Press kit
Everything you need to write about Clayside
Descriptions at three lengths, the logo, 34 screenshots grouped by what a club gets, 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.
One person reads every message, and usually answers the same working day. If you want to run a real league of your own before you write, say so and you will get one, set up and left running.
Boilerplate
Descriptions, at the lengths forms ask for
Written to be pasted, not rewritten. Each one says what changes for a club, its organisers and its members. Use whichever fits the field in front of you. UK English, and the word count is on each one.
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
- Automatic fixtures, live standings, and promotion and relegation drafted at the end of a season
- Players enter their own scores from a link. The opponent confirms, or the result confirms itself after three days
- Singles and doubles boxes in one season, and boxes that play everyone once or twice
- Walkovers, retirements and matches that ran out of time recorded as what they were, not as invented scores
- Nineteen scoring formats across five sports, seven of them tennis
- Points tables your sport actually uses: a point per game won, a point for turning up, a bonus for playing every match, or your own
- Players suggest times to an opponent and the opponent taps one. No phone number or email address changes hands, because the club never holds one
- A table, a still-to-play list and a set of results a club can share as a picture in the group chat
Club ladders
- An all-year ladder beside the boxes, with an Elo-style rating recomputed from the match log on every read
- Singles, doubles or rotating partners, with up to eight ladders running at once
- A rating history, a peak, a streak and a head-to-head for every player on it
Tournaments
- A knockout, a plate for anyone knocked out first time, or groups feeding a knockout. Seeds and byes placed the way the LTA publishes them
- An order of play for finals day, a third-place playoff, and a draw that reads a round at a time on a phone
Club nights
- Americano, mexicano, or fixed pairs set or drawn, in singles or doubles
- Each round dealt to the courts, the scores put in at the desk, and one table at the end of the evening
Find a game
- A member posts a time or a range, such as four until eight on Tuesday, and up to twenty members are asked in the app. The first to say yes picks the start
- A four that is one short posts the empty place, from the game or from the court it has booked
- A friendly, or a ladder match that counts, asked around their level, of anyone at the club, or of the people they pick
- Asked in the app and never by email. Anybody can say "don't ask me", and juniors are never asked
Home and You
- Home is your week: what is coming up, what is waiting on you, and the matches you have left to play. An organiser sees the club above it, with money, members and competitions each folded to one line you open
- You is one person's record: where they stand in each competition, this season's results, their courts and every season before
- A level for every member, worked out from every result in the club, with a figure for how sure it is
- Push notifications to a player who has asked for them, plus a nudge before a season deadline. Addressed to a device, never to a person
- A booked court, an agreed lesson, a match with a time on it and a side you have been picked for each go into the calendar you already keep, Google's or the phone's
Membership and subs
- A membership register with the club's own categories, prices and membership year, and households priced as one payment
- A joining link where a newcomer picks a membership and applies, and renewals that reuse an existing Direct Debit
- Subscriptions collected into the club's own GoCardless account, member to club. A flat annual fee and no percentage of anything the club collects
- Bank transfers and cash recorded by hand, refunds matched, and a list of who still owes
- The club's existing spreadsheet brought in as it is, with nothing retyped
- A page for each member: whether they have paid, their level, what they play in, how they sign in, their details and the club's notes on them
Court booking
- A members-only court diary on a phone, with the club's own hours, blocks and limits
- A match time agreed in the app books the court, and a double booking cannot happen
- A history of what the courts were used for, for the committee
Lessons
- Coaches with their own rates for one to one, blocks and weekly groups, visiting coaches included
- A member asks one coach, or every coach at once, for a lesson, and the coach says yes
- The club sets its own share of a lesson, and a coach never sees a member's phone number or email address
Teams
- Sides with their own match day, squad and fixtures in the leagues the club plays in
- The captain asks who can play, members answer in one tap, and the captain picks the side
- A team sheet to copy into the group chat, and the result recorded after the match
Club analytics
- Members at the end of every year, who joined, who left and who came back, counted from the register
- Every figure downloads as a spreadsheet for the AGM
Club website
- A home page, a Membership page, Competitions, Courts and Coaching, plus up to eight pages the club writes itself, each at an address of its own
