Programs: How to create Blackout dates for Coaching Courses

Platform/Product/Module: Clubspark – Programs Module
Function: Date(s) a program will not be bookable

Live: 11/09/2025

When creating a short course or recurring session program, there may be dates that the program will not run, for example public holidays or school holidays. When creating a course, there is an option to add blackout dates.

You can either set individual dates or  a range of dates.

To enter the blackout date – create a new course – choosing either Short Course or Recurring Course. Enter details as you would.

Refer to video above – upon creating blackout dates you’ll see the following:

In Admin it will appear like this:

 

  • and publicly will appear like this for a Short course:
  • and for a Recurring course:

 

FAQs on blackout dates

Q: Can I add a blackout date after a course has been created? 
A: Yes, you can. You simply go into the course – edit the course and add additional dates. Remember to click save.

Q: Can you have more than one blackout dates? 
A: Yes you can, you can have single dates or range of dates and multiples of each.

Q: We created a blackout date, but now want to make it available again, can we delete once created? 
A: Yes, you can remove and edit blackout dates – open the course – edit and then click the edit (change the date) or delete – click on the trashcan.

 

How to create a Members Only page on your Website

Platform/Product/Module: Clubspark – Membership Module
Function: Create Member only visible pages

Live: 11/09/2025

A Members Web page:

There may come a time you wish to create a page just for club members viewing, this could be for social club events coming up or other important details you wish to only be accessible to members.
Please watch the attached video above to help you out creating this page.

Please note the following when creating these Member pages:
NOTE: Do not call the page Members Only –
this will prevent the page from working. In the navigation text you can call it Members Page or Members. 
NOTE: Whilst this information can be private. Please DO NOT add information that would be Personal Information of your members- as the information can still be shared. i.e. don’t add a members list with contact details.

Question you may have:
One of our club members cannot see this page, what do I do?
A: Please check that they have ‘active’ membership status and they MUST be signed in If they have a family membership, their role should be ‘main contact and member’, if you see ‘main contact only’, they’d need to be added to the membership as a ‘member’ too.

 

Linked Booking Resources – link shared courts together!

Platform/Product/Module: Clubspark – Booking Module
Function: Link shared resources together

*Live: 11/09/2025

Linked booking resources allows you to link multiple resources together, so if one of the resources is booked, it will also block out the other linked resource for the same time-period. This prevents double-bookings and improves resource management.

For example a full-size tennis court may also be used as two pickleball courts. By linking the pickleball courts to the tennis court, if either pickleball court is booked, the full tennis court is also blocked at the same time, ensuring it can’t be double-booked.


How to Setup Linked Booking Resources

1. Go to the Manage Resources section within Clubspark

2. Create Unique Resources

  • Add each resource as a separate entity
  • For example, if you’re converting Tennis Court 1 into two Pickleball courts, create individual resources named Pickleball A and Pickleball B.
  • Click here for a support article on how to add resources.

3. Link the Resources

  • Click edit on the newly created resources, navigate down to Linked resources and link it to the appropriate resource (e.g. Court 1)
  • Note: this step can be completed in the same process as step 2, creating the unique resources.

 

 

Your resources are now linked so if for example, Pickleball A is booked from 5:00pm – 6:00pm, Court 1 will also be blocked out during this time. Whilst Pickleball B will still be available for bookings.

Bonus Tip:
To improve resource management and make non-tennis resources (e.g. Pickleball courts) easier for players to view and book, we recommend creating a separate booking sheet specifically for these resources.

Click here for a support article on how to do this.

Venues with Venue Automation System (Book a Court):
Venues with the ‘Book a Court’ system installed may be required to install additional hardware equipment for any new resources added, particularly if users booking these resources will require access via booking pin and activation of court lights. Additional programming may also need to be performed by CSS to ensure appropriate validation of gate/s and court lights.

Please reach out to [email protected] to confirm if this is necessary for your venue set up.

SINGLE SIGN IN NOW LIVE – Competitive Play websites – 21 August 2025

We are pleased to announce that we have introduced some changes to the way you sign-in and access your Tennis Australia Competitive Play websites (including Match Centre, League Manager and Tournaments). Thanks for your patience while we work to resolve known issues.

