Clayside

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Everything you need to write about Clayside

Descriptions at five lengths, the logo, seven screenshots, every price and the facts about the company that runs it. Take what you need. You do not have to ask, and nothing here is under embargo.

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Boilerplate

Descriptions, at the lengths forms ask for

Written to be pasted, not rewritten. Use whichever fits the field in front of you. UK English, and the word count is on each one.

Short description 25 words
Clayside runs box leagues and club ladders for racket-sport clubs. Players tap a link, enter scores and the table updates itself. No accounts, no app.
Standard description 50 words
Clayside runs box leagues and club ladders for tennis, squash, badminton, padel and pickleball clubs. Players open a link, tap their own name and enter a score. The opponent confirms and the table updates itself. No accounts, no passwords, no app. A club holds a player's name and nothing else.
Long description 97 words
Clayside runs box leagues and club ladders for tennis, squash, badminton, padel and pickleball clubs. The league secretary sets up a season, puts names in boxes and pastes a link into each box's group chat. Players open the link, tap their name and enter a score. The opponent confirms, or it confirms itself after three days, and the table updates. No accounts, no passwords and no app to install, and a club holds a player's name and nothing else. At the end of a season Clayside drafts the promotions and relegations and explains every tie-break it applied.
One-line descriptor 13 words
Box league and club ladder software for racket-sport clubs. Players need no account.
One sentence 27 words
Box leagues and club ladders for tennis, squash, badminton, padel and pickleball clubs: players enter their own scores from a link, with no account and no app.
Categories best fit first
Sports League SoftwareSports League ManagementLeague ManagementClub ManagementSports Club SoftwareTennis Club Software Membership Management

The last one is a poor fit and we would rather you did not use it: Clayside holds no membership records. If your taxonomy has a sports league category, that is the right one.

Tags free text
box leagueclub laddertennissquashbadmintonpadelpickleballround robinpromotion and relegationElo ratingPWAGDPRUKEU hosting

What it is

What it does, and what it does not

Limits stated as plainly as features. A reviewer finds them out anyway, and a page that says them first is a page that gets believed on the rest.

  • Box leagues with automatic fixtures, live standings and drafted promotion and relegation
  • Club ladder with an Elo-style rating, recomputed from the match log on every read
  • Players enter their own scores from a link. No account, no password, no app install
  • The opponent confirms, or the result confirms itself after three days
  • Singles and doubles boxes, and boxes that play everyone once or twice
  • Walkovers and retirements recorded as such, not as invented scores
  • Thirteen scoring formats across five sports, seven of them tennis, with configurable points for a win, a bonus set and a straight-sets loss
  • Career stats across seasons, and every past season readable for as long as the club is there
  • One-click export of everything. A lapsed club goes read-only rather than losing its data
  • Up to 10 league owners on every plan, free included, so a league survives a volunteer handover
  • The club holds a player's name and nothing else. No email, no phone, no date of birth
  • No analytics, no trackers, no third-party fonts. UK company, EU data residency
  • Progressive web app. No native app, no push notifications, no match-arranging, no reminders
What it deliberately does not do for a "limitations" field
Clayside does not do court booking, membership records, subscriptions or payment collection. Clubs are told on our own home page to keep using ClubSpark or Spond for those. It runs the competition and nothing else. A season runs up to 14 weeks and no plan runs more than 20 boxes.

Money

What it costs

One price for the whole club, once a year, however many members play. Not per player and not per court.

Pricing, in one paragraph
One Box is free forever: one box of up to 12 players. Division is £75 a year: three boxes, up to 16 players a box, one box admin, promotion and relegation and career stats. Premier is £150 a year or £15 a month: ten boxes, up to 16 players a box, five box admins, promotion and relegation, career stats and the club ladder. Championship is £220 a year or £22 a month: sixteen boxes, up to 16 players a box, sixteen box admins, promotion and relegation, career stats and the club ladder. Every plan allows up to 10 league owners. Every league starts as a full league, free, with no card.
Clayside pricing, as a directory form asks for it
Free versionYes
Free trialYes, no card required
Starting price£75 per year
Pricing modelFlat rate per club, per year. Not per player and not per court
One BoxFree · 1 box
Division£75/year · 3 boxes
Premier£150/year or £15/month · 10 boxes
Championship£220/year or £22/month · 16 boxes

Screenshots

Seven captures, free to publish

All of them from the live demo, so you can open the same screen and check it yourself. The caption under each one is there to be used. Click a picture for the full-size file.

