What's New
New updates and improvements to GolfTap
Playing Partners & Booking Management
Improvement
đĨ Playing Partner Booking Access
- Playing partners (additional players) can now see and manage bookings they've been added to
- View booking details from all booking pages:
- Member bookings page (`/bookings`)
- Portal my bookings (`/portal/:slug/my-bookings`)
- Portal schedule page (`/portal/:slug/my-schedule`)
- Playing partners can remove themselves from bookings
- No longer limited to just the lead booker managing the booking
đˇī¸ "Booked by" Indicator
- Clear visual indicator showing who created the booking
- Purple badge displays on all booking lists
- Helps players quickly identify if they're a playing partner or lead booker
- Example: "đĨ Booked by John Smith"
đĄī¸ Cancellation Safety Improvements
- Removed cancel buttons from all booking list pages
- Prevents accidental cancellations with a single click
- Users must now view full booking details to cancel
- Safer workflow reduces support requests for accidental cancellations
â° Member Cancellation Deadline Display Fix
- Members now see correct 30-minute cancellation deadline
- Previously showed 24-hour guest deadline incorrectly
- Portal booking pages now properly distinguish member vs guest deadlines
- "Important Information" section dynamically shows correct deadline based on membership status
- More accurate information leads to fewer missed cancellation windows
- Playing partners (additional players) can now see and manage bookings they've been added to
- View booking details from all booking pages:
- Member bookings page (`/bookings`)
- Portal my bookings (`/portal/:slug/my-bookings`)
- Portal schedule page (`/portal/:slug/my-schedule`)
- Playing partners can remove themselves from bookings
- No longer limited to just the lead booker managing the booking
đˇī¸ "Booked by" Indicator
- Clear visual indicator showing who created the booking
- Purple badge displays on all booking lists
- Helps players quickly identify if they're a playing partner or lead booker
- Example: "đĨ Booked by John Smith"
đĄī¸ Cancellation Safety Improvements
- Removed cancel buttons from all booking list pages
- Prevents accidental cancellations with a single click
- Users must now view full booking details to cancel
- Safer workflow reduces support requests for accidental cancellations
â° Member Cancellation Deadline Display Fix
- Members now see correct 30-minute cancellation deadline
- Previously showed 24-hour guest deadline incorrectly
- Portal booking pages now properly distinguish member vs guest deadlines
- "Important Information" section dynamically shows correct deadline based on membership status
- More accurate information leads to fewer missed cancellation windows
Self-Service & Tee Sheet Improvements
New
đ Self-Service Booking Cancellation
- Members and guests can cancel their own bookings
- Flexible cancellation deadlines:
- Members: 30 minutes before tee time (configurable)
- Guests: 24 hours before tee time (configurable)
- Grace period: Always allow cancellation within first 5 minutes of booking
- Clear deadline information displayed throughout portal
- Automatic email notifications to all players when booking cancelled
- Past deadline notices with contact information
đ Booking Reschedule System
- Reschedule bookings to different tee times
- Keep same players and details
- Automatic availability checking
- Email notifications for reschedules
- Staff can reschedule on behalf of members
đļ Walk-in Booking Improvements
- Create walk-in bookings without email/phone
- Quick booking for members who arrive without reservation
- Mark bookings as walk-in for reporting
- Simplified booking flow for front desk staff
đŗ Payment Status Display
- Clear payment status indicators on tee sheet:
- â Paid (green)
- âŗ Pending (amber)
- â Unpaid (red)
- Filter tee sheet by payment status
- Quick visual reference for staff
- Helps identify payment issues quickly
đ Tee Sheet UI Enhancements
- Detailed view is now the default (shows player names)
- Removed simplified view toggle
- Player names displayed clearly below "Full" status
- Holes booked badge is larger and more prominent
- "Jump to Now" button only appears when viewing today's tee sheet
- Better visual hierarchy
âąī¸ Late Arrival Grace Period
- Allow check-in up to 2 hours after tee time
- Flexibility for delayed players
- Prevents accidental no-show markings
- Configurable time window
đ¯ Floating Action Buttons
- Quick access buttons float above tee sheet
- Auto-scroll to current time slot
- Jump to specific dates
- Better navigation on long tee sheets
- Sticky positioning for constant access
đą Navigation Restructure
- Moved "Manage" dropdown to top-right
- Removed redundant "Manage Club" button
- Cleaner navigation hierarchy
- Better organization of admin features
- Improved mobile responsiveness
Legal & Localization
Update
đ Terms of Service & Privacy Policy
- Comprehensive Terms of Service document
- GDPR-compliant Privacy Policy
- Clear user rights and responsibilities
- Data protection information