The update for 21 August includes the following changes:

  • Single sign in: You’ll use a single, secure sign in to access all Competitive Player platforms – including Match Centre, Tournaments and League Manager.
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): To keep your information safe, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) will be setup when you first sign in.
  • Universal Tennis Rating (UTR): You’ll be able to easily activate your UTR through Match Centre, without the need to create a profile on the UTR website.
  • Linked child profiles: Child profiles will be linked to their parent/guardian’s profile and will no longer require a separate email address to sign in. This will make it simpler and more secure to manage your family’s tennis activities.

For more information, visit tennis.com.au/compete

Support Guides

Check out the support guides for the above chances by clicking the below link:

Troubleshooting

Should you have any queries related to the above changes, please contact our Customer Support Team via phone: 1800 752 983 / email:  [email protected]

Payments Module

Platform/Product/Module: Clubspark – Payments Module
Function: Manage payment- related activity

*Live: 28/08/2025

The Payments module is your go-to place for managing all payment-related activity within Clubspark. It gives admins more flexibility, visibility, and control over how they sell and track products, orders, and more. The Add-On module is now in the Payments module.

You can access it via the left-hand menu on your admin dashboard – just click Payments

What can I do in the Payments module?

The Payments module includes three key areas:

  1. Payment Accounts – Easily connect and manage your Stripe account to enable online payments at your venue.

  2. Products – Create and manage items available for purchase such as merchandise, access fobs, or event tickets.

  3. Orders – View, update, and fulfil customer orders with real-time tracking.

  4. Subscriptions – this feature will enable recurring payments for coaching programs (when available)

What are Products?

Previously known as the Add-ons feature – now called Products. This enables you to offer optional extras when a member purchases or renews a membership package. This feature works seamlessly alongside the Memberships module.

Examples of useful add-ons:

  • Tube of tennis balls or club merchandise (e.g. t-shirt or hoodie)

  • Access fob/key for clubhouse entry

  • Membership Card/shoe tag
  • Voluntary donation to a facility project or fundraiser

  • Tickets to a club event, such as an awards night or social evening

  • Donations to the club

Admins can create and link these add-ons to specific membership packages via the Products section.

Products: What can i create and manage?

From the Products tab, you can:

  • Add new products to sell

  • Link products to membership packages as add-ons

  • Edit existing product details including:

    • Name and status

    • Description (200-character limit applies)

    • Product code (SKU)

    • Pricing

    • Membership package linkage

This makes it easy to keep your offerings up to date across the year.

Orders: What can i do here?
The Orders tab shows all current orders from your members or customers.

From here, you can:

  • View a list of all orders with key info like payment and fulfilment status

  • Click into an order for more detail

  • Update the fulfilment status

  • Cancel or refund individual items

  • Mark as paid for any offline payments received manually

How to Change Website Font Settings

 

Platform/Product/Module: Clubspark – Website Module
Function: Manage your website Font display

Live: 11/09/2025

The website module now has an option to change the font styles. This will help you make your website more personal to your club. There is 25 different styles to choose from. You’ll be able to change the heading font and the body font.

How to change the font style:

Step 1 Head to your website module on the left side

Step 2: Select ‘design’ in the Left hand navigation of the Website module page

 

Step 3: Select either the ‘Heading Font’  or ‘Body Font’ dropdown, selecting which font you would like.

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The style preview box (located on the right side of the screen) will show you how it looks once you select a font so you can decide if you are happy with the changes before ‘saving’.

 

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An example used below is ‘heading font’ as ‘Playfair display’ and the ‘body font’ as ‘Karla’.

The previous image used Oswald (heading font) and ‘Brandon Grotesque’ as the body font.

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Step 4: Once you have finished making your changes and would like this be visible to players, you click ‘save settings’ at the bottom left of the page (shown below).

 

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How to Review and Cancel Credits

How to Apply Credit to a Court Booking

How to Create a Discount Code (Promo Code)

New Discount Codes:

Venues can now self-create and track Discount Code (Promo Code) use for bookings in real time, no longer needing to go through Clubspark.