- The prices come off the membership year, the free courts off the day sheet, and the championships, the boxes and the ladder off what is running. None of it is retyped
- Somebody joins on the Membership page, on the club's own form, with the Direct Debit set up as they go where the club collects that way
- News, photographs and the club documents, put up from a phone. A photo leaves where it was taken and who took it behind on the way up
- The club's badge and one colour, and the rest worked out from it. No theme to pick and no page to lay out
- The title, the description and the list a search engine reads are written for the club and change when the club does
- No script, no cookie and nothing for a visitor to click through
- No member's name on any page: not a table, not a draw, not a booking, not a result. Publishing puts those behind sign-in
- The last ten versions are kept for anybody to put back, and taking the whole site down is one press
Website widgets
- The table, the ladder, the latest results, a joining card, a draw and today's courts, each as a snippet a club pastes into its own site once
- Right from then on with nobody updating it, and no script of ours runs on the club's page
Your data and who runs it
- One-click export of everything, as spreadsheets with a Read me tab. A lapsed club drops to the free plan rather than losing its data
- Up to 15 people can run the club on every plan, free included, each with the permissions their job needs, and none of them counts towards the members the plan holds
- A league holds a player's name and nothing else. No email, no phone, no date of birth. A club plan holds a register, because that is what a register is
- No analytics, no trackers, no third-party fonts. UK company, and every club database pinned to the EU
- Progressive web app. Nothing to install from an app store, and a guide that opens with no signal
| One Box, free | Competition plans | Club plans | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box leagues | One box | Yes | Yes |
| Club ladders | No | Yes | Yes |
| Tournaments | No | Yes | Yes |
| Club nights | No | Yes | Yes |
| Find a game | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Home and You | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Membership and subs | No | No | Yes |
| Court booking | No | No | Yes |
| Lessons | No | No | Yes |
| Teams | No | No | Yes |
| Club analytics | No | No | Yes |
| Club website | No | No | Yes |
| Website widgets | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Your data and who runs it | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Money
What it costs
One price for the whole club, once a year, however many members play. Not per player and not per court.
| Free version | Yes |
|---|---|
| Free trial | Yes, no card required |
| Starting price | £120 per year |
| Pricing model | Flat rate per club, per year, on how many current members the club has. Not per player, not per court, and no percentage of anything a club collects |
| One Box | Free · up to 15 members |
| Division | £120/year or £12/month · up to 125 members |
| Premier | £220/year or £22/month · up to 250 members |
| Championship | £380/year or £38/month · up to 500 members |
| County | £650/year or £65/month · up to 1000 members |
| Club 125 | £265/year or £26.50/month · up to 125 members · every competition feature County has |
| Club 250 | £550/year or £55/month · up to 250 members · every competition feature County has |
| Club 500 | £950/year or £95/month · up to 500 members · every competition feature County has |
| Club 1000 | £1650/year or £165/month · up to 1000 members · every competition feature County has |
Screenshots
34 captures, free to publish
Every one is a capture of the running product rather than a drawing. All but three are from the live demos, one per sport, so you can open the same screen and check it yourself. No demo publishes a website yet, so the three club website captures are a demo club's own site. Open a live demo to check one. They are grouped by what a club gets, in the order of the list above. The caption under each one is there to be used. Click a picture for the full-size file.
Box leagues
Players enter their own scores and the table keeps itself.
A box, as the club sees it
One box of seven: who has played whom, the table underneath and who still has matches to play. A score in purple is waiting for the opponent to confirm it.
box-grid.png · 2312 x 2106 PNG
Entering a score, on a phone
What a player gets from the link in the group chat. The scoring format is named at the top, so nobody has to guess what counts.
score-entry-phone.png · 1206 x 1830 PNG
A match that did not finish
Walkovers, retirements and matches that ran out of time are recorded as what they were, rather than as a made-up score.
didnt-finish-phone.png · 1206 x 2514 PNG
Arranging a match
A player taps the days that suit and a time on each. The opponent picks one, and neither of them hands over a phone number.
suggest-times-phone.png · 1170 x 3300 PNG
A doubles box
Doubles runs in the same season as singles. A pair is one entry, so the table, the fixtures and the confirmations work as they do for singles, walkovers included.
doubles-box.png · 2312 x 1686 PNG
Club ladders
One list all year, beside the boxes.
