Purple Rally

Playing around with demo unlisted video: https://youtu.be/G2OTUXTYfNo

Changelog:

• Removed a failure that only shows up once you're busy. Exporting a full year of bookings took 3.5s and would have kept climbing; it now takes 0.06s. Quiet venues would never have hit it — the one you want as a reference customer would.

• Admin screens respond faster. ~43ms saved per staff screen. Front-desk work during a rush is where staff judge the product.

• Cheaper to resell. Timezone and currency lived in 8 places; now 1. Selling to a venue outside Manila is a config change, not a code hunt.

Changelog:

Booking lifecycle

• Bookings now close out — COMPLETED/NO_SHOW existed but nothing ever wrote them

• No-show recorded by staff; keeps its payment

• Reminder email a day before; silent if cancelled since

• Reschedule, waitlist, weekly repeats

Money

• Prepaid credit: balance + ledger, spent before transfer, returned on cancel

• Refund ledger — what's owed, who decided, whether sent

Venue

• Day calendar; take walk-ins and phone bookings from a free cell

• Coach roster and assignment

• Reports: earnings, fall-through, busy hours, courts, outstanding credit

• Bookings search and CSV export

• Loading skeletons on every admin page

Found

• Fixed: previews were asking to be indexed

• llms.txt rewritten (pointed at 4 dead URLs)

• Structured data, OG card, configurable robots

• Server-side page views — no cookie, no third party

Safety

• Rate limits on holds, waitlist, link recovery

• 428 tests, all gates green

Purple Rally — Latest Update

Purple Rally now supports:

• Walk-in transactions for on-site bookings and payments

• Player memberships and member management

• Coaches roster for organizing available coaches

• Analytics for revenue, bookings, court utilization, and peak hours
  

These additions expand Purple Rally from an online court-booking system into a more complete venue management platform.

Purple Rally — court booking for venues with no website

Players

• Pick a court and hour on a phone; held while they pay

• No account; pay by transfer, upload the receipt

• Cancel or move an unpaid booking themselves

• Get emailed if a taken slot frees up

• Book weekly; taken weeks flagged first

• Share a read-only link with the other players

Venue

• Queue: confirm, cancel, move

• Receipt review, refund ledger, coaching enquiries

• Reports: earnings, hold → booking rate, busy hours, courts

• Courts, hours, closures, rates, staff roles

Won't do

• Two people can't book one hour — the database blocks it

• Prices server-side; a browser can't change what's owed

• Never confirms without a receipt

• Never invents your refund policy — it asks you

Helps

• No double-bookings or messenger back-and-forth

• Payment proof in one place, not chat threads

• Revenue and utilization you can see

• Findable by Google and AI assistants

Court booking for pickleball venues. Interested in using this system on your court or partnerships? Contact Me!