Leagues in Birrdi allow facilities to manage league registrants, league-specific rates, credits, registration, and signup limits in a similar way to Memberships.

A League is useful when you want to give a specific group of customers access to benefits during a league season, such as included simulator time or discounted practice rates.

Facilities can:

Leagues operate similarly to Memberships, but are designed for customers participating in a league.

If you want customers to sign themselves up for a League, the League needs to be Public.

Making a League Public does not mean you have to advertise it publicly on your website.

If the League is only intended for a specific group of people:

This allows you to control who receives the signup link while still allowing those participants to register themselves.

If the League is not Public, customers will not be able to use the signup link to register themselves.

You can cap the number of players who are allowed to register for a League using the Max Number of Signups field.

For example:

You can set this limit to whatever number makes sense for your League.

This works similarly to limiting enrollment for a Membership.

Admins can also add League registrants manually.

This works similarly to adding a member to a Membership and can be useful when the facility is managing registration itself rather than having participants sign up through the League link.

Credits always represent time.

1 credit = 1 hour

This does not change based on the Credit Increment.

Examples:

The Credit Increment determines how credits can be applied. It does not change how much time one credit represents.

For example, if a League Credit Plan uses a 0.5 credit increment, registrants can apply credits in 30-minute increments.

Credit Plans can also be configured with usage limits.

For example, if League participants should only be able to use 30 minutes of included time per day, the Credit Plan can be configured with a maximum of:

0.5 credits per day

Because:

0.5 credit = 30 minutes

If the customer reserves additional time that is not covered by their credits, the remaining eligible time can be paid for normally.

You can create a rate specifically for League participants if you want to offer them discounted practice time.

For example:

Public Rate: $50/hour
​League Rate: $35/hour

This can be useful when League participants receive some included time through credits but should also receive a discounted rate when they reserve additional practice time.

Be careful when configuring whether rates or League signup options are public or not. If customers need to sign themselves up for the League, the League itself should be Public, and you can control who sees it simply by sharing the signup link only with the intended participants.

A facility could create a League with:

Each registrant would receive 4 hours of total credit, because:

4 credits = 4 hours

With a 0.5 credit increment, those credits can be used in 30-minute increments.

If the daily maximum is 0.5 credits, the registrant can use up to 30 minutes of credit per day and pay the applicable League Rate for additional time.

A 0.5 Credit Increment does not mean that one credit equals 30 minutes.

It means credits can be used in half-credit increments.

The conversion is always:

1 credit = 1 hour

Therefore:

0.5 credits = 30 minutes.