- Cookie policy details
đą Mobile Navigation Fix
- Improved mobile menu functionality
- Better touch targets
- Smoother animations
- Fixed hamburger menu issues
đ Password Management
New
đ Password Management
- Admins can change user passwords
- Enhanced account security
- Password reset functionality
- Audit trail for password changes
Course Blocking System
New
đĢ Advanced Course Blocking
- Block entire courses for maintenance or private events
- Two blocking modes:
- Block Everyone: No bookings allowed (maintenance, private events)
- Block Guests Only: Members can still book (member-priority days)
- Optional blocking reason for staff reference
- Blocked courses clearly indicated throughout system
- Cannot book on blocked courses
- Automatic validation prevents bookings
Analytics & User Management
New
đ Analytics
- Privacy-focused website analytics
- Track visitor behavior without cookies
- Monitor page views and user flows
- GDPR compliant analytics
- Insights into most popular features
đ¤ User Management Improvements
- Display user email addresses in admin interface
- Change user passwords (admin feature)
- Better user profile management
- Enhanced security controls
File Storage
Improvement
âī¸ Cloud Storage Integration
- Cloud storage for club logos and images
- Faster file uploads and downloads
- Reliable backup and storage
- Scalable storage for growing clubs
Email Marketing System
New
đ§ Member Email Broadcasts
- Built-in email marketing system for clubs
- Send newsletters, announcements, and promotions to members
- Advanced recipient filtering:
- Filter by membership status (active, suspended, expired)
- Filter by membership type
- Filter by expiring soon (within 30 days)
- Live preview of recipient count before sending
- Rich text editor with formatting, links, and images
đ¨ Send Test Feature
- Send test emails to all club admins and managers before sending to members
- Review formatting and content safely
- Subject line prefixed with [TEST] for clarity
- Does not affect broadcast status
đ Email Analytics
- Automatic tracking via Postmark integration
- Monitor delivery rates
- Track email opens and clicks
- View individual recipient status
- Analytics cards show:
- Total recipients
- Delivery rate percentage
- Open rate percentage
- Click rate percentage
đ Email Safety Features
- Only managers and admins can create broadcasts
- Draft mode for editing before sending
- Cannot edit broadcasts after sending
- Rate limiting prevents overwhelming email servers (~300 emails/minute)
- Broadcasts use Postmark's marketing stream (not transactional)
- Built-in email marketing system for clubs
- Send newsletters, announcements, and promotions to members
- Advanced recipient filtering:
- Filter by membership status (active, suspended, expired)
- Filter by membership type
- Filter by expiring soon (within 30 days)
- Live preview of recipient count before sending
- Rich text editor with formatting, links, and images
đ¨ Send Test Feature
- Send test emails to all club admins and managers before sending to members
- Review formatting and content safely
- Subject line prefixed with [TEST] for clarity
- Does not affect broadcast status
đ Email Analytics
- Automatic tracking via Postmark integration
- Monitor delivery rates
- Track email opens and clicks
- View individual recipient status
- Analytics cards show:
- Total recipients
- Delivery rate percentage
- Open rate percentage
- Click rate percentage
đ Email Safety Features
- Only managers and admins can create broadcasts
- Draft mode for editing before sending
- Cannot edit broadcasts after sending
- Rate limiting prevents overwhelming email servers (~300 emails/minute)
- Broadcasts use Postmark's marketing stream (not transactional)
Email Delivery
Improvement
đŦ New Email Integration
- Switched Processor for email delivery
- Webhook integration for tracking email status
- Bounce and spam complaint handling
- Improved email deliverability
đ§ Email Tracking
- Track email delivery status
- Monitor opens and clicks
- Handle bounces automatically
- Better debugging of email issues
Booking Portal Improvements
Improvement
đ Booking Form UX Enhancements
- Improved player name input with validation
- Clearer cart rental options
- Required field indicators
- Better mobile responsiveness
- Unsaved changes warning removed after successful submission
Advanced Player Management
New
đī¸ Individual Player Cancellation
- Cancel individual players from bookings (not entire booking)
- Soft delete preserves player records for history
- Cancelled players clearly indicated in UI
- Automatic refund calculations for partial cancellations
đ¨ Drag & Drop Player Management
- Move individual players between tee times via drag and drop
- Real-time updates using Hotwire Turbo Streams
- Visual feedback during drag operations
- Validation prevents overbooking
đ Enhanced Booking Details
- Display all players with individual status
- Show cancelled players with strikethrough
- Individual player check-in status
- Per-player pricing breakdown
Competition Overbooking Prevention
New
