Four kinds, and a club can run all four at once. Most start with a box league and add the others when they want them.
Box leagues
A handful of players in a box, all playing each other over a few weeks. The table sorts itself as the scores go in, and at the end the top few go up and the bottom few go down.
- Singles or doubles. One season can hold both: singles boxes and doubles boxes side by side.
- Everyone once or twice. Set per box, and you can switch to twice part way through.
- Any of the 5 sports. Tennis, Padel, Squash, Badminton and Pickleball, each scored the way that sport is scored.
Ladders
A rating for every player that runs all year, beside the boxes. You challenge people near you, and beating somebody above you is worth more than beating somebody below.
- Singles. One rating each, and the plain version of it.
- Fixed pairs. A pair takes one place on the table and has one rating between them.
- Rotating doubles. Partners change from match to match and the rating is yours, not the pair’s.
Tournaments
Entries, a draw with seeds and byes, and a final. The bracket is worked out from the results, so correcting a score corrects the draw.
- Knockout. One draw. Lose and you are out.
- Championship and plate. Lose your first match and you go into the plate, so everybody gets at least two.
- Groups into a knockout. Everybody plays a group first, and the top of each group goes through to a knockout.
Club nights
One evening, one table and no draw at all. Everybody enters on their own, and your score is the points your side won rather than a match won or lost.
- Americano. Partners rotate. Everybody plays with everybody before anybody plays with anybody twice.
- Mexicano. The first round is dealt, and every round after it is dealt off the table, so the games tighten.
- Fixed pairs. Partners stay together all night. Put the pairs on the entry list, or leave it and they are drawn out of the hat.
Which one should we start with?
A box league, nearly always. It gives everybody a set of matches to play and a table to look at, and it is the thing a club is usually replacing a spreadsheet for.
Add a ladder when people want a game outside their box, or when your club has members who are not in a season at all. It runs all year and needs nothing from you once it is going.
Run a tournament when the club wants a knockout: an annual event, a junior week or a doubles day.
Run a club night when you want one evening that sorts itself out: no draw, no fixtures to arrange, and everybody plays everybody.
What they have in common
All four use the same score screen, and a score is entered by a player and confirmed by their opponent. All four can be doubles. None of them needs anybody to have a password.
The pages under Every competition cover the parts that are the same wherever you play. That is entering a score, a match that did not finish, arranging one, the match formats and playing as a pair.
What your plan runs
Every paid plan runs the boxes, the ladders and the tournaments. What changes with the plan is how many members your club has, not which competitions you get.
Plans and limits has the detail, and the prices are on the pricing page.