A Clayside box page showing a results grid, a standings table and a list of matches still to play, with one result marked awaiting confirmation.

A box, as a member sees it

One box of seven: the grid of who has played whom, the live standings underneath, and a score in purple that the opponent has not confirmed yet.

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A phone-sized score entry panel with two set score boxes, a date field and a save button.

Entering a score, on a phone

What a player gets from the link in the group chat. No account, no password, and the scoring format is named at the top so nobody has to guess.

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The same score panel expanded, with buttons for walkover and retired, a choice of who won, and a preview of the points each player will get.

A match that did not finish

Walkovers and retirements are recorded as what they were, rather than as a made-up score, and the points either side earns are shown before the score is saved.

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A club ladder table of fourteen players showing rank, movement, matches played, rating, recent form dots and a trend sparkline for each.

The club ladder

An all-year ladder beside the boxes, with an Elo-style rating, recent form and the rules stated on the page rather than buried in a help file.

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A line chart of one player's ladder rating rising across twenty-one matches, with the peak marked and summary figures above it.

One player, across the season

Every ladder player has a rating history, a peak, a win-loss record and a streak. The dashed tail is a result that is still awaiting confirmation.

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A box page for four doubles pairs, showing a results grid with a walkover in it and a standings table listing each pair.

A doubles box

Doubles runs in the same season as singles. A pair is one entry, so the standings, the fixtures and the confirmations work exactly as they do for a singles box.

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A results grid for six players where both halves of the grid are playable, one leg each.

Playing everyone twice

A box can be set to play everyone home and away. Each half of the grid is one leg, which is how a club runs a longer winter season without splitting it in two.

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The facts

Company details and every link worth having

Company and product details
Product Clayside
Company Agentu Ltd
Company number 16191406
Country United Kingdom
Founded 2025
Employees 1
Website https://clayside.app
Contact hello@clayside.app
Deployment Cloud, SaaS, web-based. Progressive web app on phones
Platforms Any modern browser. No native app
Support Email
Languages English
Data residency EU
Every Clayside page worth linking to
Home https://clayside.app/
Live demo, no sign-up https://demo.clayside.app
Press kit, this page https://clayside.app/press/
Club ladder https://clayside.app/ladder/
Badminton https://clayside.app/badminton/
Padel https://clayside.app/padel/
Squash https://clayside.app/squash/
Pickleball https://clayside.app/pickleball/
Compared with a spreadsheet https://clayside.app/vs/spreadsheet/
Compared with ClubSpark https://clayside.app/vs/clubspark/
Compared with LTA Box League Manager https://clayside.app/vs/lta-box-league-manager/
Compared with Tap Leagues https://clayside.app/vs/tap-leagues/
One side of A4 for a committee https://clayside.app/committee/
Safeguarding https://clayside.app/safeguarding/
Rules template https://clayside.app/rules-template/
The Sheet, free offline tracker for 10 players https://clayside.app/sheet/
Terms https://clayside.app/terms/
Privacy https://clayside.app/privacy/
For machines https://clayside.app/llms.txt

Every page URL ends in a slash. The form without one redirects, so a link stored without it costs a hop.

Who is behind it

Why it exists

Founder line
Clayside is built and run by Daniel Byrne through Agentu Ltd, a UK company (16191406). He plays in the box league it was built for.
Why it was built
The club I play at ran its box league on a spreadsheet, and every season somebody spent a fortnight chasing scores by text message. Clayside is that job, done once. It runs the competition and leaves booking and membership to the software a club already pays for.

What we cannot give you

No customer names, no club logos, no user numbers and no testimonials. Clayside is new, and the clubs on it have not agreed to be written about. We would rather say that than pad this page with a case study nobody can check.

What is checkable is the product. The demo is a full season with boxes, a doubles box, a ladder, a walkover and a retirement in it, and it resets every hour, so you can break it without asking. If you want to run a season of your own on a real league before you write, say so and one will be set up for you and left running.

If you spot something on this page that has gone out of date, tell us and it gets fixed the same day. The prices and limits here are generated from the code that enforces them, so if one is wrong the product is wrong too, and we would like to know.

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