The club ladder
An all-year ladder beside the boxes, with a rating, recent form and a trend for each player, and the rules written on the page rather than in a help file.
club-ladder.png · 2312 x 2222 PNG
One player on the ladder
Every ladder player has a rating history, a peak, a win-loss record, a streak and a head-to-head. The dashed end is a result still waiting to be confirmed.
rating-chart.png · 2312 x 1882 PNG
Tournaments
The draw made for you, and finals day in order.
A club championship
The draw made for you, with seeds and byes, and every round says how many of its matches are played. One tournament holds several events, each on its own tab.
tournament-draw.png · 2312 x 3800 PNG
The same draw, on a phone
On a phone the draw opens on where it is up to: the rounds in a row, then the round being played, so a player finds their next match without dragging a bracket sideways.
tournament-phone.png · 1098 x 3900 PNG
Club nights
Deal the round, play it, put the points in.
A social night
A Thursday americano, from the padel demo. Partners rotate every round, each round is dealt to the courts, and everybody scores as an individual on one table.
club-night.png · 2312 x 2800 PNG
Find a game
Say when you are free, and the first yes takes it.
Find a game
A member says when they are free, or that their four is one short, and players at the club are asked in the app. The first to say yes takes it.
games-phone.png · 1170 x 1557 PNG
Posting a game
Singles or doubles, friendly or for the ladder. A court already booked fills in the time, or the member gives a day and a time or a range. Then who to ask: around their level, anyone at the club, or people they pick.
games-post-phone.png · 1170 x 4197 PNG
Home and You
Your week, and your own record.
The organiser's Home
The half of Home that is about the club. Money first: what has come in, what is still owed and what went wrong. Then members and competitions, each one line until you open it, and what is left to set up.
home-owner.png · 2312 x 1858 PNG
A player's Home
The same screen for a member: what is coming up, whatever is waiting on them, such as a score to confirm or a reply owed, and the box matches they still have to arrange.
home-player-phone.png · 1170 x 2979 PNG
Clubhouse
The first tab on Home: the best of the club's last fortnight as story cards, from upsets and comebacks to first wins and champions, with Well played on every card.
clubhouse-phone.png · 1170 x 1221 PNG
You
One person's record: their level and their place in each competition, this season's results, their courts and every season before.
you-phone.png · 1098 x 3273 PNG
Head to head
Tap any name for that member's record: what they play in, their level, their last five results, and every match the two of you have played, with who has won more.
record-phone.png · 1170 x 1797 PNG
Where you stand
A level for every member, worked out from every result in the club, with how sure it is. Under it, their place in each competition they are in.
level-phone.png · 1098 x 1752 PNG
Membership and subs
The register, the joining link and the subs.
The membership register
Every member with their status, level, membership, household and tags, and what they play. Search, filters, and an import for the club's own spreadsheet.
register.png · 2312 x 2500 PNG
One member
Everything the club holds on one person, opened from the register: whether they have paid, their level, what they play in, how they sign in, their details and the club's notes.
member-record.png · 2312 x 1124 PNG
Subscriptions and payments
Applications waiting to be accepted, a member who says they have paid, a refund to match, and the year so far: paid, owing and written off.
money.png · 2312 x 3000 PNG
Joining the club
The link a club puts on its website or a poster. A newcomer picks a membership, sees what it costs and applies, with no account to make.
join-phone.png · 1170 x 4119 PNG
Court booking
Members book on their phone.
The court diary
Five courts across one day, and what each booking is for: a friendly, a lesson, a practice, a team match. Members book their own.
courts-sheet.png · 2312 x 1906 PNG
Booking a court, on a phone
The same day as a list of start times, with which courts are free at each.
courts-phone.png · 1170 x 1356 PNG
Lessons
A member asks a coach for an hour.