đ¯ Competition Capacity Management
- Prevents overbooking of competition registrations
- Accounts for regular bookings when showing available spots
- Real-time capacity checking
- Clear "Competition Full" messaging when at capacity
âąī¸ Configurable Booking Timeouts
- Dynamic booking timeout based on course settings
- Default 30 minutes for green fee bookings
- Members exempt from expiration (can pay later)
- Clear display of time remaining
Competition Self-Service
Improvement
đī¸ Competition Registration Improvements
- Members can withdraw from competitions (within deadline)
- Ability to reactivate withdrawn registrations
- Clear withdrawal deadlines displayed
- Automatic email notifications for status changes
Booking Expiration System
Improvement
â° Expired Booking Management
- Automatic expiration of unpaid green fee bookings after 30 minutes
- Countdown timer shown to users during checkout
- Expired bookings clearly marked in tee sheet
- Automatic release of tee time slots
- Filter for viewing expired bookings
- Prevents expired bookings from being paid
đ Booking Status Updates
- Real-time status synchronization
- Clear status indicators throughout system
- Automatic status updates based on payments
đ§ Member Welcome Emails
- Automated welcome emails for new members
- Membership details and benefits explained
- Instructions for booking tee times
- Links to member dashboard and portal
Support & Communication
New
đ§ Email Support System
- Built-in support ticket system
- Email integration via Postmark
- Staff can reply directly to member emails
- Track support conversations by thread
- Internal notes for staff coordination
đĢ Support Ticket Management
- View all support requests in admin interface
- Filter by status (open, in progress, resolved)
- Assign tickets to staff members
- Message count tracking
đ Contact Form
- Public contact form on portal
- Automatic routing to club staff
- Confirmation emails to submitters
- Member verification indicators
- Configurable contact email and office hours
đļ Currency Display Fix
- Fixed all dollar signs ($) to display euro (âŦ) properly
- Correct currency formatting throughout application
- Email templates updated with proper currency
Tee Time Management
Improvement
đĢ Tee Time Blocking System
- Block tee times for maintenance, events, or private use
- Optional blocking reason for staff reference
- Blocked times clearly indicated on tee sheet
- Cannot be booked by members or guests
â ī¸ Tee Time Deletion Safety
- Cannot delete tee times with existing bookings
- Warning messages before deletion
- Proper cleanup of related records
- Booking count validation
âī¸ Tee Time Generator Improvements
- Dynamic configuration for tee time intervals
- Configurable sunset buffers for 9-hole and 18-hole rounds
- Automatic gap filling for missing tee times
- Background job processing for large date ranges
Player Type System
New
đĢ Member, Guest, and Green Fee Distinctions
- Visual badges to identify player types:
- **Green Badge**: Members
- **Blue Badge**: Guests (brought by members)
- **Amber Badge**: Green Fees (non-member bookings)
- Enhanced privacy controls based on player type
- Members see all players at their tee time
- Green fee players see others only after confirmation
đ Member Tee Time Details
- Members can view who's playing at their tee time
- See fellow members and guests
- Better coordination for friendly competition
Advanced Reporting
New
đ Reports Dashboard
- Daily booking summaries
- Revenue tracking by date range
- Member vs guest breakdown
- Payment status reporting
- Competition revenue tracking
Competition Management Improvements
New
âī¸ Competition Registration Management
- Admin interface for managing competition registrations
- View all registrants by competition
- Manual registration capability for walk-ins
- Ability to withdraw and reactivate registrations
- Enhanced competition tee time assignment
đ Reports & Analytics
- Comprehensive booking reports
- Revenue analytics
- Member activity tracking
- Competition participation reports
- Date range filtering and export capabilities
đ° Enhanced Booking Admin
- Live pricing calculator in booking modal
- Fee override capability for special circumstances
- Override reason tracking for audit trail
- Individual player pricing breakdown on booking details
- Member discount visualization
Buddy Booking System
New
đĢ Buddy Bookings
- Members can save frequent playing partners as "buddies"
- Quick booking with saved buddy lists
- Automatic email notifications to all players in group
- Individual player tracking with BookingPlayer records
- Each player receives their own booking confirmation
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Individual Player Check-in
- Staff can check in individual players, not just entire bookings
- Track no-shows for individual players
- Undo check-in capability
- Real-time status updates on tee sheet
đą Unified Booking Modal
- Streamlined booking creation interface
- Add multiple players with member search
- Cart rental options
- Special requests field
- Real-time availability checking