You can create Discount Codes for members, players, guests or friends to receive a discount when making a booking for court bookings and Program courses, camps, and coaching sessions.

Please Note (15/09/2025):
Discount promo codes can only be redeemed directly through the tennis venue’s booking website. Promo codes cannot be redeemed on Play.Tennis, the user will see an error message, even if the code is valid. With the change to Tennis.com.au, users will be able to use Promo codes on both Tennis.com.au and at the venue level.

Step 1:

Navigate to the “Discounts” Module using the navigation panel on the left and select “Add Discount” button on top right of page once within the Discounts area:

Step 2:

Beneath Discount Details, add a Discount Name and Discount promo code, using the following guidelines (select Tooltip (?) next to Discount name or Discount promo code also for assistance)

Select a Fixed amount in dollars OR Percentage amount for the Discount in the box available (in this example it’s $5)

Step 3:

Select which product the Discount applies to, whether:

  • Court Booking or
  • Coaching (Courses, Camps and coaching sessions)

and Select the ‘Assign discount’ button to apply the discount created.

Step 4:

Usage: select ‘How many times the discount can be used overall’, (this is optional) as is ‘How many times can any one customer use the discount code?’ – up to you if you’d like to set limits on usage or not, be aware that leaving it blank is limitless usage within the time frame selected.

Select the ‘Active dates’ time frame you’d like the Discount to last for, it’s optional to choose an expiry date and then click the ‘Create discount’ button once you’re done creating your discount.

Available discounts (Discounts which have commenced), Scheduled discounts (those not yet within the available date range) and Expired Discounts can be viewed on the Discounts page.

  1. You also have the option here to ‘Edit’ any discount created if situations change using the Edit button.
  2. The list of Discounts can also be Downloaded via the Download table button to a CSV or PDF file.

How does a Player use a discount at Checkout?
The player would search for your course or camp the usual way, they would select the course or camps dates as they would normally and then on the order summary page, the discount page would show.


Enter the code and the discount is applied and then they can confirm and pay

Discount Codes FAQs

Q: What happens if someone tries to enter a ‘fake’ promo code? 
A: They will get the error below. If the code does not work, they can continue with the booking without the code.

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Q: Are promo codes case sensitive? 
A: Yes, they will need to be entered in exactly as you write them.

Q: I think my promo code has been shared with others and being abused. What should I do? 
At any point, you can disable the promo code to prevent others from using it. To do this, log into you discounts module, edit the promo code and edit the end date to today.  This will automatically update and prevent any further usage. It will move to the Expired Discounts tab.

Q: How do I know who has used my promocodes ? 
At present, you can see how many have used the promo codes in the Discounts module. You can download this information by clicking on the download table.
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If you click on the name of the code from this page, a further page will open up to list the names of people who have used the promo code and what for.

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Q: Can I apply discount codes to courses that do not take an online payment?
A: Yes you can.

 

Q: Can more than one discount code be used at a time? 

A: It’s a core part of the functionality that you can only use one discount code per order.

 

Q: Will the discount codes be available in other modules in the future?
A: We are developing the discount code module to be available in other modules, i.e. memberships

 

 

How to Bulk Cancel Court bookings

 

Bulk Cancellations:

This is a great feature to use when you have multiple bookings that need cancelling and will save you a lot of time!

Within the admin area, you can cancel an individual booking or you can bulk cancel selected bookings.

To bulk cancel court bookings, continue reading this guide.

Step 1:

You will first need to head into the Booking Module within the admin area. From here you will need to select the bookings you wish to cancel.

*Tip* – Before you confirm a bulk cancellation, please review your selections to ensure you’re only removing the bookings you intend.

Step 2:

Once you have clicked on all the bookings you wish to cancel, you will then need to click on the ‘bin’ icon (see above)

Here the following overlay will appear, this will allow you to confirm that you wish to cancel these court bookings as well as trigger any refunds. (verify that refunds fall within allowed time frame).

Once you have confirmed that you wish to cancel the selected bookings, you will need to click on the highlighted ‘Cancel Bookings’ button.

The bookings will now appear within your ‘Cancelled’ tab and any refunds will be given.