Lessons
The club's coaches and their rates, for one to one, a block and a group. A member asks one coach or all of them, and each group shows its places left.
coaching.png · 2312 x 2600 PNG
Teams
Who can play Saturday, and the captain picks.
Teams
A club's sides and their fixtures, each marked with how far it has got: asking who can play, or side picked.
teams.png · 2312 x 2500 PNG
One fixture, for the captain
Who can play on Saturday, answered in one tap, then the side picked and a team sheet to copy into the group chat.
team-fixture-phone.png · 1170 x 2604 PNG
Club analytics
The AGM figures, counted from the register.
The club over the years
Members at the end of every year, counted from the register. The hatched years are worked out from joining dates, so they are a shape rather than an exact count.
stats.png · 2312 x 1920 PNG
Club website
The club's own address, and nothing on it goes out of date.
The club's own home page
What somebody looking the club up sees at the address the members already use. The club chose a colour and wrote the line under its name. Everything else is the club as it stands that morning.
club-site-home.png · 2560 x 932 PNG
Membership, on a phone
Every category and what it costs, read off the club's membership year rather than typed. Put next year's prices up in the app and the page has them. The button under the heading opens the club's own joining form.
club-site-membership-phone.png · 1170 x 3105 PNG
What the club is running
The season, both ladders and the championship, with the dates and how many are playing, off what is running that week. The tables, the draws and the results stay behind sign-in, and the page says so.
club-site-competitions.png · 2560 x 2818 PNG
Website widgets
For the club that already has a website somewhere else.
The table, on the club's own website
One of the widgets a club pastes into its own site once. It keeps itself up to date from then on.
widget.png · 1400 x 880 PNG
Your data and who runs it
The spreadsheets, the helpers, and what we hold.
Download your data
Everything the club holds, as spreadsheets that open in Excel, Numbers and Google Sheets, each with a Read me tab.
download.png · 2312 x 1688 PNG
Who can do what
Every job in the club and which roles may do it, from the owner to a captain who runs one side.
roles.png · 2264 x 1354 PNG
Brand
Logo, colour and type
Use the logo as it is. Do not restretch it, recolour it or set the name in another face. Beyond that there is no brand book and there is not going to be one.
| Logo mark, SVG | Scalable. The one to use if you can |
|---|---|
| Logo mark, 512 PNG | Square, on the brand blue |
| Logo mark, 192 PNG | Square, for a small slot |
| Share card, 1200 x 630 PNG | The full lockup, mark and wordmark |
There is no separate wordmark file. The share card carries the full lockup, mark and word together, and the mark on its own is the SVG above. If you need the wordmark cut out on transparent for a print page, ask at hello@clayside.app and you will get one.
#194963The blue everything sits on. Backgrounds, headings, links
#0D2E41The darker blue in the logo square and the footer
#D9E84CThe one accent. Used sparingly and never for body text
| Barlow | 700 for headings and the wordmark, 400 to 600 for body copy |
|---|---|
| IBM Plex Mono | 400 to 600 for scores, prices and anything a reader compares in a column |
All three are open licence and we self-host them, so nothing on this site asks a font service for a visitor's address. The stylesheet and the licence are both public.
The facts
Company details and every link worth having
| Product | Clayside |
|---|---|
| Category | Club management software for racket sports clubs |
| Sports | Tennis, padel, squash, badminton and pickleball |
| Company | Agentu Ltd |
| Company number | 16191406 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Founded | 2025 |
| Employees | 1 |
| Website | https://clayside.app |
| Contact | Our contact page |
| Deployment | Cloud, SaaS, web-based. Progressive web app on phones |
| Platforms | Any modern browser. No native app |
| Support | Email, a form on the website, and a report from inside the app |
| Languages | English |
| Data residency | EU |
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
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. There are five demos, one per sport, and each is a whole club: a season of boxes, ladders, a championship to look through, a register with its money, a court diary, coaches and teams. They reset every hour, so you can break them 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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