour
A club website in your club's colours
Upload your badge and the website takes its colour from it: the bar across the top, the buttons and the links. A pale badge gets a deeper shade of the same colour, so the words on it can always be read. Nobody picks a theme and nobody asks a designer.
- Your name across the top, in the club's colour, on every page.
- A picture you choose at the top of the home page, from your phone.
- Only the pages you want. Switch one off and it goes from the menu, the footer and every link on every other page.
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The same site, three clubs. One colour each, off the badge.
Setting it up
From nothing to a live club website in an evening
Press Start
There is a draft straight away, put together from what your club already has. Nothing is public.
Add your badge, a picture and About
The colour comes off the badge. About is a few paragraphs in your words. Everything saves as you go.
Look at it
The preview beside the list is the real page, not a picture of one.
Press Publish
It says what changes before you do: search engines list it, your tables go behind sign-in, and your court page is public if your day sheet is.
Changing it later is the same screen. Publish changes when you are ready, put an earlier version back if you would rather, or take the whole thing down in one press.
Questions
What clubs ask about a club website
What is our address?
The one your members already use: yourclub.clayside.app. The website is what a visitor sees there, and your members sign in at the same address as before.
Your own domain is not something we sell yet. If your club owns one, point it at your Clayside address the way you would point it anywhere.
Does anybody have to build it?
No. Press Start and there is a draft, made from what your club already has: your name, your courts, what you run and what it costs. Nothing is public until somebody presses Publish.
What is left to write is About, your news and any page you add yourself. Every long box has a row of buttons over it for a heading, bold, a link, a list or a quote, and the preview beside it keeps up as you type. Everything else keeps itself right.
Can somebody join from the website?
Yes, and it is rather the point of it. The Membership page carries your categories and this year's prices, and the button under them opens your own joining form. They fill it in on their phone, and where your club collects by Direct Debit they set theirs up as they go.
It reaches you as an application rather than as a member. Somebody at the club accepts it, and that is the moment they go on the register.
Will our members' names be on it?
No. Not a table, not a draw, not a booking, not a result. A booked court says Booked. The one place a name appears is a contact card your club put there, and that person's own email or phone goes on only if they said yes in their own screen.
Publishing puts your tables, draws and results behind sign-in. Members see everything as they always did.
Will people find us on Google?
We do the half that is ours. Every page carries its own title and description, and the list of pages a search engine reads is rewritten whenever you change what your club runs, so a new championship or a page you switch off is picked up without anybody telling it.
Where you come in a search is not something anybody can promise you, and we are not going to. What we can say is that nothing on your side has been left undone.
Can we take it down again?
One press, and your address goes back to the sign-in page. Nothing is deleted, and putting it back is one more press.
Which plans have a website, and what does it cost?
Every club plan, from Club 125 at £265 a year. See what each plan holds.
We already have a website. Can we keep it?
Yes. Put this season's table, the ladder or the latest results on the site you have, with a snippet you paste in once. It is on every plan.
Your club website
Put your club website up this evening
Every club plan carries it, and the fourteen-day trial builds one you can look at before you decide. Already using Clayside for your league? It is in the Website tab under Club.
A club that already has a website somewhere else puts its live table on that one instead. Both are on the plan you are on, at no extra charge.